SCIFI: From Scientists to Innovators for Industry

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If you are a young life scientist, this programme can give you the skills you need to thrive as an innovator in the healthcare industry. Transitioning from academic research to working in the pharma and medtech industries can be challenging. This course helps you overcome that challenge with the guidance of academic and industry partners, so that you can learn from real-life cases and have the opportunity to work with experienced mentors.

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EIT Health DRIVE

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Interested in supporting health innovation in Central Eastern and Southern Europe? Then look no further, EIT Health DRIVE has developed an award-winning training programme in partnership with @tudelft,

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About the comp70 innovators in the lineup in the EIT Health InnoStars Awards Playbook

Dear Start-upper,
 
Support and cooperation for a healthier Europe are more valuable than ever. We would like to share with you some results of our activities and would also like to ask for your cooperation.
 
InnoStars Awards provides opportunities for innovators to validate their ideas, develop products, and ultimately build successful businesses with products that help doctors and patients. Successful participants from the InnoStars Awards have had the chance to attract investors and shorten their time to get their ideas to market. It is the only programme in CEE and Southern Europe that, over the last five years, has consistently helped transform prototypes and MVPs into health solutions and products and bring them to market.
We just launched an interactive collection of InnoStars Awards 2018-2021:
 
70 innovators in the lineup of InnoStars Awards
Almost 70% of supported projects have entered the market
15.3M EUR raised to solve health challenges
Outstanding Success Stories
Countless valuable connections
 
We would like to thank everybody involved in game-changing innovation for their valuable contribution.
5 days left to apply for InnoStars Awards 2022, where start-ups can validate their MVP, network with experts, and pitch for €25 000 smart money or mentoring with €4 000 value.
 
EIT Health InnoStars Awards 2022 edition is open by 27 March 2022 here:https://eithealth.eu/…/innostars-awards-2022-call-for…/

EIT Jumpstarter is back!

The new edition of EIT Jumpstarter, one of the most well-known European pre-accelerator programmes has just been announced.

Candidates are able to submit their innovative ideas in six thematic categories. Besides healthcare, team can apply in raw materials, agri-food, energy, manufacturing, urban mobility and New Europes Bauhaus categories. Applications can be sent until 10th of April 23:59 CET.

EIT Jumpstarter, recognized as the 2019 Best Association Training Initiative in Europe, is one of the widest cross-industrial programmes designed for early-stage innovators who want to gain traction and jumpstart their business. The programme is especially focused on Central-Eastern and Southern European talents who want to validate their business concept, develop business plan and pitch their ideas to the potential future investors. In the previous editions, over 500 teams were already trained, mentored and supported in expanding impactful ideas into powerful business models.

Is it for me?

If you are an innovator in the following domains: healthcare, agri-food, raw materials, energy, manufacturing, urban mobility or New European Bauhaus with an innovative business idea, then this programme is perfect for you. EIT Jumpstarter is open to students, PhDs, researchers or entrepreneurs. Participants will learn how to get started on building a business in a unique cross-industry environment: how to create a team, business processes, and organizational design. The primary focus is put on quantitative business model building. Through the EIT Jumpstarter programme, trainers and coaches will guide you to find the best fitting business model for your idea, and help you validate it. At the end of the program, graduates will prepare their pitch deck, business model canvas, competitive landscape, go-to-market strategy and a roadmap.

What’s in it for me?

Through the programme you will receive support from the best-in-class trainers and mentors and have a chance to win up to €10 000.

Applications are open by 10 April 2022 23:59 CET.

For more details and application, click on the link below:

https://apply.eitjumpstarter.eu/

Start-ups Meet Healthcare Providers program

The #EITHealth Start-ups Meet Healthcare Providers programme, a challenge-based acceleration programme aimed to help healthcare providers solve their operational challenges with digital technology is open.
 
With this programme, EIT Health Germany has created a format that brings together healthcare providers such as hospitals, clinic operators, health and care insurers as well as retirement and nursing homes with the most innovative start-ups in Europe:
· Helping to meet the challenges of everyday hospital life.
· As an innovation network funded by the European Union, we offer access to highly qualified young companies that can develop innovative solutions for you.
 
