| Engage and involve Children and Families in innovation practice | | | | |
| Develop an innovation advisory panel of children and parents to advise CHI Innovation on the best ways to incorporate empathy as a core principle of innovation and to stimulate child and family interest and engagement with innovation projects | | | | |
| Establish standards, policies, procedures, training content and expectations around child and family engagement in innovation activity in CHI | | | | |
| Develop guidance and training for innovation project leaders in relation to how to engage and work with parents/children to optimise the value of their input to specific projects | | | | |
| Develop strong relationships on the campus, in the community and with our Foundation | | | | |
| Develop focused and productive relationships with innovation partners in our local environment including St James’s, Smart D8, GEC and others | | | | |
| Collaborate with community health providers and others to provide opportunity for holistic, child focused innovation activity | | | | |
| Develop partnerships with local community organisations, schools and others to ensure in-reach and outreach for innovation activity | | | | |
| Formalise pathways and opportunities whereby the Children’s Health Foundation can work with CHI to further support impactful innovation | | | | |
| Further develop and promote academic partnerships around innovation | | | | |
| Formalise relationships with the innovation and technology transfer offices of our Paediatric Academic Healthcare Sciences Centre (PAHSC) university partners | | | | |
| Promote greater engagement and collaboration between academic innovators and CHI staff and patients | | | | |
| Partake in, and promote in CHI, postgraduate training in innovation provided by our university partners | | | | |
| Promote and drive the effective integration of impactful research with innovation at CHI | | | | |
| Create and foster productive relationships with Industry partners | | | | |
| Develop, populate and maintain a database of key industry contacts and connections and promote engagement with CHI staff | | | | |
| Develop formal policies and pathways for industry partners and start-ups to seek collaboration and support in CHI | | | | |
| Explore opportunities for mutually beneficial commercial innovation activity with established industry partners | | | | |
| Develop and strengthen key national and international partnerships to drive innovation | | | | |
| Establish working relationships with national bodies involved in supporting healthcare innovation | | | | |
| Establish key contacts in and develop relationships with Government departments of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Department of Health and the HSE | | | | |
| Seek out relationships and partnering opportunities with leading international healthcare innovation centres and organisations | | | | |
