Date: 20 November 2025
Time: 8:30 – 14:00
Venue: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Dimičeva 13, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Why Attend?
Join healthcare innovators, policymakers, providers, MedTech companies, hospital personnel, and patient representatives for the culmination of three years of transnational collaboration.
At the Health Labs4Value Transnational Conference you will:
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Discover five pilot innovations improving healthcare across Central Europe.
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Learn how Living Labs and VBHC principles (value based healthcare principles) have been successfully implemented.
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Witness the launch of the Transnational Health Labs4Value Network, ensuring long-term cooperation and innovation.
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Exchange insights with leading experts and shape the future of patient-centered healthcare in Europe.
About the Conference
The Health Labs4Value Transnational Conference will showcase how co-created, value-based innovations can transform healthcare delivery in Central Europe. It also marks the official establishment of the Transnational Health Labs4Value Network as a sustainable platform for collaboration beyond the project’s lifetime.
This event highlights the results of three years of cooperation, showing how Living Labs and Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC) can create concrete, scalable solutions.
Pilot Innovations
Five pilot actions developed tangible healthcare solutions through co-creation in Living Labs:
Hungary → A digital surgery management system reducing administrative errors and streamlining workflows.
Slovenia → Healthlord, a rehabilitation app offering patients simple video exercises at home.
Germany → ActiveTEP, an app supporting patients before and after hip replacement surgery.
Poland → A biometric e-signature system simplifying documentation and reducing waiting times.
Czech Republic → A self-care app for spinal cord injury patients, enabling reminders, exercises, and independent management.
Conference Goals
The Health Labs4Value Transnational Conference will:
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Showcase the results of the five pilot actions.
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Present five regional Health Labs4Value as sustainable structures for healthcare innovation.
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Launch and consolidate the Transnational Network of Health Labs4Value.
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Highlight the added value of transnational collaboration, aligned with RIS3 priorities and EU health policies.
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Facilitate dialogue among policymakers, providers, patients, and innovators.
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Strengthen the European VBHC discourse, connecting Health Labs4Value pilots with other EU initiatives and best practices
At the conference we will showcase:
- five pilot innovations from five countries,
- the launch of the international Health Labs4Value network,
- perspectives from policymakers, healthcare providers, and MedTech companies.
Agenda
The conference will be held in English.
Event moderator: Janko Burgar, ROCHE d.o.o.
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Arrival & Registration |
| 9.00 – 9.10 | Welcome Address – Lead Partner & host organization Dr. Ákos Szépvölgyi – the managing director of Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency (CTRIA). |
| 9.10 – 9.30 | Short intro about the HL4V project – Value based healthcare in CE (Dr. Ákos Szépvölgyi) |
| 9.30 – 10:45 | Value-based healthcare: What is it and why does it matter?
Key-note speeches:
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| 10:45 – 11.05 | Coffee break |
| 11.05 – 12.05 | Health Labs4Value in practice: 5 solutions developed as part of the project Only the five pilot solutions will be presented here. Focus should be placed on the use of the Living Lab methodology and the experiences gained from it. The technical aspects should not be the only thing presented.
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| 12.05 – 12.25 | Coffee break |
| 12.25 – 13.00 | Interreg Central Europe: Driving synergies in regional healthcare
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| 13.00 – 14.00 | From promise to practice: The value-based healthcare journey in Central Europe Moderator of the round table: Martina Lindorfer
Partners;
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| 14.00 – 15.30 | Lunch & Networking |