Grand Défi: "Digital medical devices for the elderly and ageing well".

Application deadline: 07/10/2025

Project type

This call for projects finances innovative digital devices that promote ageing well. It supports solid studies to evaluate their impact on the elderly, their caregivers and healthcare professionals, with a global approach to support in the face ageing.

Project themes

• Stage 1: "Innovation programs": Co-development and performance demonstration (TRL > 6/7) => Develop innovations in collaboration with users (patients, caregivers, professionals) and prove their performance and safety via clinical trials with a view to obtaining CE marking.
• Stage 2: "Full-scale demonstrators": Implementation of innovative digital medical devices under real conditions of use and in everyday practice by beneficiaries (citizens, patients, professionals, caregivers) (TRL7/8) => The aim is to prove the real usefulness of digital devices , their acceptability by patients, caregivers and professionals, and to analyze their economic and clinicalimpact to promote their sustainable integration into care and life paths.

Beneficiaries

Lead consortium: SME

Financing

Eligible expenses:Personnel costs (max. 50% of budget).external services, equipment, studies, communication, legal support.

Type of aid

Characteristics of supported projects

The themes of theCall for Proposals are :

• Preventing loss of autonomy
• Care and support for loss of autonomy Home-based approach to prevention, care and monitoring Quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers
• Quality of life at work for care professionals accompanying elderly people
• Monitoring, follow-up and coordination to support the care and living of the elderly