Tech4Inclusion call for projects

The Tech4Inclusion call for projects, is jointly sponsored by SATT Pulsalys and by IDEXLYON.

MAIN ISSUES COVERED

• Technology & innovations to improve the quality of life and health of people with disabilities, dependent people and marginalized people (due to old age, illness, isolation, etc.) or provide support to caregivers:
  
  • Disability: mental, sensory, motor, psychiatric, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, “dys-” conditions, etc.;
  • Other types of social marginalization: elderly people, addressing the issues of poverty, job exclusion, immigration, academic failure, illiteracy, prisoners, people with gender dysphoria, etc.
• Technology & innovations to help with the integration and inclusion of these people;
• Technology & innovations to improve mobility and access to athletic activities (parasports) for people with disabilities.

FIELDS AND AREAS INVOLVED

• E-health, digital platforms, software, telemedicine, home-based care, etc.;
• Health: medical devices, sensory devices, prosthetics, etc.;
• Therapeutic devices, cognitive therapy, neuroscience, etc.;
• Engineering; mecatronics: robotics, exoskeletons, etc.;
• Augmented reality, artificial intelligence, etc.;
• Home automation (connected objects, etc.);
• Urban development, land use planning, housing, transportation;
• Education (continuing education: FI/FTLV), professional integration.

Researchers who wish to ask specific questions about the call for projects can make an appointment to help finalize their project application.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• The project must be led by a researcher, or research professor from one of the member institutions of the IDEXLYON Consortium (see the liste here);
• The project must be related to the issue of “disability & inclusion” and aim to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities or marginalized people (old age, disease, isolation, etc.) or to support caregivers;
• Projects must have a clear pathway to implementation in the socioeconomic world;
• Projects must have been approved by laboratory directors before submitting the application. 

WHEN TO APPLY

A development workshop for the call for projects: on October 3 at 10h, in Lyon, Préfabrique de l’innovation de Lyon : registration form here.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

• Applications will be closed on November 23, 2018 at noon;
• Sending invitations to successful candidates: December 2018;
• Selection committee in January 2019;
• Launch of pre-maturation and ripening projects: spring 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Contact : Benoit MARTIN, benoit.martin@pulsalys.fr; phone number: +33 (0)4 26 23 56 86.