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SHIFT-HUB: Smart Health Innovation & Future Technologies Hub

Main Features

Project name
Shift-hub
Smart Health Innovation & Future Technologies Hub
Duration
36 Months

01/01/2023 –

31/12/2025

Consortium
12 Partners
From: Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania
Coordinator: Steinbeis Europa Zentrum
Funding
1 999 990 €
From the European Commission Horizon Europe – Coordination and Support Action
Project name
Shift-hub
Smart Health Innovation & Future Technologies Hub
Duration
36 Months

01/01/2023 –

31/12/2025

Consortium
12 Partners
From: Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania
Coordinator: Steinbeis Europa Zentrum
Funding
1 999 990 €
From the European Commission Horizon Europe – Coordination and Support Action

Networking and Matchmaking

The project offers a comprehensive service that integrates networking and matchmaking for stakeholders. It aims to connect the different actors within the healthcare ecosystem and create opportunities for collaboration.

Main goal

to facilitate the development, ensure the promotion and foster the uptake of Smart Health technologies and services.

Specific objectives

EU Smart health community

  • Community platform
  • Official Partner Organisations
  • Events & peer initiatives
  • Workshops

SMART HEALTH PRODUCTS & SERVICES

  • Technical platform
  • Catalogue of Services
  • Demo Days
  • Matchmaking

AWARENESS, LITERACY & TRUST

  • Catalogue of Educational Resources
  • Focus Group
  • Gamified user journey

SUSTAINABILITY & REPLICABILITY

  • Living Labs
  • Involvement of PA
  • Peer partnerships
  • Entrepreneurial Discovery Events

Target groups

Patients and citizens

Patient and citizens

  • Awareness about Smart Health Technologies;
  • Contribute to shaping a proactive and customised health care system;
  • Digital literacy.

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

  • New value added services;
  • Collaboration and networking;
  • Advisory support.

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • Insights into emerging Smart Health Solutions;
  • Knowledge about funding opportunities;
  • Possibility to express challenges and needs.

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

  • Investment opportunities;
  • Smart Health Solutions monitoring;
  • Long-term economic growth.

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

  • Networking & Knowledge exchange;
  • Guidance on funding opportunities;
  • Market insights.

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

  • Drive regional / national economic growth;
  • Health care system optimization;
  • Public awareness and education.

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

  • Partnership opportunities & knowledge exchange;
  • Funding opportunities;
  • Research validation in industrial contexts.

Patients and citizens

Patient and citizens

  • Awareness about Smart Health Technologies;
  • Contribute to shaping a proactive and customised health care system;
  • Digital literacy.

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

  • New value added services;
  • Collaboration and networking;
  • Advisory support.

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • Insights into emerging Smart Health Solutions;
  • Knowledge about funding opportunities;
  • Possibility to express challenges and needs.

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

  • Investment opportunities;
  • Smart Health Solutions monitoring;
  • Long-term economic growth.

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

  • Networking & Knowledge exchange;
  • Guidance on funding opportunities;
  • Market insights.

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

  • Drive regional / national economic growth;
  • Health care system optimization;
  • Public awareness and education.

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

  • Partnership opportunities & knowledge exchange;
  • Funding opportunities;
  • Research validation in industrial contexts.

Patients and citizens

Patient and citizens

  • Awareness about Smart Health Technologies;
  • Contribute to shaping a proactive and customised health care system;
  • Digital literacy.

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES

  • New value added services;
  • Collaboration and networking;
  • Advisory support.

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • Insights into emerging Smart Health Solutions;
  • Knowledge about funding opportunities;
  • Possibility to express challenges and needs.

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

  • Investment opportunities;
  • Smart Health Solutions monitoring;
  • Long-term economic growth.

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

  • Networking & Knowledge exchange;
  • Guidance on funding opportunities;
  • Market insights.

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

  • Drive regional / national economic growth;
  • Health care system optimization;
  • Public awareness and education.

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

KNOWLEDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDERS

  • Partnership opportunities & knowledge exchange;
  • Funding opportunities;
  • Research validation in industrial contexts.

Networking and Matchmaking

The project offers a comprehensive service that integrates networking and matchmaking for stakeholders. It aims to connect the different actors within the healthcare ecosystem and create opportunities for collaboration.

Guidance for Accessing Funding

SHIFT-HUB provides guidance and support for accessing funding for Smart Health initiatives. This includes helping startups and SMEs assess and enhance their investor readiness and identifying available private and public funding opportunities.

Smart Health Literacy

This service is designed to empower the community members, particularly healthcare practitioners and their patients, with the necessary knowledge and skills to leverage emerging solutions in the field of Smart Health for daily tasks.

Living Labs for Empowering Patients and Citizens

SHIFT-HUB offers immersive and
interactive Living Labs to allow citizens and patients to discover emerging Smart Health solutions and provide valuable feedback to developers. This feedback helps tailor solutions to better meet the needs of end-users.

Discover, Demonstrate, and Test Before Investment

SHIFT-HUB facilitates the showcasing of solutions developed by the community members to healthcare organizations, practitioners, patients, and citizens. This includes collaboration with external Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) to promote selected solutions to potential users.

Gamified User Journey

The project incorporates gamification and e-learning journeys to create an immersive experience for patients and citizens. It aims to raise awareness, engage the community in educational activities, and induce behavioral changes that lead to improved prevention and self-management for targeted pathologies.

Open innovation and co-creation

Open Innovation workshops will be organized to allow technology providers (and in particular technology-oriented SMEs and start-ups), healthcare practitioners and other supportive partners stakeholders to address together major challenges of the Healthcare industry. This service focuses on creating a cross-fertilization process among representative stakeholders of the Smart Health community, across the dimensions of the quadruple helix, to co-design and co-develop solutions answering the current sectoral challenges.

Networking and Matchmaking

The project offers a comprehensive service that integrates networking and matchmaking for stakeholders. It aims to connect the different actors within the healthcare ecosystem and create opportunities for collaboration.

Guidance for Accessing Funding

SHIFT-HUB provides guidance and support for accessing funding for Smart Health initiatives. This includes helping startups and SMEs assess and enhance their investor readiness and identifying available private and public funding opportunities.

Smart Health Literacy

This service is designed to empower the community members, particularly healthcare practitioners and their patients, with the necessary knowledge and skills to leverage emerging solutions in the field of Smart Health for daily tasks.

Living Labs for Empowering Patients and Citizens

SHIFT-HUB offers immersive and
interactive Living Labs to allow citizens and patients to discover emerging Smart Health solutions and provide valuable feedback to developers. This feedback helps tailor solutions to better meet the needs of end-users.

Discover, Demonstrate, and Test Before Investment

SHIFT-HUB facilitates the showcasing of solutions developed by the community members to healthcare organizations, practitioners, patients, and citizens. This includes collaboration with external Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) to promote selected solutions to potential users.

Gamified User Journey

The project incorporates gamification and e-learning journeys to create an immersive experience for patients and citizens. It aims to raise awareness, engage the community in educational activities, and induce behavioral changes that lead to improved prevention and self-management for targeted pathologies.

Open innovation and co-creation

Open Innovation workshops will be organized to allow technology providers (and in particular technology-oriented SMEs and start-ups), healthcare practitioners and other supportive partners stakeholders to address together major challenges of the Healthcare industry. This service focuses on creating a cross-fertilization process among representative stakeholders of the Smart Health community, across the dimensions of the quadruple helix, to co-design and co-develop solutions answering the current sectoral challenges.

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