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Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General, Research & Innovation Policy

ScaleAHA Final Report Officially Published

The Scale AHA study has publsihed its final report. Scale AHA supported the European Commission in fostering scaling-up of innovations in active and healthy ageing by engaging stakeholders of the …

Digital Health, General

Trillium-II: empirica supports the advancement of an International Patient Summary standard

Trillium-II builds on the work of Trillium Bridge to facilitate the secure and seamless sharing of International Patient Summaries (IPS) and enabling international interoperability of eHealth systems in the US, …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General

empirica joins WE4AHA to support the EIP on AHA until 2020

The kick-off of the EU-funded project WE4AHA took place on 7-8 September 2017 in Stockholm. WE4AHA is a new Coordination and Support Action (CSA) for the European Innovation Partnership on …

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General

ProEmpower: An innovative diabetes type2 management solution moves closer to becoming reality in four countries

ProEmpower is taking the next steps toward acquiring a personalised diabetes management solution for 12 million type 2 diabetes patients across Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Italy. One of empirica’s roles …

Green Economy & Smart Energy, Research & Innovation Policy

Innovative systems for the implementation of a sustainable energy policy are very popular among local authorities

27 participants from all over Europe made their way to the university De Montfort in Leicester, UK, on July 5, 2017 to participate in the first EDI-Net training session. The …

General, Skills & Future of Work

empirica to benchmark public policies and public-private partnerships and make recommendations for scaling up best practices and re-focusing funding programmes and incentives in Europe

empirica to benchmark public policies and public-private partnerships and make recommendations for scaling up best practices and re-focusing funding programmes and incentives in Europe specifically related to the acquisition of …

Digital Health, General

MAFEIP (assessing eHealth innovations) presented at a workshop in Girona

The MAFEIP study team conducted a workshop in order to inform potential users about the tool, its scope and functionalities, and promote its uptake by providing different support mechanisms. The …

General, Green Economy & Smart Energy, Research & Innovation Policy

Progress of the Energy Data Innovation Network

The Energy Data Innovation Network (EDI-Net) project has been advancing in its first year with activities around the development of a system enabling public authorities in Europe to analyse short …

General, Skills & Future of Work

empirica forecasts reveal that Europe needs to generate 50,000 new high-tech leaders per year or a total of 450,000 until 2025

High-tech savviness is increasingly required in leadership positions. People who combine business expertise, high-tech acumen and leadership skills are rare. Leaders who can exploit new technologies so that companies and …

General, Skills & Future of Work

The high-tech skills gap in Europe will reach 500,000 in 2025 with a strong polarisation of skills needed

The demand for high-tech skills is on a solid growth track. empirica is anticipating that the number of IT practitioners will grow from 8 million in 2015 to almost 8.7 …

General, Skills & Future of Work

empirica developed a ‘European high-tech leadership skills agenda for 2020 and beyond’ for the European Commission

The agenda released in April 2017 identifies key areas where investment is needed to ensure that Europe has a sufficient talent pool of high-tech leaders in the future. There is …

General, Society & Inclusion

WeGovNow takes part in pathbreaking Open Public Review pilot in Horizon 2020

WeGovNow, a Horizon2020 research & innovation action coordinated by empirica, is proud to be selected as one of three projects taking part in a pilot on enabling the engaged stakeholder …