MEDEA is an Italian SME, spin-off of the Scuola di Studi Superiori Sant’Anna di Pisa, working to promote innovation pathways, impact assessment an scaling up strategies in the following areas:
• Connected Health and Active Ageing
• Smart Living & Ageing Society
• Inclusive Society
• Quality of Life
Since its foundation, in 1997, it deals with highly specialized services in research exploitation, technology transfer, innovation management and training by supporting knowledge transfer and service deployment.
MEDEA supports laboratories and international clusters for development and testing of new tools and methodologies for innovation management, analysis of policy options and market requirements, fostering innovation in a sustainable and profitable growth perspective. For case study: (http://www.medeaproject.eu/portfolio/?lang=en).
MEDEA is expert in impact assessment strategies definition and implementation for evidence-based decision making support in order to promote innovation processes.
Medea operates through:
• A multidisciplinary team;
• A methodology based on evidence and impact assessment;
• Validated replicability and scalability strategies;
• A partcipative approach aiming at involvement anf outreach of relevant stakeholders.
Thanks to a network of partners that represent the whole value chain, from the conception to the market launch, MEDEA promotes an integrated and multidisciplinary approach in order to maximize the value and the impact of the innovative solutions.
Previous relevant experiences:
1) ACTIVAGE (H2020-Grant n. 732679) (2017-2020) a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. MEDEA is WP leader for the definition and implementation of the ACTIVAGE Impact Evaluation Framework and exploitation strategy. (www.activageproject.eu)
2) TV-ASSISTDEM (AAL programme - ICT for ageing well 2017-2020). TV-ASSISTDEM patientsupport tool will help patients with dementia to keep control over their lives, increasing patients’ independence (www.aal- europe.eu/projects/tv-assistdem). Within the project, MEDEA develops the user interface and is responsibleof the service model definition for project results exploitation.
3) REMOTE project - Ambient Assisted Living Programme: “Remote health and social care for independent living of isolated elderly with chronic conditions”. MEDEA was responsible to perform a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) upon the most important potential project products and services including a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) applied to the overall benefits and costs of REMOTE, in relation to the End Users (Elderly), their relatives/families, carers, Health Care and the Society (2009-2012) http://www.remote-project.eu/;
4) VITANOVA an adaptive service to reduce cardiovascular and metabolic risk in pre-menopausal and menopause women. R&D project cofounded by the framework programme Tuscany Region – Italian Economic Development Ministry-Italian Research and University Ministry for Industrial Development (2016-2018).
CRISTIANO PAGGETTI
PHD in Biomedical Engineering, Marie Curie – Post Doc Fellowship. CEO and R&D Director in Medea from 1997.
Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 1993. High qualified experience in managing of international projects in the field of Connected Health, Active Ageing and smart environments.
High qualified experience in model service and technology development and assessment.
From 2008 technical and Scientific Coordinator of the project of precompetitive development of an advanced solution for joint orthopaedic surgery techniques and procedures at Orthokey. High qualified experience in system analysis and user requirements identification at interdisciplinary level in order to identify the proper trade-off among technological solutions and user’s needs usability and ethical issues. Since 1998, Cristiano is expert for the European Commission and European Parliament in the area of e-Health and e- Inclusion and
Market Deployment. Cristiano participated to several international and regional initiative related to Ambient Assisted Living and ICT for Ageing, in particular related to policies and strategy to promote the adoption and start-up of ICT for aging services to support active ageing approach. Innovation Manager of the project ACTIVAGE cofounded under H2020-IOT-2016-2017 about “Smart Living Environment”. Major subjects: telecare, e-Health, Ambient Assisted Living, Smart Environment, sensor network, Homecare service models, Robotics, biomechanics, computer assisted surgery, impact analysis, technology transfer and business management, Innovation management. Cristiano has over 30 publications in biomedical engineering and medical informatics.
FRANCESCO BENVENUTI
Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Florence in 1977. Specialist in Gerontology and Geriatrics (1980) and Neurophysiopathology (1988). From 1979 to 2003 researcher of the Geriatric Department of Florence of the Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per Anziani (INRCA, Italian National Research Institute on Aging). From 2003 to 2016 director of the Rehabilitation and community sevices of the Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale 11 di Empoli of the Regione Toscana. From 1982 to 2016 contract professor at the School of Physiotherapy of the University of Florence. Participated in research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Tuscany Region, and European Union. From 2017 Consultant of Tuscany
Region on evaluation and implementation and evaluation of Adaptive Physical Activity programs for citizens with chronic disabilities, and for the participation in the European participation in the European Collaboration Partnership on Advanced Healthy Aging of the European Union. From 2017 Consultant of the Agenzia Regionale Sanità for evaluation of life style and rehabilitation service data. Author of about 250 papers on national and international journals and books.
ELENA TAMBURINI
Elena has high experience in the following fields: users engament and co-design strategy for the proper tradeoff among technological solutions and users and service needs, according to a structured impact by design approach; Design and development of integrated systems for Smart Living contexts with specific reference to Ambient Assisted Living. Project Manager of dozens of R&D projects cofounded at regional and EU programmes level (VIIFP, H2020, AAL Programme, LLP).
Project Manager for MEDEA of the Large-Scale Pilot ACTIVAGE – cofounded under H2020-IOT-2016-2017 about “Smart Living Environment”. Within ACTIVAGE; MEDEA is responsible for the impact assessment framework.
Chair of the yearly Summer School on Connected Health (http://www.connectedhealth-summerschool.org/). Author of “White Paper on tele-homecare”, study on adoption level, perspectives and barriers for Tele-Homecare services in Europe (EUCAN initiative, EU Commission, 2002), MEDEA Florence (Italy).
International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST) 2012, “Impact Analysis of solutions for chronic disease Prevention and Management”, Artimino (Florence, Italy, June 2012. – Member of Scientific Committee; “Monitoring eHealth Strategies: lessons learned, trends and good practices”, 2009, Empirica (Eu Commission) – Rapporteur for Italy; “Telemedicine service” – Tender published by INRCA of Ancona (Italy), 2012. Key Account Manager.
SIMONA GELI
Master Degree in Political Science from the University of Florence in 2005. Two years of experience in sustainable development education actions for NGOs. Tutor of several training projects. Project coordinator and lecturer in several training activities. She has more than 10 years of experience in research & innovation actions cofounded under European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, LLP, VII Framework programme, AAL Programme, H2020. Major subjects: social innovation, social inclusion, innovative training pathways design, stakeholder engagement strategy, socio-economic impact analysis.
Relevant previous projects:
1) STAR project (PROJECT NUMBER - [510364-LLP-1-2010-1-SE-LEONARDO-LMP]). Skills Training and Reskilling for Carers of People with Dementia creating a methodology and then contents that will go into an elearning and digital TV knowledge base solution for carers of people afflicted with dementia: Definition of onlinetraining material.
2) TV-ASSISTDEM patient-support tool for patients with dementia for independent living (www.aaleurope.eu/projects/tv-assistdem): service model definition for project results exploitation.
3) VITANOVA an adaptive service to reduce cardiovascular and metabolic risk in pre-menopausal and menopause women: Usability assessment and evaluation.
