Catch up on our network’s latest news and activities.
June 2021
Final meeting and end of funding phase 2
After more than 3 successful years of intensive networking, the last joint network meeting took place on May 31, 2021. Unfortunately, due to the Corona pandemic, the last joint meeting could not take place physically. Therefore, the final meeting was organized in digital form. Thanks to modern technology, a constructive exchange of ideas between the partners was possible.
The partners worked together on new technical solutions to develop innovative medical products and treatment methods and to bring them to market. So far, ProSafeMed has generated 17 project applications and funding of around € 4 million.
The resulting collaborations will continue to be used to implement further ideas in the future, and the development projects that are still in progress will be completed in the coming months.
January 2021
Networking and innovation in times of crisis
Innovations are elementary for a successful company development. In economically troubled times, however, they pose a particular challenge.
Even before Corona, the companies and research institutions operating in the international ZIM network ProSafeMed: For safe medical products and processes consciously decided to take advantage of the many benefits of network membership, such as new impulses and contacts, technology transfer, support in the acquisition of funding and the submission of applications.
Experience shows that good networking, constructive exchange and close interaction are more important than ever in these challenging times. Working together to drive innovation – this is how companies invest in their future capability.
December 2020
Successful application for funding
We are pleased for ASSKEA GmbH, whose R&D project was approved under the program: Promotion of Research, Technology and Innovation Projects (FTI Guideline) of the Thüringer Aufbaubank. We wish you much success in the realization of this exciting project!
September 2020
Digitalization in medical technology
All areas of life are currently affected by the corona pandemic. Our healthcare system in particular is confronted with major challenges. But the crisis also opens up opportunities for accelerating digitalization in our healthcare system, which is a key factor in the further development of our medical care.
This is exactly where the partners in the ProSafeMed network are focusing their expertise, in particular by intelligently exploiting new opportunities in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) to develop technically innovative medical products and treatment methods and to place them on the market. As a result, patients can benefit from better diagnoses and more individualized therapies.
Brochure: Digitalization in medical technology (only in German)
August 2020
Approval of a further ZIM cooperation project
We are pleased to announce that a further and therefore the fifth project from our network has been approved in the ZIM programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). We congratulate the project partners GAMPT mbH and ICCAS. We wish them every success in their joint development project!
June 2020
Network partner Smarterials Technology GmbH – Successful application in Horizon 2020 for the project “SafeGlov” – highly innovative safety gloves for medical personnel
The Smarterials Technology team has developed a technology that integrates the advantages and functionality of double gloves into single gloves. Its two-in-one gloves are based on an innovative microparticle layer. This layer allows the creation of a multi-barrier protection system and the integration of a perforation indicator – the first single glove ever to warn the user in case of breakage and possible contamination.
The project convinced the evaluators as well as the jury on site in Brussels, so that Smarterials Technology GmbH was able to win out over a total of 2009 competitors with the “SafeGlov” project at the first attempt. For the pitching interview in Brussels as the second stage of the application procedure, 192 SMEs (16 of them from Germany) were invited to Brussels. The EU is supporting the “SafeGlov” project in the period from 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021 for measures to prepare the market entry.
March 2020
Corona and MDR – German Medical Technology Association demands MDR moratorium (13.03.2020)
The German Medical Technology Association (BVMed) is calling for a MDR moratorium until the end of the corona virus crisis. The corona pandemic has a direct impact on the preparation of the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR), for its entry into force on May 26 2020, says BVMed Managing Director Dr. Marc-Pierre Möll. First Notified Bodies are closing or are restricted in their activities. Authorities are affected. Suppliers are breaking away. And this in addition to the known problems: too few Notified Bodies, too few experts, missing legal acts and guidelines. The doubly affected MedTech industry now needs a MDR moratorium, demands Möll.
January 2020
New ZIM guideline published – better and more tailor-made support for innovative SMEs
[ZIM” stands for “Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand”, which means “Central Innovation Programme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)]
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) published the new guideline for the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) on 20 January 2020. This replaces the previous funding guideline, which expired on 31 December 2019. In the future, innovative SMEs are to be supported even better and more tailor-made by the programme. This year alone, 555 million euros will be provided.
The new ZIM optimises the proven programme in many areas. Young companies and micro-enterprises as well as first-time innovators will receive better support. In future, small companies from all structurally weak regions will benefit from increased funding rates. The grantable costs of the funding modules have also increased. In addition, national and international knowledge transfer and the transfer of research results into practice will be intensified.
With more than 3,000 new technology development projects every year, ZIM is the Federal Government’s largest programme to promote innovative SMEs.
The ZIM project organisation is currently being put out to tender and is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2020. Applications can then be submitted under the updated ZIM funding conditions.
The updated ZIM guideline can be found here.
