@HEALTH

@HEALTH project aims to support and stimulate international cooperation in the e-Health sector among European and Latin American organisations.The project provides web-based and offline support services to facilitate communication, exchange of knowledge, and to practically sustain technology transfer actions and joint RTD projects.

The specific objectives of the @HEALTH project are:

• To promote scientific cooperation in the field of eHealth application and technologies, through web-based and off-line matchmaking actions
• To stimulate and sustain technology transfer actions and joint RTD projects, supported by public and/or private funding programmes
• To act as an open forum to foster dialogue between eHealth users, technology developers and researchers from different European and Latin American countries
• To provide an exhaustive Data-Base of relevant organisations and competences related to eHealth in Europe and Latin America
• To facilitate sharing of best practices and needs in eHealth, and to support exchange of researchers between Latin American and European organisations.

The @HEALTH project allows European and Latin American organisations to increase international collaboration, improving the quantity and quality of international opportunities in Research, Market, and Technology Transfer.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.ithealth.org

Project co-ordinator:
CIAOTECH Srl (IT)

Partners:

• Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (Spain)
• Region Syddanmark (Denmark)
• Airial Conseil (France)
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
• Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información (Venezuela)
• Federación Panamericana de Asociaciones de Facultades (Escuelas) de Medicina (Venezuela)
• Centro de Telemedicina de Colombia Ltda. (Colombia)

Timetable: from 05/05 – to 04/07

Total cost: € 389.937,15

EC funding: € 344.000,00

Instrument: SSA

Project Identifier: IST-2004-015886

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects