Optimizing usage of new technologies in rehabilitation to improve life quality of Central Europe inhabitants

Acronym: RehAlliance
Framework: Interreg Central Europe
Duration of the project: 01.05.2024. – 31.10.2026

Aim of the project:

Rehabilitation is care that helps people get back or improve abilities necessary for their daily life. The challenge is that such care often lies with the family without much systemic or technological support. 
The common challenges tackled by the project can be divided into two dimensions – social and technological:

• Social: lack of systemic approach or models for rehabilitation of all groups of patients (seniors, patients recovering from stroke/cardiac operations, disabled children, teenagers with spinal degeneration, etc).
• Technological: lack of common solutions for the MedTech manufacturing industry which require transition to advanced technologies and digitally skilled workforce.

The Rehabilitation Project aims to strengthen support services for SMEs in order to improve access to research and innovation (R&I) in the field of rehabilitation technologies. For this, the project will help MedTech companies to break-through and accelerate the commercialization of their products. The project partners share experiences and good practices to develop a set of policy recommendations to improve the healthcare sector’s innovation governance. In RehAlliance, new technologies will be tested, such as rehabilitation robots or exoskeletons, assistive devices, wearables or telemetric tools.

 
Project partners:

• Upper Silisian Accelerator for Commercial Enterprises Ltd. (PL)
• Pannon Business Network  Association (HU)
• Carinthia UAS - non-profit limited liability company (AT)
• BioRegio STERN Management GmbH (DE)
• Nerosubianco (IT)
•  Local Health Authority Veneto Region (IT)

 
Activity of PBN:

Under the leadership of PBN, one of the project milestones, a strategy and policy recommendation, is being prepared to strengthen the innovation capacity of SMEs developing rehabilitation products and services. The strategy includes the comparative analysis, the results of the pilot programs, the good practices of the partner regions, as well as the advanced rehabilitation models identified in the international context. In addition, PBN participates in the development of the Smart-Rehab-INDEX. In the framework of a transnational pilot, it builds a supportive environment that helps medtech businesses in the region in the long term by connecting cross-border services. Within the framework of the regional living lab project, the joint cooperation system will be concretely tested on the subject of assistive devices in rehabilitation. During this process, businesses and relevant professional and political actors are involved. In order to maintain the results of the project, a Rehabilitation Competence Center is being established, in the creation and maintenance of which our organization is actively involved.

 

Budget in Euro:
Project overall budget: 1 578 032,80 EUR
Total ERDF funding:: 1 262 426,24 EUR
PBN's ERDF funding: 229 455,68 EUR


Project homepage: https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/rehalliance/
Program homepage: https://www.interreg-central.eu/
Project manager: Eliza Tóth (eliza.toth@pbn.hu)

Project co-funded by European Regional Development Fund.