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Partner Search Platform - Interreg Central Baltic
  • The project aligns with Objective 6 in several aspects, primarily by emphasising enhancing the capacities and competencies of the workforce within the public healthcare sector and related tech industries. However, for the project to fit seamlessly into Objective 6 expectations, specific components must be emphasised or introduced:
    Skill Development and Training: The project should incorporate a robust component that trains healthcare professionals, researchers, and technical staff to use and develop health-tech innovations. This could include workshops, certification programs, or on-the-job training in digital tools and technologies.
    Employment Opportunities Creation: It should detail how the innovation value chain (IVC) directly contributes to creating new employment opportunities within the healthcare and tech industries, for instance, by fostering startups or supporting scale-ups that can fill gaps in the healthcare market, thereby generating new jobs.
    Cross-sector Collaboration for Job Market Flexibility: Emphasise the project’s role in enhancing labour market flexibility by fostering cross-sector collaborations between the healthcare sector, tech industry, and educational institutions. This could improve employment mobility and adaptability among the workforce.
    Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Employment Drivers: Highlight how the project supports entrepreneurship within the health-tech sector. It mainly focuses on empowering less competitive groups to engage in entrepreneurship and innovation-driven employment paths.
    To align with Objective 6, the project must clearly articulate these elements within its framework, ensuring that the focus extends beyond technological innovation to encompass employment growth, skills development, and market flexibility in the health-tech sector.

    Objective 7: Improved Public Services and Solutions for Citizens
    For the project to align effectively with Objective 7, it must emphasise enhancing public healthcare services through digital innovation, focusing on the benefits to citizens and the public administration processes. Key considerations include:
    Digital Transformation of Public Healthcare Services: The project should demonstrate how digital innovations will lead to new or improved public healthcare services. This includes detailing specific health-tech solutions that will be developed or implemented and how these innovations will make healthcare more accessible, efficient, and affordable for the public.
    Stakeholder Collaboration for Public Benefit: Highlight the collaborative framework between Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS), tech HUBs, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders within the IVC. Specifically, it shows how this orchestrated effort will benefit the public by improving healthcare outcomes and patient experiences.
    Policy and Process Improvement: Address the gaps in strategic agreements, guidelines, documentation practices, and knowledge transfer tools mentioned in the project description. Outline concrete steps for establishing transparent processes and policies that facilitate the smooth execution of innovation strategies in public healthcare, ensuring these improvements are sustainable and scalable.
    Cross-Border and Interregional Learning and Adaptation: If applicable, the project should incorporate a cross-border element by transferring best practices between the countries or regions involved. This could involve comparative studies, pilot projects in multiple locations, or collaborative R&D efforts that leverage each region’s unique strengths to address common healthcare challenges.
    Public Engagement and Participation: Mechanisms for engaging the public and healthcare service users in developing and testing health-tech innovations should be included. These could involve participatory design workshops, public feedback sessions, or pilot programs that allow direct user input into service design and improvement.
    To fit within Objective 7, the project proposal must underline how the digital transformation facilitated by the IVC will lead to tangible improvements in public healthcare services. It should focus on the end benefits to citizens, showcasing a direct link between technological innovation and enhanced public welfare in healthcare.

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