SAPHIRE or the consortium for Securing Adoption of Personalised Health in REgions: The consortium eSAPHIRE or the consortium for Securing Adoption of Personalised Health in REgions: The consortium engages to help structuring the application of personalised medicine (PM) at regional level and contribute to the implementation and reach of the International Consortium on Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) to develop its roadmap and Action Plan, while taken regional specific needs into account. Efforts will be taken to express the regional voice within ICPerMed. The activities will include the establishment and support of networking between regions and interregional cooperation, and in particular linking remote or sparsely populated regions with regions harbouring critical mass of medical and PM expertise, while taking into account broader socio-economic and cultural aspects. The network will cover regional policy and decision makers, opinion leaders, regulatory agencies, regional development agencies, cluster organisations, patient organisations and regional knowledge institutions, healthcare actors, ... and will bring regional strengths, needs and barriers to the attention of national and European level. Based on a thorough mapping exercise and addressing specific regional needs, while taken the different levels of PM adoption into account, a modular regional roadmap for PM implementation will be developed. Actions will be taken to support interregional collaborations in the field of PM and identify opportunities for funding or investment by the framework programme, the structural funds or the EIB, whereby efforts will be taken to link remote and sparsely populated regions to regions that are more advanced in PM implementation. Alignment will also be made to smart specialisation initiatives focussing on PM. The integrated approach of SAPHIRE should accelerate the implementation of PM across the European regions, thereby accelerating the uptake of PM in general.

In order to strengthen the sustainability and resilience of health services and systems a unique consortium of governmental and funding organizations plus research institutes, has expressed the ambition to systematically learn from the organisation of care in other settings. Overall objective of TO-REACH is to provide groundwork for a future joint research programme that will contribute to the resilience, effectiveness, equity, accessibility and comprehensiveness of health services and systems. We will do so along two work streams: A) We will develop a research program on cross-border learning from good (or even innovative) models of care and the conditions needed to transfer them to other settings for implementation. It could refer to anywhere in the care chain depending on the priorities as identified in a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) within this project. Conceptual, methodological and empirical advancement will be achieved through 4 meta-questions that will instruct research under a future joint research programme, linking to what counts as good models of care, what are the conditions required for transferability, what are the conditions for up-scaling, and how do they contribute to the performance of health care organisations and systems. B) We will build a platform for funding organizations that allows for collaboration and coordination in the project and projected joint research programme. This will synchronize priorities and activities, hence improving the quality and applicability of research with a focus on the topic areas as described under A. TO-REACH will pursue five specific objectives: Mapping health system challenges and priorities by synthesizing different materials and stakeholder inputs; Developing a framework and providing a knowledge synthesis on the above-mentioned meta-questions; Establishing sustainable cooperation of research funding bodies and links with other initiatives; Developing a SRA through agenda setting at European and Member State level; Disseminating the results of TO-REACH.

MAGIC Post Stroke Project Team has united members from across Europe, dedicated to enable significant change in the delivery of health & social care (H&SC) services for patients post stroke. The consortium has recognised a significant gap in care associated with the recovery of such patients & we need a new way of meeting the needs of 508,000 new post stroke EU citizens/ year. Demographic changes are such that H&SC systems are failing to keep pace with demand & are not fit for purpose. By working in new ways & by reengineering systems with novel innovative technology & solutions we can think differently about our approach to care & improve the well-being for our patients; optimising the opportunity for recovery post stroke. Presently 1/3rd of all stroke patients are discharged from hospital with a significant change to life style, well-being, health status & independence. Community H&SC services do not enable patients to make a sufficient recovery post stroke. A search of state of the art technologies indicated much progress in the development of technologies to assist patients but no system is available to significantly affect rehabilitative improvement to scale; with no solution integration with H&SC services. Therefore, Public Procurers cannot go to open tender to deploy effective technology to solve system failures. The MAGIC Consortium recognised Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) as the only way to stimulate the market to find a solution to our common problem. MAGIC is an essential & strategically critical programme for the Team to optimise a patient’s recovery, to modernise H&SC systems to meet demand & to stimulate research, development & innovation. MAGIC will also stimulate European industry to become a global leader in this innovative field. Use of PCP is of particular interest to the consortium members & is new for many. Therefore, observer states will participate to contribute to the Pan-European improvement in care and to proactively share PCP knowledge.