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Re-connecting with the French regions

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Following the meeting on 20 May between AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli, Secretary General Mathieu Mori and the new politicians from the Ile-de-France region, three more French regions have been visited from 25th to 27th of May by the AER. After the regional elections that took place in France a few months ago and the reform of French regions, AER wanted to meet the new executives of the regions and show its solidarity with its members at a challenging institutional times which has seen many regions merge.

Mr Magnus Berntsson, AER Vice-President, SG Mathieu Mori and officer Mikael Appelqvist have visited the new regions of Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes ; Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.


Aquitine-Limousin-Poitou-CharentesWednesday 25 May – Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes

Mr Mori met in Bordeaux with Ms Isabelle Boudineau, Vice President for European and International affairs in Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes. Youth mobility through Eurodyssey, e-health and green energy are topics which have been identified during the meeting, where work with AER could be envisaged. The new region will need time to adjust to its new institutional framework but the dialogue will continue in order to hopefully see a revitalised partnership in the forthcoming months.

 

 

Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéThursday 26 May – Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

AER met in Dijon with Ms Océane Charret Godard, Vice-President in charge of research, higher education and university and her team in the newly created region. The newly elected representative of the region has confirmed the continuation of the regional engagement in the Eurodyssey programme and its enlargement to the youth of Burgundy. Apart from the obvious advantage for youth, the programme was also praised for giving the opportunity to regional SMEs to welcome foreign young people, which is less the case with other European mobility programmes. The region would like to use Eurodyssey to go further in welcoming young people in the specific field of expertise of their regional companies in order to promote their very specific skills. After the region settles into its new ways of working, Ms Charret Godard would like to widen the involvement of the region in AER on the topics of education, innovation and research. AER and its regions look forward and stay ready for this further commitment.


Auvergne-Rhone-AlpesFriday 27 May – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

A new executive in a new region, represented by Mr Philippe Meunier, Vice-President for international partnerships welcomed in Lyon the AER delegation. The emphasis of their mandate is put on economic growth, developing business links with investors from other regions and promoting youth employment. The fact that AER covers much more than the EU member states is a great asset for the region. Particularly interested in developing links with Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, the Black Sea area, AER will work at developing the links between its members from this geography and this highly dynamic and innovative region. The Eurodyssey programme will remain a key involvement of the region especially for the young persons with a more technical profile.

With a highly recognised cluster on e-health, the region would also be welcomed to join our work in this area.

With bigger regions and new politicians in many regions, AER looks forward to strengthening its partnership with French regions and will continue to meet with them throughout the year. If all French regions we met ask for some more time to be again 100% operational in international networks, time to organise the new way regions work and, in some cases time for newly elected politicians to settle down in their new positions, they know that AER is ready to help them in any way it can and is eagerly looking forward to having them on board as soon as they can.

 

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Connecting perspectives on e-Health: industrial, academic and institutional actors meeting up at the e-Health 360° Summit

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Quality healthcare provisioning in Europe has become a major issue for the EU healthcare systems. The population growth and the increasing number of chronic patients is creating a strong budgetary pressure on governments. AER is strongly following this issue and providing concrete actions to face this challenge within its Committees, favouring a dialogue among health, innovation, enterprises and social policies.

In this context, innovation through electronic and mobile health solutions could be a crucial asset in order to overcome these challenges, and to contribute to a more patient-focused healthcare. The ultimate goal is to empower people and to support the shift towards prevention, while at the same time improve the efficiency of the existing healthcare systems.

Representatives from the industry, academy and institution will meet up in Budapest (HU) on 14-16 June for the international 360° Summit on eHealth. This is a unique event bringing a 360 degree perspective on mobile and electronic health and gathering together key players to plan, learn, network, collaborate, strategize and more effectively tap into the immense potential of the eHealth and mHealth domains.

AER members and partners interested to gather experiences and innovative ideas from related projects and activities in this topic and to pave the way in facing this challenge with a multi-stakeholders approach are invited to register here.

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For a better digital single market with regions

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An AER delegation led by President Hande Özsan Bozatli met today with Andrus Ansip, Commissioner for digital single market. With a communicative passion for his portfolio, Commissioner Ansip was glad to meet representatives of regions when he is mainly used to deal with national governments. AER and its members work on many topics that fall under his responsibility : e-health, e-government, cultural and creative industries, data protection, interoperability…

Ensuring personal data protection is key and is ensured, although too often used as an argument to prevent progress in the spread of the digital single market which would mean a more transparent, more efficient and more practical Europe for citizens.

Commissioner Ansip who has a local background is convinced of the need for him to cooperate with AER as innovation often comes quicklier from local and regional levels.

AER will follow closely the digital agenda and will make the most of this new relationship with Mr Ansip.

We encourage all our members who are interested in these issues to come forward with questions or proposals of cooperation that we will gladly put to Mr Ansip’s attention.

