Innovation Dialogues Series: FORCE REPAIR and FLAMIN-GO
As both the FORCE REPAIR and FLAMIN-GO projects move toward their final phases, this joint session marks an opportunity to pause and reflect, not only on what has been achieved, but also on what lies ahead beyond the project's lifetime.
Both projects share a common ambition: to translate advanced research into tangible solutions that improve health outcomes. While FORCE REPAIR focuses on developing a smart, multifunctional wound dressing for chronic wound management, FLAMIN-GO advances an organ-on-chip platform for personalised care in rheumatoid arthritis. Each represents a distinct scientific and technological path, yet both face similar challenges when it comes to exploitation, market readiness, and sustainability.
The session was conceived as a space for open discussion on exploitation pathways, market entry strategies, and lessons learned from EU-funded projects. Its aim is to create opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and to highlight how research outcomes can successfully transition from lab to market. The session focused on the research-to-market journey, bringing together coordinators, innovation managers and project partners to share experiences and practical insights.
In this joint session, all participating projects, including FORCE REPAIR, FLAMIN-GO, OSTEOGROW, and OSTEOproSPINE, reflect the shared commitment of our network to advancing innovation through collaboration. The discussion illustrated the full Horizon “innovation pipeline”: FP7 - H2020 - spin-off - EIC Accelerator, with Genera Research serving as a strong example of how sustained EU support can drive technologies from concept to clinical and market readiness.
For RISE, this dialogue also carries a personal note of continuity. The connection to OSTEOGROW and OSTEOproSPINE goes back to the origins of RISE itself, shaped through early collaborations with EURICE that ultimately led to establishing RISE in Croatia. Those partnerships laid out the groundwork for how we approach innovation today: as a collaborative and human-centered process, built on shared experience, and long-term capacity building.
The Innovation Dialogues series aims to extend this spirit of collaboration across innovation ecosystems, connecting disciplines, uncovering cross-cutting challenges, and fostering new synergies between projects. By participating in this initiative, RISE continues to contribute its expertise in innovation management and technology transfer, while supporting the broader goal shared across the EURICE Group, to build bridges from research to impact, and from projects to partnerships that endure beyond their funding lifecycles.
