It’s widely acknowledged that businesses in the Adult Health and Social Care sector have been some of the hardest hit following the challenges of the pandemic and Brexit.
As such, West Sussex County Council has prioritised funding for small and medium-sized (no more than 249 employees) businesses to receive specific innovation support to recover and boost growth.
Developed in partnership with West Sussex health care groups and Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), this new programme has been designed to provide you with sector specific insights and innovate tools to help you turn challenges into market advantages.
Through a series of masterclasses and workshops, online and in-person sessions, we will share the latest insights and expert knowledge from university academia and industry partners on cutting-edge med-tech solutions to support the challenges facing providers and suppliers in the sector.
Further details will be available at the ‘Introduction to Innovation in Adult Health and Social Care’ launch event in September.
The programme will be delivered through a mix of FREE to attend, online and in person masterclasses and workshops in the following areas:
Register your interest in this FREE programme and we will send you an invitation to the launch event and share details of the full workshop programme dates when confirmed.
The programme will also include two Action Learning Sets to support participants with the challenges and ideas arising from the sessions.
Action learning is a specific process where individuals get together with a facilitator to share business and organisational challenges and get the benefit of pooled advice and expertise from peers.
The programme culminates with an opportunity to further explore new business ideas and opportunities through a research and development project, working with subject experts from the university of Brighton or Sussex, to the value of up to £5000, at no cost to the business.
Through our funding we can directly pay for the time of our top academics in the areas of expertise you need to work directly on your projects. It’s a simply process that includes our Innovation Advisors working with you to scope your project and map the skills and expertise needed -with the unique opportunity of having access to two pools university experts to choose from.
Please note: The Access to Expertise part of this programme is only available for eligible SMEs based in West Sussex. .
Our Horizons programme is a series of inspiring, thematic and sector specific workshops, created to share cutting-edge research and insights to help develop innovative approaches that will enable you to build resilience to national and global challenges within your business.
If you would like to know more about Horizons or if you have any questions about the RISE project, you can get in touch with the team at rise@brighton.ac.uk
Sep 01, 2022
–Jan 31, 2023