Deadline: 8-Nov-21
The Coopen has launched a Call for Innovators for innovative solutions in the field of good health and well-being to implement in at-risk environments with scarce resources.
They support the development of innovative digital health services, with a focus on mobile platforms as well as education and capacity-building for medical and healthcare personnel.
Funding Information
- The Foundations will disburse a contribution up to a maximum of EUR 90,000 (ninety thousand/00) for each project launched.
- The contribution will be allocated to cover the costs incurred by the CSO(s) (e.g. man-hours of the team involved) and the Innovators (e.g. pilot project implementation costs) and to purchase services functional to the implementation on the ground of the project.
Activities
For the Call For Innovators – Health and Well-being, the challenges that have emerged and some (not exhaustive) examples of the activity areas are given below. The examples are aimed at facilitating the identification of the Innovators in the challenges covered by the Call:
- Promote the training of the qualified medical and healthcare personnel: Promote the training of the medical and healthcare personnel, improve the retention of local operators trained during the projects, ensure the stability and continuity of the cooperation projects that expend time and resources on their development:
- Systems, solutions and platforms to ensure training for the medical and healthcare personnel and to implement the proper procedures;
- Systems and tools to manage remote learning and monitoring, also in contexts with no Internet connection.
- More efficient medical instruments and devices: Technological innovation to obtain more efficient medical instruments and devices for patient treatment:
- Techniques for producing more efficient instruments for treatment of patients with mental disorders;
- Solutions and instruments for access to treatment and efficient management of patients with mental disorders.
- Maintenance of the medical equipment and instruments: Technological innovation for improved and more efficient use and maintenance of the medical equipment and instruments in the territories:
- Instruments and procedures for controlling the medical equipment and for producing spare parts and equipment parts, at low cost and in short time, through 3D printing or other technologies;
- Innovative techniques and systems to ensure the proper use of the equipment by the untrained local personnel, making instructions and procedures accessible other than by paper manuals, including through remote specific training.
- Construction of healthcare environments and infrastructures: Technological innovation to improve the construction of healthcare environments and infrastructures, including in the surgical field (e.g. operating theatres, radiology wards, outpatient departments):
- Technologically advanced materials and systems for the construction of healthcare environments and infrastructures, which can be sanitised and meet the technical
- requirements even in situations of scarce energy resources and difficult weather conditions;
- Systems and tools for the creation and maintenance of healthcare environments to be developed in compliance with medical-scientific protocols and the highest standards of hygiene in the surgical field.
- Collect and organise the clinical data: Technological innovation to collect and organise the patients’ clinical data in a systematic and structured way, considering the difficult simultaneous presence of different databases belonging to different institutions that coexist in the territories:
- Techniques and tools to collect, transmit and update data digitally (e.g. births, vaccinations) through user-friendly devices that can be adopted by personnel with few technological skills;
- Digital techniques and solutions to collect and monitor patient management data, administrative and management data, over the long term at the healthcare facilities, also with the contribution of the patients visiting the facility;
- Collection and transmission of data for research purposes, remote monitoring and remote medicine with the aim of supporting the skills of the local healthcare personnel remotely
- Access to treatment and communication: Technological and digital innovation to facilitate access to treatment and to ensure a smooth communication flow between patients, communities and healthcare system stakeholders:
- Solutions and tools to accompany specific targets, including patients with chronic diseases and needing monitoring, also with home-based solutions;
- Solutions to activate long-term communication channels between patients and healthcare facilities, including with hot-spot patients, with the possibility of developing user-friendly information material;
- Solutions to provide information on the services and facilities available to the communities living in hard-to-reach areas also to improve access to prenatal and assisted child birth services.
- Prevention in local communities and vulnerable groups; Technological innovation to promote prevention in local communities, with particular attention to the mother/infant group, considering the beneficiaries’ possible cultural resistance:
- Digital solutions to provide remotely supplied information and support on maternity-related topics (pregnancy, postpartum, vaccinations, infant care, nutrition);
- Digital solutions accessible to the most remote communities for proper information on hygiene practices and to raise awareness on the topic of mental disorders and ensure access to the relative treatment;
- Solutions, including low-tech solutions, to promote the prevention of diseases and risk situations in support of vulnerable groups.
Participation Requirements
The Call is addressed to Innovators with projects that at the application submission date:
- Are based on initiatives and/or technologies with a TRL -Technology Readiness Level between 3 and 6, Work Programme 2014-2015 of the European Commission ;
- African organisations that have ongoing activities in one of the following countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal or Uganda;
- Italian organisations that are willing to operate in one of the following countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda.
For more information, visit https://www.coopen.it/en/health-and-well-being/