COVID-X Program
Bridging the Data Divide
The Challenge
COVID-19 pandemic is hitting with force. Europe has passed the threshold of 290,000 deaths since February 2020. Now, more than ever, we need to narrow down the divide between technology breakthroughs and the healthcare system to fully exploit the power of DATA.
COVID-X Program
COVID-X bridges the gap between the European digital sector and healthcare providers. The program will unlock the full capacity of Artificial Intelligence and Data Technology solutions to overcome COVID-19 Challenges, fast-tracking projects to market and save lives.
Financial Support & Validation
Boosting 30+ projects through direct funding and real-world validation.
TARGET: Data-driven Technology Solutions, with TRL 7+ and [or in the process of] CE marking
Single Player
100
Solution by x1 EU Tech Company
* Validation at one of COVID-X Clinical Sites
– Istituto Clinico Humanitas [Italy]
– Hospital Clinico San Carlos [Spain]
– Karolinska Institute [Sweden]
Team Player
150
Solution by x1 EU Tech Company
+ x1 EU Healthcare Provider
* Validation at
– Hospitals
– Clinics
– Primary care centres
– Telehealth operators
– Assisted Living Facilities
Acceleration
Ideas will be fast-tracked to market, launching their EXPONENTIAL impact to save hundreds of thousands lives .
A 10-month Program with x3 Sprints
Online training and inspirational talks in data-driven technologies. Includes support in the use of the COVID-X Data Sandbox, integration and deployment of technologies.
Go-to-Market strategies tailored to the eHealth sector: business model development, marketing & sales, financing, fundraising & intellectual property management.
Supporting Tech Companies to get approval from the clinical ethical committees to deploy the solutions.
COVID-X Data Sandbox
The one-stop platform to exploit COVID-19 data sources.
All-in-one management, integration, visualization and an innovative stack of AI-driven tools for data health silos
Integration and management of public & private health data sources. A common distributed COVID-19 data-lake to run the validation of COVID-X Projects.
COVID-X Sandbox provides:
- Data integration & continuous update and population of the distributed COVID-X data-lake
- Federated Learning edge nodes enabling remote and secure (re-)training/ validation of relevant AI algorithms over diverse types of data
- Policy module to provide management & control, as well as interoperability & security
The APIs to give access to data and services:
- Security: authentication, access control & robust security rules
- Data & Application connectors: standardized data loaders for data ingestion and interoperable connectors for seamless service integration
- Decision Support Engine: AI-powered recommendation engine for performance assurance
- Business Intelligence: intuitive visualization & exploratory analysis of data
Team
10
PARTNERS
7
COUNTRIES
2
YEARS
4
MILLION €
1
TEAM
F6S
COVID-X Coordinator & Open Call Manager
AUSTRALO
Communication &
Community Manager
Civitta
Go-to-Market
Acceleration Manager
Bosonit
Technical
Acceleration Manager
Intrasoft
Data Integration & Management
Eight Bells
Data Protection & Security.
Sandbox design
UPM
AI & Federated Learning.
3rd-party Integration
Humanitas
Clinical Partner
Italy
SERMAS
Clinical Partner
Spain
Karolinska Inst.
Clinical Partner
Sweden
