September 26th – Venue: Istituto regionale per i ciechi, viale Miramare 119 – Trieste Italy
FOCUS: THE UNFULFILLED NEED FOR NEW SUPPORTIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF PARTIALLY- SIGHTED PERSONS
PRO4VIP is an European network of healthcare procurers and innovation policy makers that addresses the problem of visual impairment and develops a joint innovation procurement roadmap for novel cost-effective clinical devices and assistive technologies for partially-sighted people. PRO4VIP project partners organize two open market consultations to meet the EU industry and analyse the technology state-of-the-art in the field. The technical dialogue, conceived as a proactive analysis of supply markets, will be focused on concrete and common innovation needs expressed by clinicians and partially-sighted people during 2016 in a series of focus groups across EU. PRO4VIP is interested to find out whether technologies are commercially available and acquire information about the coverage of the desired functionalities and performances, as well as the potential area of innovation for the development of new technologies in the field. Through the open market consultations the partners will gather information to support decision makers, procurers and potential investors. The Italian event, targeted to partially-sighted persons’ unfulfilled needs the second one will be in Barcelona and will target the clinical needs.
Working language: English
Maximum number of participants: 40
PROGRAM
10.00 Opening
Hubert Perfler – President of the Istituto Regionale Rittmeyer per i ciechi
Vincenzo Zoccano – President of the Regional Committee of people with disabilities and member of the board of UCI (Italian Blind Union)
10.10 The PRO4Vip Project: achievements and next steps to be carried out
Stefano Borella – Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
10.25 How to support innovation through public demand
10.40 Goals and expected outputs of the local market event
Sara Bedin – Innovation Procurement Expert
10.50 What partially-sighted people desire: common needs emerged from the focus groups across EU
Barbara Krejci Piry – EBU low vision network
11.20 Coffee break and networking
11.35 Main outcomes from the analysis on the technologies for low vision people
Michela Cinello, Cinzia Fiorini – AREA Science Park
11.50 Technical dialogue with the market
Moderators: Michela Cinello , Cinzia Fiorini
Linari Engineering
TifloSystem srl
Other SMEs active in the field of visual impairement
12.40 Debate and questions
13.00 Final conclusions and remarks
Michela Cinello – AREA Science Park
13.10 Light lunch and networking
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Elena Banci| tel. +39 040 3755164 | elena.banci@areasciencepark.it
Istituto Rittmeyer | tel. +39 040 4198911 | promozione_progetti@rittmts.it
Sara Bedin | tel. +39 347 0115010 | sara.bedin@appaltoprecommerciale.it
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