Appel à idées #1 - Innovation Booster Silver Aging
Challenge Metadata
- Challenge Name: Appel à idées #1 - Innovation Booster Silver Aging
- Date: 4/23/2024 7:38:44 AM
- Administrators:
Challenge Description
Innovation Booster SILVER AGING: 1st call to ideas 2024
« Digital solutions to improve the quality of care of seniors »
Please read the attached submission guidelines, the eligibility criteria and the timeline of the call before submitting your ideas and answer all questions.
The SILVER AGING Innovation Booster aims to promote and facilitate innovation that could improve the quality of life of seniors.
To this end, it will allocate (maximal) funding of up to CHF 25’000 to selected teams wishing to test innovative ideas to achieve these objectives.
The theme of this 1st call for ideas is the potential added value of digital solutions to improve the quality of care for the elderly.
Who can submit an idea?
Anyone (or so) !
Are you a senior citizen or a senior citizens' entity or association with an innovative idea ? Are you a Swiss company (SME, start-up...), a non-profit entity (public institution, research center, NGO...), a research center or a group wishing to suggest or implement a digital solution that could be converted into a product or service that could improve the quality of care of seniors ?
If so, don't hesitate to submit your idea on our platform !
Topic of this 1st call for ideas
The increase in life expectancy and in the proportion of elderly people presents society and the healthcare system with numerous challenges.
In parallel, digital solutions are taking on a central role in the coordination and operation of the healthcare system and services.
For this first call, we invite you to submit your ideas that can help improve the quality of care for seniors through digital solutions.
The term "quality of care" is to be understood in a broad sense, encompassing hospital care, medical treatment, outpatient and home care, telemedicine, diagnostics, etc.
For this first call, we will facilitate the emergence and funding of innovative solutions based on digital technologies that can address these challenges:
- New medical treatments and in-hospital care: In the current move away from hospital-centrism, how can we make hospital care more efficient and better targeted, and improve its coordination with outpatient or home care to meet new standards of care quality?
- New ambulatory and home-based care: As seniors seek to live longer in their own homes, how can we improve these new practices or create new ones to empower seniors in their care, or surround them effectively with the human and technological resources for their efficient and effective care? What digital processes or practices can be implemented to improve the quality of care for seniors at home?
- New drug treatments: how can we improve medical treatments for seniors, design new ones, and promote the participation of seniors in these developments and clinical trials?
- Facilitating prevention and health promotion and preventing the occurrence of diseases, of pathologic recurrences or episodes ...
- All pathologies and types of care as well as all solutions to improve the health system are concerned.
Eligibility criteria for your idea to be selected:
- You have an innovative idea for a new product, service or business model.
- The resulting solution could improve the quality of care for seniors.
- You can submit an idea as an individual, but by the closing date of the call you must have created a multidisciplinary team of at least 3 members, including a (private) implementation partner, an (academic) research partner and a user of the proposed solution.
- You wish to pursue the development of your product / service in Switzerland.
- You are taking part in an open innovation event organized by Innovation Booster (such as the one organized on March 14, 2024 in Neuchâtel) before the closing date of this 1st call for ideas on September 06, 2024.
- Your team or a third party can participate in the co-financing of your project with the minimum sum of CHF 2’000 made available for the project.
What’s in for you ?
- Six teams will be awarded (maximum) funding of CHF 25’000 (including the 2'000 opartner-to-partner or third-party funding). This contribution will be used mainly to test the desirability, feasibility and viability of your idea, to run interviews, develop prototypes ... This contribution can be used freely (payment of salaries, purchase of equipment or external services useful to the project). The contribution is paid to a legal entity part of the team in two instalments: CHF 12’500 at the start of the project and CHF 12’500 following a positive interim evaluation of your project (or less if you did not request the max. contribution).
- Methodological and technical support in the form of expert training in various innovation practices and methods.
- Support from the Innovation Booster team.
- Access to a large community of academic, institutional and care centers, companies, academic players and researchers, and senior citizens or groups of senior citizens to help you with your project.
- Networking, working and discussion events (e.g. round tables, workshops, etc.).
How to submit your idea and be eligible for funding?
Please fill in the short description AND do not forget to attach the detailed description of your idea using the form attached to this call.
- Brief summary of your idea.
- What problem do you want to solve / what need do you want to satisfy ?
- Who would be the main beneficiaries of your solution ?
- Present your team: their affiliations, skills, roles ...
- What impact would your solution (once developed) have on potential users ?
- Has your idea already been tested ?
- Do alternatives to your solution already exist ? If so, which ones ? How is yours better or different ?
- How do you intend to use the contribution you receive.
- What objectives do you hope to achieve with your project (e.g. interviewing specialists, designing a prototype, etc.) ?
- What kind of support do you expect from us for your project ?
If you can fulfill the eligibility criteria, set up a multidisciplinary team and have ideas for improving the quality of care for the elderly, we look forward to your application !
Please submit your idea preferentially in English or French (Italian or German are also OK ...).
Please note, that the project application is done through the open innovation platform JointCreate and will be visible by all (except the detailed description of your project), to the Innovation Booster SILVER AGING Core Team and the jury.
Do you have questions ? please contact us at silver.aging@he-arc.ch