Consortium

CRANE unites the efforts of 7 seven partners with multidisciplinary backgrounds from 4 European countries and three rural regions- Region Västerbotten in Sweden, Extremadura in Spain, and Agder in Norway-with high levels of people over 65 and a common and urgent need for health and care innovation.

We combined committed regions with explicit political support and knowledge partners with a solid background and expertise managing PCP projects.

CRANE unites the efforts of 7 seven partners with multidisciplinary backgrounds from 4 European countries and three rural regions- Region Västerbotten in Sweden, Extremadura in Spain, and Agder in Norway-with high levels of people over 65 and a common and urgent need for health and care innovation.

We combined committed regions with explicit political support and knowledge partners with a solid background and expertise managing PCP projects.

Region Västerbotten

https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/

Role: Coordinator/buyer region

Country: Sweden

The Centre for Rural Medicine at Region Västerbotten has many years of experience in working with research and development regarding healthcare in rural areas, in both regional as well as national and international projects.

Region Västerbotten has two important tasks that need and depend on each other − health and medical care, as well as regional development. By gathering power and skill, we become stronger and can create better conditions for powerful, long-term, sustainable development. We can also create the best conditions for working in partnership with the municipalities. Additionally, the people of Västerbotten’s influence over the county’s development is strengthened by an organisation of directly elected politicians

This region will be in charge of all the project management and coordination tasks and will participate in all the procurement phases as buyer 

Municipality of Kristiansand

Role: Buyer region

Country: Norway

The Municipality of Kristiansand represents the municipalities of Agder county in southern Norway, through the Regional Coordination Group for E-health Agder (RCG). RCG was established by the Council of Agder in January 2016, to take a leader in the use and implementation of telecare (welfare technology) in Norway. In Agder the municipalities and the hospitals have collaborated for several years, and have established the Agder Health

Community. Agder has participated in testing, development of national recommendations and implementation as part of the national welfare technology program.

http://www.ehelseagder.no/

Regional Ministry of Health and Social Services at the Government of Extremadura

http://www.juntaex.es/web

Role: Buyer region     

Country: Spain

The Extremadurean Regional Ministry of Health and Social Services is a public institution (Department of Health and Social Services at the Regional Government of Extremadura, Spain) that manages the services for Healthcare (SES; Regional Healthcare System), Elderly and Dependency care (SEPAD; Social Care System) and other public or private research centers, providing resources, staff and facilities to develop any biomedical research activity in Extremadura.

The institution has been acting as a perfect living lab for validation of different approaches and processes, providing also the end-users for solutions validation in the EU projects

In this project, this region will lead ethical surveillance and data protection management and will contribute to all the procurement phases as buyer.

Centre for Connected Care

Role: Research and innovation centre

Country: Norway

The Centre for Connected Care emerged from Oslo University Hospital to accelerate the adoption of integrated patient centric services to create health value to municipalities, hospitals and companies and reduce health care costs. Center for Connected Care (C3), is a center for research-based innovation funded by the Research Council of Norway. The aim of the centre is to elaborate knowledge concerning new and innovative health services; hospital at home and remote follow-up. The focus of the centre is on designing good solutions, on procurement and on scaling. The activities will contribute to innovation and interdisciplinary research, providing insight into health and business policy areas. As a centre for research-based innovation, C3, has several years of experience in researching and evaluating new health services and technology

In this project C3 will lead: the value-based decision-making; the Evaluation framework and Impact assessment; and the PCP results, lessons learnt and guidelines of CRANE.

https://c3connectedcare.org/

Eurob Creative

www.eurob.com

Role: Supporting organization   

Country: Spain

EUROB CREATIVE is a highly specialized technology provider SME in the areas of Digital Health, Big Data and Blockchain that acts both as a technology provider and developer of products and services for healthcare and security. Relatedly, EUROB has over the years developed several in-house and for client’s projects, related to customized platforms for data recovery and storage, with special attention to data protection (GDPR compliance) as well as data security (data encryption, anonymization) aspects. EUROB has solid experience in R&D projects, especially in European projects and programmes, as well as in initiatives and acceleration programmes for SMEs, entrepreneurs and Start-ups

In CRANE, EUROB will be the coordinator of Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation and all its related tasks, as well as be in charge of the analysis of State-of-the-art and the Market engagement of the OMC.

PPCN

Role: Supporting organization 

Country: Denmark

PPCN is a health and care tech consultancy company based in Copenhagen and Bangkok, that help Scale-ups develop their markets on new business development. Have vast industry and user experience in the healthy ageing tech market and key person behind have been a major actor on a 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)

In CRANE, PPCN is the leader of Health and Care model design, and related task. Its role is leading the vision related with ICT intervention in the consortium

https://www.ppcn.xyz

Valde Innova

https://www.valdeinnova.es/

Role: Supporting organization

Country: Spain

VALDE is a consulting company integrated by a network of senior collaborators with specialized profiles in innovation procurement (PPI and PCP) at European and National level, experience in European Projects and project management, and methodologies for co-creation. VALDE integrates the work of a network of specialized consultants in accordance to the needs of each project.

VALDE will be in charge of the CRANE PCP preparation and all the related tasks