CEMACUBE EIT Innovation & Entrepreneur Master's

In September 2010 the Erasmus Mundus Master’s course CEMACUBE (Common European MAster’s CoUrse in Biomedical Engineering) was initiated under the Erasmus Mundus Programme 2009-2013 of the European Commission and is currently running as a CEMACUBE EIT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Master's under the EIT Health label. EIT Health is a knowledge and Innovation Community established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), and independent EU body set up to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe. 

The goal of CEMACUBE is to prepare students from Europe and outside Europe to improve health care by applying Biomedical Engineering. Therefore a consortium of 6 universities joins their knowledge and specific expertise into a 2-year European Master’s in Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Engineering is a broad multidisciplinary area, involving many sub-specializations, varying from regenerative medicine to implant design and from PET-scan imaging to biosensors. Only a consortium of various universities can teach all fields in BME.

Current-day medical practice relies increasingly on technology, such as microelectronics, information technology and mechanical and materials engineering. But technology can only improve health care when engineers and medical specialists work together. You will be trained to work in those interdisciplinary project teams. BME is the perfect mix of technology and health care.  

The CEMACUBE EIT Innovation & Entrepreneur Master’s in Biomedical Engineering (BME) provides students skills to realise a medical device to solve a medical problem. Students develop, in co-creation with the stakeholders (patients, medics, industry), prototypes of medical devices, test them in a real-life setting, create a business plan, prepare CE-certification and a patent application. Potentially, this will lead to the submission of EIT Health Proof-of-Concept or Head Start projects, or even an innovation by ideas of design project submission.

Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013

CEMACUBE was initiated under the Erasmus Mundus Programme 2009-2013 of the European Commission.

Programme Structure

The programme consists of 2 years (120 ECTS): 

During Year 1 of the programme a student will follow lectures on all biomedical engineering subjects at one of the CEMACUBE universities, do an internship and follow a Summer school (July/August).

For Year 2 of the programme the student will move to one of the other participating universities to follow lectures on a specific topic (specialisation year)  and execute a Master’s project will be performed on this specialisation at one of the 5 participating universities: