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EIT HealthProf. Josep Samitier IBEC DirectorInterim Director EIT Health Spain
Challenge for XXI Siecle
Old Man in Sorrow (1890) Vincent van GoghKröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands
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THE LUND DECLARATION 2009
European Research must focus on the Grand Challenges: AGEING
$ By 2060 one in three Europeans will be over 65 years.
$ The ratio between the employed and the unemployed will shift from today’s 4:1 to 2:1 by 2060.
$ Between 2010 and 2060 total government spending on pensions, healthcare, long term care and unemployment benefits will increase more than 4 percentage points of GDP.
$ Total expenditures for long-term care will double.
Our KIC-Health consortium spans across EuropeCo-location Centre
InnoSTAR Region
International HeadquarterCoordinator: Roche Diagnostics GmbH
52 Core Partners
92 Associated Partners
6 Colocations nodes (UK, Sweden, Germany, Benelux, France, Spain)
7 InnoStars regions (Wales, Portugal, Poland , Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia)
Node regions
CatalunyaMadrid
Industry
CLC
València
EIT Health Spanish co-location centerThe Spanish node is formed by three regions (Catalunya, Madrid and Valencia) involving strong partners in the three areas of the innovation triangle: research, education and business
Barcelona, home of our co-location centreAn innovative city
• Barcelona, winner of the European Capital of Innovation award 2014
• Barcelona and its metropolitan area concentrate 90% of the life sciences sector. The Catalan capital is home to 264 of the 512 companies in the BioRegion, 27 research centers working in the life
sciences, 4 university hospitals, 7 universities offering degrees in this arena and 7 science and technology parks.
• The concentration of biotechnology companies devoted to therapeutics and diagnostics is noteworthy (58% of the total), as is that of those devoted to R&D services (53%).
IBEC Strategic plan: 3 focus programmes
IBEC's diverse research interests can be divided into three targeted areas of knowledge
– Nanomedicine, Cell Engineering, and ICT for Health –for applications in:
These 3 focus programmes promote interaction between IBEC's multidisciplinary groups and help the institute's research remain application-oriented.
Bioengineering for Future Medicine
Bioengineering for Regenerative Therapies
Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing
IBEC: a benchmark in Bioengineering
The global ageing population will have considerable consequences, but biomedical engineering can contribute greatly to improving the quality of life of older people.
Assisted living technologies such as telecare, home-based devices and services that support daily life with a remote link to a call-centre, and telehealth – remote monitoring, consultation and diagnosis – can help support independent living at home, keeping patients out of hospital and residential care for longer.
Advances in sensors, signal treatment, data analysis, robotics and intelligent control systems at IBEC are enabling the development of remote care or assisted living, so that people with dementia or long-term health conditions can remain in their own homes.
Personalized therapies, combining new tailored nanobiomaterials with cell engineering drives advances in tissue engineering for the repair and replacement of human tissues damaged by injury, illness and ageing.
Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing
Challenges are further broken down
Promote Healthy Living
Self-management of health
Lifestyle intervention
Motivate active personal lifestyles
Metabolic Health
Support Active Ageing
Workplace interventions
Overcoming functional loss
Ageing with a Healthy Brain
Mobility and independence throughout
Life
Improve Healthcare
Improving healthcare systems
Treating and managing chronic diseases
Personalised Oncology and Integrated Cancer Care
Sustainable Continuum of Care to Support Active
Living in Europe
Business Objectives
Example projects
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