A University-Business Alliance to accelerate the digital and green transition of healthcare and innovation in the health market

Project Description

The pandemic emphasised the need to accelerate the deployment and market uptake of digital health technologies, many of which were developed to contribute to the fight against the spread of COVID-19. This recent transformational innovation in Europe offers the opportunity to revolutionise the Health sector, which needs to adapt to the latest technological developments and become more digital and more sustainable. Providing an opportunity to university students and graduates to enhance the entrepreneurial, digital and green skills needed by a transformed healthcare sector is essential towards innovation. Health2Innovation aims to inspire, mentor, train and empower students and graduates, through the development and execution of a dedicated, standalone and hybrid training course focusing on the skills needed by a digitally transformed health sector. Health2Innovation brings together higher education institutions, incubators, vocational education training organisations, SMEs and tech experts from Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Lithuania, Poland and Romania to exchange knowledge and best practices, co-design and deliver a training course targeting students and/or graduates in Life Sciences, Medicine, Business, Engineering or ICT-related studies. The partnership will create a training course on the basis of each partner’s expertise knowledge and experience that will enhance learners’ understanding in key areas related to health, such as digital health, data literacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, biotechnology and circular economy, as well as their entrepreneurial, digital and green skills. The partnership will also develop a digital learning hub and a mobile app and it will also bring to life a Health Innovation Bootcamp and an Apprenticeship programme in innovative health clusters, namely the Medicon Valley in Denmark and Sweden and the Lille Northern France Health Cluster.