ICT Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
This challenge addresses advanced ICT research for sustainable high-quality healthcare, demographic ageing, social and economic inclusion, and the governance of our societies. The Challenge covers the following:
- PHS research that aims for disease management and also targets rehabilitation and treatment at the point of need with a focus on specific diseases. (more)
- VPH research focused on more elaborate and reusable multi-scale models and a VPH information infrastructure of larger repositories. Preparatory actions will aim at a grand challenge on a "Digital Patient", being the integration of patient-specific models for better prediction and treatment of diseases. (more)
- Patient Guidance Services (PGS) to enable patients' active participation in care processes. A special emphasis will be given to semantic interoperability to enable integration of patient information from multiple sources and locations and to ubiquitous and secure access to these personal health records. (more)
- Research on ICT for Ageing Well focused on developing service and social robotics and highly intelligent environments in support of the ageing population. This is complementary to the AAL programme (applied research, focused on smaller-scale projects with 2-3 years to the market). More.
- Research on ICT for smart and personalised inclusion addressing advanced solutions to improve social and economic inclusion by means of inclusive design, accessible, personalisable and human-ICT interfaces (more), social computing and advanced solutions for learning and skills acquisition (more) as well as Brain-Neural Computer Interfaces (more).
- Research into ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling addressing ICT tools for trusted governance and policy impact analysis. This research should help deal with future scenarios involving even greater complexity and citizens’ involvement, in particular addressing the needs of the younger generation. More
See the ICT Work Programme 2011-12 for a full description of each objective
Timetable for Challenge 5 Calls for Proposals
| Publication date | Closure date | Indicative Budget (M€) | Funding schemes | Status | |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.1: Personal Health Systems (PHS) | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 60 | IP, STREP; CSA | closed |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.2 Virtual Physiological Human | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 68 | IP, STREP; CSA | closed |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.3 Patient Guidance Services (PGS), safety and healthcare record information reuse | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 35 | IP, STREP, NOE, CP, CSA | closed |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.4 ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 37 | IP, STREP, CP, CSA | closed |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.5 ICT for smart and personalised inclusion | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 33 | IP, STREP; CSA | closed |
| Objective ICT-2011.5.6 ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling | 28/09/10 | 18/01/2011 | 25 | IP, STREP; CSA | closed |