BIP: Digital Europe 2030 – AI, Simulation and Data for inclusive healthcare

This interdisciplinary course explores the challenges and opportunities of digital health in Europe through the lenses of data management, artificial intelligence, and simulation/gamification. The ethical metamorphosis of digital health is based on European collaboration.

 

Please be aware that your home university may set a different application deadline depending on their internal selection process.

 

Registration dates 24 April 2024 30 June 2025
Course dates 06 October 2025 11 October 2025
Registration is open
BIP: Digital Europe 2030 – AI, Simulation and Data for inclusive healthcare

Course Description

  • Gamification and Serious Games in Healthcare
    This course introduces the pedagogical power of gamification and serious games in healthcare and beyond, helping participants master game design, storytelling, and team-based learning strategies.

Organised by Université Côte d’Azur, Research Laboratory RETINES in collaboration with Simulation and Education innovation experts of from Agri-food and veterinary schools, the University of Lorraine, and seious games start-ups.

  • GDPR and Digital Health Law
    Participants will explore the foundations of GDPR and how European legal frameworks protect sensitive health data, ensuring secure interoperability and daily application in professional settings.

Organised by University Côte d’Azur Research Laboratory RETINES in collaboration with students of “legal clinic” and legal experts from the “Economic Law and Artificial Intelligence” Chair of Scientific Excellence. (This Chair of Excellence has been awarded the3IA label and the IDEX label).

  • Artificial Intellidence and Health Data
    This module covers how AI can support personalised care and patient pathways, from data analysis to smart avatars and augmented medical consultations.

Organised by University Côte d’Azur and University of Rouen and academic partners specialised in medical AI.

  • Competence Framework and digital transformation in healthcare
    Participants will set the foundations for a European digital health competence framework, by learning to adapt existing models (like DigComp) to diverse professional profiles.

Organised by University Côte d’Azur with contributions from Ulysseus partners and healthcare professionals.

Course Content

  1. Development of the European e-Health Competence Framework
  • Definition of essential skills for clinicians, engineers, patient partners and decision-makers in order to establish a training standard.
  • Build a European Digital Health Competence Framework by building on existing national frameworks and adapting the DigComp framework to digital health competencies, with a specific approach for each profession.
  • Include user, patient partner and citizen networks in the co-construction of the framework
  1. Immersive training: creation of serious games and simulation prototypes in digital health, with the organization of a Gamathon
  • Co-development of serious games on digital health standards (cybersecurity, data hosting, communication, tools and telehealth, ethics and responsibilities)
  • Creation of mandatory exercises for healthcare establishments in the form of interactive challenges for training healthcare professionals and students.
  1. Exploring the uses of AI in healthcare and Virtual Consultation workshop
  • Development of AI solutions for analyzing and personalizing patient care (Quantified Self and well being).
  • Deployment of avatars and interactive learning simulations based on healthcare data.
  • Reflection on the development of AI-enhanced medical consultations.
  1. European Health Data Management Area in Nice
  • Studies and recommendations on interoperability , compliance (GDPR) and digital sovereignty in healthcare to guarantee the trust and protection of healthcare data in Europe/.
  • Position Nice as a hub for secure healthcare data hosting.
  • Experimentation and validation via AMI-CMA networks*

*The laureates of the “Skills and professions of the future” call for manifestation of interest are a group of French universities committed to training in digital health, and tasked with rethinking care and clinical practice in the light of artificial intelligence and robotics. They are attached to the Ministry’s Digital Health Department.

  • Collaboration with key players in the field to test and refine teaching tools.
  • Integration of feedback to improve user experience and training effectiveness.
  1. European dissemination and promotion
  • Organization of Masterclasses and hybrid seminars to raise awareness and provide training.
  • Publication of results and availability of tools on a European open access platform.

 

Course Outline

This interdisciplinary course explores the challenges and opportunities of digital health in Europe through the lenses of data management, artificial intelligence, and simulation / gamification. The ethical metamorphosis of digital health is based on European collaboration.

Students will work in small interdisciplinary groups in co-design workshops to create a new European Competences Framework, devise simulation scenarios (cyber-attacks, assisted diagnosis, etc.), design and create serious digital health games. They will present their projects at the end of the seminar.

They will learn about the new digital health tools with distance learning modules teaching them the skills associated to the exchange and use of sensitive data (protection, cybersecurity, hosting, interoperability) and the legal aspects of emerging techniques. These modules also provide an introduction to the proper use of AI in healthcare and to gamification in healthcare education. Students can assess their progress by taking the self-study quizzes at the end of each module. Students progress can be monitored through the LMS used to deploy these modules.

Organised by University Côte d’Azur in collaboration with Ulysseus partners, it aims to co-develop a European digital health competences framework.

