Care Innovation Center WestBrabant Chantal van Spaendonck projectmanager

Care Innovation Center West-Brabant Chantal van Spaendonck, projectmanager Kees Kools, chairman © cic west-brabant 2013

Care Innovation Center West-Brabant • CIC is an open-innovation ecosystem • Open to companies, NGO’s, government organisations, educational and research institutions • CIC facilitates in setting up experiments for innovative products, services and concepts in a real-life environment • The focus of CIC is to realise prevention for health and social care and to support people in living independently/assisted in their homes for a longer time in a healthy, safe and comfortable way © cic west-brabant 2013

Care Innovation Center West-Brabant • Stimulating and implementation of Social Care and Health Care Innovations in West-Brabant • Real life tests and studies on using innovations by inhabitants • 20 project partners • 8 service partners • 6 educational partners (Primarily intermediate and Higher vocational education) © cic west-brabant 2013

Organisation • The operation team • Chantal van Spaendonck, project manager • Marcel Clerx, businessdeveloper • Klaartje Hamerlinck, marketing • Wendy Sieben, secretary • Executive board • Kees Kools, chairman • Kees Traas, treasurer • Jos Priem, secretary • Jan van den Brand, member of the board © cic west-brabant 2013

Quadruple Helix Partnership © cic west-brabant 2013

6 domains CIC is developing expertise in 6 thematic domains: • Prevention • Selfmanagement • Informal care • Ehealth and technology • Labour market • Integrated care © cic west-brabant 2013

Support We support organisations with their innovation by: • Care funding • Care instruction • Care research • Care practice school • Care living lab • Care entrepreneurship © cic west-brabant 2013

Living Lab projects © cic west-brabant 2013

Social Care, Health Care and Welfare boulevard • Students have a living lab environment for internships and applying practice • Citizens and students have direct access to Social en Health care innovations (project Huis van Morgen) • Research projects will be done by students of Higher education and university education on the results, the applicability, user friendliness, etc. • Organisations have an testing ground for their new innovations © cic west-brabant 2013