Month: February 2021

The CHERRIES “RRI and Experiment Toolbox”, set up by K&I with the active contribution of all the CHERRIES partners during the first period of the project, is ready and is accessible for the regional teams involved in the pilots and for those interested to implement in their local context the CHERRIES approach and methodology.

It collects and adapts RRI-related knowledge, tools, and other resources to support stakeholders and territorial partners in the implementation of the three CHERRIES experiments. Based on the screening and selection of RRI promising practices in health, the Toolbox incorporates existing resources from European and national projects and activities focusing on RRI, RIS3, and healthcare interface.

The Toolbox includes the introduction and two parts.

The first part, titled “RRI in health. General resources for understanding and framing RRI in the healthcare sector”, provides the general framework in which the definition and the implementation of RRI-oriented demand-driven innovation initiatives in healthcare should be placed.

The second part, titled “RRI demand-driven innovation approach”, provides resources useful for implementing RRI-oriented demand-driven innovation initiatives in healthcare and for triggering related-process of structural change within R&I territorial healthcare ecosystems. This second part is organised in five sections, according to the phases of the CHERRIES methodology and presents, for each of them, a set of resources useful for its implementation.

Download CHERRIES RRI and Experiment Toolbox

The Toolbox will also be soon accessible as web tool on the CHERRIES website.

The set up of the Toolbox can be considered an open process. The present version of the Toolbox might be therefore further improved and enriched through the next stages of the CHERRIES project, including possible tools developed and tested during the implementation of the three territorial RRI/demand-driven pilots, and other relevant resources identified within and outside the Consortium.

Please let us know if you have any further resource you would like us to include in the toolbox: get in touch!

CHERRIES territories launched 3 calls for solutions that will be open for applications till April 15th 2021.

Territorial partners in Cyprus, Murcia and Örebro are looking for innovative solutions in the healthcare sector.

3 regions, 3 different challenges:

• CHERRIES Cyprus is calling European companies and organisations to solve the “Provision of medical services to the Cypriot citizens that live in rural and remote areas and do not have easy access to healthcare services and prescribed medicines” challenge
• CHERRIES Murcia is calling European companies to solve the “Early detection of progression in Multiple Sclerosis” challenge
• CHERRIES Örebro is calling European companies and organisations to solve the “Breaking and preventing involuntary loneliness among elderly” challenge

For each challenge, CHERRIES will award one solution. Selected European innovators will:

• Co-develop and validate the solution with the challenge promoter
• Receive 50000€ to develop the solution over 10 months
• Access mentoring support to ensure smooth development and implementation of the solution

CHERRIES invites you to the upcoming info-webinar aimed at presenting the three specific challenges, the application and selection process, and  providing some highlights on the RRI dimension that applicants need to embed in their proposals – especially in terms of inclusive and participatory approaches.

Join our webinar on March 4th at 11am (CET) and clear all doubts about the CHERRIES open calls for solutions.

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We ended 2020 evaluating the results of CHERRIES regional calls for needs. As a result of the 3 regional calls, CHERRIES pilot regions (Murcia, Cyprus and Orebro) selected a challenge each and developed dedicated calls for solutions.

The three calls will open on Monday, February 15th.

Each call will stay open for 2 months and will result in the selection of one solution per challenge that will be implemented over a 10 month period, with a financial support of 50000€ (lump sum).

According to CHERRIES methodology, each solution will be tailored to the specific context and co-developed with the relevant territorial stakeholders.

CHERRIES partners will provide mentoring support to the granted solutions and will help them embedding Responsible Innovation principles and practices into their projects.

Each call will have a dedicated page, accessible either through CHERRIES website homepage or the regional ecosystems’ pages.