The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on our society. As Europe’s largest organisation for collaboration within life science innovation, leveraging the strength of Europe’s leading health innovators, the EIT Health community wants to use its large network to play a role in responding to the crisis. We have therefore launched a COVID-19 response platform, facilitating connections bet
Ten SMEs have been selected to be funded and to participate in the EIT Health Digital Sandbox Programme. Chosen from around 30 applicants, the winners come from all over Europe and will receive funding and support that will help them in the development of relevant products and services through the involvement of, and collaboration with biobanks, sample holders and health registers in Europe.
The six best Scandinavian biotech, medtech and digital health start-ups have been selected by EIT Health Scandinavia for the EIT Health European Health Catapult semifinals (more information here). They will now compete with 36 other start-ups from other European regions for a place at the finals at the EIT Health Summit in Paris in December.
Imagine you are a small start-up, and you get the chance to meet 23 European incubators and R&D clusters who want to support your company’s international expansion! That was the envious situation of the start-up CEO:s participating in the final match-making meeting of the Bridgehead programme, held in Stockholm at Karolinska Institute campus on 18-19 June.
Welcome to a new way of learning: Co-Up Lab is new educational concept within the health context. It combines a physical creative space for co-creation of innovation with an educational programme for incubation of ideas. The Co-up lab is a mobile educational space that by “poping up” is utilising remote locations, taking health care education to end-users.
Three Think Tank roundtable meetings in Europe held by EIT Health this year have provided outcomes and discussions about how to use big data in healthcare. The last roundtable, held in Stockholm on 13th of August, focusing on biobanks and quality registers, has developed further into programme RABBIT (Registers And BioBanks in Transition) to promote better health and ageing of the European citizen
The Swedish company Pilloxa addresses the challenge of poor adherence to medication. “Did you know that hundreds of thousands of patients in the EU are dying every year from poor adherence?” says Per Nilsson, head of sales and finance and co-founder of Pilloxa.
The student driven activity to increase public awareness on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle
Tubus Technology is a Danish company developing simple and smart solutions to empower people with mobility disabilities in their independence. Its product, TubusOne, is a low-tech communication device used for navigating on tablets and smartphones. It works just like a finger on all touchscreen devices and enables people with arms and hands disabilities to use touchscreen devices by simply puffing
EIT Health is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) established by the EU body European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT). EIT Health is a collaboration between more than 150 Partners within pharma, medtech, healthcare and healthcare funders, research institutions, and universities. Backed by the European Union, EIT Health is Europe’s largest life science collaboration organisation, and one of the largest life science initiatives world-wide. EIT Health is active across three fields: business creation, education, and multidisciplinary healthcare innovation initiatives.
EIT Health has partners and programmes in 17 countries. The Regional Innovation Hubs are present in Barcelona, Paris, Dublin, Rotterdam, Heidelberg-Mannheim, Wienna and Budapest. The central office is located in Munich. EIT Health Scandinavia covers Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Estonia, with an office in Stockholm.
