News

• "The Virtual Physiological Human:Ten Years After" by Marco Viceconti and Peter Hunter

  The Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering has just published an interesting review article that covers the history and the state of the art of the VPH initiative.

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• Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers presented at EU Competitiveness Council meeting in Slovakia

  On 19 July, the Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers was presented at the Competitiveness Council with Commissioner Moedas. They called on support for a new generation of scientists.

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• Healthsector funds factsheet highlights EU priorities

  On 18 July, the European Commission published a factsheet on the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – Mobilising funds for the health sector. While the EU health sector is a very broad topic, the factsheet provides us with information about the priorities of the European Commission.

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• Innovation scoreboard 2016: EU is becoming less innovative

  The European Commission has published the European Innovation Scoreboard 2016 (previously called the Innovation Union Scoreboard) on 14 July.

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• Event “Sustainable healthcare for all by 2030

  The event entitled “Sustainable healthcare for all by 2030: Shared effort for a common goal”, took place on the 16th of June. The conference was mainly focused on improving health outcome in low and middle income countries (LMICs) outside of Europe.

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• Working of the Scientific Advice Mechanism explained

  On 12 July, the European Parliament ENVI Committee (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) held an exchange of views with Prof Henrik Wegener, chair of the High Level Group (HLG) of the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) on the work of SAM, which exists since 10 November 2015.

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