Members of the AER delegation:

Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli, AER President, Istanbul

Mr Magnus Berntsson, AER Vice President, Västra Götaland

Mr Mathieu Mori, AER Secretary General

Ms Emma Broberg, Västra Götaland

Mr Mitar Vasiljevic, Vojvodina

Meeting pictures

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Join Gelderland’s (NL) event on chronic diseases (18-20 May)

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Demographic, societal and technological developments call for a fundamentally new approach to healthcare. The complexity of care is increasing and the number of healthcare professionals is decreasing. The increase in patients with multiple chronic diseases leads to uncontrollable costs, and good quality of care cannot be guaranteed for future generations.

The Foundation ParkinsonNet (NL) developed a new approach and ecosystem in innovating health care for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Over the years, ParkinsonNet built a network and national infrastructure of specialized care in all 70 Dutch health regions and more than 3000 care professionals. This network disseminates best practices and aims to optimize the quality of care in a patient oriented approach.

In this framework, the Province of Gelderland (NL) is glad to invite all regions that have experience with projects on chronic diseases or that are willing to implement a broader strategy in this field, to a two-day working meeting with AER in close cooperation with Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen.

This is the last call to join this interesting opportunity, where members with health work background, as well as public servants, health cost representatives, private health care providers and (E)-health entrepreneurs can share their experiences in E-Health and explore the possibilities of bringing ParkinsonNet’s model within their regions.

The final agenda as well as practical information and registration are available on our event page.

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Register now: event on chronic diseases, 18-20 May, Gelderland (NL)

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The province of Gelderland (NL) is glad to invite all regions that have experience with projects on chronic diseases or that are willing to implement a broader strategy in this field, to a two-day working meeting with AER in close cooperation with Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen.

We invite members with health work background, as well as public servants, health cost representatives, private health care providers and (E)-health entrepreneurs working on self management supporting tools or metholodogy to attend this interesting meeting, where participants will be able to share their experiences in E-Health in terms of patient self-care and self-empowerment, and to explore the possibilities of bringing “ParkinsonNet” E-Health/self-care model to other regions in Europe.

ParkinsonNet is an initiative of Radboud University Medical Centre that was created in 2004 in order to develop an innovative approach and ecosystem to offer  Parkinson’s disease patients the best possible care, as well as to improve their quality of life by improving Parkinson-specific expertise and supporting personalized healthcare. Over the years, ParkinsonNet has built a solid network of specialized care composed by all 68 Dutch health administrative divisions and more than 3000 care professionals, who provide intensive professional training, develop evidence based guidelines, educate and empower patients in self-management and faciltate research. ParkinsonNet has also worked on the creation of public-private partnerships with health entrepreneurs and health insurance companies for the sake of an affective value based care.

Go to our event page for registration and other useful information

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Study visit + Project Development Meeting

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The region of Gelderland (NL) is glad to invite all regions that have experience with projects on chronic diseases or that are willing to implement a broader strategy in this field, to a two-day working meeting with AER in close cooperation with Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen. We invite members with health work background, as well as public servants, health cost representatives, private health care providers and (E)-health entrepreneurs working on self management supporting tools or metholodogy to attend this interesting meeting, where participants will be able to share their experiences in E-Health in terms of patient self-care and self-empowerment, and to explore the possibilities of bringing “ParkinsonNet” E-Health/self-care model to other regions in Europe.

ParkinsonNet is an initiative of Radboud University Medical Centre that was created in 2004 in order to develop an innovative approach and ecosystem to offer  Parkinson’s disease patients the best possible care, as well as to improve their quality of life by improving Parkinson-specific expertise and supporting personalized healthcare. Over the years, ParkinsonNet has built a solid network of specialized care composed by all 68 Dutch health administrative divisions and more than 3000 care professionals, who provide intensive professional training, develop evidence based guidelines, educate and empower patients in self-management and faciltate research. ParkinsonNet has also worked on the creation of public-private partnerships with health entrepreneurs and health insurance companies for the sake of an affective value based care.

Presentations and relevant documents from the meeting

 

 

 

Launch of a trilateral Interreg Cooperation in the Balkans

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The official launch of the trilateral Programme of Crossborder Cooperation between Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina marked by the Interreg Conference, has been launched on March the 10th at the Croatian city of Split.
The Programme foresees funding of 67 milion €, for crossborder projects (with €57 million coming from the European Regional Development Fund and the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance/IPA) in an area covering 87,000 square kilometres with a population of 5.5 million. EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Creţu said:

“Our cross-border programmes provide concrete measures to improve the quality of life and offer new economic opportunities and jobs to people living in the border regions of the European Union and its neighbours. These programmes are an opportunity for regions to find common solutions to shared challenges.”

