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Mr Maciej Tumulec [email protected] Your ref. 05.07.2022 / Our ref. 05.07.2022 No 1.4-2/2344-1 The 1st CEE Workshop on Public-Private Collaboration for Innovations in Healthcare, 25th of July, 2022 in Warsaw Dear Mr Maciej Tumulec Dear Mr Radoslaw Sierpinski We highly appreciate the invitation to the 1st CEE Workshop on Public-Private Collaboration for Innovations in Healthcare on the 25th of July in Warsaw. Systematic development of public-private healthcare cooperation is among our priorities during the next years and establishing a regionwide contactpoint for sharing knowledge and experience with other CEE partners is a wonderful opportunity for many stakeholders. Unfortunately it happens that we are unable to align the current proposed date for the first workshop with our schedule. All our key experts in the ministry are on a longawaited vacation or fully involved with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) tight schedule. In relation to EHDS we also would like to further understand how it alignes with the innovation hub iniatiative and whether we have any possible areas for collaboration in that as well. We are sure you have already planned the further activities with great care and based on the principles of wide involvement of stakeholders. We still wish to express our appreciation of involving private sector partners as early as possible, hopefully already inviting also a private sector representative from each participating country to take part in the next meeting. It is a considerable regret for us for not being able to attend the first meeting. Please understand that our line of experts in the field is quite small, and the recent years filled with different crisis have really exhausted our human resources. For that reason we put all our effort on allowing uninterrupted vacations during our short summer. We assure you that our lack of attendance in the 1st meeting does not reflect our lack of interest on the topic. Yours sincerely, Nele Labi Deputy Secretary General on Innovation Policy Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / ESTONIA / +372 626 9301 / [email protected] / www.sm.ee / Reg. no 70001952