Context

Europe faces rising and potentially unsustainable health and care costs, mainly due to the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases , to an ageing population requiring more diversified care and to increasing societal demand. Healthcare systems are challenged at an unprecedented level in terms of quality of service and cost. The digital transformation of society is also expected to have a deep impact on active and healthy ageing as well as monitoring patients with chronic diseases. The MedTech4europe project under this MedTech partnership developed a unique analysis of eight top notch MedTech ecosystems in Europe, defined several good practices and created a transfer of knowledge between partners.

Year established: 2016

Mission

The mission of the Medical Technologies partnership is to support Medical technology as a way to offer new opportunities to address challenges by increasing the efficacy of healthcare and limiting the cost. It also wants to give participants more insights in best practices of European ecosystems and share ideas and chances for funding.

Objectives

The health transition focuses on a transition to a more efficient care system where people grow older in a healthier and happier way. Specific objectives are: Take up challenges like the Regional Innovation Valleys in Health to be established, empower the participation of citizens and transforming the care cycle to more person-centred models, ensure a better access to healthcare for all, create smart, scalable and sustainable solutions building on new innovation opportunities

Shared smart specialisation areas

1. Personalisation. Personalisation is about tailoring medical treatments to a patient’s individual profile.
2. Prediction. The first task is to better predict health risks.
3. Prevention. Considerable health gains can still be achieved with prevention. A healthy lifestyle protects us from psychological and social problems, loneliness, and addictions.
4. Participation means that people start to participate in and contribute towards their own care.

Tags

Medical Technologies

Regions (lead and partner)

• Leading regions: Limburg (South Netherlands - NL), Copenhagen Capital Region Denmark (DK)
• Participating regions: Aragon (ES), Extremadura (ES), Basque Country (ES), Catalonia (ES), Auvergne Rhone Alpes (FR), Pays de la loire (FR), Ile-de-France (FR), East Netherlands (NL), North Brabant (NL), South Holland (NL), Emilia Romagna (IT), Flanders (BE), Moravia (CZ), Helsinki-Uusimaa (FI), Ireland (IE), Lombardy (IT), Northern Ostrobothnia (Pohjois-Pohjanmaa) (FI), Piedmont (IT), Slovenia (SI), South Denmark (Syddanmark) (DK), South Transdanubia (HU), North East Romania (RO), Saxony (DE), Saxony-Anhalt (DE)

Organisations involved

• Province of Limburg
• Capital Region of Denmark
• Aragon Health Cluster
• La region Auvergne Rhone Alpes
• Accio Catalonia trade and investment
• Basque Health Cluster
• Danish Life Sciences Cluster
• Area Ricerca e Innovazione (ART-ER)
• La region Pays de la Loire
• North East Region
• Ministry of Economy, Tourism, Agriculture and Forest (Sachsen Anhalt)
• Moravian-Silesian region
• CNR-STIIMA
• Tyndall National Institute
• University College Cork
• Helsinki-Uusimaa Region
• FundeSalud
• Clust-ER Industrie della Salute e del Benessere
• Università di Bologna
• Bio Analytik Muenster
• OOST NL
• Bio Industry park
• South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency Nonprofit Ltd
• EDUCELL d.o.o
• SIH EEIG
• Healthday
• South Denmark European Office
• Flanders Bio
• VITO NV
• LEG Thueringen
• Medvia
• The Province of North- Brabant

Related projects

• MedTech4europe: This Interreg europe Project focuses in optimizing the impact of public policies in favor of research and innovation facilities in the field of medical technologies. (https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/medtech4europe/)
• S3MARTMED: The new ESCP-S3 project S3martMed gathers 5 European Clusters dedicated to Healthcare and Medical technologies. These are Lyonbiopole (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), BioWin (Wallonia), BioRegioStern (Baden-Württemberg ), bioPmed (Piedmont), MedSilesia (Upper Silesia). The purpose of the starting initiative is to foster interregional and cross-sectoral cooperation between European clusters and their SME members in the field of medical technologies through the establishment of a unique cluster partnership. Through its action, the partnership will participate to the implementation of the Smart Specialisation policies with their Regions and encourage future investments in medical technologies. (https://clustercollaboration.eu/content/s3martmed)
• AI4DIAG: The project is funded by the European Union’s COSME programme and has a triple ambition: fostering companies’ development, fostering Regions’ co-investments and laying the foundation of a long term collaboration strategy between clusters in order to boost industrial modernisation of diagnostics companies in order to reinforce their international leadership. (https://ai4diag.b2match.io/page-1131)

Contact

• Ingrid Relou: ia.relou@prvlimburg.nl
• Anja Storgaard: anja.storgaard@regionh.dk
• S3 Platform MedTech Province of Limburg and Capital Region of Denmark s3medtech@prvlimburg.nl

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