The pier in Allinge was buzzing with life during Folkemødet 2024, where citizens and politicians, opinions-leaders and decision-makers spent three days at eye level and in conversation with each other.
Folkemødet is a festival of democracy held by the Folkemøde Association every year during week 24 on Bornholm. The festival is created in collaboration with political parties, grassroots organizations, associations, businesses and cultural life, and everyone contributes with exciting debates, presentations, cultural events, speeches, workshops, etc. For the project participants, it was a great opportunity to meet decisions-makers and other actors on the climate field, and present their project for the citizens.
Sustainability in healthcare was the theme of the day, and a morning debate event titled “Sustainable hospital – how?” drew the audience to the tent. Here, Lasse Bremholm Hansen, chief of surgery, SUH, together with Maria Gaden, Center for Bæredygtige Hospitaler and Camilla Hove Lund, Danish Regions, discussed challenges and solutions to the healthcare system’s major challenge of environmental impact. During the debate, he gave both the other debaters and audience in the tent valuable insight into the challenges and solutions, that the project is working on.
The conversation about sustainability in healthcare is incredibly important, as it requires commitment from politicians, management, and qualified personnel in order to succeed with solutions that work in a busy everyday life. This conversation happen in part at Folkemødet, and the SUSUES project was happy to be able to participate in this.
Try it: endoscopes in practice
In addition to the debate, the SUSUES project also had a stand, where visitors could have an interactive experience with endoscopy in a mock-up. This provided an opportunity to illustrate the differences between the two types of endoscopes and convey the project’s messages to the interested citizens, healthcare professionals and desicions-makers, who stopped by. Visitors could try to handle the equipment themselves, which created en dynamic dialogue about pros and cons of the different solutions. The mock-up worked as a concrete and hands on element, that made it easier to explain how the SUSUES project examines the sustainability of endoscopes on several parameters. Many expressed interest in the practical implications of the project and the perspectives it can give on resource consumptions in hospital operations.
