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Cross4Health 2nd Open call – Bring your cutting-edge technology to the healthcare sector!

Cross4Health aims at promoting and supporting collaborative health innovation solutions generated by SMEs from Aerospace, Energy, and the Creative industries working together with health-related SMEs from sectors such as Biotechnology, ICT and Medical Devices. Up to 40 SMEs selected in the 2nd OPEN CALLS will receive support worth up to €55 000.

28 November 2018

Cross4Health hackathon patient-centred personalized care

1st Cross4Health Hackathon, 7-9 December 2018, UFO, Bochum, Germany – Register now!

Cross4Health is looking for motivated teams to provide solutions to specific challenges in healthcare. If you belong to the Aerospace, Energy, Healthcare, Biotechnology or Medical Devices sectors and want to generate innovative ideas, this event is for you!

15 October 2018

Featured work products

DanuBalt health innovation

DanuBalt: Clinic-industry collaboration

Health systems across the EU can provide an open space for research and innovation if the potential for clinic-industry collaboration is better understood and realised.

July 2015

call for applications INNOLABS open call

INNOLABS 1st Open Call – 117 applications received

Open call for SMEs based in a EU member state or H2020 associated country. The focus is on new cross sectoral solutions for personalized health for ageing populations and rural areas that incorporate mHealth technologies

15 October 2017

ESIF EU regions HE2020

Helping Regions to Reduce Health Inequalities

How HealthEquity 2020 project helped regions to prioritise local needs, prepare action plans and secure funds.

June 2015

EU regions HE2020

Using Integrated Planning to Tackle Health Inequalities

Effective longer-term strategic planning as part of a regional development process is about aligning local needs with clear growth goals through a continuous process that is: intelligent, innovative, integrated and implementable.

August 2017

EU regions HE2020

Health Equity 2020 Toolkit for Evidence-based Regional Planning

The Health Equity 2020 project assists regions in Europe to draw up evidence-based action plans to address socioeconomic health inequalities with a comprehensive Toolkit developed by the Erasmus University Medical Centre.

July 2015

ESIF HE2020

Policy Matrix to Fit Health Within the European Strategic Frameworks

Possibilities for funding health equity under the European Structural and Investment Funds

November 2015

Bench-Can

Benchmarking Comprehensive Cancer Care

Benchmarking can improve the quality of interdisciplinary patient treatment in the field of cancer care

June 2016

Our areas of Expertise

Patient-oriented health care

A multidisciplinary approach to treatment and survivorship care is needed in which personalised care based on the needs of the patient is the starting point.

Innovating for Health

Innovating for health is a cross-cutting driver for HCN with relevance across all our areas of expertise.

Clinic-industry cooperation

We work with regional innovation clusters, SMEs and public authorities and services on practical projects that show how clinic-industry collaboration can be improved.

ESIF and health care investment

European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) used in the health sector mostly financed direct health investments.

Reducing health inequalities

Reducing health disparities is important, and the upward trends for such differences call for further innovative, collaborative actions at all levels.

Stimulating local health economies

Sharing of information, experience and ideas between regions.

Capital investment

Capital investment in refurbishing or building new health care infrastructure and IT are one way of achieving these contributions so long as it is affordable and appropriate.

Health innovations

How health sector investment, policy and practice in R&D can be aligned with regional policies on technology development/application and entrepreneurship.

Inclusive employment

How the health sector can connect with hard to reach groups in order to provide sustainable job opportunities.

Local procurement

How procurement by health sector organisations can be used to support the development of local small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) within each partner region.

About HCN

Joanna Lane PhD.

Executive Director

Co-Founder and MD of INTEGRATE think tank (Dutch registered)
Previously: Special Professor of Health & Public Policy, University of Nottingham; Lay Court member, Edinburgh Napier University; MD of CCL Associates; Director of Research & Evaluation, Health Education Board for Scotland; Visiting Professor, University of York
joanna@healthclusternet.eu

Edit Sebestyen MPhil.

HCN Coordinator

Project Manager for BENCH-CAN and previously for EUREGIO III
PhD student for Active and Healthy Ageing, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest
edit@healthclusternet.eu

Iñaki Gutiérrez Ibarluzea PhD.

Visiting Director of HTA and Market Access
Coordinator of the Early Warning & Alert System on Life Cycle of Health Technologies at the Basque Office for HTA
Vice President of HTAi
Vice Chair of Euroscan
Associate Professor at the School of Nursing of Osakidetza Basque Health Service
ebaluatek@gmail.com

Csilla Kaposvari DLSHTM, MA.

Internal Consultant

PhD student for integrated urban development for CHO, University of Science of Pécs, Hungary
External evaluation of projects under EU Health Programme, evaluation of national policies in nutrition, investment in health promotion
Organizational development
csilla@healthclusternet.eu

Pascal Kahlem, PhD.

Internal Consultant

Owner Scientific Network Management SL (Spain registered)
Life Science Research and Innovation Funding - Operations Management - Business Development
Expert in Grant Writing - Assessment - Training - Project Management
pkahlem@s-n-m.eu