Healthy Aims Overview

Abstract

The Healthy Aims project, www.healthyaims.org, is a 23M€ four year project funded under the IST FP6 programme, with 16M€ combined funding from the EU and Switzerland. The project goal is to develop a number of intelligent medical implants and diagnostic systems integrating a range of underpinning Micro and Nano technologies. After three years a number of results are already available, disseminated to over 400,000 people worldwide and summarised in this paper.

The project has 25 partners from ten EU countries, including seven SMEs, six clinical partners, five LEs and seven academics and research groups. This combination of disciplines has enabled the Consortium to design, fabricate and carry out laboratory and clinical trials on the range of medical products under test. It has also enabled the project to set realistic specifications for core components that form an integral part of the implants, for example the implantable battery and the wireless data communications system. A further valuable benefit is that the micro and nano structures are designed specifically for use in an application, so again the specification requirements are clearly defined.