Projects
Current projects
RECENTRE
Risk-based lifEstyle Change: daily-lifE moNiToring and REcommendations
About
There is a great need for a more personalized approach in healthcare and smart monitoring solutions to revolutionize healthcare and relocate care from the clinical to the home setting. In RECENTRE, we work with patients and citizens to empower people to play a leading role in their lifestyle and health within their own environment. By holistic monitoring of vulnerable populations in their home and tailored recommendations, we relocate care from primary/secondary care and prevent disease development or worsening, resulting in timely intervention, higher quality of life and lower healthcare costs.
By leveraging on existing state-of-the-art sensing techniques, we advance emerging deep-tech sensing approaches, resulting in improvements in scale, cost, and performance. We develop dynamic risk profiles based on multivariate data for the added risk of lifestyle on health outcomes over time. For monitoring high-risk populations in daily life, we create integrated smart sensor systems. The systems are designed for high patient engagement by considering the needs of patients in combination with the vividness of imagining oneself in a virtual environment with different types of sensing techniques in the future-self approach. By deep-phenotyping, we develop dynamic holistic patient profiles over the life course to come towards meaningful personalized adaptive recommendations with high potential for adoption and lifestyle change. We investigate transferability by including multiple application areas; focusing on cancer and obese populations at risk of late effects. This combined risk-based approach using holistic monitoring and engagement enables sustainable empowerment of people in daily-life using eHealth.
Our combined 4TU expertise will strengthen and pool cutting-edge techniques in the fields of deep-tech sensing technologies, dynamic prediction modelling, holistic profiling, adaptive individual interventions, patient engagement, implementation science, and (cost-)effectiveness. This synergy in complementary expertise is paramount for successful development of smart affordable and accessible eHealth monitoring solutions in daily life. We form a large network, including all relevant stakeholders for our patient and citizen-centered approach.
About
There is a great need for a more personalized approach in healthcare and smart monitoring solutions to revolutionize healthcare and relocate care from the clinical to the home setting. In RECENTRE, we work with patients and citizens to empower people to play a leading role in their lifestyle and health within their own environment. By holistic monitoring of vulnerable populations in their home and tailored recommendations, we relocate care from primary/secondary care and prevent disease development or worsening, resulting in timely intervention, higher quality of life and lower healthcare costs.
By leveraging on existing state-of-the-art sensing techniques, we advance emerging deep-tech sensing approaches, resulting in improvements in scale, cost, and performance. We develop dynamic risk profiles based on multivariate data for the added risk of lifestyle on health outcomes over time. For monitoring high-risk populations in daily life, we create integrated smart sensor systems. The systems are designed for high patient engagement by considering the needs of patients in combination with the vividness of imagining oneself in a virtual environment with different types of sensing techniques in the future-self approach. By deep-phenotyping, we develop dynamic holistic patient profiles over the life course to come towards meaningful personalized adaptive recommendations with high potential for adoption and lifestyle change. We investigate transferability by including multiple application areas; focusing on cancer and obese populations at risk of late effects. This combined risk-based approach using holistic monitoring and engagement enables sustainable empowerment of people in daily-life using eHealth.
Our combined 4TU expertise will strengthen and pool cutting-edge techniques in the fields of deep-tech sensing technologies, dynamic prediction modelling, holistic profiling, adaptive individual interventions, patient engagement, implementation science, and (cost-)effectiveness. This synergy in complementary expertise is paramount for successful development of smart affordable and accessible eHealth monitoring solutions in daily life. We form a large network, including all relevant stakeholders for our patient and citizen-centered approach.
Biomedical Signals and Systems | Health
COMBINED
How do changes in biodiversity and climate affect each other in Dutch landscapes? That question is at the heart of the COMBINED project. In addition, COMBINED will synthesise the effects of existing management measures and identify what barriers stand in the way of implementing successful measures. In this project, 24 Dutch societal organisations and knowledge institutes team up for six years. The project website will follow!
Partners: The COMBINED project 'Combatting biodiversity loss and improving climate change resilience through evidence-based, integrated, and adaptive landscape governance in the Netherlands' is led by Prof. Wieteke Willemen of University of Twente together with University of Utrecht, Wageningen University, HAS Green Academy, and partners from Leiden University, Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Naturalis, InHolland, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, AERES, PBL, Natuurmonumenten, Staatsbosbeheer, Municipality of Groningen, Municipality of The Hague, Urgenda, LTO Nederland, BoerenNatuur, Landgoed Twickel, LandschappenNL, Province of Gelderland, Province of Utrecht, Bij12, FrieslandCampina.
Sponsor: NWO
Partners: The COMBINED project 'Combatting biodiversity loss and improving climate change resilience through evidence-based, integrated, and adaptive landscape governance in the Netherlands' is led by Prof. Wieteke Willemen of University of Twente together with University of Utrecht, Wageningen University, HAS Green Academy, and partners from Leiden University, Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Naturalis, InHolland, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, AERES, PBL, Natuurmonumenten, Staatsbosbeheer, Municipality of Groningen, Municipality of The Hague, Urgenda, LTO Nederland, BoerenNatuur, Landgoed Twickel, LandschappenNL, Province of Gelderland, Province of Utrecht, Bij12, FrieslandCampina.
Sponsor: NWO
ITC-LIFE | Resource Security | Urban Futures
Finished projects
EO4Diversity
Biodiversity Precursors – EO4Diversity (2021)
Region: International (ESA)
Description: EO4DIVERSITY addresses important biodiversity science gaps, including forecasting ecological degradation in order to define effective actions to reduce terrestrial biodiversity loss.
Partners: Stichting Wageningen Research, Vision on Technology for a Better World (VITO), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lund University, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the Finish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the University of Zurich (RSL / UZH).
Region: International (ESA)
Description: EO4DIVERSITY addresses important biodiversity science gaps, including forecasting ecological degradation in order to define effective actions to reduce terrestrial biodiversity loss.
Partners: Stichting Wageningen Research, Vision on Technology for a Better World (VITO), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lund University, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the Finish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the University of Zurich (RSL / UZH).
ITC-LIFE | Resource Security
BIOSPACE
The BIOSPACE project aims to monitor biodiversity by upscaling field observations and genomic (eDNA) information using next-generation satellite remote sensing
Partners: Wageningen University, Macquarie University, Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, SYKE, Stichting Het Nationale Park de Hoge Veluwe, Natuurmonumenten
Partners: Wageningen University, Macquarie University, Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, SYKE, Stichting Het Nationale Park de Hoge Veluwe, Natuurmonumenten
ITC-LIFE | Geospatial AI | Resource Security