The selected projects target five key topics: the manufacture of medical supplies and equipment; the surveillance and care at high technology readiness levels; the behavioural, social and economic impacts; the construction of a European cohort; and the study of patient’s characteristics, risk factors, safety and effectiveness of treatments and potential strategies.

Thirteen of these twenty-three projects focus on using digital tools and Artificial Intelligence to deliver new solutions to protect healthcare workers, quickly detect and prevent the spread of COVID-19, and improve intensive care units. During two years, these projects will seek to provide new tools in four complementary areas; intensive care units’ assistance, diagnosis improvement, monitoring of patients and health workers’ protection. Two of them will also support and foster new technologies coming from small companies.

Our project Vascovid will develop a portable platform for assessing microvascular health, in Covid-19 patients at the intensive care units. The device will be non-invasive, portable, real-time, low-cost and wireless.