Bridging the Channel

Expand Your Horizons and Foster EU-UK Innovative Collaborations

6 December, 2023 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET | Online

Join us to hear about EU-UK Innovation Opportunities

EIT Global Outreach invites you to an informative and practical webinar to provide EU and UK based innovation players with all of the relevant knowledge required to engage in Horizon Europe opportunities under the new UK association agreement.

The exposure event will also offer a matchmaking platform to enable ecosystem players from both ecosystems to build EU-UK consortia for Horizon Europe calls. With a targeted focus on startups, innovation players, ecosystem leaders, researchers, corporations and government entities from Europe and the UK, the event will provide relevant opportunities to foster cross- border innovation.

Your Chance to Build an EU-UK Horizon Europe Consortium

Bridging the Channel

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
  • 11:00 - 12:30 CET | 10:00 - 11:30 GMT
  • Online
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
  • 11:00 - 12:30 CET | 10:00 - 11:30 GMT
  • Online

The event will focus on 4 domains:

Manufacturing

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Digital

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Health:

Bio-printing of living cells for regenerative medicine
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Microbiome for flavour and texture in the organoleptic dietary shift
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Who is it for?

-Academic researchers & research organizations with microbiome research, biochemistry, food science and nutrition expertise

-Microbiologists, chemists, bioinformaticians

-Biomedical scientists, cell biologists and medical doctors

-Tissue-engineerings

-Regulatory experts

-Bio 3D printing companies

-SMEs (preclinical stage and early clinical development)

-Food labs, alternative protein, food distributors and retailers

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Manufacturing:

Bio-intelligent manufacturing industries
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Technologies/solutions to support circularity for manufacturing
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Who is it for?

-Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing companies

-Material Science and Engineering Institutions

-Big Data, AI, and Cybersecurity tech companies

-Companies with a strong interest in circular economy

-Environmental Institutes specialize in environmental impact assessment, lifecycle analysis (LCA), and the development of carbon footprint reduction strategies

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Energy:

Next generation of renewable energy technologies
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AI Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the energy sector – bringing technology to the market
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Who is it for?

-Renewable Energy and AI early-stage technologies

-Researchers

-Universities

-Large energy entities

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Event Agenda:

Time (CET)

Description

11:00 CET/10:00 GMT

 Welcome remarks

11:10 CET/10:10 GMT

 Overview of the UK Association Agreement – Opportunities & Open Questions

11:30 CET/10:30 GMT

Horizon Europe Best Practices – Dos and Don’ts

11:40 CET/10:40 GMT

Domain Deep Dive, Open Opportunities & Matchmaking
Health | Manufacturing | Climate | Digital

*A matchmaking platform will be shared after the event to participants for consortium building

Who should attend?

The webinar is relevant for all European and UK-based innovation players looking to explore collaborative opportunities within Horizon Europe, from the industry, academia, government and tech ecosystem.

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What is Horizon Europe and What is the UK association Agreement?

In a Nutshell

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion.

It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.

The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.

Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate. Since Brexit, UK based organisations had not been able to participate in Horizon Europe submissions or be entitled to funds. On September 7 2023 the European Commission and the UK Government concluded negotiations and reached an agreement in principle on the association of the UK to Horizon Europe, expected to be officially adopted by the end of the year

Click here for more information about Horizon Europe

Click here for joint Statement by the European Commission and the UK Government on the UK’s association to Horizon Europe and Copernicus
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why join?

Unpack the official protocols of the Horizon Europe association agreement with the UK

Understand how YOU can benefit from the association of the UK to Horizon Europe

Domain specific opportunities with experts

EU-UK matchmaking for consortia building

Access to submission support packages
*Subject to final adoption of association protocols

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For inquiries and updates, contact adina.beer@go-eit.eu

Our partners

EU delegation to Israel is the representator of the European Union in Israel

Israel-Europe Research & Innovation Directorate.
Promoting participation of Israeli entities in European R&I activity. Israel’s National contact point for participation in the European Framework Programmes.

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EIT Health, part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, is Europe’s largest health innovation network. Our mission is to unite the brightest minds from the worlds of business, research, education and healthcare delivery to answer some of the biggest health challenges facing Europe. With a vast community that connects 130+ leading Partner organisations, with thousands of start-ups, entrepreneurs and healthcare professionals, our collaborative effort goes beyond conventional approaches to disease management and disease prevention. We are dedicated to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the healthcare industry by building and growing businesses to create cutting-edge products and services to advance healthcare for patients in Europe.

