Building on the success of our first Health~Holland webinar about venture capital, the next Health~Holland webinar will address the PPP-LSH Allowance.

After attending the webinar, this public-private partnership (PPP) supporting subsidy will no longer have secrets for you. You will learn whether the instrument is suitable for your specific R&D projects, what is in it for you and your consortium partners and how to submit a proposal. The webinar will give ample opportunity to ask questions. The Health~Holland webinar about the TKI Allowance is scheduled on 31 January, in preparation for the new call for proposals with the deadline on 17 May.

Save the date, more information will follow soon on the Health~Holland website and ​twitter channel.

The Dutch Cancer Society (‘KWF’) and Technology Foundation STW honoured eleven projects in the programme ‘Technology for Oncology’ with a total of 5 million euros, partly generated with financing from the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH). In total the Dutch Cancer Society and STW invested 2.6 million euros. This has been doubled by 2.5 million euros in TKI funding from Top Sector LSH, which makes it possible to support more research projects.

The goal of each research line is to improve treatment or prevent cancer. The projects will be carried out by a team of technical and medical researchers working together with companies. These public-private partnerships stimulate the development of technological innovations that cancer patients will directly benefit from.

One of the projects is directed at developing a robot to improve childhood cancer care during treatment periods, like radiation, when parents cannot be there. Through various forms of bonding with a robot companion, medical traumatic stress in childhood cancer patients could be reduced. This is important to ensure successful treatments without incidents of severe fear or pain of the child. The project is being realised by a team from the University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam and four industrial partners.

Curious about the other projects honoured? Then please visit the Dutch Cancer Society website​.

Create Health – E-health knowledge base for a healthy and active old age

Deadline for submission of project ideas: 17 January 2017

ZonMw and NWO hereby invite researchers from both the creative sector and the healthcare and  welfare sector to submit applications in public private partnership (PPP) for the purpose of developing  fundamental knowledge – known as ‘knowledge building blocks’ – on which to base the development  or improvement and implementation of e-health applications which are intended to support the day-to-  day functioning of people as they grow older, both now and in the near future. Applications should  concern the development of knowledge of e-health for the creative industries and for healthcare and  welfare under one or more of the three themes in the Create Health programme.

Applications should address the question of what knowledge is needed to develop meaningful, user-  friendly e-health applications to help people achieve a healthy and active old age or to contribute to  the successful and sustainable use of existing applications. It is not simply a matter of the applicability  of e-health applications (responding to the specific needs of users), but also of their use in a social and  communication context. It is important that applications are easily understandable, including for people  with poor literacy and health skills. The target group should therefore be directly involved in the  research process.

The following will not be eligible for this call:

• Research that is not fundamental
  
• The development or further development of e-health applications​