COVID-19 Innovative Response Tracker

Primary School pupils are creating 'one-meter hats' in a Chinese school to help reinforce and promote social distancing. Students attend Yangzheng Elementary School created hats with 0.5 meter protrusions extending horizontally either side from the hat, which allow students to always understand when 1 meter away from other students. They created them at home with their parents before the school re-opened.

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), through Unidade de Computação Científica Nacional (FCCN), reinforced the capacity of the main services provided to the research and higher education community and that ensure distance learning and remote working. The tools made available, namely Colibri Collaboration Platform, allow to set up remote classes, online meetings and information sharing. Since the beginning of march to April 15th, Colibri platform registered 3.7 million hits and more…

Science 4 COVID-19 consists on a digital plataform that groups metadata, datasets or links, problem registration, research results in epidemiological surveillance and other anonymous public health data necessary to combat the coronavirus epidemic, such as clinical, analytical and demographic results.

The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT), in collaboration with the Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (AICIB), opens a Call for granting 50 (fifty) PhD studentships (BD), focused on research related to this pandemic and its causal agent, SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, FCT will also support a Doctoral School focused on virology, consisting of an annual workshop bringing together international students and researchers.

Mobilization of the Portuguese scientific community to increase the national test capacity, namely at nursing homes, by the development of a new test protocol that only uses national inputs, certified by the National Health Institute of Portugal.

Better Connections Virtual Consultation– Pilot phase • Provided the launched virtual consultations in 5 labor compounds, The Better Connections virtual consultation is a build on the Better Connections infrastructure (Computers installed and connected to the internet in labor camps), to allow the migrant workers to have a successful virtual consultation with physician and doctors in the health centers through online video session instead of physically visit the health center or the…

National Food Security Analytics and Supply and Demand Dashboard that monitors stock evolution, provides alerts, simulates future scenarios, and enables contingency planning. • Key information from different sources are integrated in a single platform (e.g. imports data, local production data, stock levels of different key food and hygiene/medical products, etc.) • A simple visualization interface provides government officials with an immediate view on actual and projected supply, demand,…

The program has been designed to support SMEs in being at the cutting edge of ICT development. The program offers exclusive content and events The program focuses on three specific areas: (cloud, ecommerce and web presence Providing support during the COVID-19 crisis with SME linkage for immediate digitalization and targeted top sectors (groceries, pharmacies, sanitizers, etc) Enable service providers and technology solutions to undertake SMEs to digitalize businesses Conducted online…

The Ministry of Public Health in Qatar developed and supported many different initiatives during the Covid-19 crisis to ensure the safety of its nation, such as: 1- Provide a telephonic/video medical consultation & virtual appointments with physicians to patients with medical queries where patients enter virtual consultation rooms with their doctors and other specialists can be added. Then electronic sick leaves can be issued through the MoPH website This service was launched in collaboration…

"Hack COVID-19" An online platform to allow innovators to develop and share their entrepreneurial ideas that will help in dealing with the various problems and challenges posed by the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic. It is executed as a competition where the five winning ideas will receive financing and support of QR250,000 each, to develop and implement their ideas, as well as several services, advisory programs and incubation services that will help the implementation of the…