Call for Proposals for Projects in the Development, Piloting and Demonstration stages to cope with the Coronavirus
Open Date:
26/03/2020Deadline for Submission:
07/04/2020Time zone:
IsraelSummary:
The Israel Innovation Authority, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the Headquarters for the National Digital Israel Initiative are issuing a Call for Proposals to Israeli technology companies (that are not one of Israel’s health organizations) to submit R&D plans for systems, products, or technological solutions, including projects in the development, piloting and demonstration stages (as well as semi-commercial installation and implementation. and large-scale deployment in heath organizations) designed to deal with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Submission will be through Benefit Track 2 (see Appendix A – in Hebrew website).
Relevant Technologies
All relevant technologies
Participating Agencies
Program Description
This CFP refers to projects in the development, piloting and demonstration stages (including semi-commercial installation, as well as large-stale deployment in health organizations) for research and development of technological ideas that may assist in dealing with the challenges posed by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
There is no restriction on the project’s field for this CFP and it may include, among others, one of the following:
- Streamlining and improvement of the diagnostic process, including: diagnostics, streamlining and improvement of testing and diagnostic process and solutions that will enable efficient and massed testing for the coronavirus to be carried out in Israel in the near future.
- Tools for contagion reduction and prevention.
- Expansion of remote healthcare services, including a significant expansion of the quantity and types of services that are provided digitally, or which can be provided without a need to physically visit the health organization. All this including, but not limited to, treatment, prevention, diagnostics, monitoring, process streamlining, interfaces and systems, for the individual and/or the general public.
- Development and re-purposing of antiviral products for treatment of the disease, or other products that may serve as a supporting therapy, or for diagnostics and prevention.
- Solutions for patients in home confinement or hospital quarantine.
- Digital solutions for controlling, monitoring, and forecasting the spread of the virus.
- Solutions for smart management of public assistance centers, and for the effective communication with the public in times of pandemic outbreak
- Solutions to expand the capacity of respiratory intensive care units and that assist in the monitoring and simultaneous treatment of multiple people hospitalized with acute respiratory disease.
- Solutions that assist with the physical activity and the well-being of senior citizens staying at home.
- Solutions that help support special needs population, due to their home stay outside their routine special-ed system.
All this in order to encourage:
- Development and implementation of innovative technologies in treating and coping with the coronavirus.
- Advancing the healthcare system and public health in Israel and abroad.
- The creation and growth of complete and sustainable companies by promoting innovative technological solutions.
Funding
- Financial support of 20% – 50% of approved R&D expenses.
- Exceptional financial support of 60% – 75% of approved R&D for a project with an outstanding potential to contribute to the advancement the healthcare system and the public health in Israel and abroad
*The scope of the total support will depend on the scope of total financial sources for this CFP.
Criteria
Submission Deadline:
- Applications may be submitted up to March 26th, 2020 at 14:00 (technical support will also be provided up to 14:00).
- Responses are expected within ten days of the deadline.
- An additional CFP will opened on March 26th, 2020, with its submission deadline being April 7th, 2020 up to 10:00 on that day.
Application Process
How to submit an application for the CFP?
The submission process and application forms are described in detail in the Innovation Support Track for Selected Fields – Digital Health – in Hebrew. The forms should be submitted through the personal area on the Innovation Authority’s Hebrew website.
Note: In addition to the general forms, choose and complete the appropriate application form for the development stage (early / pilot) for responses to the coronavirus instead of the form used for routine submission of applications in Track 2.
**Due to short response terms the company should be available to meet with the evaluators two to three days following their request submission.
***Semi-commercial installation – installation and implementation of a product, including large-scale implementation at the Israeli health organizations (Support for required expanses of installation and implementation at the health organization is available, for example: integration with the health organization’s information systems, training the health organization on the use of the product and additional costs required in order to implement the product).
****Home stay solutions that deal with evaluation and monitoring, require regulatory approval for use in Israel (AMR) and FDA/CE approval. A plan to relay gathered information to the medical team for its integration into the health organization’s information systems.