{"id":26,"date":"2016-05-23T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2016-11-09T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:26:37","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/ESA\/events\/6590581\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/videoondemand.png\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Welcome!<\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, the European Space Agency (ESA) published its <a href=\"http:\/\/esamultimedia.esa.int\/multimedia\/publications\/ESA_Space_Exploration_Strategy\" target=\"_blank\">Space Exploration Strategy<\/a> which is based on 4 strategic goals (science, economics, global cooperation, and inspiration) and which opens-up new opportunities for delivering benefits to society.<\/p>\n<p>To create and capitalise on those opportunities, ESA is taking a more proactive role in fostering cross-synergies between space and terrestrial R&amp;D, and has initiated the <em>ESA Open Innovation Exchange <\/em>project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Exchange Objectives<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>ESA Innovation Exchange: When Space Meets Health <\/em>aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase awareness among stakeholders from the institutional and private healthcare sector about the ESA strategy, technology roadmaps and identified knowledge gaps for space exploration, and the ESA life sciences, technology R&amp;D and applications\/services programmes.<\/li>\n<li>Initiate a dialogue between ESA and stakeholders from the institutional and private healthcare sector on scientific research and technologies of common interest in order to identify potential new space\/non-space cross synergies.<\/li>\n<li>Identify the potential application of space technology in the healthcare sector (the SPIN-OUT potential) and the SPIN-IN potential of the healthcare sector R&amp;D for space exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Incentivize stakeholders from the institutional and private healthcare sector to engage with ESA.<\/li>\n<li>Explore opportunities for potential partnerships with the institutional and private healthcare sector for mutually beneficial R&amp;D and applications\/services purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen European collaboration and excellence in science and technology R&amp;D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Partners<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img style=\"margin-left: 10pt; margin-right: 10pt;\" src=\"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/who.jpg\" alt=\"who\" height=\"80\" \/><img style=\"margin-left: 10pt; margin-right: 10pt;\" src=\"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/charite.jpg\" alt=\"charite\" height=\"80\" \/><img style=\"margin-left: 10pt; margin-right: 10pt;\" src=\"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/medical_delta_logo.png\" alt=\"who\" height=\"80\" \/><img style=\"margin-left: 10pt; margin-right: 10pt;\" src=\"http:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eit.jpg\" alt=\"who\" height=\"80\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! In 2015, the European Space Agency (ESA) published its Space Exploration Strategy which is based on 4 strategic goals (science, economics, global cooperation, and inspiration) and which opens-up new opportunities for delivering benefits to society. To create and capitalise on those opportunities, ESA is taking a more proactive role in fostering cross-synergies between space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacemeetshealth.esa.int\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}