On 7 and 8 October, partners of the LETHE project gathered in Thessaloniki (Greece) for their third consortium meeting. The event was hosted by FORTH (Foundation for research and technology - HELLAS) and chaired by Sten Hanke (FH Joanneum), coordinator of the project. The meeting focussed on summarising recent project developments and discussing upcoming plans. LETHE aims to provide a data-driven risk factor prediction model for older individuals at risk of cognitive decline building upon big data analysis of cross-sectional observational and longitudinal intervention datasets from 4 clinical centres in Europe including the 11- years analysis of the FINGER study. Since its inception about 1,5 years ago, LETHE is about to launch its mobile app for active collection of health data in the prospective LETHE study.
The first day revolved around the current status of the project, integration of the app into the study as well as the testing status but also recruitment of participants. Furthermore, technical partners talked about roles with the aim to rule out any blind spots with regards to development issues. The first day closed with an overview of the current planning for scientific publications.
On the second day, partners kicked off with an overview of the last day of the meeting. This was followed by a presentation of smart glasses that could be used by some of the study participants. A conversation on how this could be implemented followed including the overall time management for the implementation of the study. In addition, partners discussed different potential exploitation and business models for both the mobile application as well as the health literacy platform. The afternoon provided space for attendees to dive into the current status of the different work packages (such as retrospective data analysis based on Artificial Intelligence, sensing sensors for study participants along with details on the intervention, the Big Data Framework, Data Protection, evaluation of the study, the Health Literacy platform and its potential contents and finally dissemination and communication) aspects of public involvement activities that were conducted as part of the project were also presented.
Learn more about the project: https://www.lethe-project.eu/
The LETHE-Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 101017405.