Our challenge-based approach enables you to have concrete tasks solved for you.
· Integrate the possibilities of a Europe-wide network into your local innovation management.
· You define your challenge, we do the scouting and the execution of the entire program for you.
Already in the first year of existence SMHCP has achieved the following successes: :
· 40 applications from companies all over Europe
· 3 healthcare providers
o Diakonie Baden, Germany
o Children’s Hospital of the University of Riga, Latvia
o Medical Center of the University of Zagreb, Croatia
· 14 matches between healthcare providers and companies
 
Grant opportunity: EIT Health Innostars has published a public call for financing of healthcare providers located in the RIS countries. The grant will cover the HCP participation in the programme (Gold sponsorship).
 
Applications are open from 6th December 2021 – 5th January 2022.
For more details follow this link
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ADVITOS the success story

Dear Friends,

please let us share with you the success story of the München based company named ADVITOS.

ADVITOS developed the ADVOS multi device (ADVanced Organ Support) to provide an integrated 4-in-1 multi-organ support therapy that enables simultaneous support of all three main detoxification organs – liver, lungs, and kidney – and corrects blood acid-base imbalances. Pilot trials in critically ill patients have shown that this therapy increased survival in severe organ failure from 20% up to 50%.

Multi-organ failure causes the deaths of approximately half a million intensive care patients in Western Europe and the USA every year. This is about 60% of all deaths in intensive care units. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this number has increased to around 750,000 patients in the past year. On the other hand, conventional extracorporeal procedures such as mechanical ventilation, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), dialysis, and liver-assist therapy only support the function of one or two organs. By treating all three organs simultaneously, and not consecutively like with existing solutions, ADVOS offers a holistic approach giving the patients a much better chance to recover.

The ADVOS therapy is CE marked, recognised by international experts, and is already in use in the intensive care units of over 20 hospitals throughout Germany, including a number of leading university hospitals. The company currently employs 55 people. It has received numerous awards, including the 2020 Innovation Award Bavaria, and is listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards 2019.

The company has announced the completion of a €20 million financing round. The round was led by Crédit Mutuel Equity via its two subsidiaries, Crédit Mutuel Equity Germany and Crédit Mutuel Innovation. In addition, ADVITOS received funding from the European Union’s European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund as part of the EIC Accelerator Pilot blended finance programme. The EIT Digital Accelerator has been supporting ADVITOS during this fundraising with dedicated coaching and targeted introductions to a selected pool of investors interested in their space, size and geography.

If you are interested in more success stories powered by EIT just follow this link:

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how healthcare is delivered. Yet we need to understand the impact of AI on the healthcare landscape to pave the way for the adoption of AI solutions at scale. That’s why EIT Health is exploring two particular topics – the practical application of ethical considerations for innovators using AI and the impact of AI on healthcare organisations and the workforce.

The benefits of AI are many: accelerating the development of life‐saving treatments, supporting improvements in patient care, and allowing healthcare professionals to spend more time with patients. At the same time, AI can increase productivity and efficiency of care delivery. The full potential of AI is still being discussed, but questions have been raised about its potential impact on practitioners and certain specialties, while issues around ethics, use of personal data and AI-related risks are also being considered.

Transforming Healthcare with AI: The Impact on the Workforce and Organisations. This joint publication with McKinsey & Company explores the impact of AI on healthcare practitioners, and the implications of introducing and scaling AI for healthcare organisations and healthcare systems across Europe. The publication offers a unique perspective of public and private sector decision-makers and thought leaders based on bespoke research including interviews and a survey.

AI and Ethics in the Health Innovation Community Building on the guidelines developed by the European Commission’s High-Level Group on AI in 2018, we examine how healthcare professionals are handling data in the AI space.

The third publication on the topic: Contribution to the discussion on the European Commission’s Data Strategy and AI White Paper Following the European Commission’s White Paper on AI and the Communication on a European Strategy for Data of 19 February 2020, a small Consultative Group comprised of senior leaders from the EIT Health network, submitted a detailed set of recommendations to the EC to help inform the ongoing development of EU strategy on data and AI. The EIT Health contribution sets out key areas of input to EU policy makers in response to the particular regulatory and policy needs of AI and data-rich solutions in health and healthy aging. kattintva:  

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Implementing Value-Based Healthcare in Europe: Handbook for Pioneers

As the European population ages and incidences of chronic disease and co-morbidities increase, it puts greater pressure on healthcare services. We need to create more efficient and sustainable healthcare systems that deliver real value for patients.

