1. Introduction to EU Funding Instruments for Research and Development in E-Health Dr. Agnes Szmolenszky Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation (TETALAP)

2. FP7 at a Glance 2007-2013 Total budget of over € 50 Billion
Supports research in selected priority areas
Objectives
to strengthen the scientific and technological base of European industry
to encourage international competitiveness, while promoting research that supports EU policies.

3. Budget Evolution of FPs
The programme has a total budget of over
€ 50 billion. This represents a substantial increase compared with
the previous Framework Programme FP6 (41% at 2004 prices, 63% at
current prices), a reflection of the high priority of research in Europe.
Indeed, FP7 is a key tool to respond to Europe's needs in terms of
jobs and competitiveness, and to maintain leadership in the global
knowledge economy.
Annual spending in 2013 to be 75% higher than 2006

4. Structure of FP7 + Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Human Potential
Capacities – Research Capacity +
Cooperation covers collaborative research covering 10 thematic areas.
Ideas provide funding opportunities to investigator-driver “frontier research”, including basic research. Ideas is implemented through the European Research Council.
People includes opportunities for initial training, life-long training, industry-academia partnerships and opportunities for international researchers through its “international dimension”
Capacities covers topics regarding the strengthening of infrastructures, the research for the benefit of SMEs, the development of regions of knowledge, as well as topics on science in society and the development of research policies. Capacities also includes an element on international cooperation.
Joint Research Centre (non-nuclear)
Joint Research Centre (nuclear)
Euratom

5. Cooperation – Collaborative research
Core of FP7
Promotes collaborative research in Europe and beyond
Aims to gain leadership in key scientific and technological areas
Supports cooperation between universities, industry, research centres and public authorities
10 thematic priorities
Core of FP7 – represents 2/3 of the overall FP7 budget

6. FP7 Cooperation – 10 Themes
Health
Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology
Information & communication technologies
Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies
Energy
Environment (including climate change)
Transport (including aeronautics)
Socio-economic sciences and humanities
Space
Security

7. FP7 Cooperation – Health
pillar 1:
Biotechnology,
generic tools & technologies
for health
pillar 2:
Translating
research for
human health
pillar 3:
Optimising
the delivery
of health care
Activity (pillar) 4: Other actions across the theme
cross-cutting issues: child health, the health of ageing population gender-related health issues

8. FP7 Cooperation – ICT eHealth research is being tackled under
“Challenge 5 – Sustainable and Personalised Healthcare”
Aim: creation of an “intelligent environment” in which:
the health status of any given individual can be monitored and managed continuously
health professionals are assisted in addressing major health problems

9. FP7 Cooperation – ICT Work in Challenge 5 focuses on 3 main areas:
1. Personal Health Systems (PHS): key technologies, such as biosensors and secure communications, helping monitoring and management of health status
EU research funding targets:
research into monitoring systems for patients with chronic diseases
systems and tools which can be used for diagnostic purposes

10. FP7 ICT Projects I. Some examples:
CD-Medics "Coeliac disease - management, monitoring and diagnosis using biosensors and an integrated chip system"
Chronious "An open, ubiquitous and adaptive chronic disease management platform for COPD and renal insufficiency"
DIAdvisor "Personal Glucose Predictive Diabetes Advisor"
Metabo "Controlling Chronic Diseases related to Metabolic Disorders„
More to be found at:

11. FP7 Cooperation – ICT
2.Patient Safety (PS): software tools to help decision making with a potential effect on patient safety
FP7supports projects which seek to develop advanced ICT applications to improve risk assessment and patient safety.
Specific intervention areas may inlcude:
safety of surgical interventions
improving the interaction between clinical care and clinical research
improvement of global health security

12. FP7 ICT Projects II. Some examples:
Avert-It "Advanced Arterial Hypotension Adverse Event prediction through a Novel Bayesian Neural Network" -
Comoestas "Electronic Interactive Patient Record"
DebugIt "Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology"
EU-ADR (former Alert) "Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge"
Gap "Guard, Anticipation and Prediction. A new approach to Health Risk Prediction"
More to be found at:

13. FP7 Cooperation – ICT
3. Virtual Physiological Human (VPH): networking multidisciplinary researchers in the fields of bio-informatics, genomics, and neuro-informatics to help create a new generation of eHealth systems to assist the ‘individualisation’ of disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment.
EU research funding targets:
Development of tools to model and predict the effects of different treatment options in individual patients.

14. FP7 Cooperation – ICT Specific intervention areas may inlcude:
simulation for surgical training, planning and intervention
prediction or early diagnosis of disease by integrating patient history with biomedical imaging (from X-rays, scans and internal camera examination of the patient as well as microscopic examination of cells removed from the body)
simulation environments for assessing the efficacy and safety of specific drugs.

15. FP7 ICT Projects III. Some examples:
Action-Grid - International cooperative action on grid computing and biomedical informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa
ARTreat - Multi-level patient-specific artery and atherogenesis model for outcome prediction, decision support treatment, and virtual hand-on training
ContraCancrum - Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling
euHeart - Personalised and intergrated cardiac care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding and Management and for Medical Device Evaluation and Optimization
More to be found at:

16. FP7 - Ideas Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Human Potential
Capacities – Research Capacity

17. FP7 - Ideas Supports “frontier research”
All areas of science and technology – “bottom-up” approach
Selection based on scientific excellence only
Individual research teams (or collaboration)
Implemented via the European Research Council (ERC)
Bottom-up – no pre-defined themes

18. FP7 - People Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Human Potential
Capacities – Research Capacity

19. FP7 - People
Provides support for researcher mobility and career development
For both researchers inside and outside the EU
Objective – to make Europe more attractive to the best researchers
Implemented via a set of Actions

20. FP7 - Capacities Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Human Potential
Capacities – Research Capacity

21. FP7- Capacities
Aims to strengthen Europe’s research capacities through:
Research Infrastructures
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Regions of Knowledge
Research Potential
Science in Society
Specific Activities for International Cooperation

22. Competitivesness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
Aims:
Foster the competitiveness of enterprises (especially SMEs)
Promote innovation, including eco-innovation
Accelerate the development of a competitive Information Society
Promote energy efficiency and new/renewable energy sources (including transport)
Programmes:
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme
ICT Policy Support Programme
Intelligent Energy Europe Programme

23. CIP ICT Policy Support Programme
Aim:
supporting member states and stakeholders to ensure EU-wide interoperable health services.
Specific objectives for e-health:
Enlargement of the pilot "epSOS" on eHealth Interoperability for patient's summaries
ePrescription" and "Scaling up of eHealth services and supporting the EU eHealth governance initiative

24. CIP ICT Policy Support Programme
Some examples:
European Patients Smart Open Services project (epSOS): a European large scale pilot aiming at developing, testing and validating specifications for interoperability of patients summaries and ePrescriptions. It involves 27 beneficiaries out of twelve EU-member states, including ministries of health, national competence centres and industry.
ICT PSP open until 1 June 2010.

25. Further information www.cordis.europa.eu
National Contact Points
The network of NCPs is the main structure to provide guidance and practical information
Personalised support during the project

26. Thank you for your attention. Agnes. szmolenszky@tetalap
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