Deadline: 12-Oct-22
EIT Health is pleased to launch the RIS Innovation Call to support the development of local healthcare projects in the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) region.
The programme aims to bridge the funding gap in moderately progressing EU regions, as well as to support you in the proof-of-concept phase and to guide you in your EIT Health innovation journey. It offers access to funding, mentoring, training services, and networking opportunities.
Focus Areas
The four Focus Areas offer guidance for anyone preparing a proposal. All proposals should address one -or more- focus areas.
- Brain and Mental Health
- Addressing brain health challenges and focusing on mental health in the workplace is mainly essential. They aim to help people worldwide achieve the best possible.
- Brain health is broader than the absence of disease. It includes improving overall cognitive functioning, resilience, and the state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her abilities can cope with the everyday stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to his or her community. Brain conditions account for a large portion of the global disease burden, a challenge substantially worsened by the COVID-19 crisis, especially since the mental health of manyemployees was at risk.
- Infectious Diseases
- They need to consider how to reduce the threat of infectious diseases more broadly over the next decade.
- Humanity has made enormous progress in fighting infectious diseases over the last century by improving hygiene and developing highly successful vaccines and therapeutics. At the same time, effective prevention and treatment of infectious diseases remain a major challenge across geographies. Equitably and consistently applying proven strategies, novel approaches, and collaborations across countries, populations, and systems to reduce suffering and death from infectious diseases.
- Fostering Healthier Lives
- They want to change lifestyle behaviours by creating the tools and incentives for patients that help protect their health, prevent early ageing, reducing disease and disability.
- The global disease burden is strongly related to behavioural factors, including dietary choices, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, alcohol, and poor medication adherence. Creating awareness about and changing these behaviours also represents a major opportunity to improve health and well-being.
- Harnessing Real-World Data
- They want to exhaust the wealth of healthcare data available across Europe to improve the lives of patients and citizens.
- Healthcare data provides rich insight into diseases and, when used efficiently, will open new possibilities. It will deliver prediction models for early diagnosis, enhance treatment, and inform how they can lead healthier lives. They want to exhaust the wealth of healthcare data available across Europe to improve the lives of patients and citizens.
Funding Information
- Team up with your regional EIT Health Hub or Partner, and receive 75.000 euro for your innovation project.
- Individual mentoring from the EIT Health Mentor and Coaching Network (MCN)
- Online bootcamps
- Visibility for successful innovation projects
- Opportunity during the later stages of matchmaking events
Eligibility Criteria
- The EIT Health RIS Innovation Call is open to all legal entities. However, at least two legal entities’ collaboration is expected from the same RIS country, where both business AND academic OR research OR health care institutions as partners are represented. Partnerships consist of only affiliated entities that are not eligible.
- Eligible RIS countries are Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
- Eligible applications must contain a Letter of Support from an EIT Health Hub or Partner and a declaration of non-conflict of interest.
For more information, visit https://eithealth.eu/programmes/innovation-call-ris/