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BE3 - Wallonie / Walloon Region

Regional website


Innovation Performance Group (2021) : Strong

Total population (2019): 3,643,996

Population per km² (2019): 217

Proportion population older 65 year %: 18,51%

Background


Walloon is a region of Southern Belgium. The regions’ S3 priorities in Health and Well being include: Health biotechnology and medical technologies Biomarkers, Diagnostics in vitro and in vivo, innovative tools and equipment, medication administration systems, innovative therapies (cell therapy, protontherapy), IT applied to human health, medical equipment, drug discovery, innovative processes and organizational innovations. Priorities in Digital technologies and Industry 4.0 include: Smart mobility, e-health, green technologies, Internet of things, serious games, big data, open data, transmedia, 3D stereoscopic imaging, serious games, digital media, Internet and mobile content, scanning and digital archiving, motion recognition.


Policy Documents


  1. Regional DPR (Déclaration de Politique Régionale)

  2. Regional "Le Futur de la Médecine"

  3. Regional "Les Wallons et la R&D"

Regional Strategy for Research and Innovation for Smart Specialisation (RIS3)


Major Initiatives


  1. BENEFIT (Biowin)

  2. Healthy Ageing

  3. WearIt4Health Wearable Integrated Technology for Health Monitoring of Hospitalized Patients in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine

  4. I2Cort 

  5. Euradiomics Imaging-based Big Data for decision support systems for cancer: productization and sustainable research and development of Radiomics products 

  6. OncoCare Euregio quality and innovative patient-centered cancer care 

  7. EMRaDi EMR Rare Diseases 

  8. HIS2R Health in smart rurality 

  9. Poly-Valve Polymeric Prosthetic Heart Valve for Life: "Creative Chemistry for a Sustainable Future"

  10. NanoCardio Detection of atherosclerotic plaques by MRI and optical imaging 

  11. EuroHPC super computer

  12. H2020 GIGA projects

  13. BBMRI Biobank 

  14. Biothèque Wallonie-Bruxelles Biobanks 

  15. EuroBioImaging (BE is observer) biological and biomedical Imaging

  16. ELIXIR (Biostatistics)

  17. e-santéWallonie

Digital Innovation Hubs:

Membership status


  • S3MedTech region

  • Council of European BioRegions (CEBR)

  • 1M+Genome initiative - country level member

  • European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN)

  • Vanguard Initiative

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