WARIFA Kick off meeting

The WARIFA partners met online for the first consortium meeting on the 1^st and 2^nd February 2021.  This digital event was an arena for all partners and participants to meet, present themselves and their project contributions. WARIFA project consists of 12 partners from 6 countries who work together to empower individual citizens in the prevention of chronic conditions through the use of AI. The consortium holds expertise within AI technology, applied mathematics and statistics,e-health, preventive medicine, clinical medicine, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, biostatistics, communication and dissemination. The partners that will implement WARIFA in the next 4 years are: The Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (Norway) – coordinator, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest (Romania), UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Norway), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), University of Oslo (Norway), Munster Technological University (Ireland), CiaoTech Srl (Italy), Netsun Software Srl (Romania), National Research Council of Italy (Italy), Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain), Sensotrend Oy (Finland), Norwegian Melanoma Association (Norway).

The consortium will work for the next 4 year to develop a prototype of a combined early risk assessment tool that will provide individual citizens with personalised recommendations for the management of noncommunicable diseases – such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – which represent the leading causes of death for the citizens of the European Union. The WARIFA tool will be available to individual citizens via a user-friendly app on their smartphone.

WARIFA – Watching the risk factors: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the prevention of chronic conditions – is a research project funded by EU’s research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 (GA 101017385).

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