More than 40% of the entities funded have been SMEs
Our aim has been to fund development and innovation projects that showed a clear promise to bring new products, solutions or services concepts to the market within 2-3 years after the end of the funding period.
Large, medium and small enterprises have all participated in our projects, with each project having at least one business partner and one SME. Due to the close-to-market nature of the programme, the development of suitable business cases for the developed solutions has been an essential part of our projects.
Support
Our partner search tool has helped bring countless likeminded individuals and organisations together to form projects. Each participant has also been supported by a national contact person, who speaks their language, and a European team in Brussels.
AAL2BUSINESS
We have always striven to provide as much support as possible to consortiums to enable them to commercialise products and services.
AAL2Business is a support action that has aimed to help AAL projects enter the market.
One of its main priorities has been to help consortiums in their business development and commercialisation challenges related to solutions developed under AAL projects, offering a wide variety of support actions addressing AAL projects in different stages of their lifecycle: before obtaining the funding, during the implementation and after the end of the projects.
Although AAL2Business has now been discontinued, many of the tools it has developed are still available to use.
