Participation in European projects on research key topics
S3MARTMED - Support interregional Smart Investments in Medical Technologies
A new initiative co-funded by the COSME programme of the European Union, ESCP for Smart Specialisation Investments – from 1st October 2018 to 1st October 2020 (24 months). The 5 Clusters Project partners: Lyonbiopole as coordinator (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes), Biowin (Wallonia), BioPmed (Piedmont), GAPR – Medsilesia (Upper Silesia), Bioregion STERN (Bade Wurttemberg).
MAGIA: the European Medtech Alliance
Lyonbiopole has been a partner of the European MAGIA project alongside three other European clusters since January 2018. It is co-financed under the European Union's COSME programme.
The main objective of this project (2018-2019) is to support European SMEs in the Medtech sector in two targeted international markets and to increase the visibility of the European medical technology industry internationally.
EIT Health
EIT Health is a large European Initiative, in which Lyonbiopole is strongly involved since 2014. Gathering 6 European regions* (called CLC Co-Location Center) it aims at encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation around "Health and healthy ageing". The EIT Health allocates funds on the authority of the European Commission, in the H2020 framework. The EIT Health currently gathers around 150 excellence partners from the academic and industrial sectors (big pharmas, medical technologies). The actions are divided in 3 pilars: Innovation, Campus, Accelerator.