Learning Outcomes

Following this course, students will be able to:

  • Strategic understanding of digital health
    Students will be able to address the major Euopean issues related to digital health: interoperability, data sovereignty, inclusion, ethics, and cybersecurity. They will be able to identify the needs and requirements of the various players i.e. clinicians, engineers, patients, decision-makers to create a common Competence Framework.
  • Mastering digital tools applied to healthcare
    Students will be able to code, script and design serious games and simulation prototypes for educational or organizational purposes.
    They will be able to identify technical standards in e-health i.e. tele-health, data hosting, communication, and cybersecurity.
  • Appropriation of legal issues
    Students will be able to understand the foundations of the GDPR and the best practices for protecting sensitive healthcare data.
    They will be able to assess the compliance of a digital environment in respect to European regulations.
  • Deploying Artificial Intelligence
    Students will be able to identify and evaluate the concrete uses of AI in healthcare: data analysis, avatars, augmented consultations.
    They will be able to discuss and assess ethical aspects and the place of human in augmented medicine.
  • Interdisciplinary work and European collaboration
    Students will work in diverse teams of students, teachers, professionals from various countries and disciplines.
    Students will develop a culture of open innovation, co-constructed with users and partners in the field (AMI-CMA networks).
  • Cross-disciplinary skills
    Project management, intercultural communication, pedagogical creativity, critical thinking, responsible innovation.

Lecturers

Professors include those from University Côte d’Azur, in the faculties of Medicine and Law, and French healthcare professionals (start-up managers, directors of healthcare establishements): Pr Staccini Pascal and the team of associate researchers from the RETINES laboratory (PhD CAURO Lauren-Claire, PhD CARRASCO Jean-François, PhD DUFOUR Frank); Pr Teller Marina or a member of her team (Laboratory CREDEG).

This list is not exhaustive and will depend on the availability of speakers. It may be modified with European collaborations and professors from other universities in the Ulysseus network.

UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D’AZUR

  • Pr Staccini Pascal, PhD , Directeur Laboratoire RETINES
  • Pr Marina Teller, PhD, Professor of Private Law – Director of the DL4T 3IA Chair of Scientific Excellence in Economic Law & AI ‘Law & AI ’AI, blockchain, FinTech, ethics and regulation.
  • Julie Charpenet, Julie.CHARPENET@univ-cotedazur.fr.
  • Laëtitia Marcucci, PhD – lecturer (ATER atthe ESPE and at th CRHI,
Centre de Recherches en Histoire des Idées (Université Côte d’Azur)
  • Lauren Cauro, PhD – Université Côte d’Azur – Associate researcher at the RETINES laboratory – SaNuRN training engineer – Director of Education at ENVICOM and creator of serious games
  • Pr. Frank Dufour, PhD – Pr. University of Texas at Dallas, Université Côte d’Azur –Associate researcher in the RETINES laboratory – SaNuRN training engineer
  • Jean-Francois Carrasco, PhD – Université Côte d’Azur – Associate researcher at the RETINES laboratory
  • Pr David Darmon, PhD – Université Côte d’Azur – Associate researcher at the RETINES laboratory
  • Luigi Flora, PhD – Université Côte d’Azur – Associate researcher at the RETINES laboratory

OTHERS

  • Pr. Jean-Francois Céci, PhD – Université de Liège – Professor of Technopedagogy and Digital Technologies in Education, Research on Digital and Educational Transitions in the Anthropocene (CRIFA2)
  • Gauthier Lombard, PhD – Université de Lorraine –Lecturer in Management Sciences
  • Jean-Marc Ferrandi – ONIRIS Campus de l’Alimentation – Professor in Marketing – Innovation Co-responsible for the Responsible Marketing and Well-Being Chair, MARÉSON – Member of the IMS, Institut du Marketing Social- Member of the LEMNA, Laboratoire d’Économie et de Management Nantes (+ others intervenants from Agro Paris Tech)
  • Dominique Truchot Cardot – Université Lausanne – Professor HES / Head of SILAB.
  • Arriel Benis, Holon Institute of technology Department of Digital medical technologies, Holon / Department of Digital Medical Technologies, Head of Department -Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Technology Management, | Head of the M.Sc.: specialization track ”Data and Technology Management in Health Systems” – Head of the Business Intelligence and Automation lab (BIA)
  • Julian Rozenberg, Resident doctor in public health – Master Health Administration, Organisateur congrès Euronet de tous les internes de santé publique d’Europe
  • Alexandre Carbonneau (Chercheur en sciences humaines) SICLAB CREAMED – UCA – Book Progrès pour tous / Homme augmenté EUR CREATES – Information and Communication Sciences Department EFREI Paris (Paris II, Panthéon Assas) – Ecole CentraleSupélec – Paris – Saclay

STAKEHOLDERS – COMPANIES / HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

