Rehabilitation is care that helps people get back or improve abilities necessary for their daily life. The challenge is that such care often lies with the family without much systemic or technological support.

The common challenges tackled by the project can be divided into two dimensions – social and technological:

• Social: lack of systemic approach or models for rehabilitation of all groups of patients (seniors, patients recovering from stroke/cardiac operations, disabled children, teenagers with spinal degeneration, etc).
• Technological: lack of common solutions for the MedTech manufacturing industry which require transition to advanced technologies and digitally skilled workforce.

The Rehabilitation Project aims to strengthen support services for SMEs in order to improve access to research and innovation (R&I) in the field of rehabilitation technologies. For this, the project will help MedTech companies to break-through and accelerate the commercialization of their products. The project partners share experiences and good practices to develop a set of policy recommendations to improve the healthcare sector’s innovation governance. In RehAlliance, new technologies will be tested, such as rehabilitation robots or exoskeletons, assistive devices, wearables or telemetric tools.