Networking
Health technologiesHorizon 2020

New networking tool available for calls in ICT for Health, Wellbeing and Demographic Change

Carles Gimeno

NetworkingAn online networking tool is now available to proposers to find potential partners for proposing a project under the Horizon 2020 funding programme, topics ‘ICT for Health, Wellbeing and Demographic Change’ (Societal Challenge 1 or SC1).

 

This tool is limited to the topics of SC1 (Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing) in Horizon 2020 which:

  • Are listed under the calls that opened in October 2015 with a closing date in 2016.
  • Are ICT-centred (topics managed by DG CONNECT), namely:
  • Active ageing and self-management of health
    • SC1-PM-12–2016: PCP – eHealth innovation in empowering the patient
    • SC1-PM-13–2016: PPI for deployment and scaling up of ICT solutions for active and healthy ageing
    • SC1-PM-14–2016: EU-Japan cooperation on Novel ICT Robotics based solutions for active and healthy ageing at home or in care facilities
  • Methods and data
    • SC1-PM-18–2016: Big Data supporting Public Health policies
  • Health care provision and integrated care
    • SC1-PM-21-2016: Implementation research for scaling-up of evidence based innovations and good practice in Europe and low- and middle-income countries
  • Cross-cutting activities (Focus Area) Internet of Things : IoT-01-2016: Large Scale Pilots Pilot 1: Smart living environments for ageing well
  • Digital Security Focus Area: DS-03-2016: Increasing digital security of health related data on a systemic level
  • Coordination activities:
    • SC1-HCO-10–2016: Support for Europe’s leading Health ICT SMEs
    • SC1-HCO-11–2016: Coordinated action to support the recognition of Silver Economy opportunities arising from demographic change
    • SC1-HCO-12–2016: Digital health literacy
    • SC1-HCO-13-2016: Healthcare Workforce IT skills
    • SC1-HCO-14–2016: EU-US interoperability roadmap
    • SC1-HCO-15-2016: EU eHealth Interoperability conformity assessment
    • SC1-HCO-16-2016: Standardisation needs in the field of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing
  • Innovation in SMEs:SMEInst-06-2016-2017 – Accelerating market introduction of ICT solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing Well
Proposers should check also the partners search tool offered by FitForHealth (which covers also the other SC1 topics) and Ideal-IST.

How to use the tool

To make yourself known as a potential partner:

  • Log onto the website using your Digital Agenda Portal events profile. If you do not have a profile yet, you can create one on the spot. Make your profile public and activate the “Email Me” feature.
  • Fill in your partner profile, indicate which of the topics you are interested in, give details of relevance to potential partners.
  • See proposers’ ideas, comment on the ideas, contact the proposers.

If you have a concrete project idea:

  • Enter your project idea and allocate it to the relevant call topic.
  • Your contribution will immediately appear online. You can edit it at all times afterwards.

Source: EC Website Digital Agenda