Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts

Expected Impact:Applicants are expected to define the expected impacts to be achieved by their proposal that will contribute to one or more of the expected impacts linked to IHI JU’s Specific Objective 2, as set out in the IHI JU SRIA, i.e.:breaking down fragmentation between various disciplines of medicine and technological areas in order to conceive and develop technologically and socially innovative, people centred, integrated healthcare solutions that can seamlessly be introduced in healthcare systems;fostering development of safe and effective innovative health technologies and their combinations thanks to new and harmonised approaches to data generation;better and faster integration of future products, services and tools along the healthcare pathway (including health promotion and disease prevention), responding to patients’ specific needs and leading to improved health outcomes and patient well-being;patients and industry benefit from innovative manufacturing processes such as 3D printing, on demand small-scale good manufacturing practice (GMP) synthesis, on-site portable production systems etc.;green transition enabled across all aspects of healthcare, both in the delivery of healthcare to patients, and in the technologies and products that emerge from a competitive European industry. Furthermore, the actions to be funded under this topic are expected to contribute to:a) the strengthening of the competitiveness of the EU’s health industry, via increased economic activity in the development of health technologies, in particular, integrated health solutions, thus fostering European technological leadership and the digital transformation of our societies.b) the implementation of the EU’s Life Sciences Strategy and its specific aims such as: reinforcing European R&I e.g. through the translation of new knowledge to innovative health solutions; biotechnology innovation; bringing together fragmented efforts into dynamic and connected R&I ecosystems; drivin