SDU betting big on welfare technology

SDU betting big on welfare technology

University to lead a major national research efforts in welfare technology. The budget is almost 190 million.
University will head for a large-scale effort in welfare technology. The effort, aimed at hospitals and elderly care, involving several foreign partners, other Danish research institutions and 29 companies. The university has just been notified that the Strategic Research and the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation has decided to support the initiative by 70 million. Thus, the consortium, which has a budget of almost 190 million, a reality. -There's Talk about one of the largest research grants in SDU's history, so we are naturally proud. We have several years strengthened research and education in welfare technology and is well prepared to lift the new national task together with partners at home and abroad, says Rector Jens Oddershede. - Many countries are facing major challenges because their populations grow older and more dependent. There is an increasing demand for innovative solutions in the care sector, and since Denmark already has a reputation for being innovative in geriatric care, the new research consortium will help to pave the way for new export opportunities for Danish companies, he says.

Better welfare services and high-tech earnings

No fewer than six SDU Institutes are part of the new six-year project, entitled "Patient @ home". The Maersk Institute, Mads Clausen Institute and Institute of Technology and Innovation at the Faculty and Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Clinical Institute and Institute of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine. - We have gathered our environments so that we all work in the same direction and can create solutions that transcend traditional research areas. We need to look at how we can optimize treatment and create linkage between the treatment, monitoring, care and rehabilitation. It is obvious in relation to the new super hospitals to be built in the coming years, but hopefully we can also help to create a new "wind-adventure" that can serve high-tech kroner for Denmark, says Professor Uffe Kock wiil from Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute. He will lead the new nationwide consortium, among other counts Nilfisk-Advance A / S - one of the world's largest manufacturers of professional cleaning -, IT group Logica and a number of small and medium enterprises. A total of 29 companies are in the "Patient @ home" is called a strategic research and innovation platform. The companies contributed 78 million kroner, Region of Southern Denmark with 18.7 million, while other innovation and research partners, including SDU, slider 22 million kroner. There should be hired 22 researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral staff) in the project, and about half receive University as their workplace. The other will be employed at other research institutions, including Osaka University, known for its robotics, and the University of Arizona, known for high-end computing. Source: SDU