Entrepreneurs will be able to use financial assistance for innovative health products, processes and practices. The Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency (SIEA) has prepared vouchers with a maximum amount of 50 thousand Euro for the project through an innovative national project.SIEA flexibly responds to the needs of Slovak entrepreneurs and after last year's Two rounds will already open on 2 May the challenge of the domain of smart specialisation Healthy company, whose gestor is the Ministry of Health. The call will be opened for one month, with a total amount of €1.5 million, and is intended to implement innovative projects. The amount of the innovative voucher will be reimbursed in the form of pre-financing from 10 thousand to 50 thousand EUR up to 85% of the eligible expenditure.
I am pleased that after the challenges we successfully opened last year, we can again provide financial support to Slovak businesses, this time in the most important and under-dimensional area of health. The aim of Healthy Society is to give a helping hand in using industry cooperation with scientific research institutions, application of knowledge and technology to practice and greater competitiveness of companies that contribute to innovation performance and development of Slovakia, said General Director SIEA Peter Blaškoviteš.
The health department participated in the implementation of this financial assistance for the call Healthy company by professional umbrella, namely in the eligible activities in the upcoming call, thanks to the team of the Institute of Research and Development of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic under the leadership of Ivice Kvietiková.
We appreciate inter-ministerial cooperation with the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency on an exceptional pilot project to promote innovation in health care. The aim of this challenge is to promote successful projects with the possibility of real implementation in practice and the potential to qualitatively shift our health to more modern and thus more effective services for patients. I dare say that this is an exceptional mutual cooperation, notes Róbert Babeľa, State Secretary of the Department.
Eligible activities are based on the Strategy for Research and Innovation for the Smart Specialization of the Slovak Republic 2021 - 2027, the Healthy Society domain.
National project Improving the innovation performance of the Slovak economy, let us innovate. sk is implemented by the Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency in the operational programme Integrated Infrastructure, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. More information here: https://www.inovjem.sk//en/clanok/siea-offer-50-visico-procurement-for-innovation-in-health
