"CONNECTINGHEALTH - CONNECTing the dots withIN diGItal HEALTH Innovation Ecosystems" is a two-year preparatory action for setting up joint programme among the actors of the digital health ecosystems in Europe and beyond. The overall aim of the project is fully aligned with the call for proposals, which is to foster interconnected, inclusive innovation ecosystems across Europe and maximising the value of innovation in one of the sectors that provides the future opportunities for growth and increased competitiveness and innovativeness, namely the digital health. CONNECTINGHEALTH will be implemented by the small and agile core group, which consists of the European Connected Health Alliance as a European partner and three organisations that are leaders of the digital health ecosystems in their regions: Scotland, Western Hungary and Southern Ostrobothnia. To reach its goals, CONNECTINGHEALTH will conduct the mapping of the digital health ecosystems in Europe, their initiatives, projects, resources and stakeholders, develop the future scenario for the digital health sector in Europe 2030 and identify the preferable future that will be the base for the multi-year action plan, co-designed together with the stakeholders and ecosystems engaged in the project through the futures and investigative workshops. Besides the investigation on the general level of the digital health, the project will look deeper into the three topic crucial for the further development of the digital health sector in Europe, namely: 1/ health for wealth opportunities, 2/ opportunities of the transition from traditional to digital health industry and 3/ opportunities of engaging the stakeholders from health and social sector in the development and implementation of the solutions. CONNECTINGHEALTH will result with the multi-year action plan and the number of immediately exploitable results, eg. the future scenarios and the focus area papers. They will be disseminated widely to the key stakeholders.

The main aim of the SIRENE proposal is to support the growth of social innovation ecosystems delivering eco-friendly and sustainable community-based services for SHAFE (Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments) implementation in Europe, by providing a workable framework for investment and the broad adoption of high-quality smart living solutions, combining the housing sector and ICT infrastructure. There have been several initiatives and previous CSAs aiming to promote innovation and support stakeholders to increase investments in relevant societal areas, often providing support measures to different actors such as webinars, trainings, workshops, twinnings. However, their impact usually runs shorter than desirable in the mid- and long-term. SIRENE identifies a diverse approach: connect stakeholders by having them working together towards a Social Innovation framework and supporting tools, claiming that this joint collaborative and co-creative work will: • Increase awareness of innovation actors on social innovation concepts, methods and he skills to leverage them. • Make social entrepreneurs aware of potential business opportunities, funding and investment around SHAFE. • Create alliances and synergies between different stakeholders within ecosystems and between ecosystems. • Ensure that business actors have access to social innovation and entrepreneurial knowledge. • Unleash the potential of social innovation ecosystems on SHAFE. The desired impact of the SIRENE proposal is to improve the wellbeing and housing conditions of the European population by empowering social and private entrepreneurs. SIRENE leverages on the networks and outcomes of the SHAFE Network and the COST Action19136 NET4Age-Friendly (SHINE and AFE coordination) the ECTP and Homes4Life (Tecnalia), the Thematic Inovation Ecosystem on Housing and Health (ECHA and ISRAA), as well as the European Reference Framework on Smart Age-Friendly Housing, the Green Deal and H2020/HE ICT funded projects.

InnoHSupport´s main goal is to bridge those gaps that hamper the progress in the definition, implementation, and adoption of innovative solutions in the healthcare ecosystem by offering a portfolio of advisory services for procurers, state-owned enterprises, SMEs and start-ups, research and technological organisations, innovation agencies and other organizations, like investors, responsible for promoting innovation procurement. These advisory services will include, among others, provision of training materials, executive training interventions, methodologies for innovation procurement, dedicated coaching sessions, innovation showcases, scanning of relevant bidding opportunities, matching with potential bidding partners, acceleration services, etc. Project methodology is based on three pillars: - Pillar I. Capacity building focused on building capacities and skills to the innovation procurement ecosytem. - Pillar II. Inventory of innovation procurement advisory services oriented towards the design and testing of a comprehensive set of advisory services covring the whole innovation process cycle. - Pillar III. Collaboration and Matchmaking to foster the innovation ecosystem building by developing spaces for co-desing and matchmaking. InnoHSupport is made by and for innovation actors: - the consortium brings together 7 partners + 2 affiliated entities from 6 EU countries (ES, NL, IE, BU, BE,UK) including a consultancy firm, a university, a public buyer and several associations with highly expertise within the public procurement of innovation in healthcare systems; - our target groups involve the whole innovation ecosystem actors: public and private procurers, state-owned enterprises, SMEs and start- ups, research and technological organisations, innovation agencies and other public bodies responsible for promoting procurement of innovation.

The design and realization of age-friendly living and working environments is a huge challenge that we have just only started to address as the number of older citizens who are and want to continue being active members of society and live independently is constantly increasing. SmartWork builds a worker-centric AI system for work ability sustainability, integrating unobtrusive sensing and modelling of the worker state with a suite of novel services for context and worker-aware adaptive work support. The unobtrusive and pervasive monitoring of health, behaviour, cognitive and emotional status of the worker enables the functional and cognitive decline risk assessment. The holistic approach for work ability modelling captures the attitudes and abilities of the ageing worker and enables decision support for personalized interventions for maintenance/improvement of the work ability. The evolving work requirements are translated into required abilities and capabilities, and the adaptive work environment supports the older office worker with optimized services for on-the-fly work flexibility coordination, seamless transfer of the work environment between different devices and different environments (home, office, on the move), and on-demand personalized training. The SmartWork services and modules also empower the employer with AI decision support tools for efficient task completion and work team optimization through flexible work practices. Optimization of team formation, driven by the semantic modelling of the work tasks, along with training needs prioritization at team level to identify unmet needs, allow employers to optimize tasks (e.g. needed resources), shifting focus on increased job satisfaction for increased productivity. Formal and informal carers are able to continuously monitor the overall health status and risks of the people they care for, thus providing full support to the older office worker for sustainable, active and healthy ageing.

Biomaterials in healthcare span almost all medical fields, ranging from recognised materials to high-innovative smart and multi-functional biomaterials. One of the main challenges is to provide accessible and well-structured data of biomaterials for all relevant practitioners and user groups. BIOMATDB aims to create an advanced database for biomaterials providing detailed information on its properties. Flexible data analysis and visualisation tools support the search and selection process based on analyses of the results of biological testing of biomaterials from the scientific literature to incorporate data on as many of the material properties as possible. BIOMATDB also provides a web-optimised information marketplace and digital advisors to support companies, especially SMEs, in offering their products and properly presenting themselves at global scale. Initiated by biomaterial use cases, the web application will match the suppliers and demanders through intelligent matching tools and step-by-step decision support. BIOMATDB focuses on the creation of a label of biocompatibility to define the suitability of a biomaterial for use in a medical device or advanced therapy and to assist companies, especially SMEs, in choosing and facilitating market access for their products providing them a better guidance. All created technical systems and data processing methods are tested within existing open innovation testbeds and validation groups. Intuitive training manuals and compact online video tutorials support the use of the database, marketplace and label. Appropriate business models are derived for securing the long-term sustainability of the created solutions. The project has a significant impact on the findability and searchability of existing biomaterials at the pan-European level. It is an enabler for better uptake of biomaterials in future health applications and medical therapies.