Strategic Cluster Partnership for increased competitiveness of European Medical Diagnostics SMEs thanks to Artificial Intelligence

2026-07-22

AI4Diag aims at contributing to making Europe the world leader in disease prevention and prediction by enabling the combination and convergence of diagnostic technologies with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. Indeed the strengthening of a competitive life sciences industry in Europe is directly linked to the integration of cutting edge technologies such as bioinformatics, omics, image processing, data management and analysis. The project aims at fostering the mutation of diagnostics companies to a broader use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in order to strengthen their competitiveness in a changing and “digitalising” diagnostic market and offer high added value services for patients and clinicians. As a joint Regional-Cluster-Industry Project created within the S3 Medtech Platform, AI4Diag will involve all of the local diagnostics and AI actors with the objectives to : - open up new opportunities for SMEs (even in less developed regions) and help them develop new innovative prediction/detection services with AI - enable technological centres to initiate new collaborations in Europe - enable business organisations to increase skills in companies’ support on that topic - improve the cluster-specific framework conditions in the partners’ regions - enable regions to co-invest in the context of this S3. In order to address these global objectives, AI4Diag has settle 2 specific objectives for the duration of the project still involving at each step all Regions-Cluster-Industry actors: - Building a joint Cluster Partnership Strategy with a common European vision in Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics, identifying collaboration and investments opportunities and drafting a road map of such joint activities - Implementing joint acceleration activities such as workshops, conferences, training sessions, matchmaking events etc. with a view to foster interregional collaboration and investment, and to bring pilot projects to a more mature phase.

France, Italy, Spain, Estonia, Belgium

2026-02-01