The Consortium of Health and Social Services of Catalonia (CSC) is a regional public institution founded in 1983, with the legal status of a public non-profit association. Its members are exclusively public or private non-profit health and social care entities.
The mission of the CSC is to promote excellent, sustainable, and value-based health and social care models that improve the quality of life of individuals. To achieve this, the CSC provides high added-value services to its members, including central purchasing, institutional representation, health and social policy consultancy, continuous training, sustainability and ESG support, and innovation services. Its member organizations cover the full continuum of care, including primary care, hospital care, mental health and addiction services, and intermediate and long-term care.
The Innovation and Partnership Area of the CSC promotes innovation as a key lever for transforming the health and social care system. To this end, it has created iNexesCSC, an innovation ecosystem established in 2021 together with associated and affiliated entities, aimed at fostering the development, implementation, and scalability of innovation projects that respond to real system needs.
iNexesCSC is based on networked collaboration among healthcare and social care providers and is reinforced through strategic alliances with universities, knowledge institutions, companies, and European organizations. The ecosystem currently includes a network of 34 healthcare and social care entities distributed throughout Catalonia, working together under a collaboration agreement.
The main objectives of iNexesCSC are to promote collaborative innovation projects, share knowledge and best practices, and increase the success rate of innovation adoption and scaling, contributing to a more sustainable health and social care system.
The key services offered by the Innovation Area through iNexesCSC include:
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Community of practice: fostering knowledge sharing, peer learning, and networking among healthcare and social care entities.
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Network for co-creation and project development: identification, co-design, and promotion of collaborative innovation projects, supported by the CSC Innovation Project Technical Office (OTPi).
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Innovation adoption and scaling: facilitating the implementation and replication of validated innovations across different organizations and territories.
In addition, the CSC promotes entrepreneurship and innovation among its members through dedicated tools such as coNNectaCSC, a matchmaking platform between healthcare needs and market solutions, and the CSC Impulsa Innovation Awards, which support high-value innovation initiatives with clear scalability potential.
Through its Innovation and Partnership Area, the CSC acts as a system-level partner in European projects, contributing access to real-world healthcare environments, multi-actor networks, and strong deployment and scaling capacity.