Project proposal preparation support.

Apart from funding, EIT Health provides comprehensive support for innovations that show the potential to have a positive impact on healthcare. The ultimate goal is to transform promising ideas into commercially viable products through a multi-disciplinary approach, involving business, medicine, IT and other fields of knowledge.

EIT Health operates through recruiting collaborative projects to its portfolio (https://www.eithealth.eu/innovation_projects) by publishing once a year a call for proposals in business creation, education and innovation programmes. Only project consortia consisting of EIT Health Partners (from 2 different European countries at least).

In frames of the Innovation Platform EIT Health provides its partners with additional services which are aimed at improving chances of innovations for success, like tailored advisory services for initial project implementation phase (Work Package 0).

This comprehensive initial review process as ‘Stage 0’ shall be offered for partners to use before the deadline for submissions (1.10.2019 — 25.3.2020), on an individual basis would consult ideas/future projects.

To deliver this programme EIT Health seeks to engage in this procedure a service provider who will advise all EIT Health Partners and screen, strengthen and add value to all prospect innovation project proposals during Stage 0. These services will be requested between 1.10.2019 — 25.3.2020, before the — thus optimized — projects proposals will be submitted by Partner for the evaluation process to EIT Health. The duration of the contract will include implementation time before and necessary follow-up time to finish all services after this period.