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SmILE partners meet in Porto for Project Progress Meeting

On April 20-21, the SmILE consortium gathered in Porto, Portugal, for a two-day progress meeting hosted by Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. More than 50 participants from over 20 partner organisations atten...

SmILE at the II Ageing Deal Conference in Rome

Organised by SmILE, STAGE, and COMFORTage projects, the II Ageing Deal Conference in Rome, brought together various stakeholders from across Europe to advance a shared vision for healthy and co...

Second Ageing Deal Conference in Rome

The Ageing Deal is a pioneering European initiative designed to respond to the societal implications of longer lives by promoting healthier and more inclusive ageing across Europe. It is driven by Eur...

SmILE Patient Advisory Board kick-off meeting

Last week, in Lübeck, the SmILE project held the kick-off meeting of its newly established Patient Advisory Board, marking an important milestone in the project’s commitment to participatory research....

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Im Rahmen des Horizon-Europe-Projekts SmILE – Smart Implants for Life Enrichment führen Forschende des Universitätsklinikums Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) eine Studie durch, um die Perspektiven von Pati...

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As part of the EU-funded SmILE project, researchers at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) are conducting a study to better understand patients’ perspectives on smart implants and thei...

SmILE Partners Meet in Ghent to Advance Implant Integration and Sensor Design

In mid-October, partners from Work Packages 4 and 5 of the SmILE project met in Ghent, Belgium, for an in-depth technical exchange hosted by IMEC.

The meeting brought together experts working on h...

SmILE Project Featured on SciLux Podcast

The SmILE project (Smart Implants for Life Enrichment) recently took centre stage in an episode of the SciLux science podcast, where the spotlight was on how smart medical technology could trans...

SmILE Project Presented at Ageing Deal Conference in Barcelona

On May 8th, the SmIlLE project was featured at the “Life-Course Approach for Healthy Ageing Together” conference in Barcelona. The event took place at the historic Casa Convalescència within the Hos...

Horizon Europe Project SmILE Kicks Off in Lübeck

The Horizon Europe project SmILE – Smart Implants for Life Enrichment officially launched with a two-day kick-off meeting held on February 13–14, 2025, at Fraunhofer IMTE in Lübeck, Germany. Aroun...

SmILE: Smart Implants for Life Enrichment

The new project “SmILE” begins its journey to provide smart solutions reducing the burden of musculoskeletal non-communicable diseases (MSK-NCDs) in the elderly by means of preventive measures and ear...