Deadline: 17-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for “Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for Health” to accelerate the testing by mutualising the infrastructures as well the administrative, medical and ethical procedures and certifications as well as to advance personalised medicine and person-centred care, with the aim to increase the effectiveness, resilience and sustainability of European health and care systems and reduce healthcare delivery inequalities in Europe, while ensuring compliance with relevant legal, ethical, quality and interoperability requirements.
The demand for high-quality health and care by European citizens is increasing. At the same time, there is an urgent need for cost-effectiveness in the context of an ageing society and growing numbers of chronically ill patients. Technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics have the potential to improve the efficiency, security, and quality of the prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, care, rehabilitation and monitoring of European citizens’ health, as well as to promote a healthy lifestyle.
The TEF will foster the integration of state-of-the-art AI and robotics technologies in the healthcare domain. It will boost European healthcare industry by focusing on the applicability and facilitate the complex and lengthy process of AI innovation. The project will contribute to positioning the EU as a leader in AI and robotics for healthcare by promoting the generation of new companies, retaining talent, and creating new jobs.
The facility may include a range of use cases in different fields such as:
- Treatments in various fields including cancer and paediatrics;
- Monitoring the progress of long-term conditions in function of treatment (e.g. diabetes mellitus, neurodegenerative diseases etc.)
- Support to doctors’ decision-making, including personalised, predictive and gender-sensitive treatments;
- Detection of tumours from imaging;
- Robotics surgery;
- Robotics assistance and rehabilitation;
- Active and Assisted Living technologies for elderly or disabled persons, including digital solutions in support of the creation of multi-generation living spaces in line with the New European Bauhaus approach
- Logistics, management of flows and process efficiency in hospitals.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 30.000.000,00.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
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be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
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non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries
- countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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