Three EIT Health innovators nominated for EIT Awards

We are delighted to announce that three innovators supported by EIT Health have been nominated for this year’s EIT Awards, recognising excellence across innovation, entrepreneurship, and impact. These nominations are a testament to their pioneering work and to EIT Health’s commitment to supporting disruptive solutions in healthcare.

Meet our nominees

ABLE Human Motion (Spain)

Nominated for the EIT Venture Award, ABLE Human Motion develops, manufactures, and commercialises robotic exoskeletons aimed at improving mobility, health and quality of life for people with disabilities.

Their mission is to democratise the use of robotics in rehabilitation: by offering advanced technology that is not only highly intuitive but also versatile and more affordable. ABLE’s journey has been supported through both EIT Health innovation projects and programmes providing critical financial, training, and mentorship support to validate the clinical need for their product.

Clinical trials in leading neurorehabilitation hospitals in Germany and Spain enhanced their credibility and impact. Their exoskeleton obtained CE marking for clinical use a year ago, thanks in part to the support provided by EIT Health, and since then they have successfully placed 25 devices on the market.

Antegenes BRIGHT Project Innovation Team

Nominated for the EIT Innovation Team Award, Antegenes’ EIT Health-funded innovation project, BRIGHT, brought together a cross-disciplinary team spanning business, research, and education (including Antegenes, the University of Tartu, North Lisbon University Hospital Centre, Uppsala University, IESE Business School, and Tartu University Hospital) as a successful example of public–private collaboration.

The project sought to transform breast cancer prevention and screening by adopting a personalised, risk-based approach: combining Antegenes’ innovative polygenic risk score test, AnteBC, with traditional genetic information to identify women at higher risk, thereby enabling earlier and more targeted interventions.

The project created a new service, including an innovative telemedicine solution, for European healthcare – Genetics-Based Personalised Breast Cancer Prevention and Screening. This service has already been implemented in several countries, including the first integration into a public breast cancer screening programme. The goal is to prevent avoidable cancers, reduce late-stage diagnoses, and lower preventable deaths from breast cancer, while optimising the use of healthcare resources.

Inès Hamouda (France)

Nominated for the EIT Changemaker Award, co-founder of FLOWTION, Inès has created an AI-powered digital twin platform that analyses body movement and offers real-time voice and visual feedback.

The platform uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms to recognize postures, detect asymmetries, and provide personalised guidance during training or rehabilitation.

Inès is an alumna of EIT Health’s Top Female Founder Summer School, where during an intensive four-week programme she sharpened her entrepreneurial skills, built a go-to-market strategy, and co-developed her startup project in an international team.

What this reflects

These nominations showcase several key strengths of the EIT Health ecosystem:

• Impact across domains: from medical devices to AI-powered platforms, and from innovation in disease prevention to rehabilitation technology.
• Patient-centred innovation: all projects are directly addressing unmet health needs — be it restoring mobility, detecting disease earlier, or improving rehabilitation outcomes.
• Support for entrepreneurship & scaling: each nominee has benefited either from an EIT Health’s programme and / or has been supported through one of our cross-border consortia innovation projects. Through this support they have increased their scalability and market readiness.
• Diversity in approach and geography: we see projects from across Europe and across sectors (device makers, digital health, prevention), as well as participation by female founders and cross-country collaboration.

Looking ahead

We extend our warm congratulations to ABLE Human Motion, the BRIGHT Project Innovation Team, and Inès Hamouda. Their nominations are not just personal achievements — they reflect the success of collective efforts to foster innovation, inclusion, and better healthcare across Europe.

Stay tuned as we follow their journeys in the awards process. Whichever way the honours fall, EIT Health is proud to stand behind these innovators pushing boundaries and transforming health outcomes.

The EIT Awards ceremony takes place on 25 November in Budapest; the event will also be available to watch online. Learn more about the EIT Awards 2025 here.