The development of novel healthcare systems based on ICT requires greater collaboration between healthcare professionals and patients, as well as technological experts, in order to identify those data and information that provide value in the provision of health services, ruling out what is harmful, not validated or certified, untested, or which can be counterproductive for the patient in the management of their health, as well as protecting all fundamental human rights involved. There is a lack of technologic experts or engineers that know well the specific ethical implications of the healthcare applications, and many healthcare center managers are reluctant to all the changes that the technology integration implies.In this context our partnership recognized that ICT entrepreneurs and future employees of healthcare sector need to increase their technological skills and ethical competencies for what concern how digitalization health innovation can be implemented in a humanistic manner. To face these needs, ATHIKA proposes to create an innovative approach for training and support, aimed at increasing the successful implementation of ICT innovations and initiatives for the European healthcare sector companies and ventures. ATHIKA will conduct a set of advanced training programs, involving academia, public health entities, SMEs, startups, entrepreneurs and business consultants. The variety of partners profiles will provide a complete perspective of the sector and will enable the identification of the most urgent challenges. Partners will guide students during the trainings and a competition with students from different HEIs and backgrounds collaborating in the development of novel technical and ethical-compliant solutions. ATHIKA will combine the training and competition activities with a set of workshops and symposiums exchanging the project results, knowledge and lessons learnt between the partners, students and other health sector stakeholders all across Europe.
ATHIKA project has successfully achieved the objectives by developing a KA through the cooperation and involvement of the HEIs, SMEs and Industry of the KA with the final result of an international multidisciplinary free-access online eHealth course for all backgrounds that provides the tools (key digital competences, job-specific skills, ethical awareness, innovative pedagogies, cutting-edge knowledge, Challenge Based Learning) to face eHealth challenges(from technical and business perspective)
The European project ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance) was born with the purpose of bringing a humanistic approach to the engineering education while addressing the most important new research in the world of AI and IoT linked to Healthcare. It has been achieved by building a set of advanced training programs for students, involving academia, health public administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants.
<< Background >> The European project ATHIKA (Advanced Training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance) was born with the purpose of bringing a humanistic approach to the engineering education while addressing the most important new research in the world of AI and IoT linked to Healthcare. It has been achieved by building a set of advanced training programs for students, involving academia, health public administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants. << Objectives >> ATHIKA project has successfully achieved the objectives by developing a KA through the cooperation and involvement of the HEIs, SMEs and Industry of the KA with the final result of an international multidisciplinary free-access online eHealth course for all backgrounds that provides the tools (key digital competences, job-specific skills, ethical awareness, innovative pedagogies, cutting-edge knowledge, Challenge Based Learning) to face eHealth challenges(from technical and business perspective) << Implementation >> The ATHIKA project designed the ATHIKA Framework for the eHealth Challenge identification and Scenario Planning, the companies designed their challenges using it. In parallel, the HEIs prepared the ATHIKA course platform, focusing on a common part (eHealth sector and Fundamentals) and on a specific part for IoT, AI&Ml and Govðics has been developed. After deploying the course, a workshop, competition and mobility was hosted. A refinement has been applied following the students' feedback. << Results >> - ATHIKA framework (Health and Smart City Ecosystem Framework)- ATHIKA course (Unit 1-eHealth; Unit 2-Fundamentals; Unit 3-IoT; Unit3-AI&ML; Unit3-Governance&Ethics). More than >180 international students involved- ATHIKA IoT Lite (>300 undergraduate students involved)- ATHIKA competitions (>70 students participated; 12 students won)- ATHIKA Mobility (9 students travelled to the companies of the project)