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INFANS · INtegrating Functional Assessment measures for Neonatal Safeguard

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-01-01 → 2023-12-31
EU contribution
€3,950,395
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

INtegrating Functional Assessment measures for Neonatal Safeguard

"INFANS - INtegrating Functional Assessment measures for Neonatal Safeguard" is a part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 number 813483). The goal of INFANS is to develop a new neonatal brain monitoring, designed to overcome the severe shortage of clinically viable means to high quality monitor the brain function in infancy, crucial to prevent later life neurological, cognitive and motor impairment. To accomplish this goal, INFANS established a structured European PhD training programme in biomedical engineering, signal processing and clinical procedures to train a new generation of creative and entrepreneurial young researchers. The individual research projects of the ESR encompass the topics technological innovation, industrial development, clinical validation, identification of neonatal healthcare needs. As part of their research the INFANS ESRs will develop a novel platform for high quality, clinically-viable EEG-NIRS monitoring accessible worldwide. Well-targeted visits and secondments, soft skills and dynamic training activities, an Open Science strategy, extensive involvement of ESRs in the network events organization, extensive contacts with other research, training and industrial European networks, dissemination activities and the award of Double doctoral degrees are further assets offered to INFANS ESRs.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

INFANS will train 15 ESRs with background from basic to clinical sciences in multiple aspects of neonatal brain monitoring. The need for a coordinated research training programme in neonatal brain monitoring arises from i) the severe shortage of clinically viable means to high quality monitor the brain function in infancy, crucial to prevent later life neurological, cognitive and motor impairment and ii) the lack of well-educated PhDs in this field. Through their individual research projects, encompassing technological innovation, industrial development, clinical validation, identification of neonatal healthcare needs, the INFANS ESRs will develop a novel platform for high quality, clinically-viable EEG-NIRS monitoring accessible worldwide. Excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenge are merged in INFANS: 6 academic and 4 non-academic partner from 6 EU countries, among which leading universities, industries, clinical institutions, share complementary expertise and facilities to provide international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research training and mobility that will complement local doctoral training. Well-targeted visits and secondments, soft skills and dynamic training activities, an Open Science strategy, extensive involvement of ESRs in the network events organization, extensive contacts with other research, training and industrial European networks, dissemination activities and the award of Double doctoral degrees are further assets of INFANS. The ESRs will learn to transform a scientific/technological challenge into a product of socio-economic relevance, as the INFANS functional neuro-monitoring system will reduce the number of children with neurological, cognitive or motor dysfunctions associated with brain injuries at birth. The INFANS ESRs will become independent researchers with career prospects in both the academic and non-academic sectors, and will advance the EU capacity for innovation in biomedical engineering.

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Participants

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET ILMENAU · IlmenauCoordinatorGermany
  • A.N.T. INTERNATIONAL BV · EnschedeNetherlands
  • ARTINIS MEDICAL SYSTEMS BV · ElstNetherlands
  • EEMAGINE MEDICAL IMAGING SOLUTIONSGMBH · BERLINGermany
  • HASKOLI ISLANDS · ReykjavikIceland
  • HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenBelgium
  • KVIKNA EHF · ReykjavikIceland
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO DI CHIETI-PESCARA · ChietiItaly
  • UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT · UtrechtNetherlands

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union