CHEDIH

Circular Health EDIH specific focus is the applicative are of Circular Health: the connection between human health and the one of animals, plants and the environment. It has Health and Agri-food SMEs and PAs in Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta in Italy as targets. It coordinates universities, DIHs, innovation clusters, industrial associations, chambers of commerce, public and private ICT providers, higher technical institutes, independent financial consultants, incubators, accelerators, EEN nodes, KICs EIT Health and Food. The expertise is focused on Artificial Intelligence, HPC (in EuroHPC DE programme), Cybersecurity and Blockchain for traceability, but it does not disregard higher TRL solutions given the low level of digitalization of its customers. To ensure a truly European dimension, CHEDIH created a network of EDIHs around Europe: 22 EDIH candidates specialized in Health or Agri-food signed a multi-lateral agreement to share a common catalogue of services, and coordinate with DTA. Its pipeline of services includes: 1) Networking to engage customers with innovative solutions such as the social networking platform FirstLife and artistic performances. 2) A digital readiness and a green assessment produce a digital roadmap, identifying technologies and training needs. 3) Test before invest exploits the technological expertise of universities and ICT providers. 4) It offers short reskilling courses, produces MOOCs and integrates with the wider higher education systems 5) the customers are supported to build a business plan, and to find public or private fundings by an independent financial advisor and an international law firm expert in M&A and also through InvestEU and Startup Europe.