EIT HEALTH awards the iRAISE program the 2024 Best Health Education Project Award
The iRaise program, jointly organized by the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AquAS), has been awarded the Best Health Education Project 2024 by the EIT Health Spain Foundation. The award was presented during the INNPULSO Salud 2025 conference, held in early April in Valencia, the leading […]
The European Union includes the iRAISE programme in the country profile about innovation procurement
The European Union has included the iRAISE programme in the country profile that includes the “Benchmarking of national policy frameworks for innovation procurement”. IRAISE appears as the unique training programme run in Spain on innovation adoption and innovation procurement, targeted at multidisciplinary teams of professionals involved in innovation promotion and adoption within healthcare organizations, aiming […]
WHO IS WHO IN iRAISE: Victoria Valls
Victoria Valls is part of the pool of mentors in iRaise. Graduated in Human Biology, PhD in Biomedicine and MSC in Health Economics. Her CV speaks about her suitability to guide our teams through their journey to an innovation adoption. In this interview, she explains us in which health projects she has taken part and […]
WHO IS WHO IN iRAISE: Olman Elizondo
Olman Elizondo is mentor at the iRaise programme. He has been involved in projects related to the innovation strategy in hospitals, others about how to improve the management processes, a new digital solution to restocking drugs or about the comprehensive healthcare to women. But he tells us much more in this interview, in which he […]
WHO IS WHO IN iRAISE: Uxío Meis
Uxío Meis Piñeiro is part of the pool of mentors in iRAISE. In this interview, the political scientist and expert in health economics research and teaching talks about the details that make the iRAISE programme unique in Spain and Europe and explains what kind of projects he has helped to shape during the last editions […]
WHO IS WHO IN iRAISE: María Segura
Our colleague María Segura opens a new section in which you will meet the people involved in our program. Do you want to know her better? María deals with all the administrative issues of iRAISE, constitutes a key contact with the course participants to solve any incident that arises and, all of this, with the […]
ECHAlliance and iRAISE event next 27th February
🌐 We’re thrilled to announce the speakers for a Health Procurement Thematic Innovation Ecosystem event with the involvement of iRaise! 🚀 Join us on the 27th of February in the vibrant city of Barcelona or virtually to explore the expansion of digital health solutions from international research and innovation projects. Organised by the Agència de Qualitat […]
Successfully finished our 5th edition
47 students, 20 mentors and speakers, and more than 3,800 hours of joint effort to carry out the roadmap of eight new health innovation projects. These are the figures that translate into second edition in 2023 of the iRAISE Course, which ended in December. Eight multidisciplinary teams from hospitals and health centers of the Catalan […]
First edition of the iRaise 2023 course finished
The last session of the spring edition of the iRaise 2023 course took place last Friday 24th July with the graduation of the participating teams. Each group presented their own innovation application case by following and developing the steps and guidelines offered during the course. We also had the opportunity to listen to Joan Guanyabens, […]
iRaise presented at the 1st CHGUV Conference on Innovation in Healthcare
Vicente Traver Salcedo and Rossana Alessandrello presented iRaise as a training vehicle to promote the adoption of innovation from the demand side at the 1st CHGUV Health Innovation Day, an event organised by the General Hospital of Valencia. What does demand-driven innovation mean? Multidisciplinary professionals in public institutions, patients themselves, health system professionals, health providers […]