Polygon Research Infrastructures — Longitudinal data collection & lived experience tracking for long-term care policy research across EU Member States

Polygon Research Infrastructures (Montreal, Canada) is a private research infrastructure company specializing in digital environments for population health research. We partner with academic consortia as an operational partner for data collection across the full research lifecycle.

Note on fit: The core analytical requirement of this call is macroeconomic modelling and long-term policy projection (up to 2070, across 15+ EU Member States). This falls outside Polygon's primary expertise. Our contribution is concentrated in the primary data collection and lived experience components of the research, where applicable.

Longitudinal survey infrastructure — our Advanced Survey Infrastructure (ASI) supports multi-country, multi-wave cohort studies with older adult populations, including accessibility-adapted interfaces, automated follow-up, and real-time dropout monitoring across sites.

Ecological Momentary Assessment in real-life settings — our EMA platform captures the lived experience of care recipients and informal caregivers in their home environments, tracking daily quality of life, care burden, and service use over time. This is directly applicable to the call's requirement to document experiences "throughout" the research process.

GDPR compliance — all data collection infrastructure is natively compliant with European data protection regulation, critical for health-sensitive data in a multi-country context.

We have demonstrated comparable capacity with CanRisk (health equity, underrepresented populations) and PARCS en Santé (longitudinal community health monitoring, Université de Montréal).

We are seeking to contribute as a data collection partner in a consortium led by researchers in gerontology, health economics or social policy, with networks in EU long-term care systems.