Ainara Garzo_Michael Obach, TECNALIA. Digital Innovation Hubs in Healthcare Robotics (DIH-HERO): Services and Financial support to third parties.

1. Digital Innovation Hubs in Healthcare Robotics
(DIH-HERO): Services and Financial Support to
Third Parties
Michael Obach & Ainara Garzo
Neurorehabilitation Department, TECNALIA Health
InfoDay
11 July 2019

2. Main application domains in Healthcare Robotics
Interventional
Robotics
e.g. surgical robotics
Diagnostic Robotics
e.g. automated imaging
robotics
Rehabilitation
Robotics
e.g. mobile training
devices
Robotics supporting
patients
e.g. wearable
exoskeletons
Robotics supporting
healthcare
professionals
e.g. telepresence
robots

3. Our services (1/2)
Technology Services
Access to prototyping, research and manufacturing know-how and a
technology catalog to speed-up your product development
Business Capital and Incubation
Links to public and private funding services to transform your technology
into a market-ready product
Certification and Go-to-Market Services
Resources to help you understand customer segments, regulations and
value chains to create a perfect market entry strategy

4. Our services (2/2)
Training and Education Services
DIH-HERO offers healthcare professionals and robotic developers access
to knowledge resources for competence building and life-long learning
Data Validation
DIH-HERO supports you in the process of gathering, validating and
exploiting the data you need
Test Infrastructure Services
DIH-HERO offers you access to specialized labs and realistic test
environments to validate and refine your product or services

5. Benefits
➢ A sustainable platform for all the stakeholders active in the
healthcare ecosystem.
➢ Easy access to information, knowledge and services.
➢ Extended networking and collaboration opportunities.
➢ Extended innovation opportunities through efficient technology
transfer.
➢ Financial support regarding travelling, technology
demonstrators and technology transfer.

6. Overview over Financial Support in DIH-HERO
Travel Vouchers - 2 calls
Technology Demonstrators - 2 calls
Technology Transfer Experiment - 1 call
https://dih-hero.eu/calls/

7. Financial support: Definition of an SME
➢ According to the definition of a Small or Medium Enterprise (SME) stated in article 2 of the
annex to Recommendation 2003/361 EC
➢ “To count as an SME, your organisation must be engaged in an economic activity and must
have:
➢ fewer than 250 employees and
➢ an annual turnover of no more than €50 million and/or a balance sheet of no more than
€43 million
Whether you count as an SME may depend on how you count your
workforce, turnover or balance sheet. Please note that you must take
account of any relationships you have with other enterprises.
Depending on the category in which your enterprise fits, you may then
need to add some, or all of the data.”

8. Financial support: Travel Voucher (TV) call
Purpose
➢ Travel vouchers for cross-border travelling voucher should:
➢ reduce barriers jeopardizing connectivity and
➢ stimulate knowledge exchange.

9. Financial support: Travel Voucher (TV) call
➢ The first 400 submitted proposals considered eligible will be awarded a TV of max. €2,000
each (max. 400 k€ in the call in 2019).
➢ All applicants will have to execute an SME self-assessment test.
➢ Only legal entities being SMEs and operating in the healthcare and/ or robotics sector within
the EU and its associated countries are considered eligible.
➢ Every entity is allowed to submit only one proposal per call.
➢ Proposals must be submitted via the portal.
➢ The voucher can be used during a period of 12 months after awarding.
➢ Payment will be made on a reimbursable basis.

10. Financial support: Travel Voucher (TV) call
Qualifying activities
Cross-border traveling in order to visit:
➢ the DIH-HERO brokerage event taking place in October 2019, and/ or
➢ DIH-HERO conferences / network meetings and/or
➢ Digital Innovation Hubs of the DIH-HERO consortium in another country to make usage of
their services.

11. Financial support: Travel Voucher (TV) call
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation will be done according to the First-come-first-served principle.
The submitted proposals will be reviewed upon:
➢ The date and time of the proposal submission online
➢ The proposals eligibility for travel vouchers

12. Financial support: Definition of “slightly larger company than an SME”
➢ According to the European Commission, to count as a slightly larger company than an
SME, your organisation must be engaged in an economic activity and must have
➢ less than 500 employees and
➢ an annual turnover of no more than €100 million.
Whether you count as a slightly larger company than an SME or not
may depend on how you count your employees and turnover. Please
note that you must take into account any relationships you have with
other enterprises. Depending on the category in which your enterprise
fits, you may then need to add some, or all of the data.

13. Financial support: Technology Demonstrator (TD) call
Purpose
➢ Stimulate cross-border collaboration
➢ Accelerate the development of Healthcare Robotics by demonstrating the feasibility of
new, innovative and enhanced robotic solutions in healthcare application domains.
➢ Improve and broaden the uptake of robotics solutions and increase future investments in
robotics in healthcare.

