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📢 Join Us at HELT 2025 in Brussels! We are excited to announce that SmartCHANGE will conduct a workshop during the third edition of the Health, Law, and Technology Symposium (#HELT2025), hosted by VUB’s Health & Ageing Law Lab (HALL). 🗓 Date: 24 April 2025 📍 Location: Sparks Meeting, Rue Ravenstein 60, Brussels This year’s theme—"One Health: Advancing Global Health through Law and Technology"—explores the deep interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health. With the increasing role of AI, big data, and digital innovations, law and technology play a crucial role in shaping a healthier future. 🔍 Topics include: ✅ Regulating Zoonotic Disease Prevention & Control ✅ Data Privacy & Health Surveillance in a One Health Approach ✅ Health(y) Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property ✅ Environmental Law, Climate Change & Health ✅ Digital Divide, Health Equality & Right to Health SmartCHANGE will host a dedicated workshop exploring the intersection of AI, law, and global health challenges, thanks to partners from Amsterdam UMC, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Stay tuned for more details! Join the conversation and shape the future of global health. Register now and be part of HELT 2025🔗 https://lnkd.in/dFSd2CR5 #HELT2025 #GlobalHealth #AIforHealth #DigitalHealth

📣 SmartCHANGE is officially registered in ISRCTN! This is a crucial milestone in our journey to develop AI-powered solutions for childhood health. By integrating technology with personalised interventions, we aim to empower families, schools, and healthcare professionals to make lasting, positive changes. With research sites across Slovenia, Portugal, Finland, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, our study will assess how AI can support healthier lifestyles for children aged 6-14. Transparency and collaboration are at the heart of what we do, and this registration ensures our work remains open and accessible. Read more about our study here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/euFRSDjv #HealthInnovation #ClinicalTrials #AIforGood

We're going to the #HealthDataSummit! In collaboration with our sister projects, SmartCHANGE will conduct a workshop lead by AI-PROGNOSIS in Brussels next month, on 19-20 March. The annual event is a must-attend, organized by The European Institute for Innovation Through Health Data. More information coming soon!

Introducing the SmartCHANGE Project Timeline 📅 We’ve launched a new interactive section on our website where you can track all our major developments in one place! Explore the timeline to see our progress and click on individual months for more in-depth details on the achievements 🔎 Check it out here🔗https://lnkd.in/dCGzU4BJ Follow our journey as we develop cutting-edge AI-driven health solutions through collaboration and co-design! #HealthTech #AIforHealth #Milestones

It´s a match ✨ SmartCHANGE Research reached into education in JAMK University of Applied Sciences.   The subject of the SmartCHANGE research aligned perfectly with the Designing Evidence-Based Digital Services course within Jamk’s Master's Degree Programme in Digital Rehabilitation. Principal Researcher Tuija Tammelin and Chief Specialist Piritta Asunta from LIKES Research Centre for Physical Activity and Health were invited as guest lecturers.   "The project´s and course´s contents aligned beautifully. We were able to share fresh insights from the project with enthusiastic students. It feels meaningful that our Jamk students gain a firsthand understanding of the latest international trends in the field", Tuija remarked with delight.   The two-hour online lecture by Tuija and Piritta included stretch breaks to refresh and energize the learning experience 💪 Read more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d3KbumJp #Research #AI #Learning

Today is World Cancer Day 🎗️ a reminder that prevention, early detection, and healthy lifestyles can save lives. SmartCHANGE is committed to harnessing the power of AI and digital health to support healthier choices and improve risk prediction for non-communicable diseases, including cancer. Our AI tools aim to empower young people, educators, and healthcare professionals with insights that support long-term healthier habits💡 🌍 Let’s take action today for a healthier tomorrow! #WorldCancerDay #AIforHealth #NCDs

"AnyCBMs: How to Turn Any Black Box into a Concept Bottleneck Model" The latest SmartCHANGE publication by Gabriele Dominici Martin Gjoreski Marc Langheinrich from USI Università della Svizzera italiana for the World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence is available now on our website➡️https://lnkd.in/d7ya2KZa

SmartCHANGE at Critical Stage: Project Coordinator's Perspective Mitja Lustrek, Project Coordinator from the Jozef Stefan Institute, shares insights into the current status and upcoming challenges of the SmartCHANGE project. A Pivotal Moment in Development The project has reached a crucial phase, as Luštrek explains: "Now we got to the point where we have [...] a decent amount of data, which is crucial for our work. And now we have to really start building the risk prediction models and we really have to figure out [...] the shape of the tools that we will have to develop." Critical Next Steps Luštrek outlines the upcoming challenges and deadlines: "In the next six months, we'll have to be working really hard because first we have a review coming up. And second [...] the scientific AI work has to be kind of finished in six months, or at least it has to get to the first stage [...] where we have the first deliverables and these deliverables represent the models and other tools that will be integrated into the first application for [...] health professionals." The Stakes Ahead The coordinator emphasises the importance of meeting these deadlines: "If we don't manage to do this well, then everything afterwards is also delayed or doesn't go as well as we would like [...] so yeah, it's very important." As SmartCHANGE moves into this critical phase, the work led by Luštrek and the project team will be crucial in developing effective risk prediction models and tools that will form the foundation for healthcare applications to be tested in the proof of concept study. Stay up to date with the project's activities 📢 https://lnkd.in/emisRe_j

👋 Say hello to Panagiotis Papapetrou, professor of #DataScience at Stockholm University and a SmartCHANGE's External Advisory Board member! As an expert in machine learning and #AI, Panagiotis leads the Data Science Group at Stockholm University and serves on the board of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (#SAIS). 💻 His expertise in #ML applications will help SmartCHANGE leverage data science to tackle #NCDs and revolutionise #healthcare across #Europe. 🌍 🔗 Learn more about Panagiotis: https://lnkd.in/dTwUbgPx

Introducing Katja Pahkala, professor at the Turun yliopisto - University of Turku, Head of the Paavo Nurmi -keskus, and SmartCHANGE's External Advisory Board member. 👩🏫 With a career dedicated to understanding early-life determinants of #cardiometabolic #health, Katja is key in ensuring SmartCHANGE’s AI-driven solutions prioritise #prevention, leading the way for a #healthier future for the next generation. 🔗 Meet Katja: https://lnkd.in/ggzhyiAC