Product Validation in Health
ProVaHealth
ProVaHealth stimulates cooperation among health laboratories in the Baltic Sea region, which test new products and technologies in real-life contexts. The project shares best practices to improve business models of the labs and helps open access to the services for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from the entire Baltic Sea region to ensure health innovation and growth of health SMEs with global potential.
Summary
About Living Labs
The key aspect of Living Labs is the co-creation and experimental testing of products in a real-life context, providing opportunity for client validation, hands-on feedback and customer input for product development. In this way, Living Labs support companies to rapidly commercialise and scale up their innovations and products to the global markets. In the Baltic Sea region, Living Labs exist within several health and well-being areas.
Overcoming barriers for commercialisation
ProVaHealth tackles the challenge of a slow market uptake of innovations as well as Living Lab infrastructures serving locally or regionally only. The project, which involves 14 Labs from the Baltic Sea region, facilitates access to Living Labs for startups and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The project works together with ScanBalt and the European Network of Living Labs.
Efficient open access services and product validation
Based on best practices, the project improves the partner labs and their open access services bringing product development services to as many as 300 SMEs. The services shall be visible via an online catalogue. Publicly available products also include a tested Self-Evaluation Toolbox for Living Labs and a transnational Living Lab concept. Furthermore, ProVaHealth involves 30 science parks, incubators or clusters offering services to client SMEs. The project shall end up with 14 partner Living Labs having long term business plans in place and several SMEs - a service and/or product validated.
Highlights by mid-term:
The Living Labs participating in the project have assessed their services and client needs thanks to the tool for self-assessment, which is under development.
Furthermore, ProVaHealth has tested several products in the sectors of health and well-being. The transnational environment of the project offered access for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to infrastructure that would have been difficult to find for testing at home. As examples of products which were tested in the Living Labs one can mention a risk management system for medical device manufacturers, hands-free medical guidelines device for nurses, a device that helps to protect from airborne infections. In some cases a pilot testing was carried out, in others – the experts evaluated a product or service.
Budgets
PARTNERS
Town: Tallinn
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Piret Hirv
Phone: 3 724 800 200
E-mail: piret.hirv{at}tehnopol.ee
Web: www.tehnopol.ee
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
210.218,00
Town: Haapsalu
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Kadri
Englas
Phone: 3 724 725 464
E-mail: Kadri.Englas{at}hnrk.ee
Web: www.hnrk.ee
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
71.800,00
Town: Tallinn
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Katrin
Niglas
Phone: 3 726 409 361
E-mail: katrin.niglas{at}tlu.ee
Web: www.tlu.ee
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
119.965,00
Town: Aalborg
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Jesper Bredmose
Simonsen
Phone: 4 520 339 895
E-mail: j.bredmose{at}rn.dk
Web: www.ideklinikken.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
263.220,35
Town: Soroe
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Erik Brander
Phone: 4 570 155 000
E-mail: eribr{at}regionsjaelland.dk
Web: www.regionsjaelland.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
114.000,00
Town: Odense M
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Jens
Strandbech
Phone: 4 529 248 925
E-mail: jens.strandbech{at}rsyd.dk
Web: www.colab-denmark.dk
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
272.185,00
Town: Mikkeli
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Natalia
Narits
Phone: 3 581 535 561
E-mail: natalia.narits{at}mamk.fi
Web: www.xamk.fi
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
177.945,00
Town: Oulu
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Tiina
Tervaskanto-Mäentausta
Phone: 358 206 110 200
E-mail: tiina.tervaskanto-maentausta{at}oamk.fi
Web: www.oamk.fi
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
202.810,00
Town: Seinäjoki
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Elina
Leppäkangas
Phone: 358 505 052 295
E-mail: elina.leppakangas{at}seamk.fi
Web: www.seamk.fi
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
173.645,00
Town: Vantaa
Region: MANNER-SUOMI
Country: Finland
Representative: Mikko
Julin
Phone: 358 468 567 517
E-mail: mikko.julin{at}laurea.fi
Web: www.laurea.fi
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
261.822,50
Town: Greifswald
Region: MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN
Country: Germany
Representative: Andre
Huysmann
Phone: 493 834 550 115
E-mail: huysmann{at}witeno.de
Web: www.witeno.de
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
100.427,12
Town: Riga
Region: LATVIJA
Country: Latvia
Representative: Gunta Ušpele
Phone: 37 129 214 868
E-mail: gunta{at}healthtravellatvia.lv
Web: www.healthtravellatvia.lv
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
43.700,00
Town: Vilnius
Region: LIETUVA
Country: Lithuania
Representative: Monika
Kavaliauskė
Phone: 37 052 687 017
E-mail: monika.kavaliauske{at}ef.vu.lt
Web: www.vu.lt
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
92.750,00
Town: Lublin
Region: REGION WSCHODNI
Country: Poland
Representative: Marzena
Strok-Sadło
Phone: 48 814 662 505
E-mail: marzena.sadlo{at}lublin.eu
Web: lublin.eu
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
121.530,00
Town: Gliwice
Region: REGION POŁUDNIOWY
Country: Poland
Representative: Beata
Krawczyk
Phone: 48 323 393 146
E-mail: bkrawczyk{at}gapr.pl
Web: www.gapr.pl
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
94.522,20
Town: Lund
Region: SÖDRA SVERIGE
Country: Sweden
Representative: Fred
Kjellson
Phone: 46 462 868 750
E-mail: fred.kjellson{at}innovationskane.com
Web: www.innovationskane.com
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
287.467,88
Town: Frederiksberg
Region: DANMARK
Country: Denmark
Representative: Peter
Frank
Phone: 4 527 141 078
E-mail: pf{at}scanbalt.org
Web: www.scanbalt.org
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
73.587,35
Town: Tartu
Region: EESTI
Country: Estonia
Representative: Sven Parkel
Phone: 3 727 383 053
E-mail: sven{at}biopark.ee
Web: www.scanbalt.org
Approximate total partner budget in EUR:
45.129,00
CONTACTS
Project manager
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Piret Hirv
+372 50 87 043
Legal representative
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Indrek Orav
+3725264828
Financial manager
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Kert Kaljula
372 56 800 217
Communication manager
Foundation Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol
Kristi Jõeäär
372 5100881