Jul 30, 2025
Final meeting of the European research project MBrace
Insights into the practical workshops at the MBrace meeting. Design drafts and material samples were discussed and evaluated here.
The aim of the MBrace project is to make scoliosis corsets more patient-friendly and thus increase the comfort and compliance of young users. Since 2022, employees of the IBMT, the University of Applied Sciences Dresden and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden have been working on this task together with Belgian and Polish partners. From April 28 to 30, the IBMT engineers met with their European partners in Kielce to discuss the research results and design drafts at the final meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The team presented their progress on AI-based methods for assessing corset quality. In addition, the potential of innovative composite materials and new processes for modular corset production were discussed. All new solutions were based on the motivation to encourage young scoliosis patients to wear the corset.