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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Warming up for the Citizens' Initiative
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26 January 2012 Brussels, Belgium
The conference will present the different aspects of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI). The ECI will allow 1 million citizens from at least one quarter of the EU Member States to invite the European Commission to bring forward proposals for legal acts in areas where the Commission has the power to do so. The organisers of a citizens' initiative, a citizens' committee composed of at least 7 EU citizens who are resident in at least 7 different Member States, will have 1 year to collect the necessary statements of support. The number of statements of support has to be certified by the competent authorities in the Member States. The Commission will then have 3 months to examine the initiative and decide how to act on it. The first European Citizens' Initiatives will be launched from 1 April 2012.
See also: Digital Agenda For Europe
- NEWS ARTICLE
- New Potential Personalized Medicine Platform
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(30 November 2011) p-medicine project, launched in February this year, is a 4-year Integrated project aiming at developing a new and state-of-the-art IT platform for personalized medicine. The researchers elaborated the first deliverables according to the agreed 'Description of Work', they identified and described motivated use case scenarios by underlining the p-medicine platform's end user needs and requirements.
See also: other EU funded projects in the field of Virtual Physiological Human
- PRESS RELEASE
- Horizon 2020: Commission proposes €80 billion investment in research and innovation, to boost growth and jobs
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(30 November 2011) The European Commission has today presented a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion programme for investment in research and innovation. Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has put forward a Strategic Innovation Agenda for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which will receive €2.8 billion of funding under Horizon 2020. In parallel, Vice-President Antonio Tajani has announced a complementary new programme to boost competitiveness and innovation in SMEs, with an additional budget of €2.5 billion. The funding programmes run from 2014 to 2020.
See also: Horizon 2020 : background memo
- PRESS RELEASE
- € 2.5 billions to boost business competitiveness and SMEs 2014 - 2020
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(30 November 2011) Promote access to finance and encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new enterprises are the core issues of the new financial support programme, tabled by the European Commission in Brussels today. With a budget of € 2.5 billions over the period 2014-2020, the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, COSME is a funding instrument, which is largely continuing the activities under the current Competitiveness and Innovation programme (CIP). The new programme targets in particular: 1) entrepreneurs, in particular SMEs, which will benefit from easier access to funding for their business, 2) citizens who want to become self-employed and face difficulties in setting up or developing their own business, 3) Member States' authorities, which will be better assisted in their efforts to elaborate and implement effective policy reform.
See also: EU access to finance schemes created more than 175 000 jobs and will create more jobs
- PRESS RELEASE
- European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to create more innovation hubs
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(30 November 2011) The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is to significantly step up its efforts to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the EU with the creation of six new cross-border innovation hubs, known as Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), in 2014-2020. The European Commission has allocated a budget of €2.8 billion in the next financial framework to enable the EIT to expand and consolidate the development of its existing KICs which focus on climate change, sustainable energy and ICT.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- New EU eHealth funded projects in the starting blocks
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(30 November 2011) Several projects just started in this end of year. They will address Personal Health Systems (PHS): ARMOR, CareToy, CogWatch, Commodity12, CONTRAST, CuPiD, D-LIVER, Dem@Care, INTERACTION, MICHELANGELO, MovingLife, REMPARK, REWIRE, SCRIPT, SENSE-PARK, StrokeBack; Patient Guidance Services (PGS), safety and healthcare record information reuse: eHealthMonitor, Linked2Safety, MobiGuide, SemanticHealthNet, TRANSFoRm-EnlargedEU; and Virtual Physiological Human: DISCIPULUS. More information will be available soon.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in Medication to prevent Adverse Drug Events
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(30 November 2011) The EU funded project PSIP has developed innovative computer-based applications able to automatically detect situations at risk and to deliver healthcare professionals and patients' relevant "ad hoc" information helping them to prevent Adverse Drug Events. It has developed tools to search hospital databases and provide reliable numbers about Adverse Drug Events per country, hospital or medical unit, describing their type, consequences and probable causes. To date the prototypes are used routinely in different hospitals. The continuous evaluation of their impact on ADE rates is ongoing and has already provided promising and positive preliminary results.
See also: other EU eHealth projects funded
- PRESS RELEASE
- EU access to finance schemes created more than 175 000 jobs and will create more jobs
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(30 November 2011) The current Competitiveness and Innovation Framework programme (and predecessor of the new Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs", COSME) focuses on financial instruments for enterprises, the Enterprise Europe Network, Entrepreneurship and better framework conditions for enterprises in the EU. Other CIP actions, such as Innovation- and Energy-related actions, will be covered under the new Horizon 2020 Programme in the future.
- PRESS RELEASE
- Horizon 2020: background memo
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(30 November 2011) The European Commission has presented an €80 billion package for research and innovation funding, as part of the drive to create sustainable growth and new jobs in Europe. The new programme, "Horizon 2020" will make it easier for applicants to seek funding and is designed to help bring more good ideas to market. Horizon 2020 will run from 2014 to 2020.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- eHealth Week 2012 - Exhibition stands discount if booking before 12/12
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(24 November 2011) The eHealth Week event, now hailed as the largest annual pan-European eHealth conference, not only brings industry partners and providers from across Europe, but also important government and regional decision makers. Join, Exhibit and reach these audiences from across Europe.
Contact: sroberts@himss.org
See also: More information on the exhibition possibilities - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Final agenda 'eHealth and Equity in the Global Health Communities' workshop is appealing!
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15 December 2011 Brussels, Belgium
The workshop will seek answers to questions such as: What types of disparities does this ease of access minimize or exacerbate? How are health systems and their governance influenced by these eHealth solutions, policies and practices? What evidence is there to strengthen activities and programmes that support local, regional, national and global health communities? We particularly seek experiences and lessons learnt in low-resource settings including contributors from developing countries. This workshop will act as a means of dissemination of the key findings to high-level decision-makers; as a promoter of stronger commitment on eHealth interoperability and its wider application at global level and as a preparatory forum for selecting issues to present at the forthcoming World Health Assembly. See the very interesting agenda!
Contact: events@eurodyn.com
See also: ICT for Health - Policy activities
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