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AAL Association

Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii

The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme is implemented by the AAL Association

The AAL Association is an international not-for-profit association according to Belgium law. It was founded by 14 member organisations on 19 September 2007 in Brussels.

AAL_association_s AAL Association
Rue du Luxembourg 3
1000 Brussels
Belgium
eMail contact: cmu(at)aal-europe.eu

The members of the AAL Executive Board

are the official representatives of the AAL Association. Members of the Executive Boad are members of their national delegation in the AAL General Assembly. Members as of 3 November 2011 (for the President and Treasurer) and 13 September 2010 (for the two Vice-Presidents) are:

President: Mike Biddle, Technology Strategy Board, United Kingdom
Vice-President: Kerstin Zimmermann, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), Austria
Vice-President: Adrian Stoica, Ministry of Education and Research, Romania
Treasurer: Dr. Rafael de Andrés Medina, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain.

AAL Contact Persons for the programme management

Parts of the AAL Joint Programme are managed on a central programme level, parts on the level of the member states. Click here for a listing of AAL Contact Persons.

Member organisations of the AAL General Assembly of the AAL Association

In the AAL General Assembly national funding authorities (either ministries or funding agencies) are members (info on accession to the AAL Association). Each country has one vote in the General Assembly; countries with more than one member organisation nominate one single voting person. At this moment (Sep. 09) the following 24 organisations from 22 countries are members of the AAL Association:

Country	Member
Austria	Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
Belgium (Flanders)	Instituut voor de Aanmoediging van Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie in Vlaanderen
Cyprus	Research Promotion Foundation
Denmark	Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI)
Finland	Tekes – Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
France	Agence National de la Recherche (supported by Caisse Nationale de Solidarité)
Germany	Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Greece	Ministry of Development; General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Hungary	National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH)
Ireland	Enterprise Ireland
Israel	Israel-Europe R&D Directorate for FP7 (ISERD)
Italy	Ministero dell´ Università e della Ricerca
Luxembourg	LUXINNOVATION GIE and Fonds de la Recherche
The Netherlands	Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Norway	The Research Council of Norway
Poland	Narodowe Centrum Bada´n I Rozwoju
Portugal	Agency for the Knowledge Society (UMIC)
Romania	Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
Slovenia	Ministrstvo Za Visoko Solstvo Zannost in Tehnologijo
Spain	Dirección General para el Desarollo de la Sociedad de la Información del Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio and Instituto de Salud Carlos III del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovatión
Switzerland	OPET, Federal Officer for Professional Education and Technology
Sweden	VINNOVA, Swedish governmental agency for innovation systems


United Kingdom	TSB, Technology Strategy Board

The European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, has a permanent quest status in the AAL General Assembly. Until its full joining in 2010, Switzerland participates in the AAL Joint Programme without being a member of the association and without profiting from European co-funding for Swiss project partners.