  • Dr Mickaël Cohen, neurologist, expert centre for multiple sclerosis at the Hôpital Pasteur. He organises and runs workshops on new technologies at international neurology conferences. He writes a column for a medical journal on Continuing Professional Development, a regulated training scheme for neurologists. In parallel with his activities, he has developed mobile and medical applications for healthcare professionals (IOS environment).
  • Marion Windels, in charge of the digital aspects of the national association, François Aupetit. The association, which is recognised as being in the public interest, is dedicated to providing information and support to sufferers and to research into Crohn’s disease and haemorrhagic rectocolitis (UC).
  • James Nicolaï – Founder of Nodeus, Managing Director of Fantastic Sourcing
  • Axel Malescassier – Tours – My serious Games (Head of Health Department) – Methodology and AFNOR reference framework for digital training engineering
  • Teresa Colombi, UX experience Ludotic / Benoit Millet
  • Jacques Pilati, business engineer in charge of marketing the ADISTA hosted services offering, accredited to host sensitive HDS data. He is also a consultant for the Digital Transition. In 2015, he founded the start-up ‘EnergyTic conseil’ to provide project management assistance for digital transformation and energy transition projects.

Physical Mobility

The physical mobility part will be running from 06 to 11 October 2025 in Nice. The various venues in Nice within the Côte d’Azur University will be the Faculties of Medicine, Science and Law, and the Galet conference room at the Pasteur Hospital or the IMREDD conference room.

The focus of the seminar is : education and training, uses and ethics of digital health in Europe in the face of the rise of AI.

Agenda

Day 1

Morning (9h-12h)
Reception, BIP presentation, opening conference on the European Digital Health Strategy

Afternoon (13h30-17h30)
Build a European Digital Health Competence Framework : Workshop to co-design the Competence Framework (clinicians, engineers,patient partners, decision-makers)

Day 2

Morning(9h-12h)
Exploring tools and standards

Conferences and workshops on cybersecurity, interoperability, telehealth, ethics, etc.

Afternoon (13h30-17h30)
Position Nice as a hub for secure healthcare data hosting
Studies and recommendations on interoperability, compliance (GDPR) and digital sovereignty in healthcare to guarantee the trust and protection of healthcare data over Europe.

Day 3

Morning (9h-12h)
AI and simulation in healthcare
Presentation of innovative uses of AI in healthcare, avatars, quantified self (lectures + case studies)

Afternoon (13h30-17h30)
Simulation workshops and reflections on AI-enhanced medical consultation

Day 4

Full day (The premises will be open late so that teams can work as much as they like)

Morning (9h-12h)
Gamathon – Project creation and support : Development of a serious game by mixed teams, supervised by experts and game designers – User testing

Afternoon (13h30-17h30)
Gamathon (serious game creation challenge)

Day 5

Morning (9h-12h)
AMI-CMA consortium and final report
Presentation of projects, synthesis, serious games and tools developed to an interdisciplinary jury, and European perspectives

Afternoon (13h30-17h30)
Feedback from french regions : how is digital health delivered in french Universities ? What are the levers for training tomorrow’s healthcare professionals?
Workshops
• Training for digital health: what knowledge, what skills, what levers?”
• National promotion : How to enrich training programs, share and collaborate effectively?
Conference “Educating citizens about tomorrow’s health: challenges and opportunities”

Day 6

Morning (9h-12h)
Conference “The patient as partner in digital health”
Workshop “Clicks and care : reinventing the patient relationship”
European round table “Interprofessionalism and partnership at the heart of digital health”

Afternoon (14h-16h)
Conference and feedback “Connect, protect, care for inclusive digital health”
Feedback forum with players in the field (AMI-CMA networks), discussion on experimentation and replicability, closing ceremony.

Virtual Component

The virtual component will take place from September 1, 2025, to October 19, 2025.

The virtual part will be organized asynchronously through e-learning modules and interactive webinars. Participants will have access to video lessons, quizzes and collaborative discussion forums.

  • Webinars and topics :

Webinar 1 – Gamification and serious games in healthcare : Introduction to game design and storytelling for training. Exploration of the pedagogical impact of serious games in education and teamwork.

Webinar 2 – GDPR and digital health law : Legal foundations of the GDPR in the healthcare context, best practices for protecting sensitive data, and understanding data hosting, sovereignty and interoperability.

 Webinar 3 – Artificial intelligence and healthcare data : Overview of AI applications in digital health: patient data analysis, avatars, virtual consultation and ethical concerns. 

Webinar 4 – Competence frameworks and the digital transformation of healthcare : Presentation of healthcare competence frameworks and collaborative workshops around healthcare transformation to build a European digital health competence framework adapted to the reality of different professions and facilitating cross-cultural accessibility.

Application Process

Required documents : Curriculum Vitae (CV), Motivation letter (1 page), Proof of academic enrollment or staff status from home institution
Each partner university will manage its own internal selection process. Selected participants will be notified via email.

• Erasmus BIP participants are limited to a maximum of 30 (regardless of whether or not they are funded by Erasmus). Non-BIP participants can also be added, including those from the University of Montenegro, who cannot be counted towards the Erasmus quota.

Requirements

  • Open to Master and PhD students as well as academic and non-academic staff
  • No specific technical background required, but interest in digital health is encouraged
  • English B2 level is required for participation and group work

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