News of our network partner profi-con GmbH: Cleanroom day trainings in 2020
We hope that you have survived the busy Christmas and New Year celebrations without leaving any lasting effects. Some of you might have been busy in the clean room during this time and would have been happy to have some holiday atmosphere in the clean room.
(Please read also: https://www.reinraum-akademie.de/neulich-im-reinraum/)
For 2020, we wish you above all health, creativity and much success, both personally and professionally. We will be happy to support you again in 2020 with our training courses: http://www.reinraum-akademie.de/
There are still free places available for the one-day training sessions in Aschaffenburg from 25 to 26 February. Gladly we refer also to the special meeting in Marburg on 18th March: “New requirements to the enterprise of pure areas”.
Our day trainings 2020: Tagestrainings 2020 (only in German)
November 2019
Visit the network “ProSafeMed” at the bionection 2020 in Leipzig
The international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed” presents itself with a stand at the bionection in Leipzig from 26 to 27 February 2020. The bionection is the Central German industry meeting for biotechnology and medical technology.
August 2019
ProSafeMed: Second phase of ZIM funding approved
After successful 14 months, the international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed” will be funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy for a further two years. The medical technology network consists of German and Polish companies as well as research institutions.
The main focus in Phase 2 is on the generation of innovative project ideas and their implementation. After all, the aim is to establish the international network on a long-term basis and to create conditions for the network partners to be able to continue their projects without public funding .
July 2019
Approval of a further ZIM cooperation project
We are pleased to announce that a further and therefore the fourth project from our network has been approved in the ZIM programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. We congratulate the project partners Lutz Berndt GmbH & Co. KG and the Technical University Dresden. We wish them every success in their joint development project!
June 2019
ProSafeMed looks back on successful Phase 1
The international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed – for safe medical devices and procedures” can look back on a successful first funding phase. Five research and development projects with 10 cooperation partners have already been initiated and applied for within the last 14 months. Further project ideas and concrete project plans will be examined and implemented in the following second phase. The network partners will be intensively supported by the network management – AGIL GmbH Leipzig. ZIM cooperation networks are supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Approval of three ZIM projects
Three projects resulting from the network were approved. The cooperation project between the ASSKEA GmbH & the University of Leipzig – ICCAS as well as the cooperation project between Orthopädietechnik und Sanitätshaus Helmut Haas & University of Münster, Laboratory for Biomechanics and the project of the Radeberger Reinraumtechnik GmbH. We wish all partners good luck!
May 2019
Submission of four ZIM project applications
Based on the network activities so far, four ZIM project applications have already been submitted. These are applications of the network partners ASSKEA GmbH & Leipzig University – ICCAS, Lutz Berndt GmbH & Co. KG & Technical University Dresden, Orthopädietechnik und Sanitätshaus Helmut Haas & University of Münster, Laboratory for Biomechanics and Radeberger Reinraumtechnik GmbH.
April 2019
The countdown has started – Visit us at MedtecLIVE 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany
The international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed – for safe medical devices and procedures” will be presenting itself from 21 to 23 May 2019 at MedtecLIVE in Nuremberg in Hall 10.0 – Stand 622. 16 German companies, four research institutes and four Polish companies have joined forces in 2018 to combine synergies and experience and to jointly develop new medical devices and treatment methods.
The network brings together expertise in areas such as ultrasound and clean room technology, medical software solutions/ICT, polymer processing, medical suction, computer-aided test and training equipment for applications in rehabilitation and occupational medicine, measuring systems, medical and orthopaedic aids, surface finishing, clinical studies, medical cycle diagnostics and technology-related services.
With the technical-innovative medical products and treatment methods, better diagnoses and individualized therapies are to be made possible, which at the same time have few side effects and are safe for patients and users. With Poland as partner country of the network, the German-Polish research and development cooperations are to be strengthened and accompanied accordingly. ZIM cooperation networks are financed by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi).
February 2019
Gromke Hörzentrum and audiosus GmbH strengthen the international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed”.
The international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed – For safe medical devices and procedures” strengthens its innovation competence! With the two new network partners Gromke Hörzentrum and audiosus GmbH, know-how and experience in the field of hearing aid systems could be gained. Together with the 18 other companies and four research institutes, product and process innovations in the field of medical technology are to be initiated and implemented over the next few years. AGIL GmbH Leipzig is in charge of the ZIM cooperation network, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy.
January 2019
The international ZIM cooperation network ProSafeMed will present itself at MedtecLIVE in Nuremberg from 21 to 23 May 2019.
Further information will follow shortly.
October 2018
International ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed” presents itself at the bionection
The international ZIM cooperation network “ProSafeMed – For safe medical products and procedures” will present itself at this year’s bionection in Dresden. On October 24, 2018, Tobias Espig, an experienced network manager, will present the goals and partners of the network in the panel “Cooperation Offers” and will be available for questions and answers.
Program: https://www.bionection.com/programm