Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is the largest university in Greece. The main campus is located in the centre of the city of Thessaloniki. It comprises 10 faculties which consist of 40 schools and 1 single-School Faculty.

The Lab of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation (iMedPhys) is a dynamic, interactive scientific community, the largest laboratory within the Health Sciences Faculty and one of the largest of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, considering the number of researchers employed and the number of projects, funding and overall academic work production. The mission of the Lab is to excel in training and multi-disciplinary research in a setting that fosters creativity and synergy.

The Lab is pioneering in research fields such as assistive technologies for health and wellbeing, living labs, applied neuroscience, medical education technology and innovation, medical imaging, semantic web, affective computing and other contemporary thematic areas like brain computer interfaces and medical and social robots. It is composed of contemporary working spaces, unique for a public Hellenic University, and accommodates unique laboratory infrastructures such as a Digital Living Lab space, a hospital-based Healthcare Transitions Living Lab, a Short Arm Human Centrifuge Rehabilitation Lab, a fully equipped Neuroscience Laboratory with high density EEG, neurofeedback and MEG (soon) and other. The Lab comprises of several research groups, leaders in their respective specialties, which pursue innovative research projects, while its embers have been recognized internationally for their research excellence (see publications) and have been funded by a wide spectrum of sources.

OUR ROLE

AUTH and particularly iMedPhys is the project coordinator overseeing the overall management and execution of the project. AUTH has extensive experience in executing and coordinating European projects, with a portfolio exceeding 70 national and EU-funded initiatives. AUTH provides also the scientific expertise and scientific guidance in the transitional care domain. AUTH has established a Living Lab ThessAHALL and was the leader in designing and developing the AccelUP platform through the VITALISE project (Grant agreement ID: 101007990). AUTH will also undertake the technical updates in AccelUP platform.