{"id":1762,"date":"2025-10-07T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biophot.lv\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:42:31","slug":"biophot-platform-strengthens-links-with-eit-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biophot.lv\/en\/biophot-platforma-stiprina-saites-ar-eit-health\/","title":{"rendered":"\"BioPhoT platform strengthens links with EIT Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, 8 October, the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga will host <em>EIT National Day<\/em> 2025 - an event organised by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that will bring together representatives of the science, business and innovation ecosystem from Latvia and abroad. Everyone is welcome to attend the event by registering in advance for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/fienta.com\/eitnationalday2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">fienta.com\/eitnationalday2025<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the event, the leadership of the research platform \"Biomedical and Photonics Research Platform for Innovative Products\" (\"BioPhoT\") will discuss opportunities for closer collaboration with the EIT community in Latvia, in particular with <em>EIT Health<\/em> a network to promote health innovation, photonics and biomedical technologies in Latvia and Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the collaboration is to help Latvian researchers and start-ups become part of the European health innovation community, learning from industry professionals and gaining valuable international experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Osvalds Pugovi\u010ds, BioPhoT Platform Manager<\/strong> will take part in the panel \"Bridging the Gap in Innovation: Potential for Latvian Deep Tech Startup Ecosystem Support\". The topic of the panel will be tools for bridging the innovation \"valley of death\", i.e. the technological readiness level range TRL4 - TRL6 - national support tools, incl. \"BioPhoT platform, EIT programmes, as well as opportunities for synergies between tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O. 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