University College Dublin (UCD) is one of Europe’s leading research-intensive universities, where a comprehensive suite of strong disciplines forms the foundation of high-quality interdisciplinary research, scholarship and innovation. UCD is the national leader in research funding, attracting quality investment that has helped the university to establish a reputation as a world-class destination for leading researchers.
Oslo University Hospital (OUS) is a highly specialised hospital in charge of extensive regional and local hospital assignments and the provision of high-quality services for the citizens of Oslo. The hospital also has a nationwide responsibility for a number of national and multi-regional assignments and has several national centres of competence. The hospital is Scandinavia’s largest, and we each year carry out more than 1.2 million patient treatments.
UCD will be active in disseminating KPIs developed in Task 1.4, and will be active in WP4, and WP6 as the lead for the work in one of the testing scenarios on young people with complex needs.
Our contribution to the project
Prof Maria Brenner, Professor of Children’s Nursing is experienced in leading large multidisciplinary teams. This includes a current 5-year project funded by the European Research Council to explore the initiation of technology dependence in children with complex care needs (TechChild). She previously led the development of the first standards of care for children with complex care needs in Europe as part of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) project, funded by the EU Commission Horizon 2020.
Oslo University Hospital carry out advanced patient treatment, research and trial treatments, give advice and provide education on international level. A major part of the total medical research carried out at Norwegian medical centres is performed at Oslo University Hospital. This is the result of the hospital’s general research strategy and its extensive international and national network cooperation.
Oslo University Hospital will be active WP6 as the site for the Norwegian testing scenarios of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We will develop and test a digital platform with tools and services that can provide patients with inflammatory bowel disease better access to relevant health information from trusted sources for better health literacy, medication compliance and health-related quality of life.
