The BEST Innovation course revealed its 14th Strasbourg edition in August 2025.
Created in 2011, the BEST course aims to educate in Minimally Invasive Surgical Strategies (MISS), regardless of participants’ professional background, and to make this training appealing, spurring surgical innovation.
The 2025 Challenge was “Preventing stroke from clots hidden in the left atrial appendage”.
Key Highlights
Multidisplinary Cohort
30 participants were accepted this year: 12 with clinical background, 9 with engineering background and 9 with innovation background.
Massive mobilization of international specialists
25 faculty members and onsite trainers were mobilized for the course to mentor, challenge, inspire, and share stories of successes and failures.
Learning through play
Lots of fun was had too, with teambuilding and social events to unleash creativity.
Creative thinking outside of the assigned science project was led by artist Laure Krug. Students worked on a collective art piece that can be seen on the ground-floor cafeteria glass wall.
For the second year, the BEST Summer School welcomed painter and visual artist Laure Krug as artist-in-residence.
She led a unique collaborative artistic performance involving students, coaches, surgeon experts, and entrepreneurs.This collaboration resulted in the creation of a unique fresco inspired by the BEST “spaceship” odyssey, which successfully achieved its 14th revolution at the edge of the surgical innovation galaxy.
Bringing a fresh perspective to make change happen : this is the convergence of art, surgery and innovation united by a common quest for creativity and transformation.
Learn more about the B.E.S.T. program: bestt.eve-evolving-education.eu
Discover the artist Laure Krug: www.laurekrug.org
