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• Growing the Silver Economy in Europe

  Our ageing populations are drivers of economic growth. The EU has launched a number of measures to stimulate this market and to help the European industry (and SMEs in particular) to address this opportunity.

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• 25 most influencial projects on ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing

  A new European Commission study analyses the impact on society of EU-funded Research and Innovation in technology for active and healthy ageing.

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• Report of the 5th eHealth Stakeholder Group

  On April 26th, the European Commission hosted the 5th eHealth Stakeholder Group (eHSG) meeting in Brussels. Our executive director, Prof Lies Geris, attended the event as official representative of the VPH Institute in the group.

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• European Union budget for 2021-2027: securing Europe’s digital future

  On 2 May, the European Commission published a proposal for a long-term budget – so-called Multiannual Financial Framework – for the 2021-2027 period.

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• Enabling the digital transformation of health and care

  On 26 April, the European Commission published a Communication on enabling the digital transformation of health and care in the Digital Single Market. The Communication includes a set of measures to increase the availability of data in the EU.

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• Publication of European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy’s draft opinion on HTA

  The European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on 31 January. Since then, the European Parliament’s Committees, which are going to be involved in the legislative process, have been appointing their rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs.

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