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H2020COFUND2016–2022

BioMEP · Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-09-01 → 2022-02-28
EU contribution
€1,569,600
Participants
8
Scheme
MSCA-COFUND

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Results in brief

Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

The global and EU healthcare sector is facing massive challenges due to the ageing population and growing burden of various diseases. To meet the economic and health challenges in the society, a move from treatment of symptoms towards early diagnosis and prevention is a necessity. There is certainly a demand for innovative technological solutions for health and wellbeing. The health technology is an industrial sector with one of the highest percentages of R&D personnel with research education. Multi- and cross-disciplinary knowledge and internationalization are strongly emphasized in health technology industry. It comes as no surprise, then, that the demand for highly educated biomedical engineering (BME) experts has increased tremendously over the past few years. The BioMEP mission was improve the welfare of the society through improvements in healthcare and supporting the strong industry sector of medical technology. The objective of BioMEP was fulfil the demand for highly qualified biomedical engineers and medical physicists addressing the needs of academic, healthcare and industry sector, and thus to meet the increasing demands of the European labour market. To achieve its objective our research and training programme revolved around three core essential issues: • Early intervention in preventing diseases with highest burden on our society. • The need for multi-disciplinary collaboration to approach health issues concurrently from different perspectives (engineering, medicine, physics) in order to create medical technology developments. • The need for highly qualified experts to translate their research findings into innovative products for the healthcare and medical technology sectors. During the programme period, BioMEP trained 15 biomedical engineering and medical physics experts from which 8 completed their PhD degrees and the rest are estimated to graduate during the year 2022.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The BioMEP brings together complementary expertise of 8 leading research groups in Biomedical Engineering (BM) and Medical Physics (MP) across Europe to offer unique inter-disciplinary and intersectorial research and training opportunities for Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs). BioMEP aims to fulfill the demand for highly-qualified BM and MP addressing the needs of the academic, healthcare and industry sector, and thus to fully prepare them to meet the increasing demands of the European labor market. The specific objectives of BioMEP are: to attract highly-qualified international ESRs and offer them excellent expertise in diverse areas of BM and MP research and thus stimulate successful careers both in academia and beyond; to promote excellence in BM and MP research area; to foster long-term collaboration at the European level; to strengthen the international dimension of BioMEP. BioMEP is structured around five interrelated focus research areas: Musculoskeletal biomechanics, Molecular, cell and tissue engineering, Biosignals, Multimodal neuroimaging, Biomedical devices and diagnostics combined with specific research and training, internet-based training, regular seminars and summer schools. BioMEP intends to attract highly-qualified ESRs, through of a widely disseminated call for proposals, a merit-based selection process founded on international peer-review, appealing working conditions, research skills and courses specific to the area (e.g. Biomedical signal analysis, Biomechanics) and complementary training skills (e.g.entrepreneurship, ethics) to support ESRs career development. BioMEP will widen the career perspectives of ESRs by enhancing their professional experiences through the inclusion of secondments in private companies and hospitals. Thus, BioMEP will increase the national and as well European competitiveness by providing a new generation of highly-qualified experts in BM and MP able to translate basic science research results into healthcare solutions.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO · KUOPIOCoordinatorFinland
  • AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · EspooFinland
  • LUNDS UNIVERSITET · LundSweden
  • OULUN YLIOPISTO · OuluFinland
  • TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · TampereFinland
  • TURUN YLIOPISTO · TurkuFinland
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA · ZaragozaSpain
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO DI CHIETI-PESCARA · ChietiItaly

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union