SmartCHANGE
May 1, 2023
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Funding: Horizon Europe · May 2023 – May 2027
The SmartCHANGE project addresses the shift from communicable to non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) in developed countries. According to WHO, more than 70% of deaths worldwide are attributed to NCDs, with projected costs rising from 5.5 trillion € (2010) to over 12 trillion € by 2030. Most NCDs share risk factors including obesity, low physical fitness, poor nutrition, and sedentary behavior. The project aims to create trustworthy, AI-based decision-support tools for assessing NCD risk in children and youth.
Objectives
- Build accurate machine learning models for predicting lifetime NCD risk (cardiovascular and metabolic disease) in children and youth
- Ensure risk-prediction models and AI tools are trustworthy
- Develop tools for health professionals and citizens to improve health outcomes
- Engage users in requirements elicitation and participatory design
- Conduct proof-of-concept studies across four real-world healthcare scenarios in different countries
- Develop implementation recommendations and dissemination strategies
- Create an exploitation and sustainability plan
