Ten new Scandinavian-led projects launched in 2020
We are pleased to announce ten new Scandinavian-led activities for the Business Plan 2020. The projects cover areas such as patient innovation, innovative bone cement, two Master programmes and one PhD programme. Look out for upcoming feature stories about the projects, as well as upcoming invitations to programmes!
SOFTBONE (20519). Soft bone cement for better treatment of osteoporotic fractures.
Project type: Innovation project.
The SoftBone project develops a way to treat vertebral fractures in osteoporotic patients to reduce the re-hospitalization rate and associated costs. Current bone cements are too hard and stiff for the osteoporotic, brittle bone, causing up to 40% new fractures adjacent to a treated vertebra. The project’s main deliverable is to prove less new fractures with a softer cement that has been developed. Within the project, there will also be done a socio-economic study to prove the societal savings resulting from the use of the new soft cement, based on the results from the performed randomized controlled clinical trial. A second aim is to verify the possible use of the soft cement in painful degenerated discs.
Lead Partner: Uppsala Universitet.
Participating Partners:
Uppsala University
Parc Sanitaire St Joan de Deu
SERMAS
Medical University of Lodz
University Hospital of Heidelberg
Uppsala County Council
External Project Partner: InOssia AB
SHAPE I&E (20356). Digital Transformation to Shape I&E for Future Wellness.
Type of project: Training for Students. Master Programme.
SHAPE I&E spotlights the breadth of today’s technical possibilities for wellness and lifestyle applications but with a focus on the translation of highest-level scientific knowledge via sports, ergonomics and big data from wearable devices and sensors. Physical data from citizens, including elderly, children and professional athletes will be translated into contributions to healthy living for all, boosting public health initiatives and wellness innovations to new levels over and above a drive to increase physical activity. Graduates from the programme will be the innovators and entrepreneurs of the future, enabled to create bridges between human science, technology and health.
Lead Partner: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Participating Partners:
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and the other members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
Universite Grenoble Alpes
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense (LEITAT)
Universidade de Coimbra
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Unina)
GE Healthcare Magyarország Kft
Patient Innovation Bootcamp: Boosting Patient Entrepreneurship. (20405).
Project type: Business Creation
The Patient Innovation Bootcamp is aimed at supporting patients and informal caregivers to implement and scale up the innovative solutions they develop to help them cope with a need imposed by their health condition. The programme will be delivered over eight months, with three weeks on site in three cities in Europe, to help teams launch their device, diagnostics and digital health innovations. Applications are open: 16 December 2019 – 30 March 2020
Lead Partner: Copenhagen Business School.
Participating Partners:
Copenhagen University
IESE
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (Biocat)
GLINTT
External Partners:
Patient Innovation
Smile Incubator
BEHealSy (20336). PhD Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems.
Project type: Campus. Applying for label.
The PhD Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems (BEHealSy) is designed to equip doctoral students in engineering with multidisciplinary research skills in health systems and the ability to translate research outcomes into innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives. The programme combines strong scientific education, training in entrepreneurship, learning-by-doing pedagogy and mobility schemes. Nine biomedical engineering universities and several industrial partners collaborated to develop a strong, unique curriculum that addresses the need for personalised health solutions on all levels – from the cellular through organismic to systemic.
Lead Partner:
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Participating Partners:
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Medtronic INC.
Trinity College Dublin
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Universitat de Barcelona
Université Grenoble Alpes
Sorbonne Université
Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense
GE Healthcare Hungary
Universidade de Lisboa
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Unina)
Medicen Paris Region
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
IHC Label (20557). MSc Innovation in Health Care – EIT Health Integrated Master Programme.
Type of project: Master Programme.
MSc InNovation in Health Care (IHC) is a 2 years, full time degree of 120 ECTS. IHC builds on a partnership between Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and the universities of Copenhagen, Lisbon and Coimbra. ICH opened in 2016 and was EIT labelled simultaneously. ICH emphasizes managerial, economic, organizational and business aspects of health care innovation.
