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eHealth Newsletter - 19/10/2011

19 October 2011
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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Going Local 2011: Session on Digital Inclusion

24 October 2011 Dublin, Ireland

The session is organised in the context of the Digital Agenda Going Local exercise.

Contact: to register contact: Sinead Dooley

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Innovation Convention 2011

5 December 2011 - 6 December 2011 Brussels, Belgium

The European Commission is holding its first Innovation Convention following the adoption of the Innovation Union Flagship initiative in October 2010. This major event will gather more than 1200 participants involved in the innovation chain, including high-level policy makers, leading CEOs, deans of universities and research centres, bankers, venture capitalists, top researchers and innovators. The programme of the Innovation Convention will include master classes and round tables on innovation, an interactive panel debate with global innovation players and the award of the Women Innovators Prize. The exhibition of the Innovation Convention will showcase exciting research and innovation results being developed in Europe. Registration is now open.

See also: Digital Agenda EU

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Globalisation of Innovation

9 December 2011 Brussels, Belgium

Innovation is a key component of success for all world regions and works as a central platform through which government actions and businesses efforts can interact. We are witnessing a surge in knowledge-intensive activities by firms in catch-up economies, which are altering the geography of ideas and their commercialisation across the globe. This clearly has implications for the EU in terms of international competition and growth strategy. In three years of activities the EU research project INGINEUS - "Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their Interaction with EU Strategies" has mapped the new geography of knowledge-intensive activities and has put an initiative in understanding the concept of Global Innovation Networks (GINs).

See also: Innovation at DG INFSO eHealth

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Reminder: 'epSOS pilots setting sail' programme online

10 November 2011 Athens, Greece

The epSOS consortium is organising its "epSOS pilots setting sail" event. A number of workshops and meetings as satellites to this central event will jointly be organized with the eHealth Governance Initiative (eHGI) over the week from Nov 7-11. This will offer participants the opportunity to gain insight into both projects and learn from the experience achieved by the epSOS team in launching the pilots at the points of care. The final agenda is now available. Complete details (registration, venue, accomodation, gala dinner, etc) are online.

Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: EC other CIP projects in eHealth

PRESS RELEASE
Digital Agenda: Commission proposes over €9 billion for broadband investment

(19 October 2011) The European Commission has proposed to spend almost €9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give EU citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), would take the form of both equity and debt instruments and grants. It would complement private investment and public money at local, regional and national level and EU structural or cohesion funds. At least €7 billion would be available for investment in high-speed broadband infrastructure.

NEWS ARTICLE
Madrid hospital sends patients appointment reminders via SMS

(19 October 2011) At the beginning of October 2011, the Tajo Hospital in Madrid started implementing an SMS reminder system for medical appointments. This new means of communication has been made possible as a result of a new mobile device application that was developed by the hospital's Admissions Service and IT Department. This new software sends an SMS which notifies patients of the date, approximate time and exact location of a consultation 48 hours before the scheduled appointment.

NEWS ARTICLE
The eHealth Infso Daily

(18 October 2011) Get a daily overview of worldwide eHealth activities and related topics brought to you via articles from various authors from the web.

NEWS ARTICLE
2011 "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard- frequently asked questions"

(18 October 2011) The 2011 "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" contains economic and financial data of the world's top 1 400 companies ranked by their investment in research and development (R&D). The data are drawn from the latest available company accounts, i.e. the fiscal year 2010. The 400 EU companies in the ranking invested €132 billion in R&D in 2010, an increase of 6.1% over the previous year.

See also: Digital Agenda Scoreboard

PRESS RELEASE
R&D Scoreboard: top EU firms increase investment in innovation, but lag behind global competitors

(18 October 2011) The European Commission's 2011 "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" shows that R&D investment by top EU companies recovered strongly in 2010, with a 6.1% rise following a 2.6% decrease in 2009. However, data for the world's top 1400 companies show EU companies as a whole lagging behind major competitors from the US and some Asian economies on R&D growth. There was a general positive trend in 2010, as global R&D investment increased by 4%, a robust up-turn after the 1.9% drop observed in 2009. The global top 50 in terms of total R&D investment includes 15 EU companies, 18 US firms and 13 from Japan.

