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Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra

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Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra is a social non-profit organization that supports people and communities in five districts of the Central Region of Portugal.

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Response to European Partnership for innovative health

13 Aug 2019

We agree with the assumption that a more structured partnership may provide higher focus and targeted results on the objectives that are prioritized. Therefore, we would consider more adequate to have on of these models: - A co-programmed European Partnership (option 1) is based on drawing up memoranda of understanding or contractual arrangements with partners to align their research agendas. This option would run over a relatively longer-term perspective and would attract higher-level industry participation and additional in-kind and financial contribution from the partners, compared with option 0 to issue regular calls for proposals. - An institutionalised European Partnership (option 2) would allow deeper integration, engagement and up-front commitment from partners, by creating a long-term dedicated implementing structure. On a second note, a broader inclusion and influence of representatives of patients, health and social care providers should be strongly rooted in a new partnership. Also, guaranteeing effective business models that allow the outputs of projects to successfully reach the citizens and to actively enhance their quality of life should, in our perspective, be indispensable in the construction of KPIs and metrics for this partnership. The holistic involvement of stakeholders and the need to a connection between different disciplines and policy areas is further explored in the attached Joint Statement on SHAFE - Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments, delivered to the European Commission and Member States in 2018.
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