Interreg Seas2Grow 

Goal

Organisations can participate in Seas2Grow in different phases of development:

• Concept phase: interviews and co-creation sessions with target groups and experts from the four countries
• Early phase of development: lab tests in a simulated living environment 
• Validation phase: tests with working prototype or final product in the living environment of end users
• Market launch: develop new business models for care innovation 

The Seas2Grow project started in 2016. Some figures:

• Call 1: 20 projects submitted - 5 approved 
• Call 2: 16 projects submitted - 7 approved 
• Call 3: 10 projects submitted - 7 approved 
• Call 4: 10 projects submitted - 7 approved
• Call 5: 107 projects submitted - 8 approved

In total, 163 innovations have been submitted during the lifetime of the project. The following innovations received a 'go' for a project with Seas2Grow.

Call1

• Entusia, Entusia (BE): Incontinence underwear for men and women
• Familities, Family Connect (FR): App for visiting family carers or relatives
• Freya Lévaté, Freya Products (BE): Walking frame for walking and standing up
• Knowing better, is caring better, Sensara (NL): Sensors for fall detection and lifestyle monitoring
• Cutii, Yumii (FR): Companion robot with voice and face recognition 

Call 2

• E-wear, Ewear Sloutions (FR): Underwear with sensors measuring heart rate variability for monitoring of wellbeing
• into.care, Pridiktiv (BE): Platform that improves the workflow of daily care routines in care organisations
• Klup, Klup (NL): App for people over 50 with the main objective to reduce loneliness and social isolation 
• MoveUP (BE): Rehabilitation app for patients after hip or knee replacement
• Pathfinder, Walk with path (UK): Tool attached to shoes for projection of visual cues to prevent Freezing of Gait (FOG)
• SleepSmarterLiveBetter, p2solutions (BE): 
• Smart Power Sockets, Kemuri (UK): Smart power sockets with built-in sensors for lifestyle monitoring

Call 3

• Lifebloom one, Lifebloom (FR): Device that supports movement whilst walking and standing up. 
• Parlangi, Parlangi (BE): Online platform for intergenerational learning, where young and old interact by having conversations 
• Kintell Kepler, Kintell Ltd (UK): Nudging app for adopting healthy habits to help older people stay at home longer 
• Neo-Slip, Neo Innovations (UK): Supportive tool to put on stockings
• Remarkable Lives (UK): App for sharing memories by chronologically storing individual life stories
• Senseradar, SenseRadar BV (NL): Non-contact measurement method to accurately measure sleep and make corresponding analyses
• TUOI-Maximal Design, Tuoi (BE): aesthetic furniture, equipped with well thought-out functions for ease of use and safety

Call 4

• Rbionics, Reboocon Bionics (NL): Light knee prosthesis (Intelleg) and exoskeleton
• CushHealth (UK): App in combination with a smart bracelet that prevents falls by predicting the nature of the fall on the basis of AI
• YourmedPack, Yourmeds (UK): Smart medicine dispenser with notifications for reminding individual medication per intake moment
• VIA, Nascenta (UK): Online community where people with a disability are linked to a volunteer for transport
• Apos Lite, Mechion (UK): Patient monitoring systems to detect dementia early via artificial intelligence
• CareTeam, Nquiringminds (UK): App for family carers to coordinate the care of their loved one, also with care professionals
• Unaide, Unaide (FR): Motion detectors connected to an assistance box to automatically detect deviations from normal daily behaviour

Call 5

• ROLLZ Rythm and Motion, Rollz (NL): Stable rollator with three stimuli that support a rhythmic walking movement.
• MusicChair, (NL): Chair with speakers in the headrests for music therapy for people with dementia
• Wolk, the hip airbag, Wolk (NL): Smart hip protector that prevents hip fractures in case of a fall
• Stim'Art, Dynseo (FR): Online game for memory training for people with memory problems 
• Memoride, Activ84Health (BE): Platform that ensures that residents of a care institutions remain physically, cognitively and socially active by 'cycling in the past’
• MemoryHome, Lannoo Publishers (BE): Unique method for making contact with people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia via a personal 'memory palace’
• TelePhon, TelePhon (BE): Complete platform for telelogopaedics
• Wellwatch, Care UK (UK): Smartwatch combined with an alert service for fall detection in vulnerable elderly people