Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

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Description (EN):

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), has had a very significant impact on the NPA region as a whole. However, this experience of the pandemic has been strikingly different in comparison to more densely populated regions and particularly urban settings. This is not apparent unless geographic specific breakdowns in terms of cases and deaths associated with COVID-19 are examined and interpreted from a public health and clinical perspective. Our clinical team, in collaboration with international colleagues, has been publishing daily comparative data across EU and NPA countries since the beginning of the outbreak on #COVIDWATCHIRL (averaging 30,000 impressions daily since March) and the web https://www.ul.ie/covid-home/covidwatchirl. In “COVIDWATCH-EU-NPA”, through a collaboration with clinical teams across the NPA region, we will provide regularly updated comparative data with clinical interpretation between those NPA and non-NPA regions on a country by country basis: COVIDWATCH-EU-NPA REPORT. We will also retrospectively map the public health responses and interventions used by different NPA regions and countries in the first wave of the COVID-19 and explore how these measures have influenced the individual pandemic curves of these countries: COVIDWATCH-EU-NPA RESPONSE. The first objective of any response to this pandemic must be to protect lives, but past that point the ultimate objective must be keep COVID-19 virus activity in society as low as possible and find a way for countries and regions to return safely to economic and social functioning. This is vital in order to minimise further collateral damage from COVID-19 for individuals and populations. The collaborative transnational data collection infrastructure COVIDWATCH-EU-NPA will deliver, has the potential to be vitally important to inform countries and regions as they try to navigate their way through the lifting of restrictions in the next phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

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Health and social services

Specific Objective: Increased innovation within public service provision in remote, sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: University of Limerick

Department: School of Medicine

Address: Castletroy, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.ul.ie/medicine/about/staff/academic-faculty/prof-liam-glynn

Total budget: EUR 22 566.00

ERDF budget: EUR 22 566.00

Lakehead University, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Name: Lakehead University, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Address: 935 Ramsey Lake Road, P3E 2C6 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nosm.ca

Total budget: EUR 7 475.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 475.00

Sjúkrahúsið á Akureyri

Name: Sjúkrahúsið á Akureyri

Department: CEO office

Address: Eyrarlandsveg, 603 Akureyri Eyrarlandsveg, Iceland

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.sak.is/

Total budget: EUR 7 475.00

UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Name: UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Department: Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Community Medicine, Norwegian Centre for Rural Medicine (NCRM)

Address: PO Box 6050 Langnes, N-9037 Tromsø Hansine Hansens veg 18, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.nsdm.no/

Total budget: EUR 7 475.00

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Lakehead University, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

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Akureyri Hospital

Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

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University of Tromsø The Arctic University of Norway

Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

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University of Limerick

Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

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Project name (EN): Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

Project acronym: COVIDWATCH-EU-NPA

Project start date: 2020-09-01

Project end date: 2021-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 44 991.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 30 041.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 100.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 30 041.00.

Third-country contribution: Iceland: EUR 7 475.00 (ERDF equivalent only); Norway: EUR 7 475.00 (ERDF equivalent only)

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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Local, national and transnational public health responses and comparative clinical data across the NPA region

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