Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

The number of bone fractures and linked health disorders are going to increase in the future due to an ageing society. The project will set up local registries and link them together in one transnational data registry. Hospitals and companies in the Baltic Sea region will use the registry to identify needs and potentials for innovation within fracture management. The industrial sectors for innovation are broad covering implants, pharmaceuticals, imaging, wound care or single use surgery devices. Innovations in these sectors must reduce the total cost of care, or clearly improve the quality of care at a justifiable cost and bring new solutions to medical challenges. Demand for innovation and investments is rising: The European medical technology industry increased their R&D expenditure by 11 % from 2012 to 2013. At the same time, research and innovation (R&I) within fracture management is facing various challenges: understanding clinical needs and effectiveness, reducing costs of innovation and minimising time to market. Clinics and companies often lack insight into the total costs of care, the effectiveness of treatment and the causes of adverse health outcomes in hospitals. To overcome these challenges, clinical fracture registries can provide evidence into the clinical “real world” and reveal needs and potentials for innovation. Furthermore, clinics and hospitals are important actors in the innovation process helping to identify needs and to ensure user-oriented products. Around 50 % of new products are initiated by doctors. Accordingly, companies in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) need direct access to hospitals and doctors for collaboration within needs assessment, preclinical research, product development, clinical trials, post market follow up studies or health technology assessment. Moreover, when doctors exchange best practice across hospitals and across countries, they can improve their clinical procedures. Finally, successful innovation is driven by fast market access across countries. Direct collaboration between doctors and companies facilitates market access in particular for start-ups and small and medium enterprises. The BFCC project responds to these challenges by accelerating transnational collaboration for innovation within fracture management in the BSR. It develops and implements a transnational fracture registry platform of six hospitals from Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia and Sweden. The registry allows users to compare the treatment process and outcome quality across institutions and countries. This transnational R&I infrastructure fosters the evidence based identification of clinical best practice and needs for innovation. BFCC establishes a transnational collaboration platform between hospitals and industry, which is tested in transnational pilots with hospitals and companies involved.

Achievements (EN):

A digital registry to collect missing data and establish new links: In order to accommodate all these health and business needs, the BFCC project encouraged four hospitals in Germany, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland to join forces in the Transnational Fracture Registry Platform. The platform helped to acquire, store and process fracture data. The platform allowed to compare the clinical process and quality of outcomes across organisations and countries. At the end of the project the Fracture Registry contained several hundred complete data sets. As the work continues this number is growing every day and delivering new evidence. Fracture Registry in action: Through practical usage of data gathered on the Transnational Fracture Registry Platform the project has improved the understanding of innovation processes in the medical technology industry. This way 48 companies gained opportunities to enter into a dialogue with the involved clinics and carry out research in fracture management. These businesses got a chance to align their innovation efforts with clinical requirements as well as gained access to the most recent findings in the fracture research. The collaboration standards were tested, evaluated and optimized in the fields of infections, diagnostics and post-surgery complications. These tests featured different aspects such as a new classification system for fracture complications, a clinical study about a new commercially available bone substitute that elutes antibiotics, and a new method for hip fractures applied in a hospital setting. The companies involved gained insight into innovation cycles between industry and clinics in different Baltic Sea region countries and expanded their networks for future clinical industry cooperation. Better treatment in the future: With EUR 3 million support from the European Union, the Interreg project BFCC has created a novel tool that gave a new dimension to cooperation of hospitals and medical technology industry. This in turn is likely to change treatment outcomes for thousands of patients who will experience fracture in the future. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/bfcc/

Website: https://www.bfcc-project.eu

Delivered Outputs (EN):

Independent Trusted Third Party Transnational Fracture Registry Platform New Fracture Registry Sites 2 Innovation reports identifying innovation needs and potentials for clinical and industrial stakeholders Documentation of innovation dialogue events Education and training courses for clinicians and health professionals in the BSR Output title R&I collaboration manual, including an information basis of the hospitals’ specific framework conditions and standards to develop, implement and execute collaborative projects. Evaluation of the R&I Collaboration Platform; case studies from each demonstration pilot Implant-related infection control solution concept Application of pulse-echo ultrasound for osteoporosis management in subjects with acute fracture Classification and evaluation of complications of fracture treatment as a tool for the transnational fracture registry platform including showcasing a possibility to access routine registry dara with the purpose to fulfil the new EU MDR BFCC web-based Communication and Knowledge Platform BFCC Stakeholder Group BFCC Innovation Library for Fracture Management Sustainability and service concept of the BFCC

Thematic information

Health and social services Clustering and economic cooperation

Specific Objective: ‘Research and innovation infrastructures’: To enhance market uptake of innovation based on improved capacity of research and innovation infrastructures and their users

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority: (01a) enhancing research and innovation (R&I) infrastructure and capacities to develop R&I excellence, and promoting centres of competence, in particular those of European interest

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Life Science Nord Management GmbH

Address: Falkenried 88, 20251 Hamburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lifesciencenord.de/en

Total budget: EUR 675 301.94

ERDF budget: EUR 506 476.45

Stryker Trauma GmbH

Name: Stryker Trauma GmbH

Department: R&D

Address: Professor-Küntscher-Str. 1-5, 24232 Schönkirchen , Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.stryker.de

Total budget: EUR 171 619.32

ERDF budget: EUR 128 714.49

Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein

Name: Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein

Address: Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uksh.de

Total budget: EUR 692 556.82

ERDF budget: EUR 519 417.61

Universitätsmedizin Greifswald

Name: Universitätsmedizin Greifswald

Department: Institute for Community Medicine Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health

