International Digital Health Cooperation for Healthy Aging (IDIH)

The purpose of the IDIH project is to promote and increase international cooperation to advance digital health in the EU and five Strategic Partner Countries (i.e. USA, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea) to support active and healthy aging through innovation. To this purpose, IDIH will identify shared priorities and set up a Digital Health Transformation Forum as a long-lasting and expert-driven catalyst to foster collaboration between the EU and the Strategic Partner Countries through:

1. Supporting the definition of common priorities to enhance strategic international cooperation in digital health in line with policy orientations through a thorough analysis of priorities in the EU and each of the Strategic Partner Countries and close involvement of the relevant funding agencies
2. Provisioning of specific contributions to the international dialogue in digital health with the creation of a Digital Health Transformation Forum acting as an umbrella for high-level
3. Facilitating the exchanges between Research, Technology and Innovation stakeholders from the EU and the Strategic Partner Countries in digital health through international workshops, cooperation opportunities with other digital Health initiatives

As project coordinator, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum:

• Oversees the administrative and financial management of the project
• Supports the policy and expert consultations, mapping and the design of the roadmap
• Networking and co-creation sessions as part of the RTI workshops

Project name Acronym: International Digital Health Cooperation for Preventative, Integrated, Independent and Inclusive Living. IDIH

• Duration: 05/2019 – 04/2022
• Funding budget for the whole project all partners: 1.998.038,75 EUR
• Funding budget for BW, all partners: 481.043,50 EUR
• Participating countries: Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea, USA