Last December 1st, CHERRIES partners in Murcia organised a training session on RRI.
The session counted on the expertise of Rosina Malagrida, Head of the Living Lab for Health at IrsiCaixa. Download her Power Point Presentation here: PPT_RRI- Malagrida Cherries_December 2020
You can access the recording of the whole session here
Bringing together relevant actors to work towards common goals in a responsible manner is an important way to co-create a sustainable regional innovation ecosystem.
SeeRRI aims to develop a general framework with a set of core principles and a roadmap that territories could use for guidance in this co-creation process.
SeeRRI is a project in which 12 European organizations and 3 European territories (Nordland in Norway, B30 in Catalonia, Spain, and ecoplus from Lower Austria) work together to develop such a framework based on the principles of RRI. The goal of SeeRRI is to work with the policymakers and other regional actors to figure out how best to integrate RRI principles into the smart specialization policies of the regions.
Learn more here: www.seerri.eu
The call for needs in Cyprus has been running for approximately five weeks, starting from November 2020. We asked Moyses Moyseos (Operations Manager at CyRIC) to share with us some insights from #CHERRIESCyprus.
“The regional partners CyRIC and Aretaeio Hospital have interacted and communicated with multiple stakeholders from the 4P model about the scope and purpose of the CHERRIES project and especially the adoption of its ongoing process and methodology for the future. It was encouraging to discuss and receive feedback from patient associations, individuals, professionals in the sector as well as to receive Needs that comply with our call and are aligned from all different perspectives to the common benefit of the community and the local ecosystem.
Healthcare in the Republic of Cyprus has been improving substantially with the recent long-anticipated implementation of a comprehensive National Health-care System, which is set to make the sector more streamlined and cost effective.
Major challenges face today’s health care system for which health professionals including public and private hospitals and clinics, must be prepared. There is an immense need for better coordination, communication, and more efficient processes within the hospital but also with the patient experience as well as other key stakeholders of the health care ecosystem. In addition, we have both a culture and organization of care that separate our care into distinct systems such as hospitals, home care, skilled nursing facilities, with little formal communication, relationships, or collaboration between and among those settings.
Our call for needs was looking for specific eHealth needs that clearly defined the problems and hurdles that individuals or organizations are currently facing in providing high quality medical and healthcare services. Transforming systems in a way that would give patients and health professionals more of an active role, as users of new technology in the care continuum, is a priority”.
inDemand has released the success stories resulting from the co-creation and business support provided by inDemand in Murcia, Paris and Oulu regions. Learn more about the challenges identified, the co-created solutions and the participants that made it possible.
inDemand stories are a two-pages visual case study with qualitative and quantitative information that describes the original challenge encountered by the Healthcare organisation as well as the Solution co-created and the co-creation and business support participants that made it possible.
Testimonials from the co-creation participants and end-users are also included to strengthen the credibility of the inDemand model and solutions. inDemand stories are accessible via the inDemand website and a dissemination campaign is planed: https://www.indemandhealth.eu/stories/
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We asked Gorka Sanchez (Sistema Murciano de Salud) to share with us some initial comments about the call for needs that the regional team of CHERRIES Murcia (CEEI Murcia, Murcia Region, SMS, Ticbiomed) run in November 2020.
“The call for needs in the region of Murcia focused on three target groups:
• Healthcare professionals of SMS, both sanitary and not-sanitary (IT, administrative…).
• Associations of patients.
• Research groups of universities (there are three universities in the region of Murcia, two public and one private).
Eligible consortia could consist of one, two or three representatives of the above listed target groups. However, it was compulsory for each consortium to include at least one healthcare professional from the SMS as his/her presence is essential to involve them in the implementation of the pilot, if the need is selected.
CHERRIES Murcia capitalised the lessons learned with inDemand project and followed its best practices creating a culture of intrapreneurship among SMS professionals, supporting them in explaining the objective of the call and the preparation of a sounding proposal, and the opportunities offered by CHERRIES project throughout the different phases of the regional experimentation.
The number of proposals received, 8 proposals, was lower than expected due to the COVID-19 situation, which has been the main priority of the SMS professionals.We paid special attention to the addition of new stakeholders (patient associations and Universities) as they were not familiar with the inDemand processes, while the healthcare professionals were.
The wider involvement of different societal actors will enrich the regional pilot which will reflect RRI principles and processes”.
After the summer break, on the basis of preliminary results of the mapping/analysis of the regional healthcare stakeholders and policy ecosystems as well as the innovation support ecosystems, territorial partners began to work on the preparation of the RRI policy experiments in the three pilot regions, with the aim to finalise CHERRIES methodology by the end of the year.
In each region, territorial partners arranged several initiatives aimed at kick staring CHERRIES activities at local level by involving different stakeholders and presenting the RRI-driven project approach in the healthcare sector. Through the active involvement of a broad range of actors CHERRIES aims at supporting regional actors:
In this framework, during October and November territorial partners arranged regional “Training workshops” aimed at engaging and preparing the local system of stakeholders for the experimental phase of the project. These events were designed in collaboration with K&I as an itinerary of reflection and capacity building on RRI-based demand articulation, experimentation, and co-creation processes in health by involving key territorial multipliers and stakeholders of the Healthcare R&I ecosystem (providers, policymakers, payors, patients).
Training workshops were also aimed at initiating/fostering multi-stakeholder dialogues among different key territorial and societal actors in view of a possible establishment of a territorial coalition (community) on Responsible/Open Innovation in health which might provide sustainability to the process activated through CHERRIES pilots.
In each region the design of the training workshops was adapted accordingly to local stakeholders’ habits and territorial preconditions.
If you want to know more about the regional training events, stay tuned with Cherries Website https://www.cherries2020.eu, in the space devoted to the three regional ecosystems:
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Author: Claudia Colonnello, Knowledge and Innovation | @KnowledgeInnov