EMERGE RehabTech funds activities that deliver impact through advances in rehabilitation technologies by improving health outcomes, promoting wellbeing, and enhancing quality of life for individuals and communities, with a focus on supporting the growth of the East Midlands rehabtech economy.
All projects we fund must address at least one of three key challenges for the rehabtech pipeline in the East Midlands:
1. Widening health inequalities within the East Midlands
2. Engaging at-risk people, groups and communities who typically do not engage with rehabilitation programmes and opportunities
3. Disconnect between rehab research infrastructure and businesses in the region
Apply for funding through the Collaboration Fund for Mobility Grants that enable engagement, relationship building, and knowledge exchange (KE) via flexible, bidirectional placements. Mobility Grants aim to facilitate collaborations that accelerate translation of research towards commercialisation and clinical deployment, delivering impact for communities in the East Midlands and beyond.
Inward Mobility
Enable researchers at EMERGE RehabTech consortium universities to host academic and non-academic collaborators. Inward placements facilitate access to specific expertise, knowledge and problem-solving skills that progresses rehabtech innovations.
Outward Mobility
Enable researchers at our consortium universities to visit collaborating organisations, both within and outside the East Midlands. Outward placements will facilitate knowledge transfer with partners, provide opportunities to acquire new skills and access state-of-the-art facilities, and cultivate new and ongoing collaborations that boost development of novel rehabtech.