See also: Frequently asked questions

PRESS RELEASE
What is a "nanomaterial"? European Commission breaks new ground with a common definition

(18 October 2011) "Nanomaterials" are materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 and 100 billionth of a metre, according to a recommendation adopted by the European Commission today. The announcement marks an important step towards greater protection for citizens, clearly defining which materials need special treatment in specific legislation.

See also: Questions and answers

NEWS ARTICLE
The FUTURAGE Road Map for European Ageing Research now available

(18 October 2011) The Road Map summarises the research priorities for ageing research in Europe. It is the collective product of the most extensive consultation ever undertaken on this topic, which spanned two years and involved the major stakeholder groups in ageing research and policy among Member States and Associate Countries. These included scientists (from a wide range of disciplines), policy makers, practitioners, product developers and producers, carers and older people and their organisations. The Seven Major Priorities for European Ageing Research identified in the roadmap are: Healthy Ageing for More Life in Years; Maintaining and Regaining Mental Capacity; Inclusion and Participation in the Community and in the Labour Market; Guaranteeing the Quality and Sustainability of Social Protection Systems; Ageing Well at Home and in Community Environments; Unequal Ageing and Age-Related Inequalities; Biogerontology.

NEWS ARTICLE
FUPOL: Intelligent Tools for Policy Design

(17 October 2011) A new research project has been launched to develop advanced ICT tools to support policy design and implementation. FUPOL (Future Policy Modeling) aims at a completely new approach to traditional politics. Major innovations like multichannel social computing and crowd sourcing will change the way politicians communicate with citizens and enterprises and take decisions. The system will be able to automatically collect, analyze and interpret opinions expressed on a large scale from the Internet.

NEWS ARTICLE
Industrial competitiveness is the solution to ensure sustainable economic recovery

(14 October 2011) The European Commission presented today its Communication on "Industrial policy: Reinforcing competitiveness", which looks specifically at the industrial competitiveness performance of the Member States.

See also: EC - Information Society

CALL FOR TENDERS
Tender for the facilitation of the Community Platform of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing

The European Commission (DG SANCO and DG INFSO jointly) will launch early 2012 an online platform for the mobilisation of stakeholders in the delivery of the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing. The platform will be accessible form the EIP's home page (http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing). It will include a "market and partnering" area based on collaborative tools (wikis) that will allow interested parties to exchange concrete ideas, innovation solutions, idea proposals, to run partner searches, to raise awareness on funding opportunities, to build coalitions. A call for tenders will be sent soon to a minimum of 5 candidates identified by the European Commission for a service contract of a maximum value of € 60.000 for the facilitation of the platform. The platform will be maintained by the European Commission, the objective of the contract is to provide support via the platform for the mobilisation of actors active in the areas of prevention, integrated care, independent living, using the tools offered by the platform (wiki, forums, newsletter…) as well as "mash-up" possibilities offered by pre-existing, free, web 2.0 tools to stimulate the mobilisation of actors.

Contact: einclusion(at)ec.europa.eu
See also: Guidance paper for the Steering Group of the EIP

New in the Library

AUDIOVISUAL
Neelie Kroes on Innovation for Ageing Well

14 October 2011

Neelie Kroes speaks to the Ambient Assisted Living Forum on how Europe can use new technology to become a leader in Innovation for Ageing Well.

SPEECH
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Connecting Europe Facility – broadband and digital infrastructure services

Press briefing. Warsaw, Poland, 19th October 2011

SPEECH
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, e-Communications: making Europe the connected, competitive continent

Conference on Perspectives for the development of the electronics communications market in the EU. Warsaw, Poland, 19th October 2011

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