Karen was 13 when she was told she had cancer. It was a type of blood cancer that involved a very tough treatment. The life of the 13-year-old was suddenly filled with chemotherapy, infections, hospital stays and bags of blood that hung over her in bed.

Mangor Lien suffers from ALS. Due to the disease, Mangos can no longer lift his arms not even a millimetre on his own.

To help him, his brother Terje Lien invented a robotic arm that helps with simple tasks. Thanks to the device, Mangor can now scratch his forehead, lift his fork with food, brush his teeth and shave.

Now they have even bigger plans. "It is the next step to be able to lift the robot arm using voice control," explains Terje. Another possible development step is to find a twist on the wrist so that the youngest brother can achieve even more functions.

Ella Casano has been diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura. The disease destroys the platelets in her blood, and due to that, she has to go to the hospital every eight weeks, where she receives intravenous therapy through an IV bag.

Due to her experience, Ella knows how this process can be intimidating for children, and so she invented a solution to make the process less scary. Her invention is called Medi Teddy, which consists of a pouch on the back of a teddy bear that holds the IV bags.

Camilla Strand could see the difficulties her sick grandfather faced when trying to take a shower. At this point Camilla was studying product design, and decided to create a device to help her grandfather and other elderly people as well as disabled people gain independence in their shower routine.

Peter Lucas suffers from type 1 diabetes and wanted an app that would help manage his disease. With the help of his girlfriend, Christina Kildentoft, who is a nurse, he created Hedia, an app that helps him and other diabetic patients deal with their disease.

In 2010, at age 27, he was diagnosed with diabetes. When he was first diagnosed with this condition, he wanted it to be easier to live with the diagnosis without having to make many calculations himself. "I found it extremely frustrating that there was no kind of assistant to do it for me", he said.