Future Forward: REVERSE Innovations Officially EU Recognised.
The European Commission's Innovation Radar aims to identify high-potential innovations and innovators. It is an important source of actionable intelligence on innovations emerging from research and innovation projects funded thought European Union programmes.
Sharing Excellence
At the end of 2024, three REVERSE initiatives were officially recognised by the European Commission as Exploring Innovations. This label identifies these tools as key innovations using novel technologies, with the future potential to be a game-changer for industry.
The Commission also noted the strong commitment from the organisations behind the developments, and, in the case of two of the innovations, also highlighted that they were women-led - meaning a women had a leadership role in the development of the innovation at the key innovator organisation.
Market Readiness: Exploring
This category includes innovations which actively explore value creation opportunities. They are considered "getting things started". These innovations are in the early phases of technological readiness but are already showing high-commitment levels from the organisations developing them. Their commercialisation requires efforts in transforming technology into marketable products. This category also includes concrete market-orientated ideas which depend on further progressing on technology development processes.
Spotlight on REVERSE Innovations
Multi language online serious game for improving knowledge about MDROs and IPC
Developed by the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
The online serious game, being produced in English, Spanish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian, leads players though four scenarios in a hospital settings. These scenarios are commonly encountered situations involving multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) or infection prevention and control (IPC) situations - hand hygiene, personal protective equipment etc.
This innovation will disseminate IPC knowledge to frontline medical staff when regular training is not possible due to high turnover or lack of capacity. It may also lead to better knowledge retention than a standard teaching session.
Developed by the University of Verona, Italy.
This innovation is an assessment platform to perform audit and feedback for antimicrobial use with dashboards to share data with stakeholders. Target groups for this tool include hospitals planning antimicrobial stewardship programmes as well as hospitals wanting to expand their stewardship activities.
This innovation builds on existing data collection and database solution and has been identified as a women-led initiative.
For an in-depth look at this innovation, take a look at the most recent blog post from the ID-Care Team at the University of Verona.
Novel health economic models for assessing the cost effectiveness of healthcare practise changes.
Developed by the Department of Health and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
With work package 6, the team are developing new models to assess the costs involved not only with the interventions themselves, but also with the implementation of these initiatives. These models will lead to a more accurate cost effectiveness analysis. This innovation was also identified as a women-led initiative.
Discover these and other great EU-funded innovations on the Innovation Radar website!