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Over the past 15 years, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) established 9 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) to strengthen Europe’s capacity to innovate and find solutions to global societal challenges.
In 2018, acknowledging the importance of international cooperation in tackling such challenges, the EIT and its KICs established together the EIT Global Outreach Programme. Contributing to the EU’s Global Approach in Research & Innovation, it is the first EIT Community coordinated effort at global level.
The EIT Global Outreach bridges the EU innovation ecosystem with those of strategic locations worldwide, forging synergies to drive EU innovation. With hubs in Silicon Valley, the UK and Israel, and programmes in Canada, the US East Coast and Japan, the initiative enables startups to launch innovations worldwide, attract investments and build impactful cross-border collaborations.
Renowned as the “start-up nation”, Israel is the world leader for number of start-ups per capita, with Tel Aviv constantly ranked with the world’s most innovative cities.
A vast number of unique factors contribute to Israel becoming such a tech powerhouse, making it a strategic location for an EIT global outreach hub that focuses on creating synergies between the EIT community and the Israeli innovation ecosystem.
EIT Hub Israel supports the growth of innovative start ups and increases the number of EU-Israel and Cross-KIC collaborative projects.
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is an independent body of the European Union established in 2008 to deliver innovation across Europe and to strengthen Europe’s capacity to innovate and find solutions to global societal challenges.
Over the past decade, the EIT established 8 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) that bring together leading business, education and research organisations to form dynamic cross-border partnerships. Each of these communities (KICs) is dedicated to finding solutions to a specific global challenge.
EIT Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) develop innovative products and services, start new companies, and train a new generation of entrepreneurs. Together, we power innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe to turn their best ideas into products, services, jobs and growth.
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is an independent body of the European Union established in 2008 to deliver innovation across Europe and to strengthen Europe’s capacity to innovate and find solutions to global societal challenges.
Over the past decade, the EIT established 8 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) that bring together leading business, education and research organisations to form dynamic cross-border partnerships. Each of these communities (KICs) is dedicated to finding solutions to a specific global challenge.
EIT Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) develop innovative products and services, start new companies, and train a new generation of entrepreneurs. Together, we power innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe to turn their best ideas into products, services, jobs and growth.
Bringing together more than 2900 partners, the EIT is Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem and connects innovators and organisations. We power innovators and entrepreneurs across the EU and beyond to turn their best ideas into cutting-edge products and services. This is crucial to fulfilling the EIT’s mission to create jobs and deliver sustainable and smart growth for Europe.
We support the development of dynamic, long-term European partnerships among leading companies, research labs and higher education. These partnerships are called EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) and each is dedicated to finding solutions to a specific global challenge, from climate change and sustainable energy to healthy living and food.
Together with leading partners, the EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities: education courses that combine technical and entrepreneurial skills, tailored business creation and acceleration services and innovation driven research projects. This brings new ideas and solutions to the market, turns students into entrepreneurs and, most importantly, delivers innovation.
EIT Climate-KIC brings together a community of large and small companies, scientific institutions and universities, city authorities and other public bodies, start-ups, and students. With over 450 formal organisational partners from across 26 countries, we work together on innovation to mitigate climate change and to adapt to its unavoidable impacts.
EIT Health is a network of best in class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens live longer and healthier lives. Our network connects world-class organisations across Europe from the three worlds of business, research and education.
EIT Digital embodies the future of innovation by mobilizing a pan-European multi-stakeholder open-innovation ecosystem of top European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes, where students, researchers, engineers, business developers and investors address the technology, talent, skills, business and capital needs of digital entrepreneurship.
EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted. Its mission is to future proof our food, so we are on a mission to build an inclusive and innovative community where the consumer is actively involved.
EIT Culture & Creativity is a Knowledge and Innovation Community that’s bringing creatives from all walks of life together to rethink how we live as Europeans. That includes rethinking the way we currently run our cultural and creative sectors and industries from fashion to film and empowering creatives to transform it according to their vision of the green and digital transitions.
EIT Manufacturing is an innovation community that brings together 60 European leading partners from business, education and research, from 17 countries across Europe. EIT Manufacturing’s mission is to bring European manufacturing actors together in innovation ecosystems that add unique value to European products, processes and services and inspire the creation of globally competitive and sustainable manufacturing.
EIT Raw Materials vision is to develop raw materials into a major strength for Europe. Its mission is to enable sustainable competitiveness of the European minerals, metals and materials sector along the value chain by driving innovation, education and entrepreneurship.
EIT Urban Mobility works to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more liveable places. EIT Urban Mobility aims to become the largest European initiative transforming urban mobility.
EIT InnoEnergy works to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more liveable places. EIT Urban Mobility aims to become the largest European initiative transforming urban mobility.
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Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.
The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.
Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.
In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.
Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.
1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?
2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?
How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.
How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?
Precision medicine aims to personalise care for every individual. Nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress etc.), can facilitate personalised diagnosis and prognostics. Yet this goal requires access to massive amounts of data which may come from different structured and unstructured sources; these can be our medical records, laboratory testing, a range of medical devices as well as from the patient himself. AI & ML can combine input from these multiple sources, analyse them and identify biomarkers that can support health professionals make more informed decisions. The convergence of precision medicine with the advanced AI capabilities will improve the ability to personalise care – improve diagnosis, risk prediction as well as therapy planning.
HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?
Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones. They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.
The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.
How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to effectively manage their care
As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.
This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements.
How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?
How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?
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