Value-based healthcare (VBHC) aims to do just that. Rather than focusing on process, VBHC targets the outcomes that make the biggest difference to patients, while driving cost efficiencies within health services.

VBHC provides a methodology for measurable health and care outcomes that make the biggest difference to patients, while driving cost efficiencies within health services. The EIT Health handbook and framework explores insights from pioneers in the field and defines the key steps critical to implementing VBHC in health services. Directed by Professor Gregory Katz, Chair of Innovation & Value in Health at the University of Paris School of Medicine, it aims to help health care providers fully realise the opportunity presented by VBHC and drive forward a medical culture shift in Europe. ide kattintva érhetőek el, míg az említett kézkönyv az alábbi linkre kattintva angol nyelven elérhető: 

Handbook

EIT Regional Executive Academy 2021

Dear Friends,
 
theEIT Health #EITHealth „Innovation through cooperation: How successfully implement the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) in Hungary” címmel tart képzést a Regional Executive Academy 2021 keretében December 6-7 között, s külön büszkeséggel tölt el minket, hogy az esemény második napján, December 7-én intézetvezetőnk, Dr. Sík Attila előadóként vesz részt.
 
The participants of Regional Executive Academy will gain an overview about the mission of EIT, the EIT Community in Hungary and beyond, an insight into best practices on how to create and implement regional and EU projects in business, research, and education
 
On the first day of the online event on 6th December 2021 invited speakers will exchange on EIT and EIT KICs mission and Smart Specialisation Strategies in Hungary. The aim is to showcase good examples of collaborations with regional authorities and stakeholders in Hungary.
 
The second half-day online event on 7th December has a focus on national, transnational, and EU funding opportunities for collaborations within the priorities of Smart Specialisation Strategies in Hungary. EIT stakeholders will present success stories within these funding opportunities, which will be completed by a roundtable focussing on “Innovation through cooperation”. The event will be fully held in English.
 
The event will be fully held in English.
 
For more info visit the link here: https://eithealth.eventscase.com/EN/executiveacademy

Healthcare Lab is looking for partners to accelerate solutions that put patients at the centre of Healthcare

Healthcare lab is looking for partners to accelerate solutions that put patients at the centre of Healthcare!
 
HealthCare Lab is a leading international acceleration program for early-stage digital healthcare ventures in CEE and Southern Europe. Our mission is to connect, grow and nurture an international community of innovators, researchers, healthcare providers, and regulators to bring ground-breaking innovations in healthcare to the market faster. HealthCare Lab is powered by industry leaders from Roche, European platform for healthcare innovators EIT Health and run by innovation experts from Civitta. EIT Health nemzetközi programot indít digitális egészségügyi startupok számára.
A HealhCare Lab célja, hogy az együttműködés eredményeként innovatív megoldásokat nyújtson az egészségügy legnagyobb kihívásaira.
A jelenlegi kiírásban az alábbi 3 challenge-re keresnek megoldásokat:
 
1. Healthcare Data Management
How can we gather healthcare data from different sources and derive valuable insights for evidence-based decision making in healthcare?
2. Screening and Early Diagnostics
How can we ensure widespread, more precise and timely diagnosis of diseases, in order to deliver better health outcomes?
3. Digital Therapeutics and Disease management
How can we help patients and healthcare providers to better manage diseases and conditions in a transparent and personalized way?
 
Is the program for you? You can check it at the website of the event: : https://healthcarelab.eu or at https://www.roche.hu/.../elindult-a-roche-healthcare-lab...
Application deadline: 30th of November

EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final

Dear Friends,
 
we would like to invite you to the forthcoming EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final. Event will be held virtually on the 1st December 2021 starting at 1pm CET with the keynote speech of Martin Kern, EIT Director.
 
EIT Jumpstarter is the flagship program of the Cross-KIC cooperation within the RIS region, that is run fifth time by EIT Health, EIT Food, EIT RawMaterials, EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility.
 
