AZIENDA SANITARIA LOCALE BENEVENTO

Their core work

ASL Benevento is the local public health authority for the Benevento province in southern Italy, responsible for delivering hospital, primary, and emergency medical services to the regional population. In H2020 they acted as a public procurer in Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) consortia — effectively serving as a real-world testbed that buys and validates innovative digital-health and emergency-response technologies from industry. Their contribution is operational: defining clinical requirements, running pilots on actual patient populations, and evaluating solutions from the perspective of a working healthcare provider. This makes them valuable to innovators who need a public-sector buyer willing to trial unproven technology in an authentic care environment.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the first half of their H2020 activity (starting 2019) the focus was firmly on chronic care for ageing populations — frailty prevention, loneliness, wellbeing, and digital continuum-of-care for elderly adults via the large eCARE PCP. From 2021 onward they broadened into acute and emergency response, co-procuring triage management systems for EMS resilience and interoperability. The common thread is their role as a public procurer of digital health innovation, but the clinical domain has widened from long-term elderly care into emergency preparedness.

They are positioning themselves as a repeat public buyer in EU PCP schemes, so future collaborations are most likely in consortia that need an operational Italian health authority to pilot digital-health or crisis-response technologies.

How they like to work

ASL Benevento only participates — they have never coordinated — and both of their projects are large PCP consortia with multiple procurers and suppliers across Europe. They work alongside 21 distinct partners across 8 countries, suggesting a hub-style exposure to different ecosystems rather than a tight loyalty to the same group. Partnering with them means gaining access to an Italian regional healthcare system that is comfortable operating inside complex, procurement-driven consortia.

They have collaborated with 21 unique partners spread across 8 European countries, consistent with pan-European PCP consortia. Their anchor remains the Campania region of southern Italy, where the procured solutions are actually deployed.

What sets them apart

Unlike university hospitals or research institutes, ASL Benevento is an operational local health authority — meaning solutions tested here face the real constraints of a public provincial health system, not an idealised academic setting. They are also one of a relatively small pool of Italian public procurers that have absorbed the EU Pre-Commercial Procurement methodology across two distinct clinical domains. For an innovator or consortium builder, they offer a credible Italian public-sector buyer that can co-fund procurement and host realistic pilots.

Highlights from their portfolio

• eCARE
  Their flagship participation at EUR 3.77M — a large PCP tackling digital continuum-of-care for elderly frailty, making them an established buyer of age-tech.
• iProcureSecurity PCP
  Expanded their PCP experience from elderly care into emergency medical services, signalling versatility as a public procurer across clinical domains.