Since 2018, IESA Incub’ has supported the launch and long-term development of projects that bring together technology and culture, technical perfection and aesthetics. IESA Incub’ upholds three values: exchange, creativity, responsibility.
This year, Clement Parot, an alumnus of HETIC, a Galileo group school like IESA, incubated in 2022, developed a health app that lets users discuss each condition and share good tips.
Who is Clément Parot?
Clément Parot, Founder of SUNAPP
I can’t say that everything started in the nicest way. Diagnosed at the age of 3 with Crohn’s disease. Operated on at 5 and an extremely complicated road strewn with pitfalls until I was 19 (hello, remission!).
But that is not what I want to talk to you about, rather why SUN is SUN. It all came from a combination of factors that I experienced but that many young patients have also experienced. Medical wandering, a feeling that nothing is right, anger, denial, acceptance… When you are a young chronically ill person, everything is turned upside down, your social development comes to a dead stop. And you only understand that years later.
One fine morning after my remission I got up and quickly convinced myself that I could not stay idle for all those young people who still live with a chronic condition, and just live as if nothing had happened. As if this thing in my belly no longer existed.
So I started a real "experiment" and thought about how I could move forward and help as many people as possible! And the most effective way seemed to be a mobile app for all types of chronic illness, so people can help each other and discuss.
What is sunApp
SUN is the ambition to believe that small things built together can have a real impact on young people’s health.
Sun App is an app designed for patients, by patients. It lets you create a dedicated space to talk, debate and share about your condition. Today 1 in 3 people has a chronic illness, but that does not prevent the feeling of loneliness that many patients experience. The sunners community is therefore there to help anyone in a situation of loneliness to exchange about a shared ailment.