The software games business is growing fast. Its technological and methodological underpinnings have been laid down in years of research and development. At a significantly lower scale, they are now finding their way into non-entertainment contexts, helping deliver substantial benefits, particularly in education, training, research and health.
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Overview of eHealth Horizon 2020 Calls in ICT WP 2016-17
This overview is designed to help potential proposers find eHealth related calls in ICT WP 2016-17 topics across the Horizon 2020 work programme. ICT have a prominent role in 'Societal challenge' and is addressed in dedicated topics in three parts of the 'Personalised Medicine' call: active ageing and self-management of health; methods and data; coordination activities.
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Open Call SC1-HCO-16-2016: Standardisation needs in the field of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing
The area of ICT for active and healthy ageing (AHA) is a new cross-sectorial domain in which standards play a key role. Standardisation efforts in the area tend to be taken by the different domains' actors individually, often lacking a coordinated and targeted approach.
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Ebola, Big Data, Childhood Cancers and Medicines Safety Feature in New IMI Call
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched two Calls for proposals that will advance medicines development in critical areas such as Ebola, childhood cancers, neurological disorders, and eye disease. The Calls will also add to IMI's growing programme on Big Data for Better Outcomes.
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Open Call SC1-PM-04-2016: Networking and Optimising the Use of Population and Patient Cohorts at EU Level
Proposals should aim at maximizing the exploitation of cohorts by bringing together national and/or European cohorts with common scientific interests (e.g. across diseases, children, mothers, elderly, birth, gender, etc.), and by taking advantage of new technologies (e.g. ICT, social platforms, etc.) and new type of data (e.g. geographical, genetic, eHealth records, etc.).
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The software games business is growing fast. Its technological and methodological underpinnings have been laid down in years of research and development. At a significantly lower scale, they are now finding their way into non-entertainment contexts, helping deliver substantial benefits, particularly in education, training, research and health. 
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has launched two Calls for proposals that will advance medicines development in critical areas such as Ebola, childhood cancers, neurological disorders, and eye disease. The Calls will also add to IMI's growing programme on Big Data for Better Outcomes.