Out of the 220 teams selected to join the program this year, the best 42 got into the Grand Final – 6 from each thematic field -, who will pitch their start-up projects in front of the expert jury panel. After the finalists presenting their pitches in 4 parallel virtual rooms, you will have the opportunity to watch the panel discussion of our succesful Jumpstarter Alumni teams.
Right after, the jury will announce the winners at the Award Ceremony, then we would like to give you the chance to meet the talented finalists and other participants for networking.
 
The Grand Final is open to everyone, but prior registration is required. Please click here for the registration and detailed agenda: https://registration.eitjumpstarter.eu
 
Don’t miss the chance to meet 2021’s most promising young tech start-up teams. Register today and join us at the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final to celebrate together the achievments of the best teams.
 
🚀 Meet the finalists!
2021’s most promising young tech start-up teams in the Health category are:
👉 Synflora
👉 Levare Formulations
👉 SmartCap
👉 Lightmed
👉 Check your skin
👉 BirgerMind

Intellectual Property Rights Basic Training Opportunity

Dear Friends,
 
Do you have a start-up or an SME with healthcare innovation?
The EIT Health InnoStars together with the European Union Intellectual Property Office – EUIPOruns a training in the topic of Intellectual Property rights.
Joining the training you will have access EUIPO training materials, take part in practical exercises to better understand the use of IP rights, learn how to define a basic IP strategy, and about EUIPO’s IP support services for SMEs. Applications are accepted from Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain until November 19. https://eithealth.eu/event/eit-heath-euipo-ipr/ click for more info.
Application deadline: 19th of November
 
 

RIS Innovation Call 2022

 
Great News! The EIT Health RIS Innovation Call for 2022 is out! EIT Health InnoStars seeks partners with early-stage healthcare projects.Its purpose is to fund the proof-of-concept phase for high-quality, strong, balanced projects, targeting EIT Health’s six Focus Areas and and to be developed by local actors including both business and academic/research/healthcare institutions. For more details please visit our website here: https://itdweb.hu/eit-health-ris-innovation-call-2022/ and search for answers.

i-Days 2021

Creative minds, we need you!
 
EIT Health and University of Pécs Medical School Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries together with Simonyi BEDC Research Center and the Chamber of Commerce of Pécs-Baranya region Pécs-Baranyai Kereskedelmi és Iparkamara are calling all students with an interest in healthcare innovation!
 
On the 4th of November it will be held again after last year’s success the so-called Innovation Days or i-Days event.
i-Days promote health innovation among university students through dozens of one-day and two-day programmes held in academic institutions around Europe. Students from all academic areas receive an introduction to practical health innovation tools and compete in teams to tackle real-life health challenges. The winning team of each i-Day will attend the Winners’ Event, a final competition that unites students from around Europe.
 
This year we are looking for solutions in 5 different topics:
1. Babylonian chaos
Continuous telephone ringing, endless administrative tasks, crashing computer systems, unseparated responsibilities, tight deadlines, impatient patient and doctor. What kind of solution could solve this situation?
2. The missing feedback culture from the healthcare sector
How can health workers be motivated to speak and managers to listen to critical, constructive opinions alike? What would be the best solution for this, how could this be implemented most effectively, so that this opportunity is available to all health care workers, and so that what is being said is not just a word shouted in the wilderness?
3. Skynet – the awakening of the smart hospital
The task is to design a process management system that not only helps to monitor the process, from the patient’s entry to the health care institution to the aftercare, but also optimizes the process and eliminates patient congestion due to its predictability. (Traceability, patient education, statistics)
4. Next one please!
The task is to design a unified patient registration and patient calling platform that is easy to apply for all ages. An important element is for the treating physician to “see” exactly where the patient is within the building/process.
5. I’ve written enough
We are looking for an IT – based solution that, in addition to helping to reduce administrative burdens, provides easy – to – use and accessible document management for healthcare professionals (and also for patients?)
 
i-Days are accessible to all undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in healthcare innovation. You do not need any prerequisite skills or prior experience in innovation, entrepreneurship or healthcare. There are no academic requirements and students from all disciplines and departments are welcome to join!
 
We are waiting for teams of up to 6 people to apply, but if you do not have a team and would like to come, you can still apply, we will solve the rest.
 
When: 4th of November
Where: University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics 7622 Pécs, Rákóczi út 80 / Students from abroad or being in different locations will have the chance to join online!

