UNITE - European Digital Health Valleys

**Mission** The mission of the UNITE project is to **unite regional ambitions and capabilities** to improve health, wellbeing, and economic outcomes through digital innovations. This mission is driven by the need to address Europe's demographic transitions, particularly the ageing population, which presents both significant challenges and market opportunities. The project aims to: - Leverage digital innovations to enhance health and wellbeing. - Build an open, European, interregional value chain for digital health and wellbeing. - Align with each partner region’s smart specialisation strategy, with a specific focus on improving citizen health through digital innovation. - The mission also highlights the focus on digitalisation, research, and workforce development as key enablers for achieving these goals, in alignment with broader European and global health strategies. **Vision** The partners in the UNITE project share a vision of creating a **borderless European digital health innovation ecosystem**. This ecosystem is intended to address the challenges and capture the opportunities presented by demographic transitions and the emerging “silver economy” across Europe. The vision includes: - Uniting diverse regions, stakeholders, and sectors (public, private, academia, civic society) across Europe. - Encouraging entrepreneurship and enabling local startups to scale. - Opening new interregional European value chains for collaboration in digital health. - Facilitating a dynamic ecosystem that spans across geographical, economic, cultural, and healthcare system diversities in Europe.