EIT Health is the biggest European public-private partnership in the field of healthcare innovation. Comprised of approximately 150 partners, EIT Health is a unique European network of top companies, universities, research and development centres, as well as hospitals and institutes. EIT Health's role is to build an ecosystem that enables the development of healthcare for the future so that European citizens can live longer and healthier lives. EIT Health upgrades healthcare professionals' skills throughout Europe, investing in Europe's best talents, and facilitates the commercialization of innovative health products/solutions within the EU. It is one of the largest publicly funded health initiatives and supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.

The InnoStars cluster is one of the seven geographical areas of EIT Health. It covers half of Europe, including Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Portugal, plus additional regions included in the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme– the Baltic States, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Greece and Romania. It is a group of countries qualified by the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) as moderate innovators. InnoStars focuses on promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and education in healthcare, healthy living, and active aging in the region and closing the gap between regions that are leaders in innovation and those regions that are progressing. The program aims to incubate the regions where it operates, discover its unique innovation assets, and engage local innovators to participate in pan-European programs and competitions. For more information visit: https://eithealth.eu/in-your-region/ris/

COCIR is the European Trade Association representing the medical imaging, radiotherapy, health ICT and electromedical industries. COCIR is one of the most significant imaging associations in Europe. This is the organization generating accurate data on medical imaging modalities and regular outlooks across Europe which gives a valuable source of insights into the program to better understand market trends.

GE HealthCare is the world’s leading manufacturer of medical imaging devices, healthcare IT, and software tools to digitize and industrialize the healthcare industry. GE HealthCare has a strong presence in Europe, including research, development, and manufacturing. GE HealthCare opened its first software development center in Hungary in 2000, which today employs over 400 high-level professionals with diverse backgrounds, including programmers mathematicians, physicians, software engineers, biomedical engineers, and medical doctors to date here is the company’s biggest Healthcare Data Science team in Europe. As a result of its extensive research activity, GE has built collaboration with universities across Europe and provides teaching activities for medical and engineering students.

Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH) is Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers, and faculty from around the world dedicated to advancing knowledge. Division of Biomedical Imaging educates students about technology across the borders of engineering and medicine in a broad sense. Biomedical imaging comprises a whole pipeline consisting of data acquisition, image reconstruction, image enhancement, image analysis, image-based simulation, and visualization for solving a problem within clinical diagnostics or medical research. Experts of KTH deal with all of these steps in their research and teaching and bring their valuable knowledge to the HelloAI RIS Online program participants.

LEITAT Technological Center is a private technical institute with more than 110 years of experience in industrial innovation processes. The organization helps to transform technological and scientific results into economic and competitive value for our clients and collaborating entities. “Over 1500 customers benefit from our talent, creativity, and strong commitment. We bring knowledge and innovation to our customers through applied research and technical testing in the fields of chemistry, energy, environment, materials, engineering, and life sciences. We rely upon our 330 highly skilled team members who deliver flexible solutions to face any industrial challenge.”

Széchenyi István University offers unique training and research in the Central-European region, which serves engineering-focused production activities, helping build the North-Transdanubian economy and its social and institutional infrastructure. Local activities, partnerships, and research initiatives provide students with a high-level, professional, and practical education. The Health-Innovation Competence Center manages scientific, technological, and industrial innovation opportunities in the health sector, in an interdisciplinary environment, via initiatives established in cooperation with the faculties of Széchenyi István University and external institutional partners. The Health Innovation Competence Center links IT and healthcare practices in order to develop innovative, personalized healthcare and IT products - with Smart-Health solutions, and supports the development of a quality and service-oriented prevention and recreation-rehabilitation health matrix system based on a partnership of local operators aimed at restoring trust in the health system and the doctor-patient relationship.

Health Venture Lab is a global community of digital health stakeholders backed by GE HealthCare and supported by EIT Health. Health Venture Lab’s mission is to support European startup ventures/teams in the industry with know-how, mentorship, and training. Startups that join Health Venture Lab’s programs become permanent members of the vast community where they can build a strong international network and cooperate with major key players in the industry. HVL is working continuously to expand its network of entrepreneurial mentors, healthcare experts, and investors to support the professional development of ventures created for healthcare solutions.

The Department of Precision Medicine of the University of Maastricht - is a disease and discipline-agnostic department with an international group of highly motivated researchers with unique skills under the direction of Professor Philippe Lambin at the University of Maastricht. They manage the platform RIA, a GDPR-compliant repository that stores and hosts a large archive of deidentified medical and preclinical images as well as radionics features extracted from these images accessible for public download. The Department is embedded in the Research School GROW and the Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences. The department runs a unique education “hands-on” program AI4Imaging, that is offered to leading-edge practitioners in the field of Quantitative Medical Imaging. Their experts’ insights and knowledge are shared by the participants through lectures and hands-on assignments. This course is followed by a hackathon.

With a student body of about 28,000 the University of Debrecen is one of the largest institutions of higher education in Hungary today. Hungary is a relatively small country of 10 million people, which has seven neighbours and one of the longest histories of European nations with a statehood of over 1100 years.

The cooperation of fourteen faculties ensures a multidisciplinary background guaranteeing the University a leading role as a research and education institution and the intellectual centre of Eastern Hungary. Apart from providing services in education, research, healthcare and prevention activities, and agriculture, the University is also committed to strengthening cooperation with society and the business sphere and to accomplishing the third mission of higher education, the propagation of sports and culture. The main focus of the University of Debrecen’s activities is directed at the health industry.

The University conducts its programs according to the European Qualifications Framework of the Bologna Process. Medical programs are accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO), the State Education Department (NY, USA), the Medical Board of California, Medical Councils of India (a qualifying exam is compulsory), Israel, Ireland, Iran, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates.