Periodic Reporting for period 2 - STAMINA (Demonstration of intelligent decision support for pandemic crisis prediction and management within and across European borders)
Período documentado: 2021-09-01 hasta 2023-02-28
With respect to final system design and architecture, the consortium described the system architecture, its various modes of operation and map user requirements to functional and non-functional requirements for individual tools and the platform as a whole.
Regarding the first tools’ release it was presented the status of the individual tools that will comprise the STAMINA Decision Support Toolset, for facilitating pandemic management. It has been shown that the tools cover the whole spectrum of supporting at strategic, tactical and operational decision level: predictive modeling, generation of early warnings and alerts, social media analytics, preparedness and training for the supervision of the pandemic evolution.
In regards to POCT analysis experiments by IPT, EV ILVO, ERASMUS MC have been performed regarding the performance of the novel sets of primers/probes, permitting the collection of information useful to optimize the necessary experimental assays for pathogen detection. Additionally, significant progress has been made in the validation of the POCT tools and the newly identified genetic biomarkers.
With respect to the exploitation steps towards the first period of the project, this has included: 1) the definition of the exploitation strategy 2) the identification of exploitation items 3) an initial market and competition assessment 4) the reporting on the individual exploitation plans. With respect to the trial process an initial description of the expected outcomes for the trial preparation the trial gaps and objectives, as well as the expected outcomes has been provided. Finally, in terms of the dissemination activities, the project has made significant progress in achieving most of the KPIs
Substantial findings and results have been additionally generated from WP6. Specifically, proprietary bioinformatics pipelines were employed in order to discover novel biomarkers, design new primer sets to cover all the pathogens under investigation.
Moreover, during the period of M01-M12, the identification of a novel strain of SARS-CoV-2 emerged.
While ethical impact is ongoing and expected to be more concretely engaged in the trials, at this stage we have been able to engage collaboratively with end-users and solution developers to identify potential ethical harms and benefits from the project. For instance, for the STAMINA models to provide insights at a granular enough level for the necessary decision-making, the data inputted into them needs to be demographically disaggregated. However, a consequence of that is assigning socio-cultural characteristics to predictions, potentially leading to stigmatization of segments of society.