SAVE THE DATE – WORM final event!

After two years of hard work and dedication, the WORM project will come to a close at the end of 2025.

You are invited to our final event where we will present the projects’ key results and celebrate its achievements. The event will take place the 4 November 2025 at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.

This is your chance to explore WORM’s latest finding, from the trade-offs and causal loops of bio-based products in field hospitals to new standard operating procedures for emergency medical teams and field hospitals.

  • Date: Tuesday, 4 November 2025
  • Time: 09:00–12:00 EET (08:00–11:00 CET)
  • Venue: Assembly Hall (Festsalen), Hanken School of Economics, Arkadiankatu 22, 00100 Helsinki
  • Participation: In person or online
  • Agenda:
9:00-9:15Welcome
9:15-9:30Two years of WORM:
an overview of our goals, activities and results
9:30-9:55Keynote:
Responsing to global disasters, is there a need for fiel hospitals?” – Johan von Schreeb (Karolinska Institutet)
9:55-10:15Project results:
Standard operation procedures for emergency medical teams and field hospitals
10:15-10:30Break
10:30-10:50Project results:
Causal loops diagrams of tradeoffs of bio-based materials
10:50-11:15Keynote:
New ideas for Waste Management in Emergency Medical Teams” – Syed Yasir Ahmad (International Medical Corps)
11:15-11:45Panel discussion:
Field-based solutions for managing medical waste
11:45-12:00Q&A
*Preliminary agenda, subject to change

Ready to join? Fill out the registration form here, or click on the button below, by 16 October.

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