EU Framework 6 - Healthy Aims Project

Healthy Aims - The Project

Healthy Aims was a European Union Framework Package 6 project (FP6) involving 26 partners, including 6 SMEs, from across 9 EU countries.  €16M of the €26M project fund was secured from the IST Microsystem programme.  The project ran for 4.5 years and combined experts from a wide range of disciplines.  Click here for Healthy Aims - Key Facts

Healthy Aims - Finetech Medical's Outcomes

The core outcomes for Finetech Medical were:

• conception, development, ethical approval and completion of initial clinical trials of the STIMuGRIP ® system.  Read more about the STIMuGRIP ® development.
• development and support of SPIDER, a novel implantable electrode array, trialled in Poland, for pelvic neuromodulation to control bladder and bowel functions.
• furthered experience of managing all project partners ethical approval applications and clinical trials.

Healthy Aims - Dissemination (Papers, Reports, Presentations)

Dissemination from the Healthy Aims project was extensive.  A selection of dissemination is presented below by category:

• STIMuGRIP ®
  • STIMuGRIP ® featured in Daily Mail
  • Help at Hand
  • Developments in Functional Electrical Stimulation
• SPIDER
  • 486 Pelvic Neuromodulation Controls Colonic Motility, Defecation and Induces Miction. Evaluation of a SPIDER-System
    Gastroenterology, Volume 134, Issue 4, Pages A-66-A-66
    J. Sobocki, M. Nowakowski, R. Herman, P. Walega, J. Spensley
• Healthy Aims (whole project)
  • Healthy Aims video