Draft version of the new Knowledge and Innovation Agenda 2020-2023 Health & Care available

On 26 April, the Dutch Cabinet established the mission-driven top sectors and innovation policy and its underlying 25 missions to strengthen the Dutch economy. Five of these missions address the societal challenge health and care. Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH) drew up the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) 2020-2023 with all stakeholders in the sector to shape these missions into actions. The draft of this new KIA is now available.

Health and care for Dutch citizens

The new Knowledge and Innovation Agenda (KIA) 2020-2023 describes five missions for the future of health and care. The central mission focuses on living longer in good health and reducing health differences between people with high and low socioeconomic status. The other four missions contribute to this central mission through changes in the living environment and supporting a healthy lifestyle, offering more care in the right place and better perspectives for people with chronic diseases and dementia. The missions have a time horizon up to 2040.

From agenda to covenant

A total of six different draft KIAs were written by the Top Sectors and the supporting ministries. These draft agendas form the basis for new Knowledge and Innovation Covenants (KIC) 2020-2023. In these covenants, all parties involved make commitments about their (financial) contribution to implementing the KIAs. These agendas and covenants will be finalised in November 2019. Top Sector LSH will use the coming months to contact all relevant LSH stakeholders so that they can state their support of the KIC for health and care. That will enable us to continue our joint effort for vital functioning citizens in a healthy economy.

Read the draft KIA Health & Care 2020-2023 here (in Dutch). Or read the other KIAs here.