Opportunities:
Joining EIT Health opens the door to Europe’s largest health network, encompassing industry leaders, universities, research bodies, start-ups, hospitals, government associations, and investment firms. Prepare for the upcoming flagship call for proposals from EIT Health:

The 2024 call will address the following areas

  • New models to deliver healthcare: This flagship will look at how we might start to define new models to deliver healthcare and implement robust analysis of databases that are already in place. At the centre of this will be the concept of value-based healthcare, where success measures are based on patient outcomes and the shift from treatment to prevention. 
  • Digital Transformation of Healthcare: This flagship aims to support the digital health transformation in Europe and will focus on the development of, and access to, digital health medical devices. It will also support the implementation of the European Health Data Space by exploring the secondary use of data. It will also look at how we train and develop patients, citizens, and healthcare professionals to understand the importance and relevance of data sharing in informing and improving the continuum of care pathways.

Speakers:

Graham Armitage, Managing Director EIT Health Ireland – UK
Patrick Reidy, Collaboration Lead EIT Health Ireland – UK

Sustainable Manufacturing

Europe’s manufacturing sector, consisting of more than 2 million companies, is critically important not only for maintaining Europe’s prosperity, but also for ensuring the transition into a climate-neutral and fully digitised continent by 2050. However, the current manufacturing industry is challenged like never before: supply chain disruptions, climate change, and increasing global competition. The need for meaningful collaboration and disruptive action to future-proof the industry has never been bigger. Join EIT Manufacturing’s collaborative approach to overcome these challenges by putting people at the centre of manufacturing, accelerating green manufacturing, and fostering sovereignty and competitiveness. 

Opportunities: 

We target actors in the manufacturing sector and supply chain: startups, SMEs, corporations, and researchers. People who want to collaborate to make impact. 

Speakers:
Johanna Stiernstedt, Director EIT Manufacturing North
Kyle MacDonald, Innovation Manager, EIT Manufacturing North
Abir Hossain, Business Creation Manager, EIT Manufacturing North

Bridging net zero aspirations to reality on the ground

A focussed overview of open opportunities for EU and UK based innovation players in the climate realm to collaboratively accelerate net zero aspirations. EIT Climate-KIC is a partnership with a core membership of 160 organisations, spanning business, universities, cities and NGOs, giving us an unrivalled breadth of knowledge and expertise. Climate-KIC catalyses and supports innovation for climate action with community members, investing in our growing community to accelerate transition and create the critical mass needed to scale up the supply of and demand for solutions tackling climate change.

Opportunities:

  1. Towards Climate Neutral European Cities by 2030 https://netzerocities.eu/  

  2. Systems innovation for the transition to a climate-neutral agri-food sector, Ireland https://www.climate-kic.org/sustainablefoodireland/

  3. Co-developing pathways towards climate resilient regions in Europe  https://www.pathways2resilience.eu/

Speakers:
EU Cities Mission, EIT Climate-KIC (tentative : Thomas Ozdoba, Team Lead)
Irish Deep Demonstration, EIT Climate-KIC (tentative: Saskia Visser, Team Lead) 
Climate Adaptation Mission, Pathways2Resilience EIT Climate-KIC (tentative: Fernando Diaz Lopez,Team Lead)

Growing Digital Deep Tech Ventures In 2024

A focussed overview of open opportunities to collaboratively accelerate the growth of UK-based deep tech startups and scaleups in 2024 by leveraging public funding and private capital sourced from Horizon Europe and leading private venture firms from the UK, the EU and the US, while also opening new customer relationships and channels to market via established EU networks.

Opportunities:

EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory: https://www.eitdigital.eu/open-innovation-factory/

EIT Digital Growth Services :https://www.eitdigital.eu/growth-services/

Speakers:
Tessa Holkham, Ecosystem Lead U.K., Ireland & Benelux, EIT Digital
Victoria Hoffmann, Ecosystem Lead Western Europe, EIT Digital
Martin Beaton, Edinburgh Satellite Manager, EIT Digital
Ben McLure, Growth Services – Venture Capital & Corporate Investment, EIT Digital

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Full access to the community network

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.

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Access to Healthcare

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?  

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Predictive Treatment

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?

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Patient Journey Navigation

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 

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Peer-to-Peer Medical Exchange

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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