H-INNOVA - Call for Projects
5th Edition
2023/2024

Registrations - Students and Researchers

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Participation requirements

Students Category

Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Master students from national and international Universities and Institutes that can include one more more professors as advisors (optional)

Groups can be composed of 1 to a maximum of 5 students of Graduation, Post-graduation or Master at universities or Institutes.

Groups can optionally invite one or more coordinating professors (up to three).

Candidates who have completed their bachelor, postgraduate or master’s degree in the academic years 2021/2022 or 2022/2023 can participate in the 5th edition of H-INNOVA - Health INNOVAtion HUB.

PhD and Researchers Category

Doctorates, doctorate students or researchers

To participate in Doctorates and Researchers category you need to:

Have a PhD/Doctorate degree; or
Attend in the present academic year (2023/2024) a PhD/Doctorate program; or
Be a researcher in a University, Institute or Research Center;

STARTUPS Category

STARTUPS that are developing innovative products / solutions with high potential of growth / internationalization

Candidates must have a Startup already formed:

Startups at different levels of development / TRL can apply to H-INNOVA – Call for projects if they focus health or healthcare areas;
Early stages startups are accepted but they need to have a clear market orientation and the vision to have a commercial product/service in a maximum time frame of 2 or 3 years.

Award

Access to the Ecosystem of Innovation

H-INNOVA

Students Category

1st Prize

The winning team project

will be awarded a prize of

5,500 EUR

(gross amount)

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

2,500 EUR

Which of 500 EUR will be paid after the creation of a STARTUP in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

and

3,000 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

If the winning team develops their project under the supervision of one or more professor/

researcher they will be

awarded

1,000 EUR

(gross amount)

2nd Prize

The 2nd place team project

will be awarded a prize of

2,500 EUR

(gross amount)

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

1,000 EUR

Which of 250 EUR will be paid after the creation of a STARTUP in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

and

1,500 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

If the team develops their project under the supervision of one or more professor/

researcher they will be

awarded

750 EUR

(gross amount)

3rd Prize

The 3rd place team project

will be awarded a prize of

1,000 EUR

(gross amount)

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

PhD and Researchers Category

1st Prize

The winning project will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

7,000 EUR

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

2,000 EUR

Which of 500 EUR will be paid after the creation of a STARTUP in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

and

5,000 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

2nd Prize

The 2nd place project will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

3,500 EUR

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

1,000 EUR

Which of 250 EUR will be paid after the creation of a STARTUP in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

and

2,500 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

3rd Prize

The 3rd place project will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

1,000 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

Additional Prize

Additionally, if the TOP 5 finalist projects of the Student Category and the TOP 3 projects of the PhD and Researchers category create a STARTUP company in the Autonomous Region of Madeira within 6 months after the date of the Pitch Ceremony, it will be awarded an additional prize of €1,000 (one thousand euros), comprised of a monetary amount of €500 (five hundred euros) and €500 (five hundred euros) in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

STARTUPS Category

1st Prize

The winning startup will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

6,500 EUR

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

1,500 EUR

and

5,000 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

2nd Prize

The 2nd place startup will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

3,000 EUR

Comprised of:

a monetary amount of

500 EUR

and

2,500 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

3rd Prize

The 3rd place startup will be awarded a prize of an amount equivalent to

1,000 EUR

in dedicated mentoring hours from experienced professionals with expertise in business modelling, finance and business development.

Themes of the projects

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The projects to be developed should focus on strategic areas for health and healthcare, namely:

A. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business intelligence and medical devices innovation

The Hospital of the Future
Sustainable Health Care Provision
Energy and waste management optimization for hospitals in a sustainable perspective
Hospital acquired infection prevention
Biotech
Artificial Intelligence for the Smart Hospital of the Future
Medtech and Pharmatech
Digital Health concerning Web-platforms, mHealth, Apps
Business Intelligence for Hospitals: data infrastructure, analytics and big data;
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to enhance the relationship between hospitals and patients
Telecare and remote patient monitoring systems
Privacy management and cybersecurity of clinical data
Cybersecurity solutions for hospitals
Medical devices innovation concerning electronic devices, biomaterials, artificial organs, diagnostic, drug delivery devices, monitoring, rehabilitation
Solutions to provide digital information to the user/patient and to their families during the medical appointment / medical treatment
Solution to control the entry and exit of visitors, patients and health professionals in hospitals/clinics, including providing information about who is inside the facilities at any given time
Add-ons to Integrated Health Systems Management digital platforms
Innovative products, services, or solutions in the field of Health tourism

B. Outbreaks innovation

19. Applications with innovative solutions to tackle Coronavirus or another virus outbreak

C. Focus in the patient

20. Preventive Healthcare: Services or solutions

21. Improve patient adherence with therapeutics

22. Home care

23. Improving communication between healthcare providers and patients

24. Healing architecture for better value in healthcare

D. Provision and Predictive Models

25. Prevision/scenario forecasting of macro models for public health

26. Prevision models concerning resources requests in pandemic and disaster/crises events

27. Predictive Clinical Analytics

E. Cybersecurity & Data Protection in Healthcare

28. Tools to ensure patient data protection

29. Cyber security of medical devices

30. Strategies to promote cyber awareness and cyber hygiene among hospital professionals

31. Methods to improve security of data sharing between medical devices, IT systems and other healthcare applications/programs

F. H-INNOVA - Health INNOVAtion HUB

32. Development of an app for H-INNOVA - Health INNOVAtion HUB

33. Development of a marketplace platform for health in the scope of H-INNOVA – Health INNOVAtion HUB– Design process and how to configure the platform

G. Business Plans and Digital Marketing Plans

34. Marketing plan to promote health literacy in the general population or in a specific population group (senior population, less educated population…)

35. Healthcare Digital Marketing Plan to engage patients in their own care journey in a proactive way

36. Business plan to promote and development of health tourism

H. Mental health & wellbeing

37. Innovative solution(s) or approach(s) for the treatment or relief of symptoms of mental health disorders

38. Innovative solution(s) or approach(s) that allow families to provide better support to mental health patients

39.Project related with promotion of good mental health & wellbeing in companies, hospitals, etc.

40. Development of a solution to periodically evaluate the mental health status of healthcare professionals (questionnaire versus interpretation of signs/images), that would allow the Occupational Health Service to act in cases of alert

41. Innovative approach or methodology to document the stress of healthcare professionals in their daily lives considering different aspects in a standardized way in order to promote a better quality of life of these professionals, increasing the service provided to the patient

Deadlines