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Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General

C3-Cloud: Tackling the multimorbity challenge

empirica is in charge of evaluation as part of new EU funded project C3-Cloud: A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multimorbidity and Managing Polypharmacy.

Digital Health, General, Research & Innovation

“From innovation to implementation: eHealth in the WHO European Region” 2016 report officially released

The most recent report on eHealth in the WHO European Region, to which empirica contributed, is now officially available.

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General

openMedicine and ALPhA project cooperation

On 12 January 2016, the openMedicine project and the ALPhA Research Project on Internet Commerce and Pharmaceutical Crime exchanged and discussed their respective research activities and potential common interests.

Digital Health, eCare & Ageing, General

empirica leads new study on scaling up EIP on AHA

As of December 2015, empirica is carrying out a study on “Support to scaling up of innovations in Active and Healthy Ageing” (Scale-AHA) in close cooperation with EuroRec and EUREGHA.

Digital Health, General

openMedicine at EXPAND project final conference

The conference built upon the project’s work on European interoperable, cross border eHealth services based on the legal basis provided by the EU “Patient Rights Directive” relating to their access to planned healthcare in other member states.

eSkills & Work, General

e-Skills in Europe – Trends and Forecasts for the European ICT Professional and Digital Leadership Labour Markets (2015-2020)

The demand for e-skills keeps growing at a tremendous pace. In 2020 the European labour market is projected to grow by more than 670,000 new jobs, but it could absorb another 756,000 ICT practitioners if only sufficient supply were in sight.

eSkills & Work, General

e-Leadership – Digital Skills for SMEs: There is a job to do!: Latest figures and results from the European initiative

Innovative e-leadership positions in Europe are estimated to be around 620,000 in 2015. Demand is estimated to reach 776,000 in 2020. Europe requires up to 200,000 e-leaders by 2020, i.e. 40,000 per year.

General, Inclusive Society

Current practices in web accessibility monitoring across Europe: Empirical evidence presented by empirica to an international audience in Brussels

In the framework of an international expert workshop held on 20th November in Brussels, empirica presented latest evidence on current practices in web accessibility monitoring collated across 30 countries.

General, Inclusive Society

empirica unterstützt weltweite Kampagne “MapMyDay” von Sozialhelden und WHO für mehr Bewusstsein von Barrieren im Alltag

empirica unterstützt die Kampagne ”MapMyDay”, ein von der Berliner NGO Sozialhelden e.V. und der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) initiiertes, weltweites Mapping-Event zum Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung (3. Dezember).

General, Inclusive Society

empirica supports worldwide “MapMyDay” campaign by Sozialhelden and WHO to raise awareness for common barriers

empirica supports the ‘MapMyDay’ campaign, a worldwide mapping event taking place on International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December) and initiated by Berlin NGO Sozialhelden e.V. and the World Health Organization (WHO).

General, Inclusive Society

First CAP4Access expert workshop in Madrid

In mid-September 2015 the CAP4Access project team, co-ordinated by empirica, took some time off from developing and piloting new tools and headed to Madrid, where they met the members of the project’s Advisory Board of Experts to discuss about crowdsourcing and online mapping

eSkills & Work, General

Final report and 20 case studies about entrepreneurship education at European universities published

empirica now published the final report and 20 case studies of the study “supporting the entrepreneurial potential of higher education” (sepHE). The final report and an appendix document with all case studies are available at the study’s homepage