ECHAlliance
So ….where is the money?
5 Nations – Funding Collaboration
Andy Bleaden
Director Ecosystems/Membership
ECHAlliance
@andybleaden
Where is the money in D ig i ta l Hea l th
What about Brexit?
What about National Government Priorities?
Still room for collaboration
Still in the game!
Where is the money in D ig i ta l Hea l th
Horizon 2020
Urban Innovation Actions – Demographic Change
Eureka
AAL
Marie Curie
National and Regional Funds
The b ig funds
• There are still Horizon 2020 calls for 2020
• There are lots and lots of Health topics that target Silver Economy
• There are plenty of non-health topics that can be "shaped to fit" ie Andy's Secret funds
• All programmes are published and shared
• Have you seen them/Can you get them? Hands up!
The sneaky funds!
Science with and for Society – more research
DT Governance and DT Transformation – Public sector
ICT and LEIT – Solutions for Silver Economy
Security – Data especially patient data
Future Emerging Tech – FET – Closer to market
SME + InfraInnov + COSME
Interreg and Erasmus+
The sneaky funds NON EU
Innovate UK
Lottery Grants
SBRI
SBIR
Cross border collaboration
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Charities and Trusts
Where do you get your in fo?
So much informationSo little timeSo little resourcesSnowstorm of callsDeadlinesLack of partners
Information is confusing :WebsitesConferencesSocial MediaTrade mags
Where do you get your in fo?
How do you choose?
Up the in fo!
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• Its free if you are a member or a belong to an Ecosystem!
• Your ecosystem is member of ECHAlliance
• Are you signed up?
• We issue this every month
• Targeted for our members so you could also join us in bidding
What about co l laborat ion?
It's time to join the dots
How do peop le know who you are?
And also what you want to do?
Connect ing up the dots
Sharing information!
People might f ind out our p lans
Secrets will be let out!
Or
People might f ind out our p lans
People will know what you want to collaborate on
What you need to do
You need to get a shopping list!
Funding for D ig i ta l Hea l th – Shopping l i s t
What funds are interesting for us?
Where is the info?
What are the facts we know?
Where can we get the facts we don’t know?
Who do we trust to work with?
Make a list – in excel and share it
Ecosystems and funding collaboration
Lots of funding opportunities
Lots of Ecosystem partners interested in funding
Lots of examples of where they collaborate already
Lots of interest across our International Network of Ecosystems
Need to communicate and collaborate
Coming up with a shopping list
• Build a list of funds you want to
target around Digital Health
• Do you want to lead them?
• Do you have an idea?
• Are you able to offer a solution
or a skill?
• What is your experience?
Benefits of being in an International Network of Ecosystems
Share your shopping list with your region and 39 other Digital Health Ecosystems
Between us we have all the stakeholders
Target the Ecosystem Coordinators
Ask them to identify which ones interest them
We can help to facilitate this
We are the Global Connectors
What you can expect
• They will fall off their chair that you want to share and collaborate
• Why?
• They will be interested!
• They will want to share their shopping list too
• You will know who will want to collaborate and where and where not!
• You can then build collaboration in sooner = less last minute
• It works! It connects up the dots!
Belgium - Brussels
Belgium - Flanders
Canada - Ontario
Czech Republic
Denmark – South
England – Manchester
England -North West Coast
England – London
England - Yorks/Humber
South West England NEW
Estonia
Finland Oulu
Finland Ostrobothnia NEW
Finland South Ostrobothnia NEW
Finland – Kuopio NEW
Finland – Central Finland NEW
France – Bretagne NEW
France – Nice PACA
Germany-Rheinland
Greece – Athens
Malta
Melbourne – Australia NEW
Netherlands - Friesland
Northern Ireland
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Romania – Cluj-Napoca NEW
Serbia
Scotland
Highlands & Islands (Scotland)
Slovenia
Spain – Valencia
Spain - Galicia
Spain – Catalonia
Spain Basque Country NEW
Sri Lanka NEW
Västerbotten- Sweden NEW
USA - New York
Wales
Members of our International Network of Ecosystems150+ quarterly gatherings per year
Our Current Ecosystems
EU_SHAFE
Smart Living Homes: Whole
Interventions Demonstrator for People
Horizon 2020 IA
EU_SHAFE - Europe enabling Smart Healthy
Age-Friendly Environments
Interreg Europe
Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable
Environments
Horizon 2020 RIA
WE4AHA - Widening the support for large
scale uptake of Digital Innovation for
Active and Healthy Ageing
Horizon 2020 CSA
TRILLIUM II - Reinforcing the Bridges and
Scaling up EU/US Cooperation on Patient
Summary
Horizon 2020 CSA
EDEN
Embracing DEmeNtia
(Strategic partnership)
Erasmus+
Digital & Innovation Skills Helix in
Health
(Sector skills alliance)
Erasmus+
Smart Age-friendly Living and
Working Environment
Horizon 2020 RIA
Support to a Digital Health and Care Innovation
initiative in the context of Digital Single Market
strategy’
Horizon 2020 CSA
Our Projects – in collaboration with our network
Projects Team What we can do for and with you
• Support in scouting funding opportunities fitting local and regional needs
• Support in building international partnerships and consortia
• Support in partner search
• Lead consortia applying to strategic calls relevant to our community
• Carrying out different tasks in R&I projects:
Exploitation
Leader
Project
management
Dissemination
Leader
Social media
management
Deployment plans &
pilot coordination
Needs assessment
& specifications Event management Ethics evaluation
Scalability &
transferability plans
It is time to start joining the dots
ECHAlliance
“The Global Connector for Digital Health”
Brian O’Connor,
Chair
Bleddyn Rees,
Deputy Chair
Andy Bleaden,
Director Ecosystem and Membership