The Athena Award 2020
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | BONNIER BUSINESS MEDIA SWEDEN AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 185 000 |
| Project duration | April 2020 - December 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | 2017-01599-en |
Important results from the project
The Athena Award 2020 was granted to the project Asthmatuner at the conference Life science on the 22nd of October 2020. The winner was granted 150 000 SEK 150,000 in a research and education scholarship. Asthmatuner is an app based system to make it easier to self manage asthma care. The research group come from Karolinska universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska institutet and Medituner AB.
Expected long term effects
The Athena Award aims to stimulate research projects with participation from healthcare, academy and industry. The award is granted to projects that have: Benefits to health care and patients. High scientific quality Developing of new methods, products or technologies. This years winner, AsthmaTuner, lives up to all this qualities. The projects was invented and developed by health care professionals at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset in collaboration with researchers at Karolinska Institutet and staff at Medtuner AB and other industry parts.
Approach and implementation
This years nomination period for the Athena Award was announced in April 2020 with articles in the magazine Dagens Medicin, press releases and information to target groups in healthcare, research institutions, counties and incubators. This year, we received about 20 nominations in the first round of applications, of which seven were selected by the jury to proceed to the next step in the assessment process. Of these seven, a winner was chosen at the jury meeting in September. On October 22, the winner was presented at the conference Life science, which this year was broadcasted.