THE CONSORTIUM AND PARTNERSHIP

SALUD provideS Primary care, Secondary care, mental care and geriatric care management, including homecare, and to the promotion and protection of individual and public health.
SALUD’s mission is to provide an integral healthcare attention, to ensure the services accessibility, to promote healthy lifestyles, the prevention and protection and to maintain patients’ autonomy and their social inclusion.
SALUD has a network composed of 12 General Hospitals, 110 Primary Health Centres and 5 Geriatric hospitals. It has introduced innovation on the professionals’ regular practice through the integration of telemedicine solutions thanks to the collaboration on several strategic projects.
Aragón is one of the regions in Spain with a highest rate of elderly people. The public authorities are very much concerned with the demographic change, especially with the ageing of the population and they are developing several initiatives to deal with its consequences.
SALUD has just been awarded as a four stars’ reference site from the EIP on AHA, recognizing its commitment to invest in innovation for active and healthy ageing, and supporting the transfer and scaling up of this innovation across

CHUC‘s mission is to deliver high‐quality clinical care in a context of pre and postgraduate training with a strong focus on research, scientific knowledge, and innovation. The hospital offers comprehensive care across all the leading medical and surgical specialties.
CHUC´s excellence centers ensure high standard healthcare services (since 1991, more than 1,100 liver transplants). It is the medical institution in Portugal with more accredited reference centers, belonging to 10 European Reference Networks. Being an associate partner of InnoSTARS, EIT Health KIC we are developing partnerships with several biotech and IT companies implementing the concept of an innovation pioneer hospital. CHUC also belongs to the collaborative network M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies that is known for their educational and research excellence.
Currently, the elderly representrepresents one of the most significant age groups with hospital admission rates.
In CHUC, 70% of medical hospitalisations and 73% of inpatient days belong to patients over 65 years of age. However, data on the hospitalization of these individuals have shown negative health outcomes, namely functional and cognitive decline and high risk of adverse events. Sousa‐Pinto et al. (2013) show that 5.3% of patients over 65 are readmitted to hospital in less than 30 days, showing that the discontinuity of care between the hospital and home has a more pronounced effect on the elderly population.

CHUC developed 4 projects funded by the H2020: ZIKAction, GLORIA, NANOSTEM and MASSTRPLAN. In 2019 initialized the VEMoS project.

IPN promotes integr changes built on a solid university/enterprise relationship and operating in three fronts that reinforce and complement each other: Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services; Business and idea incubation; Highly specialized training and dissemination of science and technology.
IPN is co‐founder of the Ageing@Coimbra reference site of the EIP on AHA, and is associated partner of EIT Health. Additionally, IPN will be involved through the Laboratory for Automation and Systems (IPNlas). IPNlas undertakes RTD and technology transfer activities in the areas of expertise related to Embedded Artificial Intelligence (EAI); Collaborative Robotics; Internet of Bodies (IoB) and Medical Device Validation, Evaluation and Certification ‐ increasingly focusing on cutting‐edge technologies (CET) as a differentiating factor in the provision of specialized services. These activities benefit with the collaboration of researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DEEC) at the University of Coimbra and the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR).
IPNlas has been responsible for several initiatives in Portugal and the European Union related to ICT for Health and has participated in projects related to the design of systems, architecture and application development in the areas of Telemedicine, Hospital@Home, Home Care and Care Home, involving for example self‐monitoring devices, devices connected to the body, embedded devices, robotics, multimodal user interfaces ensuring privacy and security issues.

Prof. Dr. Fred van Eenennaam and his team have bundled the existing information to write a methodology based on the principles of Value‐Based Health Care by Harvard Professors Porter, Teisberg and Kaplan, and have had a lot of feedback from international colleagues. The methodology is based on starting the dialogue with medical professionals, care providers and executives on Patient Value. With practical tools, workshops and pressure‐cooker sessions, a hands‐on approach is provided to ‘change’ the view of the organization and its employees.

Have vast industry and user experience in the healthy ageing tech market and key person behind have been a major actor on an european scale to promote the agenda of integrated care and active and healthy ageing through standardisation and policy initiatives, and by managing projects since 2007 in the field. Currently PPCN is running market adoption projects of AI based ageing tech, telehealth, HIS systems and advanced medical device remote patient monitoring for SME’s primarily in EU and outside (Israel). PPCN key person is also involved in non‐profit pro‐bono activites to work for organisations to give the health data back to its rightful owner, the citizen. PPCN role will be to transfer knowledge to the partners assist the procurring partners with the procurring process and evaluate vendors and technology leveraging on it’s experience to deploy integrated care solutions for industry.

Regarding to the urban region, Soure is in between the cities of Coimbra, Pombal and Figueira da Foz that forms a small conurbation, establishing strong regional and natural ties with a wide range of services and activities. At the subregional level, Soure belongs to “Terras de Sicó ‐ Local Development Association (integrated with the Municipality of Pombal, Penela, Alvaiázere, Ansião and Condeixa‐a‐Nova) where resists a greater tradition of cooperation.
With near 20.000 inhabitants, Soure is the center for almost 200 small agglomerates that forms a large puzzle of connections, infrastructural shared facilities and equipments serving a mainly rural community.
From 2013 the Municipality of Soure has adopted a development strategy based on the diversity of activities and services specially linked to the place based resources and on his privileged location marked on a global positioning: Soure, in your own center.