Research Project Description:‘Snow-IoT’ aims to engage in continuous environmental monitoring and in providing to the general public awareness of environmental dangers regarding health and sustainable living, and related to their habitat environment. ‘Snow-IoT’ utilizes data from IoT sensors as well as aggregated statistics from healthcare providers in order to better plan IoT sensor installation, provide [...]
Research Project Description: The Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action intends to build, pilot and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeks to facilitate long-term healthy and active ageing and the maintenance of [...]
Research Project Description: This pioneering project is a public-private partnership formed by a multi-stakeholder consortium of 73 organizations; supported from the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU) and contributing industry partners from 18 countries. The aim of READI is to foster a more holistic, integrated system around clinical studies that will support the [...]
Research Project Description: The Experimental Electrophysiology Unit (EEU) with state-of-the-art equipment will facilitate the use of innovative techniques to study basic mechanisms of nervous system function and the full range of functional evaluation in pre-clinical studies of new therapeutic approaches to treat neurological disorders. Functional assessment of neuronal mechanisms and treatment outcomes supported by [...]
Research Project Description: The main objective of the VHEalthLAb project is the creation of Virtual Labs (VL) in Biology. Laboratory experiments are a vital educational tool. They help students develop 21st century skills such as complex problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. The closure of schools during the pandemic brought to light numerous [...]
Research Project Description: Reducing medication errors remains a significant challenge. Medication errors compromise patient safety and significantly increase health care costs. An important contributor to medication errors is irrational prescribing, which may stem, at least partly, from a poor understanding of pharmacology. Indeed, it remains a challenge for educators to prepare medical students to [...]
Research Project Description: Chronic kidney disease affects 5-7 % of the population worldwide, and its incidence is increasing at an alarming rate. It is characterized by progressive loss of kidney function and defects in glomerular filtration, which can lead to end-stage renal disease. The loss of podocytes, highly specialized cells unable to regenerate, play [...]
Research Project Description: HEAT-SHIELD is a research programme funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme which aims in addressing the negative effects of climate change, i.e., increasing workplace temperature, on its working population. The effects of heat exposure include productivity loss in many jobs, and HEAT-SHIELD will study this issue and [...]
Research Project Description: With the introduction of endoscopy, advanced imaging techniques and robotics, modern surgery is becoming increasingly more digital and requires adaptations to the educational model to address the demands for new skills as needed not only by surgeons but also by healthcare professionals in general. The increase in complexity that these developments [...]
Research Project Description: Empathy is key to effective communication between patients and health care practitioners and has been shown to positively affect health outcomes and patient satisfaction as well as to improve patient safety. Communicating with patients is the most frequent practice by health care providers, however communications skills training in undergraduate health care [...]
Research Project Description: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is characterized by progressive deterioration of cognitive functioning observed mainly in older individuals, beyond what is expected from normal ageing. The understanding of AD symptom etiology still remains incomplete, and this is why there is still lack of effective treatment despite various pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. Recent research [...]
Research Project Description: This Call to join the global InTBIR (e International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury) collaborative effort would enable the consortium to further develop and subsequently validate the current TBI-Petal (PROSAFE Project) in order to better characterize these patients across Europe, identify centers of excellence in TBI patient management, and contribute to [...]