14. Financial support: Technology Transfer Experiment (TTE) call
Purpose
➢ Stimulate cross-border collaboration
➢ Stimulate the transfer of innovative technology from outside the robotics and healthcare
domains
➢ Solve unanswered clinical questions
➢ Contribute to overcome implementation hurdles that hinder generating new business for the
healthcare robotics industry
➢ Create new links inside the value chain, thereby enabling the societal & economic impact

15. Financial support: Technology Demonstrator (TD) and Technology
Transfer Experiments (TTE) calls
Framework
Technology Demonstrator and Technology Transfer Experiments must be tailored towards at
least one of the following application domains in Healthcare Robotics:
➢ Diagnostic Robotics
➢ Interventional Robotics
➢ Rehabilitation Robotics
➢ Robotics supporting patients
➢ Robotics supporting healthcare professionals

16. Financial support: Technology Demonstrator (TD) and Technology
Transfer Experiments (TTE) call
Framework
➢ A consortium must at least consist of:
➢ 1 SME/ slightly larger company and 1 end-user from 2 different countries or
➢ 2 SMEs/ slightly larger companies from 2 different countries
➢ The eligible proposals that have been submitted via the portal will be evaluated by external
reviewers and ranked upon excellence, impact and implementation.
➢ For TD: The 35 highest ranked proposals will be awarded
➢ For TTE: The 20 highest ranked proposals will be awarded

17. Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)
A method for estimating the maturity of technologies during the
acquisition phase of a program, developed at NASA during the 1970s,
adopted by the European Commission:
TRL 5 – technology validated in relevant environment
TRL 6 – technology demonstrated in relevant environment
TRL 7 – system prototype demonstration in operational environment
http://as.nasa.gov/aboutus/trl-introduction.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level

18. Financial Support: Summary
Instruments: Travel Voucher (TV) Technology Demonstrator
(TD)
Technology Transfer
Experiment (TTE)
Intended result 1. Stimulate knowledge exchange
2. Innovation brokerage by
enhanced connectivity
1. Demonstration of a
working solution
2. Improving broad uptake
& capability to attract future
investments
1. Proven feasibility & tech
transfer deal by an experiment
2. Integrates a new technology
3. A product generating new
business
Third Party obtaining
Financial Support
SME SME or slightly larger
company
SME or slightly larger company
# applicants per proposal 1 ≥ 2 ≥ 2
Max. funding per project 2 k€ 100 k€ 200 k€
Number of projects 400 35 20
Project duration - < 9 months < 15 months
TRL - 6-7 5-7
Next call 15 July 2019 Oct 2019 Dec 2019

19. Financial support Travel Voucher Call
Case 1: A Polish SME is planning to participate in the DIH-HERO brokerage event taking
place in the Netherlands at the end of October 2019.
Answer: This proposal is eligible for a TV of DIH-HERO, as an SME is planning to execute an
activity qualifying for a TV up to €2,000.

20. Financial support Travel Voucher Call
Case 2: A Danish midcap wants to visit a German digital innovation hub (DIH) to make use of
the services it offers.
Answer: Not eligible for a travel voucher of DIH-HERO since although this company wants to
visit a DIH in another European country, only SMEs will be awarded a travel voucher in this
call.

21. Financial support Travel Voucher Call
Case 3: A German company being an SME according to the criteria would like to use the
voucher to take part in a DIH-HERO conference taking place in Munich.
Answer: Not eligible for a travel voucher of DIH-HERO since although this company is an
SME the intended travel is not cross-border, i.e. not in another European country.

22. Financial support TD and TTE
Case 1: A Belgian SME (250 < X < 500) having an annual turnover of €35 m is aimed to
valorise a robotic technology together with a regional university and a hospital in a foreign
country.
Answer: 1 SME and 1 end-user from 2 different countries are involved in an innovation
project. -> Eligible, provided the clinical relevance of the solution.

23. Financial support TD and TTE
Case 2: An Italian university has licensed a technology via a spin-off and they together want
to explore possibilities to certify and extend robotic product features by testing it collaborating
with a hospital in Germany.
Answer: As the spin-off fulfills the criteria of the SME or slightly bigger definitions there are 1
SME and 1 end-user from two different countries involved in project consortium so this
proposal is eligible provided that the technology has clinical relevance.

24. Financial support TD and TTE
Case 3: A hospital initiates an experiment idea for a robotic technology provided by an
international large company that has an R&D office in the Netherlands (e.g. Medtronic, Philips,
GE, Baxter, J&J).
Answer: In this case there is no SME involved in the project. => Not eligible

25. Financial support TD and TTE
Case 4: A large company with an R&D office in Germany (e.g. Medtronic, Philips, GE, Baxter)
is interested in licensing a SaaS platform from a Dutch large company and is aimed to test it
with their robot platform. They will apply for funding together because DIH-HERO connected
them with a hospital network from Italy.
Answer: DIH-HERO could assist them on connecting them with an SME as well. As soon as
an applicable SME has been found it can apply for funding since at least 1 SME and 1 end-
user organization are involved in the consortium.

26. Financial support TD and TTE
Case 5: A company fulfilling the definition of a slightly larger company than an SME from
Belgium is collaborating with a Dutch SME company working on transferring new technology
from outside healthcare robotics to use it for clinical application. In order to get to the following
TRL they would like to make use of the test facilities of a Dutch University located in the
neighborhood of the SME.
Answer: Eligible as there are 2 SMEs or slightly larger companies from 2 different countries
involved in the project. The SME or slightly larger company may use the funding to make use
of the services of external parties.

27. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programm under grant agreement
No 825003.
Or contact:
dih-healthcare@utwente.nl
For further information
please visit:
www.dih-hero.eu
Thank you for your
attention!
Michael Obach
Ainara Garzo
InfoDay
11 July 2019
michael.obach@tecnalia.com
ainara.garzo@tecnalia.com