Bring your projects in health and sport to life
Do you have an innovative idea or want to accelerate the development of your project? SMART Confluence is the ideal ecosystem for developing your innovations in the fields of health and sport.
Privileged access to key resources
Joining SMART Confluence gives you access to a unique environment that combines scientific expertise, entrepreneurial support and specialised infrastructures.
Becoming part of SMART Confluence allows you to benefit directly from:
- A network of experts and strategic partners in health, sport, and technology to accelerate your development
- Targeted funding to support every stage of your innovation
- Specialised spaces to design, test, and validate your projects under optimal conditions
Our skills
R&D & innovation
- Advanced AI & data-driven solutions: machine learning, autonomous agents, computer vision, image and speech recognition
- Immersive technologies & extended reality (XR): virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR)
- Connected objects (IoT) and smart sensors: wearables, monitoring
- Software engineering
- Movement science and sports science
- Neurotechnologies and assistive technologies
- Nursing sciences and care innovations
Business development
- Networking: strategic partnerships with SMEs, start-ups and industry players active in the healthtech, biotech and sport tech sectors
- Pilot production platforms
Innovation support
- Technology transfer (from research to industry)
- Project support: coaching, multi-stakeholder project setup, design thinking, opportunity and positioning studies, economic modelling
- Access to funding: incubation & acceleration, valorisation; grants, public funding, etc.
- Regulatory affairs and intellectual property
- Technology and market monitoring
Clinical expertise & performance
- Evaluation, research and clinical studies
- Advanced expertise in rehabilitation, neurorehabilitation, physiotherapy, traumatology, neurology, sport and physical performance, sports medicine and mountain medicine
- Collaboration with hospitals, laboratories, research institutes, universities of applied sciences, sports clubs and organisers of sporting events
- Access to testing, training and project development infrastructures: Health Campus, SpArk, Swiss Olympic Medical Center, hypoxia room, movement analysis laboratory, etc.
From medical to performance: our areas of expertise
The SMART themes cover a broad spectrum, ranging from medical applications to physical activity and including wellbeing, prevention and performance. They encompass accident and trauma management, musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiovascular rehabilitation as well as support for physical activity, the promotion of active lifestyles and sports preparation with monitoring and follow-up.
They are aimed at patients, the general population, individuals returning to physical activity and elite athletes. The goal is to offer tailored approaches for each profile, responding to specific needs in health, rehabilitation, movement and performance optimisation — without reducing sport to its purely competitive dimension.
Committed to the regional economy
With the support of the The Ark foundation, we actively contribute to the development of the local economy by supporting entrepreneurs and project holders.
