Meeting with the Thai National Innovation Agency (NIA)

We were pleased to welcome in Aviesan’s premises in Paris on November 23^rd a Thai delegation led by the Director of the Thai National Innovation Agency.

They travelled to Germany to attend the Medika Symposium and came to Paris to get an overview of the French opportunities in terms of collaboration and technology transfer.

After a presentation of the Inserm (member of Aviesan) policy on international cooperation, 2 institutes were described: the Institute for Circulation, Metabolism and Nutrition and the Institute for Health Technologies with the HTech4Dev Initiative we are working on.

The NIA sounded very interested in this initiative as they are a funding agency specialized in technology transfer. They are aware of the needs in surrounding countries such as Cambodia, Viet Nam or Lao and would agree to contact Thai technology providers to get them involved in HTech4Dev.

Working with this Thai Agency would be a very exciting. This would be a major step forward as we intend to extend our initiative towards Asia and then develop transcontinental partnership between Asia, Africa and South America!

Thank you for coming!

We were pleased to welcome the 6 PIs of the submitted projects and an international panel of experts with various competencies, in Aviesan premises in Paris! We had a very fruitful meeting and interesting discussions about healthcare in these African countries, concrete needs in terms of accessibility, diagnostic or training, and how technology transfer may address these issues, all participants keeping in mind that our final goal is to improving the living condition of people having no access to the most basic healthcare.

The next step is now to work on these proposals to make them fit to our objectives. They mostly need to be refocused on how to implement the technology successfully (comparison to other technologies already available, safety, processing of personal data, costs, sustainability…).

Pictures of these two days are available online: