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On 3 March took place the launch event of the Vanguard Initiative Innovation Networking Initiative (VI INI) series ov events organised in the framework of the Science meets Regions programme.

VI INI consists of a series of 5 physical, online and hybrid events focusing on the acceleration of the digital transition in health by fostering collaboration methods and know-how transfer techniques and thereby accelerating the process of digital transformation in the domain. VI INI’s main objective is to engage stakeholders within a European value chain network of digitalised healthcare services and products.

Networking initiatives are indeed an effective instrument to pursue innovation and create opportunities to stimulate territorial and societal renewal, which is the main objective of ‘The Vanguard Initiative: New Growth through Smart Specialisation’.

East Netherlands, Lower Austria, and North East Romania organise a series of interactive international conferences with dedicated workshops on smart health, where the quadruple helix partners will be brought together at the regional level, with the following aims:

• Developing solutions together with researchers and social actors to issues defined by the administration in the field of Smart Health.   
• Engaging stakeholders within a European value chain network of digitalized healthcare services and products.  
• Outlining collaboration methods and know-how transfer techniques, and thereby accelerating the process of digital transformation in the domain.
• Facilitating cooperation between local authorities and the interested parties at the regional level, but also the collaboration between regional ecosystems at the EU level.
• Results of the workshops will feed back into administration processes that support the connection of digital and health activities at the regional level.

The event has been organised in the framework of the VI Smart Health Pilot and the engagement and discussion kick-started on the basis of SAPHIRe- a Consortium for Securing the Adoption of Personalised Health in Regions, which aims to structure the application of health at the regional level.

More information about the next events, is available here.

Stay tuned for updates!