Project Partners

University of Valencia

IIS La Fe Hospital

The FUNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION DEL HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA (HULAFE) is a non-profit organisation that carries out the scientific and research policy of the "La Fe" Health Department. The research of excellence carried out at the HULAFE is patient-oriented and was accredited as a "Health Research Institute" by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2009. The HULAFE offers scientific and technological services and has more than 10,000 m2 of clinical and research laboratories to undertake research programmes based on state-of-the-art biomedical science.

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Contact persons:

Bernardo Valdivieso

valdivieso_ber[at]gva.es

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Julia Villar

villar_jullop[at]gva.es

Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam

The Erasmus University Medical Center is the largest university medical center in the Netherlands, with approximately 14,000 employees. In addition to having the largest number of university hospital disciplines in the country, it includes excellent health science and basic research departments. The Department of Public Health is a top medical research institute in Europe and in the world. The Department of Public Health employs circa 130 persons. Its research is conducted in close collaboration with local, national and international public health and health care organizations, and is organized in 10 main programs, including Medical care and decision making at the end of life and Cost-effectiveness assessment. The department is the coordination centre of many international studies on health and health care funded by different funding bodies such as the European Commission.

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Contact person:

Junwen Yang

j.yang[at]erasmusmc.nl 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

AUTH is the metropolitan University for southern Europe (www.auth.gr). Its School of Medicine consists of 500 academic staff members, and 3,500 students. In this project, AUTH will participate with the Lab of Medical Physics (medphys.med.auth.gr). The Lab is a major research and development hub in medical education, leading research initiatives in the area, with fully equipped research labs (Neuroscience EEG Lab; Living Lab; Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Labs; Clinical Skills Labs). The lab has participated in numerous national and international projects and is ISO-9001 certified on Software Design, Development & Production and Design & Implementation of Education/Training programmes.

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Contact persons:

Panagiotis Bamidis 

pdbamidis[at]gmail.com

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Sofia Reppou

sreppou[at]gmail.com

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds has over 30,000 students (over 7,000 postgraduate students) and approximately 6,450 staff of 99 different nationalities, attached to 560 different undergraduate and 300 postgraduate degree programmes. It is acclaimed world-wide for the quality of its research and teaching, and continues to be ranked within the top 100 universities in the QS world rankings. It is one of the top ten UK universities for research and student education, and ranks 4th in the UK for the impact that it delivers from its research.

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Contact person:

Vania Dimitrova 

V.G.Dimitrova[at]leeds.ac.uk

Polytechnic University of Valencia

UPV SABIEN has an extensive expertise in the application of ICT to the social and healthcare systems in AAL, IoT and process mining for healthcare in the development of tools, methods and algorithms that fit with the real needs of citizens, patients, and healthcare professionals. Finally, has also experience in reengineering and evaluation of social and health care processes and solutions in real settings.

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Contact persons:

Vicente Traver Salcedo 

vtraver[at]itaca.upv.es

Carlos Fernández Llatas 
cfllatas[at]itaca.upv.es

Polytechnic University of Valencia

UPV BDSLab, with more than 15 years of experience, focuses its research on advanced pattern recognition and machine learning techniques, modelling, computational prediction and development of tools for biomedical data processing to support biomedical research, health care professionals and their patients. It is a research group composed by 15 members, including associated, established, doctoral and pre-doctoral researchers.

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Contact persons:

Vicent Blanes Selva

viblasel[at]upv.es

Juan Miguel García Gómez juanmig[at]ibime.upv.es

Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Amadora

Misericórdia of Amadora (SCMA) is an NGO with 33 years of existence, founded under the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church, synthetized in the assumption of Serving Well, oriented to Human Dignity, under a sustainable and organized way, providing services daily to 5800 Persons. The Organisation emerges from a multi-challenged territorial context, as a first and second line anchor, with the purpose of at one time mitigate the biopsychosocial vulnerabilities of the Population and of the Community; and, complementarily, promoting the capacity building, through methodologies, tools and strategies that faster accelerate their processes of empowerment, respecting, all the time, the expectations, needs and limits of the Person.

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SCMA bases its Services on a workforce of 503 employees, in 4 main areas: Social Support; Elderly; Health Care; Education.

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Contact person:

Adriano Fernandes 

adrianofernandes[at]misericordia-amadora.pt

AGE Platform Europe

AGE Platform Europe is a European network of 110 organisations that advocate for the rights and wellbeing of older people. AGE fights against stereotyping, exclusion and discrimination in older age and for a society for all ages, where older people live as equals. AGE advocates at the European Union level based on the lived experience of older individuals, and empowers its member organisations to advocate at the local, regional and national levels. It has extensive experience in EU-funded projects on integrated care, new technologies, health and demographics, among others; these included PACE, an EU-funded project on palliative care (2014-2019).

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Contact persons:

Borja Arrue 

borja.arrue[at]age-platform.eu

Nhu Tram 

nhu.tram[at]age-platform.eu