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The Emotional Gym: physical exercise platform

The “Emotional Gym” project aims to provide a physical exercise platform that will attract the interest of older people and will keep them engaged and motivated. This can be achieved through the use of interactive applications, such as the “Travel the world”, and the game and performance monitoring applications that were developed. The combination of the use of the stationary exercise bike and the developed interactive applications has the potential to keep older people engaged with the exercise for more time.

Artificial Intelligence for Combining Evidence-based and Data-driven Medicine

Rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning may help to unlock the value of healthcare data and contribute to solving some of the major problems of modern healthcare, prevent diseases and save lives. Two of the key problems for realizing these objectives are the challenges of accessing healthcare data needed for developing AI models, and the inherent sensitivity of the models to biases in healthcare datasets.

New Evaluation Methods to Assess the Public Transport Impact on Public Health

Experts from MCRIT have proposed a methodology to evaluate more explicitly the impacts on public health and the social interest of projects to improve urban and metropolitan public transport. The proposed method aims to incorporate a more adjusted valuation of the social benefits deriving from the improvement of public health and social conviviality in urban areas, in accordance with the social values that express current policies.

The Development of the Digital State in e-Estonia via #KrattAI

#KrattAI aim is to provide a vision and roadmap for how public services could (and should) incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. #KrattAI will be an interoperable network of AI applications, which enable citizens to use public services with virtual assistants through voice-based interaction. A subcategory #Bürokratt is an idea about virtual assistants helping people navigate national information systems and brings them together with necessary kratts from private sector as well.

Pandemic changes the daily routines of humanity

Social distancing and teleworking has become the goal overwhelming personal and professional ambitions in nowadays. As ATHIKA consortium follows the hottest topics in healthcare sectors promoting advanced training in Health Innovation Knowledge Alliance, the latest outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic takes the central focus.