The programme will also help reach the objectives of the South East Europe 2020 Strategy, of the EU macro-regional Strategy for the Danube Region and of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region.

The “Interreg-IPA CBC Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro” programme includes 12 NUTS III regions in Croatia, 10 municipalities in Montenegro, and the Brčko District of BiH alongside 109 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The five main priorities of the programme are:

  1. Improving the quality of services in public health and social care in the programme area;
  2. Protecting the environment, improving risk prevention, flood and fire prevention,and promoting energy efficiency;
  3. Contributing to the development of tourism and to the preservation of the region’s cultural and natural heritage;
  4. Enhancing the economic competitiveness of the region;
  5.  Providing technical assistance to increase the efficiency of the management and implementation of the Programme.

Olja Georis of the Croatian Regional Development Agency (also Head of Managing Authority) called on the Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin representatives at the conference to submit joint cross-border cooperation projects for EU financing, saying cooperation was necessary to use the funds as well as possible. She recalled that a call was published on 9th of March  for the submission of draft projects that would receive €25 million of the €67 million envisaged by the programme. She said contracting is planned to begin early next year.

Assistant Regional Development and EU Funds Minister (HR) Marija Vuckovic said the ministry’s role was to back the partners in the realisation of this cross-border project, notably in Croatian border areas. The representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Coordination Board (from the Direcorate of European Integration of Council of Ministers of BiH) Mrs. Nada Bojanić emphasized that BiH stakeholders are prepared for the implementation of the Programme and that it will hopefuly lead to the spreading of the crossborder impact and also highlited excellent cooperation with all counterparts especially with Croatian who offered to share their recent experience in negotiations with EU, which is important for Bosnia and Herzegovina since it is on its European integration path.

The conference was attended by more than 200 national, regional, local and other relevant stakeholders from all three countries participating in the Programme.

Download the presentations delivered at the conference:


The 1st Call for Proposal can be also downloaded here:

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Call for reference sites now open!

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Is your region leading in innovation for demographic change and the silver economy? Apply for the selection of “Reference sites” of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing!

Highly inspirational ecosystems

Reference Sites are highly inspirational ecosystems. They deliver creative solutions that improve the lives of older people. These solutions can be scaled-up and replicated across the EU.
For a more formal definition, they are “ecosystems which comprise different players, including regional and/or local authorities, cities, integrated hospitals/care organisations, industry organisations, SMEs and/or start-ups, research and innovation organisations, that jointly implement a comprehensive, innovation-based approach to active and healthy ageing, and can give evidence and concrete illustrations of the impact of such approaches on the ground”.

Benefits of becoming Reference Site

The benefits of becoming a Reference Site are manifold. For many of the Reference Sites the recognition of their leadership has been a catalyst in their region. It brought other stakeholders on board to work together in developing innovative solutions. The so-called “whole system approach”.
Reference Sites should showcase innovative components of their care systems that can be an inspiration for other regions.

Applications open until 15 April 2016

All regions, even those, which were selected as Reference Sites after the 2012 call, need to apply again to become the new Reference Sites. The following AER member regions were reference sites in the previous call: Northern-Ostrobothnia (FI), Ile-de-France (FR), Languedoc-Roussillon (FR), Alsace (FR), Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT), Catalunya (ES), Valencia (ES), Gelderland (NL) and Noord-Brabant (NL).

Page of the call for Reference Sites

Call document

Online self-assessment form

 

 

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Let’s be the frontrunner for eHealth services in Europe!

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United4Health’s final conference took place on 19th and 20th January 2016 in Brussels. The two days offered plenty of opportunity for higher-level and policy messages.

Yet, they were also full of real-life experiences shared by the more then ten deployment sites. The sites presented practical experiences on subjects as diverse as stakeholder engagement, patient acceptance, organisational transformation, workforce adoption, health/information technology infrastructure, and electronic health records. It now appears that “Telehealth is here. It is happening!”

To complete the first day of the conference, Prof. George Crooks, United4Health’s project coordinator, introduced United4Health’s three key policy messages around:
• Ensuring a policy environment that promotes and supports telehealth deployment.
• Seeking national consistency with local adaptation.
• Empowering patients, carers and healthcare professionals to take full advantage of eHealth.
He also emphasised the project’s six further recommendations to policy-makers at European level. All of these are available in a succinct United4Health report entitled Upscaling Telehealth – the need for policy engagement.

Throughout its final 18 months of operation, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) has contributed consistently to United4Health’s user policy advisory board. It was therefore one of two associations to comment publicly on project’s key policy messages during the conference.
AER Committee 2 President, Agneta Granström, who also chairs the AER [email protected] network, supported the United4Health policy messages particularly around the needs for local adaptation and empowerment.
She emphasised the importance of available national, regional and local infrastructure: “We need infrastructure. We need broadband, and we need mobile connectivity.”
To leverage the benefits from constructive initiatives like United4Health, she proposed that: “We now have the opportunity! In Europe, we should take the opportunity to be the frontrunner for eHealth services, outside of hospitals too.”
Continuing linkage of the work of AER with on-going United4Health deployment sites, and regional telehealth activities, is warmly encouraged.

