CATALONIA.HEALTH, in collaboration with Centre for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI) and ACCIÓ, organises an information session related to the calls for Innovative Health initiatives (IHI) call 9 and call 10.  

IHI is a public-private consortium that funds projects that address public health needs, improve the lives of patients and boost the competitiveness of health industries in Europe. Its main objectives are to accelerate research and innovation to improve health and healthcare in Europe, promote collaborations between industry, researchers, SMEs and other key agents in the health sector and develop innovative solutions through public-private collaborative projects.  

This session, promoted by the Internal Innovation Committee of CATALONIA.HEALTH, is designed to inform both the experts who has participated in these calls of the updates that may exist, as well as those who want to see if it can be a good opportunity for their entity.

Programme:

11:00 – 12:00h. Welcome and explanation of the new IHI calls by CDTI, with the support of ACCIO. There will be Question Time.  

• Marta de Diego (CDTI): Agricultural engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 2007 he joined CDTI in the project monitoring department, and since 2017, he has been part of the social challenges department of the innovation policy direction. Currently, she is a national contact point of clusters 1 and 6 of Horizon Europe, and a Spanish delegate to the group of state representatives of the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) and Circular Bio-based Europe (CBE) partnership.  
• Carla Ruiz (ACCIO): Senior consultant in the European Programmes of ACCIÓ team, specialized in advising SMEs and Catalan entities to access European financing programs such as Horizon Europe, with a particular focus on the health sector. A trained biotechnologist with a solid preparation in innovation, she has coordinated the Sectorial Health group of the Enterprise Europe Network, made up of more than 100 international members. His experience covers the management of RDI projects, the search for international partners and the identification of opportunities for the development of collaborative RDI projects at an international level for Catalan entities.

12:00 – 13:00h. Round table with successful stories of companies benefiting from previous IHI calls. 

Moderator:

• Naia Jiménez Polo, Business Developer Manager at NIMBLE Diagnostics 

Speakers:

• Xavier Garcia Ordoñez, CEO at Better Care
• Anna Portela, CEO & Co-founder at Xenopat
• Felip Miralles, Health Technologies Director at Eurecat

Directed to: To the whole health sector, including healthcare professionals, managers, biotechnology and technology companies, with a practical approach to understanding and applying good cybersecurity practices to protect data and patients.  

Language: Spanish  

Registration: 

• Free 

Questions: Roser Alba (Project Manager) roser.alba@catalonia.health 

Those registered for the webinar have the opportunity to share project proposals, in order to facilitate the finding of potential partners.

You can consult the projects sent to the following list:


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With the support of