KIKLO attended the Kick-off Meeting of the HERITWIN EU-funded Project that took place 7-8 September 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.

All members of the consortium  gathered to align the vision and launch this ambitious project: transforming the preservation, experience, and protection of our cultural heritage through Digital Twins.

KIKLO was pleased to participate in the OHDSI Europe Community Call, an online event that brought together researchers, healthcare professionals, and innovators to explore the winning OH! Factor pitch and the ideas behind the “Between-the-Visits” initiative.

During the event, KIKLO presented the PREPARE Project through the poster #61 “PREPARE Project Uses OHDSI Tools for Privacy-Preserving Clinical Prediction: A Unified ETL Strategy for Nine Clinical Datasets.” The presentation demonstrated how the project leverages the OHDSI ecosystem to harmonize heterogeneous clinical datasets using a unified ETL strategy, enabling privacy-preserving clinical prediction and supporting interoperable, trustworthy health data analytics across multiple institutions.

KIKLO was also represented by Themis Roustanis, who presented the concepts underpinning the “Between-the-Visits” initiative. His presentation highlighted how standardized health data and the OHDSI framework can support continuous, privacy-preserving clinical prediction beyond traditional healthcare encounters, fostering more proactive and data-driven patient care.

The event provided an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge with the OHDSI community, showcase the innovative work carried out within the PREPARE Project, and strengthen collaborations among researchers, healthcare organizations, and technology providers committed to advancing data-driven healthcare.

KIKLO would like to thank the OHDSI Europe community and the event organizers for hosting this engaging and collaborative session. We look forward to continuing our contribution to the development of interoperable, privacy-preserving digital health solutions and to participating in future OHDSI community initiatives.

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KIKLO participated the 3rd year meeting of the Prepare Project, Transforming Rehabilitation: Personalised Care for a Better Quality of Life​.
The project’s General meeting was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on June 8 – 9, 2026, and was successfully organized and hosted by URI Soča.

The meeting brought together project partners, Advisory Board members, and Ethics Committee members for two days of exchange, reflection, planning, and collaboration.

All the members of the consortium participated in this very fruitful meeting. Presentations were given regarding each of the partners and their respective roles since the project agenda covered all the Work Packages and timelines of present and scheduled tasks for each participant.

KIKLO participated in the “12th RSCy2026 International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment”, which was held from 27 to 29 April 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus and organized by the Eratosthenes Center of Excellence under the auspices of the Cyprus EU Council Presidency.

The conference brought together an interdisciplinary community exploring the intersection of Earth observation, geospatial technologies, and societal challenges.

As part of the PREPARE project, our team had the opportunity to present ongoing work that sits at the crossroads of environmental data, health research, and data science.

Representing the collaborative efforts of AUTH and KIKLO, we introduced our approach titled: “Integrating Copernicus Environmental and other Socioeconomic Data into the OMOP Common Data Model for Spatiotemporal Analysis of Hypertension and Comorbidities.”

KIKLO participated in the OHDSI Europe 2026 Symposium, which took place on April 18-20 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with 375 participants, 130 approved posters, and 15 software demos.

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The participation of the PREPARE team was strong, with 3 posters:

1. “Experiences with OMOPping Rehabilitation Data: A Unified ETL Strategy for Nine Distinct Clinical Datasets”,
2. “PREPARE for Precision: Patient-level prediction models for nonsurgical thumb base osteoarthritis treatment”,
3. “An Iterative Annotation Pipeline for Building Clinical Datasets and Training Information Extraction Models: The PREPARE Project”

and a software demonstration

• “A Semi-Automated Pipeline for Extracting and Standardizing Clinical Concepts from Unstructured Medical Records”.

Together with the PREPARE team members, we had the opportunity to participate in the conference and actively contribute by presenting three posters that highlight different facets of our project’s ongoing work with Petros Patias, Ruud Selles, Erik Calcina, Janssen, Esther Janssen, Krijn Polder, Lisa Hoogendam.

From research design to implementation and results, each poster reflected a distinct perspective of our collective effort. Engaging with the community, exchanging ideas, and receiving valuable feedback made this experience especially meaningful.

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1. Experiences with OMOPping Rehabilitation Data: A Unified ETL Strategy for Nine Distinct Clinical Datasets

Petros Patias¹, Charalampos Georgiadis¹, Themistoklis Roustanis¹, George-Robert Patias², Alexandros Zacharegas² and the PREPARE Project Group

¹Laboratory of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

²KIKLO – Geospatial Information Technologies, Greece

 

2. An Iterative Annotation Pipeline for Building Clinical Datasets and Training Information Extraction Models: The PREPARE Project

Erik Calcina^1,2,*, Erik Novak^1,2, Lucia Pepa³, Maria Gabriella Ceravolo³ and the PREPARE Project Group

¹Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

²Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

³Marche Polytechnic University, Marche, Italy

 

3. PREPARE for Precision: Patient-level prediction models for nonsurgical thumb base osteoarthritis treatment

Krijn Polder^1,2, Lisa Hoogendam^1,2, Margarita Grammatikopoulou³, Vasilis Alepopoulos³, Giorgos Giannios³, Spiros Nikolopoulos³, Ruud Selles^1,2, and the PREPARE Project Group

¹ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

² Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

³ Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece

 

4. A Semi-Automated Pipeline for Extracting and Standardizing Clinical Concepts from Unstructured Medical Records

Tinkara Meterc¹*, Erik Calcina^1,2, Nadiia Shpanko¹, Nina Kokalj¹, Erik Novak^1,2 and the PREPARE Project Group

¹Department for Artificial Intelligence, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

²Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

KIKLO is proud to participate in the ODHSI Rehabilitation Working Group meeting for exchanging knowledge, ” Experiences with OMOPping Rehabilitation Data from the PREPARE Project: Commonalities & Pitfalls and supporting this innovative“,  and showcase the project results, on 11 December 2025,  online.

KIKLO is proud to participate in the UnitedXR 2025 Conference for exchanging ideas and supporting this innovative, sustainable XR learning initiative, and showcase the project results, from  7 to 9 December 2025,  Brussels, Belgium.

KIKLO attended the Final meeting of the ENIGMA Project, Endorsing safeguarding, protection, and provenance management of cultural heritage, which completed 36 months of accomplishments.

The General meeting of the project was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 3 -5 December 2025 and was successfully organized and hosted by the Royal Museums of Art and History partner.

All the members of the consortium participated in this very fruitful meeting. Presentations were given regarding each of the partners and their respective roles since the project agenda covered all of the Work Packages and timelines of present and scheduled tasks for each participant.

KIKLO is proud to participate at EuroXR 2025 Conference for exchanging ideas and supporting in this innovative, sustainable XR learning initiative, which will be showcased by the project team live, from  3 to 5 September 2025,  Winterthur , Switzerland.

KIKLO attended the 2nd year meeting of the Prepare Project,
Transforming Rehabilitation: Personalised Care for a Better Quality of Life​.
The project’s General meeting was held in Milano, Italy, on June 23- 24, 2025, and was successfully organized and hosted by IRCSS, ISICO, and the University of Milan.

All the members of the consortium participated in this very fruitful meeting. Presentations were given regarding each of the partners and their respective roles since the project agenda covered all of the Work Packages and timelines of present and scheduled tasks for each participant.