This article was written by Diane Whitehouse, EHTEL

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EIP-AHA: it’s possible to join!

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EIP-ecosystemA new call for reference sites is being prepared by the European Commission together with the current reference sites. This was announced at the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing on 9-10 December 2015. The call will be published mid January and regions will have until 15 March 2015 to submit their application and explain why they can be considered an inspiring reference point in the for creative and workable solutions that enhance the lives and health of older people.

Being a reference site first and foremost provides regions with enhanced visibility on the European Commission website, social media and events. It also generates new opportunities for collaboration, peer learning on demographic change and innovation policies, especially ICT innovation. After the submission, applications will be evaluated online by fellow candidates until the end of May. The Reference site star award ceremony will take place during the e-health week in Amsterdam the week starting 6 June 2015.

To learn more about the added value of being a reference site, don’t hesitate to contact colleagues from the following AER member regions, who have been reference sites for 2 years now: Alsace (FR), Catalunya (ES), Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT), Gelderland (NL), Ile-de-France (FR), Languedoc-Roussillon (FR), Noord-Brabant (NL), Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (FI), Valencia (ES),  and Syddanmark (DK).

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EU funding for innovation procurements

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Innovation procurement can drive the R&D and deployment of innovative solutions from the demand side through respectively pre-commercial procurement (PCP) and public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). This can speed up public sector modernisation and open new market opportunities for companies in Europe. Coordination and support actions typically support procurers to investigate the feasibility and prepare the ground to start new PCPs or PPIs. PCP and PPI Cofund actions co-finance an actual PCP or PPI procurement (one single joint PCP or PPI call for tenders per action) plus additional coordination and networking activities related to the procurement.

A total budget of circa €130 million is available for EU funding for PCP and PPI  projects across the different 2016-17 Horizon 2020 work programmes.

Calls for PCP/PPI actions with deadlines in 2016:

– ICTs for elderly care (PM-13: 10,5M€, PPIs, deadline 16 February 2016)

– e-health (PM-12: 18M€, PCPs, deadline 16 February 2016)

– earth observation (EO-2: 3M€, PCPs, deadline 3 March 2016)

– ICT based solutions in any area of public interest (ICT-34: 4M€, PCPs, deadline 12 April 2016)

For more information: Digital agenda for Europe
Horizon 2020 participation portal

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E-health innovation for chronic diseases

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The Province of Gederland (NL) is calling for AER members to join the development of an interregional project on e-health innovations. The objective is to develop innovative products for chronic disease, and ensure their market uptake.
To prepare the development of such a project Doede Sijtsma, Head of International Affairs invites AER members to contact him to organise a two-days meeting constituted of

  • DAY 1: a study visit to the very succesful ParkinsonNeXt project, which developped a series of tools for patients’ self-management
  • DAY 2: a project development meeting on innovative e-health solutions for chronic diseases.

Contact: Doede SIJTSMA [email protected]

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Success for events in Hampshire

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Change, cooperation, partnership approach, ownership and integration have been key concepts repeatedly mentioned at AER’s Autumn Plenary session taking place in Hampshire County (UK). Around 150 participants from AER Member Regions came together to discuss in the 3 AER Committees, the Working Groups and the conferences. These events went through key issues of regional concern, be it broadband access in rural areas, culture and integration, e-health or innovation in the public sector in general.

You can find all the presentations on the event page.

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Funding opportunities for better healthcare

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The topics under the 3rd health programme include:
– Gathering knowledge and exchanging best practices on measures reducing availability of alcoholic beverages
– Early diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis
– Early diagnosis of tuberculosis
– Support for the implementation and scaling up of good practices in the areas of integrated care, frailty prevention, adherence to medical plans and age-friendly communities
– Common assessment methodology on quality, safety and efficacy of transplantation therapies

Opening date: 05.06.2015
Budget: 9.000.000 €
Deadline date: 15.09.2015

Visit the 3rd health programme webpage

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Regions on their way to integrated e-care

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The dynamic of the SmartCare project is quite unique in that it brings together regions with very different profiles: while a first group of regions is deploying integrated e-care services, a second group of regions is using the tools and experiences developped in the project to prepare for future deployment. This second group is open for any AER member region and is therefore constantly growing. Aimed at providing partners with concrete added value, the SmartCare General Assembly on 17-18th June in Belgrade (RS) featured a series of workshops on cost-benefits analysis, legal and etical aspects, the collaboration with suppliers, enrolment, skills education and training, and stakeholders and management support.

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