Innovate Rheumatology
Smart, Digitalized, Personalized and Precise
Rheumatology is at the edge of transformation. How can the entire therapy journey from prevention via identification and diagnosis to treatment be individualized and optimized with the help of modern technologies? Unleash your creativity, use your imagination to tackle this plethora of challenging issues and make an impact on one of the most prevalent diseases in society.
Optional: In our free and optional Design Thinking Workshop we will help you to innovate your idea and will connect you with other participants - Register here.
✅ Challenge completed 🏁 Winner Congratulations to Vila Health, ScientaLab and Midaia for winning the Challenge. Special rewards for their innovative ideas were also given to "Cynteract" and "Joint-on-Chip"🏆 Rewards 8.000€ prize pool + working together with experts from rheumatology + possibility of further cooperation with medac
Legal process
If teams and/or participants do not belong to the winners of the challenge, all pre-existing intellectual property rights in results which are brought into the Challenge (Foreground IP), as well as all intellectual property rights (except for pre-existing intellectual property rights of medac, which remain with medac) newly developed in the results in the challenge (Background IP) remain with the participants at all time.
During the interview phase, an obligatory coordination meeting between the qualified finalists and medac will take place. In that coordination meeting, medac and the teams and/or participants will conclude an agreement, determining what is to be understood as Foreground IP.
If teams and/or participants belong to the winners of the challenge, medac and the teams and/or participants will conclude an additional agreement covering all Foreground IP and all Background IP. If not otherwise agreed in that agreement, all Foreground IP) remains completely with the participants and/or teams. Participants may be required to grant medac rights of use in the Foreground IP, though, where necessary for medac to legally use the results developed in the challenge. Should any Background IP be developed in the challenge, it will be transferred or granted to medac against payment of the prize money if no other agreement is made.
A different agreement can be reached on the handling of Foreground IP and Background IP if needed and intended from one party.
Note: If the parties (medac and participants) cannot agree on the handling of Foreground IP and Background IP, medac is entitled to appoint a successor and to exclude the team concerned without compensation.
All binding information can be found in the Conditions of Participation.
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