Belgium in ITEA

Belgium has been a steadfast supporter of ITEA since its inception in 1998. The Belgian project partners have successfully managed ITEA's key challenges Smart Engineering, Smart Health, Smart Communities, and Smart Cities; among the 31 projects with Belgian participation that received an ITEA Award, 29 specifically addressed these challenges, showcasing Belgium's substantial contributions to ITEA's objectives.

On this webpage, you will find an overview of activities and publications of Belgium in ITEA. It provides valuable insights into the potential benefits of participating in an ITEA project and whether ITEA could be a fit for your organisation. You can also find information regarding the funding opportunities and the national funding contact details.

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Impact stories with Belgian participation

Impact is one of the main ambitions in ITEA. Impact on business, on the market, on society. This is a key value in ITEA, and impact and potential impact are central during the project lifecycle: in project evaluation, monitoring, closure and in communication of the results. With the (financial) support of national Public Authorities, many ITEA projects have achieved incredible results, which are gathered in ITEA Impact stories.

IMPACT

IMPACT Impact story

15 December 2025

Healthcare faces many challenges, including improving patient outcome and working more cost-effectively, while the demand is growing, staff capacity is declining, and new clinical and technological developments succeed each other quickly. The ITEA project IMPACT has addressed several challenges by leveraging the power of data to move towards intelligence-based healthcare. Data analysis for clinical business intelligence has been accelerated, reducing the time needed for data analysis to less than five minutes, compared to the days or weeks it previously took. IMPACT will continue to impact society and further enhance patient experience, improve population health, reduce costs and improve the work life of healthcare providers.

EMPHYSIS

EMPHYSIS Impact story

04 October 2024

In the realm of developing new functionalities, engineers often discover that their profound understanding of the physics governing their products falls short when it comes to crafting functions for embedded targets. While this might result in a never-to-be-realised excellent initial idea of operating and controlling their product in a much smarter way, at the same time it reveals the need for a link between the digital simulation of real-world physics and embedded software leveraging on such physics models. EMPHYSIS established a new open standard - eFMI® - laying the foundation to develop innovative tools, facilitating the realisation of model-based functions directly in embedded software with improved code efficiency.

PARTNER

PARTNER Impact story

04 December 2023

During a patient’s journey through the health system, his or her medical information is often stored in multiple databases focusing on specific elements of the needed care and the patient’s condition – even within one hospital. These databases generally cannot interact, which makes it impossible to draw up all information belonging to one patient. In addition, information coming from self-monitoring solutions can also be very valuable when integrated with hospital’s data. The PARTNER project has developed an architecture that makes it possible to let different systems, offered by multiple vendors, communicate with each other.

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Industry statement from Belgium

Research statement from Belgium

From a research perspective, ITEA is the perfect modality because we try to combine this difficult place between fundamental research and applied industrial research. For us, ITEA gives us this opportunity, mixing both, learning from peers and also running from different application domains. So that makes it very interesting.

Anna Hristoskova - SIRRIS

ITEA award-winning projects with Belgian participation

AI Call 2021

ITEA Award of Excellence 2025
for Business impact

IWISH

Intelligent Workflow optimization and Intuitive System interaction in Healthcare

ITEA 3 Call 4

ITEA Award of Excellence 2023
Innovation

SAMUEL

Smart Additive Manufacturing – an AM Intelligent Platform

The ITEA project SAMUEL has created innovative solutions to help additive manufacturing users learn more and improve their work, thereby making the whole process more consistent, reliable and trustworthy. SAMUEL is a winner of the ITEA Award of Excellence 2023 for Innovation.

ITEA 3 Call 4

ITEA Award of Excellence 2022
Innovation

IMPACT

Intelligence based iMprovement of Personalized treatment And Clinical workflow supporT

Healthcare faces many challenges, while the demand is growing, staff capacity is declining, and new clinical and technological developments succeed each other quickly. The IMPACT project has addressed several challenges by leveraging the power of data to move towards intelligence-based healthcare and therefore IMPACT has won the 2022 ITEA Award of Excellence in the category ‘Innovation’

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