As the coordinating institution, MENDELU will lead a consortium of European universities, research institutes, and businesses in building an advanced, deep tech innovation ecosystem. The project aims to strengthen research, education, and business development capacities in the field of precision medicine by enhancing the quality and competitiveness of partner higher education institutions (HEIs). This will be achieved through institutional and systemic changes – such as strengthening staff capacities, developing new structures for innovation, knowledge, and technology transfer, supporting business creation, and fostering collaborations with other HEIs and industry partners across consortia.

Key Objectives of the InnovPrecMed Project:

1. Development of training courses in Deep Tech science and innovation:
   • Deep Tech Precision Medicine courses for business and economics practitioners
   • Business and innovation courses in company set up and building for Deep Tech Precision Medicine practitioners;
2. Support for Innovation and Commercialization:
   • Drive the scale-up support of at least 12 partner companies and launch at least 2 new start-up companies delivering solutions for the emerging Precision Medicine industry sector;
3. Ecosystem Development:
   • Strengthen the consortium’s innovation environment through expanded partnerships and tools.

The InnovPrecMed project will be implemented from April 1, 2025, to April 30, 2027.

Project Consortium Members:

• Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic)
• University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Austria)
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland)
• Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (Austria)
• Biology Centre CAS (Czech Republic)
• European Information Technologies Certification Institute ASBL (Belgium)
• KP Therapeutics (Europe) s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
• Lightly Technologies (Czech Republic)
• Pancrevo SRL (Italy)
• BioVendor – Laboratory medicine (Czech Republic)

Contact persons at MENDELU:

Project Coordinator at the university level: Mgr. Ondřej Mocek, Ph.D. (ondrej.mocek@mendelu.cz)

Principal Investigator: Andrew David Miller, Ph.D. (andrew.miller@mendelu.cz)

Project Manager: Julia Dankova, MA (julia.dankova@mendelu.cz)

About the EIT HEI Initiative

The EIT’s HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education is a joint EIT Community activity coordinated by EIT RawMaterials. The initiative is a key objective for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as part of its new strategy, the EIT Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021−2027. The initiative aims to support higher education institutions with expertise and coaching, access to the EIT innovation ecosystem, and funding, enabling them to develop innovation action plans complementing the needs of individual higher education institutions.

About EIT

The EIT strengthens Europe’s ability to innovate by powering solutions to pressing global challenges and by nurturing entrepreneurial talent to create sustainable growth and skilled jobs in Europe. The EIT is an EU body and an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.