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eHealth Newsletter - 09/01/2012

9 January 2012
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Info session on Call for projects 2012 to support the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

11 January 2012 Brussels

One of the objectives of the second Health Programme of the European Commission is to promote European Citizen's Health, with a particular focus on increasing healthy life years and promoting healthy ageing. DG SANCO along with the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC) has launched a call for proposals for projects to meet this particular objective. In order to clarify potential issues regarding the administrative procedure and the technical contents of the call, DG SANCO and EAHC welcome all potential candidates to an info-session open to all.

Contact: EC-EIP-AHA@ec.europa.eu
See also: For those who cannot attend the info-session in Brussels please note that a web streaming will be set up.

PRESS RELEASE
Digital Agenda: New "virtual liver" technology helps detect liver tumours

(5 January 2012) Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a "virtual liver", using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery. The PASSPORT project (Patient-Specific Simulation and Pre-Operative Realistic Training) makes a uniquely accurate "virtual liver" available to physicians based on medical images sent by the radiologist to a PASSPORT online service, which helps surgeons decide whether they should or not operate. Surgeons can now see more precisely where a tumour is and where they will have to operate to safely remove it.

NEWS ARTICLE
Calls for projects to support the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

(3 January 2012) Two European funding programmes opening in the first months of 2012 will support the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. Firstly, the call under the Health Programme is now open, with a closing date of 9 March 2012. An information session will be held on 11 January 2012 in Brussels, registration by January 9 at the latest. The call will cover three different types of action: (a) seed money for pilot projects on change of care delivery including chronic disease management; (b) support for a partnership approach towards change in care delivery; and (c) supporting older people's health. Another call, under the ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP), will open shortly (1 February), with as closing date (tbc) of 15 May 2012. The draft work programme is already available online (http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp). Within the work programme Theme 3 will cover topics related to most of the priority actions identified as part of the Strategic Implementation Plan of the EIP. A specific information day on Theme 3 will be organised in Brussels mid-February and will be announced as soon as possible. A general information day will be organised on 3 February in Brussels.

See also: Info session of 11 January 2012 in Brussels

NEWS ARTICLE
Draft ICT PSP Work Programme 2012

(3 January 2012) The draft ICT PSP Work Programme 2012 has been approved by the CIP ICT Committee. The work programme is still subject to the formal approval by the Commission (expected in January 2012). The 6th Call for Proposals would be opened from 1 February to 15 May 2012 (pending formal approval of the Work programme 2012 by the Commission). Please pencil in the date of 3 February 2012 for an information day on the 6th Call for Proposals in Brussels. Confirmation of the date, the exact venue and the draft agenda (the event is planned from 9h30 to 16h00) will be published during the week of 9 January 2012. On line registration will be open from that page during the same week.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Bridging research in ageing and ICT development: Final conference

28 May 2012 Prague, Czech Republic

The final BRAID Conference will present results achieved by the project, encompassing the roadmap and implementation activities. The one-day meeting seeks to discuss socio-economic aspects in ICT and ageing that influence and shape recreational activities across different life settings and mechanisms that empower older people to live independently and fulfilled. The conference will provide space for stakeholders to exchange and discuss the results from practical experiences including best practice projects and failed approaches in the field of ICT and ageing. The final BRAID Conference will take place alongside the IFA 2012 Conference.

New in the Library

AUDIOVISUAL
epSOS pilots setting sail video

21 December 2011

epSOS shows in this short video how a foreigner can receive its medication in a greek pharmacy thanks to the epSOS system that is now in place. epSOS enable you as a patient to receive medication (ePrescriptions) when you are in another participating epSOS pilot country (the medication must initially be electronically prescribed in your home country).

AUDIOVISUAL
Interviews with top people in Brain-Computer Interface research

6 January 2012

The Future BNCI project (http://future-bnci.org) interviewed many people at BCI conferences and other events in Utrecht, Barcelona, Graz, and elsewhere. All of the interviewees are well-known figures in BCI research and development, and many of them are top figures in the field.

See also: Roadmap for future BNCI research

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