From a 3D-printed eyelid to Europe's hands-on training platform
LidSUMMIT began as a research project at the Medical University of Innsbruck and has grown into a recurring surgical training format for eyelid and corneal surgery, built by clinicians, anatomists, and engineers from Tyrol.
Our goal is simple: make surgical training in oculoplastics as close to the real operation as it can get, and make it accessible to surgeons across Europe.
Three years, three editions, one growing platform
The world's first anatomically precise 3D-printed eyelid
Initiated by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marko Konschake at the Medical University of Innsbruck and developed with eyecre.at, Addion, and med-lab, with support from Stratasys and funding from the Province of Tyrol. Presented to the public in February 2024, the model set a new standard for realistic simulation in surgical education.
The first LidSUMMIT Tirol
The inaugural edition brought twenty surgeons to Innsbruck for three days of hands-on training in functional and aesthetic eyelid surgery, combining specially preserved human specimens with 3D-printed simulation models.
The Second Lid & Keratoplastic SUMMIT
The second edition expanded beyond oculoplastics into reconstructive and corneal surgery, adding advanced keratoplasty techniques such as PK and DALK to the station programme for another twenty surgeons.
LidSUMMIT Tirol 2026
The third edition, accredited by EACCME with 24 ECMEC credits (course no. 33964), running 8 to 10 October at the Medical University of Innsbruck. Twenty hands-on stations, a faculty of thirteen from ophthalmology, oculoplastics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and clinical anatomy, and all forty places taken before the course opened.
LidSUMMIT Europe
The format travels. In cooperation with host universities, LidSUMMIT can be established as a recurring training programme at institutions across Europe, on the Surgical Standard model.
A partnership of clinic, university, and industry from Tyrol
The organizing group
LidSUMMIT is organized by eyecre.at GmbH, based at Health Hub Tirol in Innsbruck, together with the Medical University of Innsbruck. The group combines medical device development, surgical education, and event operations under one roof.
The scientific board
An interdisciplinary faculty of specialists in ophthalmology, oculoplastics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, cornea, and clinical anatomy shapes the programme and teaches every station in person.
LidSUMMIT is the first course built on the Surgical Standard model
Behind LidSUMMIT stands a way of working that is not specific to the eyelid. A clinician names a gap in their own field, the step that is hard to learn and rare to practise. From there, the model is engineered and printed, produced and distributed, and an accredited course is built around it. The clinician stays the scientific lead and course director, and the organising work stays with us.
LidSUMMIT is the first course built that way, from a clinical complaint to an EACCME accredited European course. Surgeons who see the same kind of gap in their own specialty can start the same process. See how it works at surgicalstandard.eu.
What the press says
Workshop mit innovativen 3D-Augenlid-Modellen made in Tirol
The first workshop at the Institute of Anatomy using highly realistic 3D eyelid models from Tyrol, allowing surgical techniques to be trained under realistic conditions.
27 March 2025Augenlider aus dem 3-D-Drucker
3D-printed eyelids presented at the Medical University of Innsbruck: a globally unique innovation aimed at rebuilding the human eyelid as realistically as possible for surgical education.
21 February 2024Augen auf, Augen zu: Neues 3-D-Modell des Lids
With support from Standortagentur Tirol, the idea from the Medical University of Innsbruck of producing artificial eyelids with a 3D printer becomes reality.
23 February 2024Augenlider aus dem 3D-Drucker
A Tyrolean research alliance develops highly realistic 3D-printed eyelids, with further organ models to follow, improving training options for medical professionals.
25 March 2024in cooperation with
