Digital lifelong prevention

Contact person: Stefania Boccia, Roberta Pastorino

Short Title: DARE

Call for applications: PNC_PNRR 2022

Project Code: RX430008R4121C

Start date: 01/11/2022

End date: 01/11/2026

Coordinator: DARE Foundation

Funding body: Ministry of Health

Link: https://www.fondazionedare.it/it/progetto-obiettivi-struttura/

Abstract: The DARE project is funded by the MUR as part of the National Plan for Complementary Investments to the PNRR, with the aim of enhancing the potential of data to improve health promotion and lifelong prevention.
The study has a duration of 3 years and involves the participation of two operating units based in Rome (FPG1, FPG2) and an academic operating unit based in Bologna (UNIBO). UNIBO is the international data center of the StoP Project and is responsible for data management, inclusion of new studies and preparation of a unique dataset for the consortium. 
DARE will achieve this by enhancing the tools, knowledge and processes for the effective use of data to define, monitor and predict health trajectories.

Other objectives include:
To make the DARE Foundation the national reference center for digital technologies for prevention.
To create a community oriented towards digital prevention through research, innovation and the involvement of all stakeholders.
Fostering collaboration between healthcare, academia, industry and decision-makers
Promote a cultural change oriented towards trust and the adoption of digital prevention.
The DARE project uses a hub-spoke organizational model with a central hub and three interconnected spokes. Spoke 1 focuses on enablers and technologies for digital prevention, Spoke 2 on community-based primary prevention, and Spoke 3 on digitally enabled secondary and tertiary prevention. 

Spoke 1 provides technological and infrastructural support to the other spokes. Spoke 2 develops a surveillance system for primary prevention, i.e. aimed at healthy citizens. Spoke 3 implements digital solutions for secondary and tertiary prevention (i.e. towards citizens who are at risk of developing a disease, or who are already sick), using artificial intelligence and digital biomarkers to monitor and manage health.