EIT Health iDay [Innovation Day] in Pécs 2019

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the European Union. We collaborate across borders to deliver new solutions that enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives. As Europeans tackle the challenges of increasing chronic diseases and multi-morbidity,they seek to realise technology’s potential to move beyond conventional approaches to treatment, prevention and healthy lifestyles. To succeed, Europe needs thought leaders, innovators and efficient ways to bring innovative healthcare solutions to market. EIT Health addresses these needs. We connect all relevant healthcare players across European borders – making sure to include all sides of the “knowledge triangle”, so that innovation can happen at the intersection of research, education and business for the benefit of citizens. We give health innovators access to the market, funding and the expertise of our network. We facilitate innovation through programmes, workshops and initiatives. We collaborate on international projects and disseminate our findings to the public. We create new products and services for healthy lives in Europe. And we educate, through citizen engagement activities, innovation programmes and skills training.

More information about EIT Health: https://www.eithealth.eu/

The Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries is an unit of the University of Pécs, founded in February 2018. (old.itdweb.hu)

Its vision and mission are to become a leading European institution, which promotes the creation of new disciplines and methodological approaches, crossing and passing beyond the boundaries of existing disciplines, and to provide a space that encourages, conveys, and enables crossings between disciplines and other areas.

Its mission is also to develop and maintain effective communication between science, business and society.

Fundamental values ​​of the institute: intellectual openness and commitment, flexible thinking, integrity and social responsibility, effective communication, creativity and innovation, co-operation.

UP’s newly formed institute is the official partner of the EIT Health Network. The only EIT Health Hub in Hungary that covers the entire country excluding Budapest.

Information on EIT Health:

https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-health

RIS Hub Info: https://eit.europa.eu/newsroom/seven-new-eit-ris-hubs-help-eit-health-build-innovation-ecosystems

The objective of the UP 3D Laboratory is to form an intellectual workshop within this rapidly developing field, bringing together a wide array of interests including engineering, health and the fine arts and much more. We seek to absorb the practical knowledge, develop and enhance the skills required in comprehending 3D printing, strive to building partnerships within the industry, facilitate products amongst its stakeholders and evolve into a catalyst promoting contemporary innovations and fostering long term development of the university including the entire region in all aspects of 3D solutions. (http://pte3d.hu/en/)

The Simony Business and Economic Development Center helps to transform the creative ideas of students and researchers – most of them might have solutions to regional economic and social problems – into business conceptions for more than six years. The education method that is used at the programs of the Simonyi BEDC, namely education through group work and experience, is an internationally recognized development methodology. The Center aims to open up national and international possibilities of innovation and entrepreneurship for all the citizens of the University of Pécs. The Center’s project owner, announced twice a year, its extended expert and mentor network that backs up its incubation program, the summer school with a focus on social enterprises and the continuously developed incubation platform for these, finally the annually organized international video pitch competition make possible not just the national, but also the international validation for initiators and developers.

Through its complex service portfolio, expert colleagues, broad national and international network of relations, the INPUT Program’s aim is to contribute to the Hungarian IKT startup ecosystem, to motivate the development of brand new innovative enterprises and to foster their successful appearance on the international markets.

InnoExpo is an unique, industry-independent three-day exhibition that offers a platform for all innovations, from start-up initiatives to major international companies that are at the forefront of innovation and where the new digital era has begun.

László Galambos is an IT entrepreneur, founder and main sponsor of Tábitha; in 2011, he offered his own house for the children’s hospice, and at his own expense, he reconstructed it to meet the recent requirements. This was the development of Hungary’s still biggest children’s hospice house, which is respected by the medical profession, where already more than two hundred families have found help and shelter.

IN WHICH FORM CAN ONE USE THE SERVICES OF THE TÁBITHA HOUSE?

The services of the house, which operates through the Hungarian Baptist Aid and through state normative, are all-inclusive and free. Tábitha is not “the house of death and suffering”. On the contrary: it is the place of solace and relief from suffering.

SERVICE FORMS:

The END-OF-LIFE SERVICE provides help for terminal state children and their families. A patient is in a terminal state if he/she suffers from a grievous, incurable disease, and his/her condition is getting worse despite the medical treatments, and his/her expectation of life is less than six months.

The RELIEF SERVICE helps those children (and their families) who suffer from grievous, incurable diseases and requires 24 hours nursing.

The TRANSIT SERVICE helps those families whose child needs permanent home nursing after longer hospital treatment.

Their goal is to contribute to the successful foundation of the ideas of talented students at the beginning of their doctoral program through the knowledge of innovation processes and knowledge utilization by the means of the conference. Their mission is to create a forum where doctoral and undergraduate students working in different fields of science, building on their own and each other’s ideas, will be able to build new, marketable, innovative business concepts and demonstrate them efficiently.