Augmented / Mixed reality in healthcare

Dear Friends,
 
Novartis and EIT Health are looking for fresh ideas and pioneers to create new mixed reality (VR/AR, preferably with Microsoft Hololens) solutions for the healthcare industry.
 
If you have an idea for mixed reality in healthcare or simply interested in learning from senior professionals, working with a team of next-generation pioneers, join us for the upcoming hackathon.
 
During the hackathon you will receive:
– practical trainings on idea incubation and design thinking
– individual mentorship from industry experts
– opportunity to meet with fellow pioneers and work with them
– demonstrate your team’s idea in front of senior experts and executives of Novartis Slovenia and EIT Health
– chance to continue the cooperation with Novartis after the event
PRIZES (1st: 5000€, 2nd: 3000 €, 3rd: 2000 €)
Registration and further details:

Healthcare Transformation Academy

Dear Friends,
 
please welcome the latest opportunity provided by EIT Health, the Healthcare Transformation Academy (HTA).
The ongoing transformation in #healthcare demands organisations to be equipped with #professionals mastering new competencies and skills. The Healthcare Transformation Academy (HTA) is an initiative driven by #hospitals of the European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA) to meet this challenge by providing a high quality, #affordable and #relevant on-demand #education to healthcare professionals across Europe.
 
In 2021, the Academy will offer online programmes for both healthcare professionals and their organisations targeting #knowledge and #competencies’ gaps in #innovation management and high value care.
 
Registration deadlines:
High Value Care summer school (ERASMUS): 22 August
Innovation and High Value Care e-course: 31 August
Innovation Ambassador course (Tartu University Hospital; Karolinska University Hospital): 21 September
Innovation Ambassador course (Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron): 30 September
High Value Care Ambassadors (ERASMUS Medical Centre): 31 October
 
Interested?
Click the link and check all the details: https://eithealth.eu/project/healthcare-transformation-academy/

WE HEALTH CAPSULE: Empowering Women in Health Innovation

The aim of the event is to strengthen practical knowledge of women who are engaged with healthcare innovations. We are welcoming women from the RIS countries (listed below)*, who have an innovative health or healthcare related idea that they would like to develop, or who already lead a team or a start-up working on breakthrough products or services that will improve the health of citizens.

When and where?

Thursday 19th November 2020, 15.00-19.30, online

Registraion open until 17th November 2020 here

*Eligibility: We are welcoming women from the EIT Health RIS countries: Croatia, Czechia, Estonia,Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.

AGENDA


14.50 – 15:00 Participants access to the virtual space
15.00 – 15.15 Welcome to the WE Health Capsule EIT Health InnoStars & IESE Barcelona
15.15 – 16.30 Innovating and Co-creation in Healthcare: How woman leadership style makes you successful in healthcare innovation?


Co-creation, in business refers to a product or service design in which input from consumers plays a central role from the start to the end. In any case of healthcare innovations the role of the patients, finally consumers, is fundamental. How Co-creation works will be shown during a case study.
Case: Pina Bausch: Leadership as collective Genius
• If you were a manager, would you hire Pina Bausch? If so, why? And if you were Bausch, would you want to take over as the director?
• Who ‘made’ Bausch’s career and how?
• What were the characteristics of Bausch’s leadership style and how were they developed? Are those characteristics universal?
Magda Rosenmöller, IESE Business School (Barcelona)

16.30 – 16.45 Break
16.45 – 18.00 Powerful Communication: See me Stage Impact

Practical elements in business communication which help you to win teammates and partners, build up collaborations, acquire money resources.
Action Learning Session

Olivia Schofield, Spectacular Speaking
International Award-winning speaker

18.00– 18.15 Break
18.15 –19.15 Inspirational Women & Success Stories
Honest speeches: business development and the person behind
– Maya Zlatanova, CEO, FindMeCure, Bulgaria
– Nina Sesto, Director of Information Technology, Private Clinic Magdalena, Croatia
– Monika Paulé, CEO, CasZyme, Lithuania
Speeches will be followed by free discussions between the audience and the speakers about succeeding in the healthcare innovation sphere.

19.15– 19.30 Closing

Language of the event: English
Organizer is EIT Health InnoStars More information: https://eithealth.eu/in your region/innostars/