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Innovative products, up-to-date knowledge, and three days of opportunities for networking made the 2024 EUHA Congress a "win-win situation for all participants", say the organisers.
Over 130 exhibitors from 19 countries presented hundreds of innovations in Hall 6 of the vast Deutsche Messe complex in Hanover.
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The top four exhibiting countries were Germany (58%), China, Denmark, and France. Forty-two percent of exhibitors came from abroad.
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Held on beautiful autumnal days, from 16 to 18 October 2024, the EUHA Congress recorded around 8,700 participants.
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Save the date: October 22 to 24, 2025 – the next EUHA Congress.
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26 expert presentations, five tutorials, and the now habitual special Future Friday programme.
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The EUHA Knowledge Symposium kicked off the scientific lecture programme, which was supported by 38 national and international speakers. Professor Torsten Dau, from the Technical University of Denmark, opened the event with a presentation entitled New trends in technical compensation strategies for hearing aids.
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This year, EUHA featured an innovation: the EUHA Live Area, a central meeting and networking point on all three days. The Live Area had its own stage schedule, presenting complementary topics to the main congress programme.
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Prestigious visitors included Dr. Andreas Philippi the Lower Saxony Minister for Social Affairs, Labour, Health and Equality, whose speech underlined a key message: “Successful communication, social participation and fair educational opportunities are only possible if hearing impairments are corrected.”
EUHA chooses an international partner each year, this year: Denmark. Peder Søgaard-Pedersen, Director of Denmark’s largest employers’ organisation, Dansk Industri, gave a welcome address on behalf of his country.
Awards
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EUHA Vice President Eva Keil-Becker awarded the EUHA sponsorship prizes to Maren Harries M. Sc. who received first prize for her topic Evaluation of a new speech material for the Freiburg one-syllable test based on word frequency distribution.
Dr Martin Orf was awarded second prize; his topic was: Selective attention in multi-talker situations: Neural and behavioural mechanisms.
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Alina-Sophie Bockelmann B. Sc. was awarded third prize for her topic Evaluation of simulated free-field presentation for listening experiments.
The FDHA Foundation Prize (Research Association of German Hearing Aid Acousticians) was awarded by Prof. Karin Schorn to Prof. Dr Annette Limberger from Aalen University. She received the award in recognition of her valuable interdisciplinary collaboration between ENT medicine, phoniatrics and paediatric audiology, paediatrics and hearing acoustics.
Future Friday
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Theresa Schleicher spoke about the future of retail and the changing interests of consumers. Dr. Benedikt Höing explained the use of AI in CI care. Sergi Rotger-Griful, from the Eriksholm Research Centre in Denmark, shed light on communication challenges for people with hearing loss. Finally, Prof. Dr. David Matusiewicz, an expert in digital health, provided insights into the digital transformation in the healthcare sector.
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EUHA was free this year for the 230 trainees and students who visited the event, gathering information and taking part in a total of two guided tours.
