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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Cross4Health (Collaboration among Aerospace, Biotechnology, ICT, Energy and Medical Devices sectors in generating innovative solutions, business models and work-flows that enhance patient-centered care)

Teaser

Summary

The Cross4Health project aims at moving beyond the state-of-the-art practice for regional clusters to unlock the collaborative potential of SMEs from Aerospace, Creative Industries and Energy sectors leveraged on Biotechnology, ICT and Medical Devices (ACEBIM) sectors in generating innovative solutions, business models and workflows that enhance patient-centred personalised care for societal challenges in health, delivered through the Medical Devices new emerging industry value chains. To do this, the project has facilitated an intelligent â€œplug-inâ€ platform (a resourced open innovation space) for stakeholders that effectively have brought together end-user defined needs, innovation ideas and/or prototypes, and prospective cross-border and cross-sectorial value chains.
In this framework, the following strategic objectives defined by the Cross4Health consortium provide the keys to unlocking the potential of SMEs for Patient-Centered Health:

1. Establish and open innovation space i.e. plugin platform which supports the generation of new or adapted cross-sectoral products and services that provide innovative solutions for improving patient-centered healthcare
2. Provide targeted monetary and non-monetary support mechanisms that generate added value, leveraging expert knowledge, new partnerships and market support.
3 Provide access to critical infrastructure, for large-scale demonstrators to fast test and validate their business hypothesis via dedicated voucher scheme
4. Secure additional funding streams to facilitate sustainable cycles of collaborative ACEBIM sectors innovation and acceleration to market

Work performed

To generate momentum around the project objectives the project has progressed in all the strategic fronts including; support SMEs by generate collaborative project ideas and teams, financial support via open calls and Open Innovation Spaces to bring challenge owners and solver under one roof.
The progress towards each of the strategic project objective during first reporting period is summarised below:
1. Cross4Health consortium has successfully implemented the concept of Open Innovation Spaces. This process has included a need identification process that covers gathered data and workshops with end-users (doctors, nurses and other stakeholders in healthcare), experts and SMEâ€™s from various sectors. The needs that have been exposed in this process have set the ground for the challenges posed in the two Cross4Health Open Calls for innovative cross-sectorial projects for patient-centred personalized care.
2. To further support European SMEs in fostering cross-sectorial innovation for the benefit of personalised healthcare, Cross4Health have launched 2 Open Calls where SMEs have gotten the opportunity to apply for the Cross4Health Acceleration Programme and receive up to â‚¬55.000 per SME in innovation support for their collaborative projects. The two open calls combined have received 84 proposals involving a total of 161 SMEs from 27 different European Countries.
3. In order to reach the objective of providing access to critical infrastructure for large scale demonstrators for the SMEs receiving support through the Cross4Health project, the consortium has reached out to European networks of test-beds, living labs and other interested end-users to register as an external provider in the Cross4Health catalogue of services. The selected sub-granted projects can use innovation Vouchers to test and validate both their technical results and business hypothesis in a real environment in addition to further developing their products and solutions in line with real needs.
4. Public funding leverage as Innovation Support Service - This service is offered to the sub-granted projects with the objective of strengthening the overall knowledge of EU funding instruments. During the 1st Acceleration period, 3 projects are benefiting from this service.

Final results

\"In order to strengthen EUâ€™s industrial leadership in medical devices, the Cross4Health project has fostered a total of 282 innovation ideas during first eighteen months of the project. This includes:
1. 1st European Cross4Health Idea Contest (Toulouse) generated 175 ideas to solve the posed challenges. The SME winning the 1st prize have later been involved in 4 proposals to the two open calls.
2. 2nd European Cross4Health Idea Contest Hackathon (Madrid) had a total of 20 SMEs benefiting from the event and 10 SME led teams pitching their Ideas. 2 SMEs applied to the 2nd Open Call.
3. 1st Cross4Health Hackathon (Bochum) had 52 attendees and 5 SME led teams (28 team members) pitching their ideas to the jury. 2 SMEs applied to the 2nd Open Call
4. 2nd Cross4Health Hackathon (Kongsberg) had 80 attendees and 8 SME led teams (31 team members) pitching their ideas. The winning team is developing and testing their solution with the challenge owner, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust.
5. 1st Open Call resulted in 18 proposals. 5 projects with 14 SMEs were selected for support in the 1st Acceleration Programme
6. 2nd Open Call resulted in 66 proposals. 23 projects with 44 SMEs will be selected for support in the 2nd Acceleration Programme.

To support the Regional Smart Specialization Strategies in the cross-sectoral healthcare collaboration, a briefing paper for the 5 S3 contacts representing Cross4Health partner regions has been prepared and will be discussed at an online meeting later in 2019.
Towards end of the project the project will issues a â€œCrossover value chain and Spill-over Achievements Report\"\". This report will be a detailed analysis of the identified barriers, indicators and potential actuators for SMEs in Europe. It will also summarize the results achieved among project participants. This report will have a dedicated section to reporting on the significant spill-over results achieved by the performing projects within and beyond Cross4Health project, side effects and long term Cross4Health impact in host/newly born organizations. It will include the work for M21-M30 and the results from the second acceleration period.
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