On Friday the 18th of December 2020, our very own Marco Manca will join a group of National experts, and the Italian Ministry to Technological Innovation and Digitalization Paola Pisano , to discuss what are the opportunities for inclusive growth associated to investing in innovation in healthcare, and how to devise a strategy and an appropriate risk sharing/management, for a future everyone can put stake on. Join us by following the link and asking how to participate to the virtual event! Interesting lectures if you are interested in the topic and would like to prepare for the conversation: The Italian National guildelines for the deployment and offer of telemedicine services ...and if you are interested in the topic, don't miss the chance to download a copy of the ITU and WHO handbook " Digital Health Platform:Building a Digital Information Infrastructure (Infostructure) for Health "

This post was co-authored by Deborah Liebart and Marco Manca , and first appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum  with the title " Subprime and Covid-19: black swans or symbols of an ineffective risk management approach ? The cost of applying the « normal law » to the health care system ".  It is licensed under the  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 . To cite this work please refer to DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4309661 The global health crisis generated by the Covid-19 epidemic has highlighted the structural weaknesses of the risk management models of our contemporary societies, just as the subprime crisis had highlighted the flaws in the normative fences and predictive models used by the international banking system in 2008. While half of the global population was confined, many commentators presented the new coronavirus as an unpredictable “black swan 1 ”, on the fringes of the world’s “Gaussianity”. "Black Swan at Sunset"  by robokow  is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 So, is covid r...

BioDynaMo is an International project devoted to promoting a new way of integrating computer simulations, broadly, in biomedical research.  In facts, until yesterday any researcher interested in exploring the implications of her/his conjecture by computer simulations, ahead of experimental design, would struggle to produce her/his own simulation, making design choices finely tuned for her/his purposes, but likely to translate into a barrier for re-uptake of the tool by peers, and that would also require a complete re-engineering should the simulation be successful enough to be interesting to run it at scale, as instance on HPC clusters. Today, BioDynaMo offers a first incarnation of an agent based simulation environment (engine and language) that has already proven to be scalable and easily extensible across domains . The code is licensed under Apache 2.0 as the consortium feels this should be made available to everyone: it is commons in its very meaning, a fertilizer for the mis...

This post was co-authored by Deborah Liebart ( fellow of SCImPULSE Foundation , and late Data Protection Officer of the European Society of Athletic Therapy and Training ) and by Dr Salvatore Cognetti ( fellow of SCImPULSE Foundation , and late  Medical Liaison Program director of the European Society of Athletic Therapy and Training ). It first appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum , and the blog of ESATT . It is associated to DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.4081241 ;  and it is licensed under CC BY 4.0 At a time when, albeit understandably so in the current context, going to a restaurant in Europe involves giving our contact details, and inevitably when new actors are authorized (or even requested) new actions in the data ecosystem we receive news of those data being monetized beyond their original scopes , it is necessary to think about how that data is being collected, processed, and archived.  Therefore, I would like to spare a few words on the text that is at the f...

  There's still 1 month left to submit proposals for the call  INNOVFUND-2020   The call targets projects on low-carbon technologies and processes in all sectors covered by Directive 2003/87/EC (the EU ETS Directive) Only projects above EUR 7.500.000 of capital expenditure (large-scale projects) are eligible for this round of the Innovation Fund, and the application procedure is two-stage: comprising the expression of interest  phase and the full application phase.  The topics amenable to funding are those listed in the annex one to the above mentioned directive: We trust it's not needed for us to remind you why emission curbing is a urgent challenge , nor that waiting for "unicorn" technologies to solve all problems in the future is going to be incredibly dangerous, and expensive (should it even be possible)  so, please, give your best shot to bring forward your real world ideas on the table of this and each EU funding call amenable to topic... don't take...

  Follow our President, Dr Marco Manca , who will join a terrific panel of experts at Welfair Roma 2020 to reflect on the challenges that likely lay ahead, and to present our activities for preparedness (e.g. ROBIT, livinglab ): " Robotics and care: an ecological revolution in a practice/ward next door " To join us, register to attend Welfair Roma 2020

 by Tsilla Boisselet . Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 ( note to the prospective reader : this is a transparent sharing of some of my reflections. I by no means believe I am providing any definitive answer hereby. I would instead invite an open conversation with you, so that together we could grow ever closer to a shared, affordable and sustainable, path forward) A mapping exercise on why growth remains a core slogan …and…. Is it possible to map strategic ways out? How to lay down the underlying logics and dependencies and discuss about strategy in a visual way? Defenders of the Nature, or alarmed researchers on the impact of biodiversity loss make their voices loud to preserve resources that are essential to many human activities – or hold an intrinsic value that needs to be preserved as such. But investments are still low and actions reflect the place environment holds in priority ranking – certainly not the top ranks, for citizens and governments alike, despite some changing...