Welcome to
EWMA Innovation Alliance
Boosting the development and uptake of new and better wound care solutions
ABOUT
EIA
With EWMA Innovation Alliance (EIA), we wish to create a membership-based European Wound Management Innovation Eco-system.
The vision is to strengthen wound care and the quality of life of individuals with a wound and their families by facilitating the development and uptake of new and better solutions and by strengthening Europe as a competitive place for wound care innovation.
OUR
Objectives
- Screen for needs, ideas, solutions
- Promote match making
- Organise Innovation Forum
- Disseminate knowledge
- Identify clinical trial sites
- Develop the EIA Think Tank
- Create a innovation eco-system
- Support with consultancy
Wound care: the challenge
- Increase in the prevalence of wounds due to longer life expectancy and lifestyle illnesses
- Difficult-to-treat infections such as biofilms
- High costs associated with surgical wounds
- In general: Rising costs of wound-related health care
- Reduced life quality for the patients and their families
Furthermore, we see:
- Barriers between innovation stakeholders hampering the availability of new and better solutions
- Lack of available clinical trial (CT) sites in Europe with access to patients and CT-trained personal
- Lack of knowledge-sharing between research and industry on e.g., clinical needs, innovative ideas, and solutions