Address: Fleischmannstraße 8, 17475 Greifswald, Germany

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www2.medizin.uni-greifswald.de/icm/index.php?id=19

Total budget: EUR 715 936.85

ERDF budget: EUR 536 952.63

Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset

Name: Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset

Department: Department of Othopaedic Surgery

Address: Göteborgsvägen 31, SE-431 80 Mölndal, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sahlgrenska.se

Total budget: EUR 338 004.54

ERDF budget: EUR 253 503.40

ScanBalt fmba

Name: ScanBalt fmba

Address: ScanBalt c/o Peter Frank, Allegade 14, 4tv, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.scanbalt.org

Total budget: EUR 153 867.33

ERDF budget: EUR 115 400.49

Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas

Name: Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas

Address: A. Mickeviciaus str. 9, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lsmuni.lt

Total budget: EUR 306 122.69

ERDF budget: EUR 260 204.28

Fundacja Klaster LifeScience Kraków

Name: Fundacja Klaster LifeScience Kraków

Address: Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Kraków, Poland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.lifescience.pl

Total budget: EUR 52 023.43

ERDF budget: EUR 44 219.91

Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie

Name: Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej Szpital Uniwersytecki w Krakowie

Address: UL. Kopernika 36, 31-501 Krakow, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.su.krakow.pl

Total budget: EUR 142 154.02

ERDF budget: EUR 120 830.91

Tartu Ülikool

Name: Tartu Ülikool

Department: Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics

Address: Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ut.ee

Total budget: EUR 152 085.22

ERDF budget: EUR 129 272.43

Tartu Biotehnoloogia Park OÜ

Name: Tartu Biotehnoloogia Park OÜ

Address: Tiigi 61b, 50410 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.biopark.ee

Total budget: EUR 71 706.60

ERDF budget: EUR 60 950.61

Bone Index Finland Oy

Name: Bone Index Finland Oy

Address: Microkatu 1, 70210 Kuopio, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.bindex.fi

Total budget: EUR 66 954.54

ERDF budget: EUR 50 215.90

BONESUPPORT AB

Name: BONESUPPORT AB

Department: R&D

Address: Scheelevägen 19, Ideon Science Park, SE-223 70 Lund, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.bonesupport.com

Total budget: EUR 61 909.10

ERDF budget: EUR 46 431.82

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Life Science Nord Management GmbH

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Stryker Trauma GmbH

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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University Medicine Greifswald

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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ScanBalt fmba

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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LifeScience Krakow Klaster

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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University Hospital in Krakow

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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University of Tartu

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Tartu Biotechnology Park

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Bone Index Finland Ltd.

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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BONESUPPORT AB

Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

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Summary

Project name (EN): Baltic Fracture Competence Centre

Project acronym: BFCC

Project start date: 2016-03-01

Project end date: 2019-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 600 242.40

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 772 590.93

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 77.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 772 590.93.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

Home - BFCC

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://projects.interreg-baltic.eu/projects/bfcc-23.html

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Media releases / articles

Vancomycin elution from a biphasic ceramic bone substitute

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Media release / article

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-21

Attachment link: https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/2046-3758.82.BJR-2018-0174.R2

Reports

Stakeholder recommendations

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-26

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Trends in the surgical treatment methods of proximal femur fractures

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2018-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Fracture treatment in the Baltic Sea Region - Analysis of the registry data collected in the BFCC

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Diagnostics Pilot Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Implant-related infection control solution concept

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Literature Analysis: Overview of Diagnosed Infections

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2017-10-06

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Evaluation of the research & innovation collaboration platform

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Use of a registry to perform MDR post-market clinical follow-up for trauma implants — a pilot study

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Presentations

Sustainability Concept

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2018-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BONEBANK - overview of the project

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Baltic Fracture Competence Center

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Innovation Network For Bone Healing

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Biological Characterization

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Bluewater Medical

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

The BFCC Registry -technical implementation, data set and data entry

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-14

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Big Data in Medicine:Hype or Hope for the Patient?

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Standardisation of complication assessment and reporting in orthopedics with focus on shoulder conditions

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Similarities and differences in proximal femoral fractures management in Lithuania and Germany

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Implementing and validating a transnational fracture registry with a complication module

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Treatment of delayed-union fractures of long bones with minimally invasive administration of allogeneic bone-forming cells differentiated from mesenchymal stem cells: a pilot clinical trial

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BONEBANK – Data Management

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Development of a transport chain and of an injection device

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Treatment of osteomyelitis and the reconstruction of bone defects

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

New diagnostic methods

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Diagnostics of implant related infections

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

In vitro studies for antibacterial concepts in the field of bone implant materials

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

New risks and injury causes –challenges for prevention –”How to find them in time”

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Pilot infections of BFCC: the differences in care and outcome treating implant related infection in Baltic Sea Region countries

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Cells in functional porous materials

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

A 3D printed biodegradable polylactide cage loaded with collagen I and growth factors (SDF-1 and BMP-7) for bone regeneration

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

SANO Applied Research Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Access & Acceleration. Academia-Hospital-Industry Platform for Health Innovation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-02-13

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Brochures / magazines / manuals

The operational framework for the research & innovation collaboration platform

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-01-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Catalogues

Catalogue of challenges and opportunities identified in the scope of innovation dialogue

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Catalogue

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Flyers

BFCC Flyer 2017

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Flyer

Data source: https://www.bfcc-project.eu/

Publication date: 2021-12-30

Document date: 2017-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-16

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

200 / 200 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30.

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