Map of Europe showing the seven CRANE partners located in Sweden, Norway, Spain and Denmark
Buyer regions

The three regions procuring the solution

Coordinator / Buyer region

Region Västerbotten

Sweden

The Centre for Rural Medicine at Region Västerbotten has many years of experience researching healthcare in rural areas at regional, national and international level. In CRANE, the region led project management and coordination and participated in all procurement phases as buyer.

regionvasterbotten.se →
Buyer region

Municipality of Kristiansand

Norway

Represents the municipalities of Agder county through the Regional Coordination Group for E-health Agder (RCG), established in 2016 to lead the use and implementation of telecare (welfare technology) in Norway.

ehelseagder.no →
Buyer region

Regional Ministry of Health and Social Services — Junta de Extremadura

Spain

Manages Extremadura’s Healthcare (SES) and Elderly and Dependency care (SEPAD) systems. Led ethical surveillance and data protection management, and contributed to all procurement phases as buyer.

juntaex.es →
Expert partners

The teams behind the process and the vision

Research & innovation centre

Centre for Connected Care (C3)

Norway

Emerged from Oslo University Hospital to accelerate the adoption of integrated, patient-centric services. In CRANE, C3 led value-based decision-making, the evaluation framework and impact assessment, and the project’s lessons learnt and guidelines.

c3connectedcare.org →
Supporting organisation

Eurob Creative

Spain

A specialised technology provider SME in Digital Health, Big Data and Blockchain. In CRANE, Eurob coordinated Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation, and led the State-of-the-art analysis and market engagement of the OMC.

eurob.com →
Supporting organisation

PPCN

Denmark

A health and care tech consultancy based in Copenhagen and Bangkok, with deep experience in healthy-ageing tech markets. In CRANE, PPCN led the Health and Care model design and the ICT intervention vision.

ppcn.xyz →
Supporting organisation

Valde Innova

Spain

A consulting company with senior collaborators specialised in innovation procurement (PPI and PCP), European project management and co-creation methodologies. Valde led the CRANE PCP preparation.

valdeinnova.es →