Lead Partner: Copenhagen Business School
Participating Partners:
University of Copenhagen
Universidade de Coimbra
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Copenhagen Business School
UpMe (20445). Understanding Patient Perspectives on Medicines Use for Better Healthcare.
Type of project: Short Courses for Health Professionals proposals.
The economic consequences associated with inappropriate medicine use are considerable. On the other hand, when patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals engage together, medicines start being used more appropriately. It is therefore of paramount importance that healthcare professionals and health policy makers understand the patient perspective. This project will develop and deliver innovative online and blended learning courses, targeted for healthcare professionals and health policy makers dealing with the challenges of medicines use in patients, on how to understand the patient perspective on the use of medicines and how to integrate it into practice.
Lead Partner: University of Copenhagen
Participating Partners:
University of Copenhagen
City of Stockholm
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and the other members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
University of Oslo
IMPRODISE (20520). Improving Diversity Sensitivity in Health Care – Training for Health Professionals.
Type of project: Short Courses for Health Professionals proposals.
This programme offers training for healthcare professionals and aims to respond to health related challenges of a more diverse Europe by improving the health professionals ability to deliver diversity sensitive healthcare for all patients. To ensure optimal implementation of the training programme – interventions are made on several levels through a structured process. This innovative and cutting edge training programme which will be piloted in 2020, and will be up scaled and made available for all European countries in 2021.
Lead Partner: University of Copenhagen
Participating Partners:
University of Copenhagen
Universiteit Gent
Uppsala Universitet
Capital Region of Denmark
H2B Campus (20577). Health2B Campus.
Type of project: Short Courses for Health Professionals proposals.
SmiLe Incubator has designed the H2B Campus pilot programme based on our own Health2B Accelerator program with a proven track record and verified results. The purpose of this pilot is to create digital content, gather knowledge about the learning process and evaluate the digital way of teaching. The 8 week Campus pilot will run on a digital platform with a series of 16 modules on: Business model, Corporate Governance & Finance, Law and regulations, Communication. By including EIT industry partners like Philips and GE as well as the SmiLe experts with 250 years of combined experience from the commercial Life Science industry we will build a solid knowledge basis for innovators.
Lead Partner: Smile Incubator (linked to Region Skåne).
Participating Partners:
Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.
Region Skåne
Smile
GE Healthcare Magyarország Kft
HealthCareManagement (20570). Fostering Management and Innovation Skills for Health Professionals.
Type of project: Short Courses for Health Professionals proposals.
The new Master in Health Care Management is a cross-disciplinary degree program co-offered by the Department of Business Studies and the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University. Drawing on expertise across the entire university, students can choose from a variety of credit-giving courses. Embracing challenge-based learning, in cooperation with the university hospital and our private-sector partners from the Uppsala life sciences cluster, students will learn through working on real management challenges. Through leveraging the expertise of our sister programs at Groningen University in the Netherlands and Southeast University in Nanjing, China, students and faculty will cross-fertilize their learning to develop a global perspective on inNovating in health care.
Lead Partner: University of Uppsala
Participating Partners:
Phadia AB (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Uppsala Universitet
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
GE Healthcare Hungary
City of Uppsala
County Council of Uppsala
iGame (20616). Innovation Game – A Summer School Applying Serious Game Design on Health Care and Learning.
Type of project: Summer School
In Innovation Game, gamification is used as a tool to address real-life healthcare challenges for young people and bring back the output to society. The participants will gain skills in how to work in multidisciplinary teams and in close interaction with serious games experts and professionals from the business and public health care sector. Solutions will be shared through outreach activities and the last phase will focus on the progress from Innovation to start-up during a visit to Paris.
Lead Partner: Uppsala Universitet
Participating Partners:
Phadia AB (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Uppsala Universitet
Uppsala Innovation Centre AB
Etablissement D`Enseignement Superieur Consulaire:Grenoble Ecole de Management
CapDigital
Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris