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Project partners have met for the very first time at the project kick-off meeting that took place on 3rd and 4th December 2019 in Denia, Spain. Among others, they set up the principles of cooperation, as well as discussed first steps at the project consortium. 

On November 1st, we organized local EIT Health Innovation Day in Prague. Students have been given the task to design smart glasses for seniors with mild cognitive impairment. The winning team consisting of three young women did an excellent job! They won a trip to Paris to the Winners Event where they had a chance to further work on their idea.

SMART4MD Roadshow took place in the Czech Republic during October and November 2019. Three events took place in UP21, Prague; CVUT, Prague and Regional Reseach Library in Liberec with goal to raise awareness of public in the challenges of mild dementia and developed SMART4MD platform and its benefits for people with mild dementia, their carers and healthcare professionals.

In the afternoon, on Monday, November 25, we would love to meet you in the Regional Research Library in Liberec, where the event "Discussion on Mild Dementia" is going to take place. You will learn what are its symptoms, or what should you do in case it appears in your family.

EIT Health Innovation Day took place on Friday, November 1, in the premises of the Czech Technical University, CIIRC in Prague. Almost 40 visitors have attended the Health Innovation event where they learned how to develop and present an innovative product. And in the end, they designed different kinds of smart glasses for seniors.

Have you been wondering, what interesting Health startups do we have in the Czech Republic? Startup Campus V4 Roadshow - Prague brought together 5 startups from Health or Medtech background and let them pitch in front of an expert jury.

The Interreg Europe HoCare project’s Final event was successfully organized in Nicosia, Cyprus on Thursday, 3 October 2019. The event, under the title “HoCare High Level Political Dissemination Event” was under the aegis of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Constantinos Ioannou. In the first part, welcoming speeches were made by Mr. Christos Pittaras, ANEL’s President and Mayor of Latsia, Mrs. Constantia Constantinou representing the Directorate General for European Programs, Coordination and Development, Mr. Ierotheos Papadopoulos, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus and Mr. Andreas Xenofontos, Director of the Nursing Services of the Ministry of Health (on behalf of the Minister).

We presented the 4STEPS project at the RIS3 Forum. The conference was organized by the Liberec Region and its aim was to motivate companies and other subjects to research and innovate.

We would love to meet you during the EIT Health Innovation Days (i-Days) in Prague on the 1st of November 2019! I-Days focuses on healthcare innovation, design thinking and pitch coaching through tackling real-life health challenges. What you can expect? Read further.

Public institutions purchase goods and services through public procurement. They can use a tool for implementing modern technologies and procedures - in that case, we are talking about Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI).

As in the past two years, the Regional Startup and Innovation Day (RSID) 2019 focuses on the V4 countries. This year we were selected as a partner in the Czech Republic. What is it all about?

We are happy for InoCure, who is among 15 finalists of EIT Health InnoStars Awards programme. Now, they are in the middle of the programme and awaiting 2nd BootCamp. 

We are proud to announce that we are joining the InnoEnergy network as the InnoEnergy Hub in the Czech Republic!

We are very happy to announce that from the 1st of July, we can welcome our partners and hosts not only in Liberec but also in a brand new representative office in Prague. 

Project Lead Partner, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) and local project partner Charles University (CUNI), organized the Excellence-in-ReSTI final event and award ceremony held at the Charles University in Prague in the afternoon of 1st July 2019.

CLC Study visit for EIT Health InnoStars currently takes places in Oxford. From 26th to 28th June, OXENTIA hosts a study visit to provide an introduction to Oxford's innovation ecosystem which is renowned for being both forward-looking and for the support that it has provided to innovators from a diversity of backgrounds. 

NewGenerationSkills Project was supporting interesting ideas and projects. The best participants in the training program were given the opportunity to present their ideas at the final project meeting in Budapest. They competed with the rest of the teams from the participating countries.

Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency (CTRIA – Lead Partner of the project) in cooperation with project partner - Somogy County Government organized the 3^rd PPI2Innovate Days within the PPI2Innovate Interreg Central Europe programme on Tuesday 14^th of May, 2019.

On Wednesday, May 22, was organized in European House, Prague, very first Advisory group of InnoSchool project meeting. InnoSchool tackles the need for system change to support weak entrepreneurial culture and low engagement to social innovation and entrepreneurship. The main goals of the meeting were introducing the current state of InnoSchool Learning System (ILS) and getting valuable feedback.