Funding

Technology program: “Next Generation Media”

Next Generation Media (2005-2009) was a technology program of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). The aim of this program was to support eleven cooperative research and development projects that test and demonstrate new opportunities for the intelligent networking of objects and information. Healthcare is one of the innovation areas to be assessed and the project “Partnership for the Heart” is one of the test programs, supported with 4,9 million euros (Project no.: 01MG532). Program implementation was done by the  German Aerospace Center (DLR), Project Management Agency Convergent ICT / Multimedia, and continuous evaluation by the VDI-VDE IT.