Objectives
MEDiATE objective is to design, build and experiment a multi-stakeholder communication and organisational solution, providing a service environment in support of the elderly‘s care-givers and more broadly of all functional needs taking place within their social environment that has to be facilitated and coordinated. MEDiATE focuses on the role of and support given to the informal network, aiming at enhancing the capacities of each ones of its members, regarding their possible complementary role with the elderly’s formal network, or the emergence of new services they can bring up.
Expected results and impact
MEDiATE will produce an ICT based solution that will support the elderly’s informal network, for direct social communications and service coordination between the elderly and their network, and also between the informal and the formal network, providing the existing platforms and caring configurations with an additional layer of capabilities (software middleware solution). Autonomy at home, when still possible and acceptable for the elderly and even considering different profiles and deficits, is reinforced making MEDiATE an overall capacity building framework.
Partners
Partners involved in the MEDiATE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRP Henri Tudor | R&D | Luxembourg | www.tudor.lu |
| Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | R&D | Switzerland | www.epfl.ch |
| Camera Contact | SME | France | http://camera-contact.com/offre.html |
| Fondation Suisse pour les Téléthèses | End User | Switzerland | www.fst.ch |
| Pôle de Gérontologie Interrégional Bourgogne Franche-Comté | End User | France | www.pole-gerontologie.fr |
| SIVECO | Large Industry | Romania | www.siveco.ro/en |
| G4S Security Solutions S.à.r.l. | Large Industry | Luxembourg | www.g4s.lu |
| EGLU | SME | www.eglu.net | |
| Dessine-Moi Mon Répit | End User | France | www.dmmr.fr |
- Project name: Collaborative and interMEdiating solution for managing Daily Activities for The Elderly at home
- Website: www.mediate-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Public Research Centre Henri TUDOR
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2013
- Total budget: € 2.799.694
- Public contribution: € 1.578.177
Objectives
BREATHE Project aims to provide a rich platform for improving the quality of life of informal caregivers. This system is fed by three sources: (1) AAL system that gathers information about daily life activities of the elderly at home, (2) structured information that should be completed and (3) non-structured sources of information such as a dairy, notes and posts in social networks. BREATHE AAL system is based on a combination of distributed video cameras and information acquired by other sensors. Appropriate measures will be taken to preserve dignity and maintain privacy and confidentiality.
Expected results and impact
The result will be a comprehensive working prototype, which will be validated with real end-users in three different countries (Spain, Ireland and United Kingdom), whose main strengths will be: (1) all informal caregivers needs (communication, professional and amateur support, training, social integration and guidance) will be covered, (2) provision of support and guidance for the long-term care of elderly people, (3) training that will progressively adapt its contents to the current status of both the carer and the assisted person and (4) stress control of the informal caregiver and psychological support.
Partners
Partners involved in the BREATHE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSB | SME | Spain | www.tsbtecnologias.es |
| KU | R&D | United Kingdom | www.kingston.ac.uk |
| ISI | SME | Spain | www.isibenestar.com |
| TCD | R&D | Ireland | www.tcd.ie |
| ERREMME | SME | Italy | www.erremmeweb.it |
| BIME | SME | United Kingdom | www.bath.ac.uk/bime |
| CYB | SME | United Kingdom | www.cybermoor.org |
| TER | SME | Ireland | www.emergencyresponse.ie |
- Project name: Platform for self-assessment and efficient management of the informal caregiver
- Website: www.breathe-project.eu
- Coordinator: Soluciones Tecnológicas para la Salud y el Bienestar S.A (TSB)
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 2.051.361,29
- Public contribution: € 1.109.626,05
CarerSupport
The technological approach of CarerSupport will emphasise the integration and use of an ICT based platform that will provide the following services: (a) Management of courses, training materials and ...
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CarerSupport will integrate, deploy and test an integrated ICT platform enabling the participation and collaboration of informal carers, psychologists and health professionals towards facilitating the training, learning, orientation, tele-consulting and psychological support of the carers. Based on this platform, the project will deploy and offer a wide range of services to informal carers including: Training, learning and orientation programmes; Psychological support services aiming at alleviating the stress of informal carers; Collaboration and tele-consulting services between formal and informal carers.
Expected results and impact
CarerSupport platform and services aim to improve the informal carers’ performance, so boosting the quality of provided care, while alleviating costs associated with the support of the elderly and vulnerable individuals. The alleviation of such costs will have a positive impact on both family and governmental budgets. Overall, CarerSupport will invert the loop of current support services for informal carers on the basis of a technology-driven and more integrated approach, that eases the participation of all stakeholders (health care organisations, individual formal and informal carers’, care service providers, etc.).
Partners
Partners involved in the CarerSupport project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maggioli Spa – CEDAF Division | Large Industry | Italy | www.maggioli.it |
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture, CEESAR- iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| BluePoint Consulting | SME | Romania | www.bluepoint-it.ro |
| Universitetet i Oslo | End User | Norway | www.uio.no |
| Ana Aslan International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
| soultank AG | SME | Switzerland | www.soultank.ch |
| Kommunesamarbeidet i Vestfold v/ Nøtterøy Kommune | End User | Norway | www.12k.no |
| Oslo Kommune | End User | Norway | www.oslo.kommune.no |
- Project name: Integrated Platform for Informal Carers’ Training, Tele-consulting and Collaboration
- Website: www.carersupport.eu
- Coordinator: Maggioli Spa
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2014
- Total budget: € 2.309.597
- Public contribution:€ 1.294.642 (national)
Contact
Paolo Mattarelli
E.: paolo.mattarelli@maggioli.it
T.: +390543727014
Damiano De Rosa
E.: damiano.derosa@maggioli.it
T.: +32493061872
VictoryaHome
Be Well – VictoryaHome – Create Possibilities; this is the vision of a project that does not depend on automated functions, but augments them with immediate human presence when needed or desired by ...
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Living the way you want to. Active and healthy ageing together with the people we love. Isn’t it what we all wish for ourselves and our beloved ones? VictoryaHome is a project that aims to help and enable people to live their lives the way they want, and to help people care for each other. Important values are: peace of mind, pleasure, never being alone, safe and secure, feeling connected, sharing feelings and experiences, helping the helpers, personal care and making caring popular.
Expected results and impact
Our goal is to reach 10% market penetration in the care organisations associated with the trials. Strong collaboration takes place between the business strategy and the care processes. This is vital to ensure a solution satisfies the needs of the older adults and their caregivers. Alongside the initial commitments from the consortium partners were already expressed at the kick-off to guarantee a sustainable set of services after the project has ended.
Partners
Partners involved in the VictoryaHome project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stichting Smart Homes | End User | The Netherlands | www.smart-homes.nl |
| FFO Funksjonshemmedes Fellesorganisasjon | End User | Norway | www.ffo.no |
| SOS International | End User | Norway | www.sos.eu |
| Envida Care | R&D | The Netherlands | www.envida.nl |
| Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway | R&D | Norway | www.telemed.no |
| Bluecaring | SME | Portugal | oncaring.com |
| Giraff Technologies AB | SME | Sweden | www.giraff.org |
| Tromsø Telemedicine Consult As | SME | Norway | telemedicineconsult.com |
| R&D Council, Sörmland County | End User | Sweden | www.fou.sormland.se |
- Project name: Victorya – a robot for integrated care@home and peace of mind of carers
- Website: www.victoryahome.eu
- Coordinator: Stichting Smart Homes
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2013
- Total budget: € 2.360.000
- Public contribution: € 1.310.000
Objectives
Information about old people at home is not efficiently shared between seniors, relatives, home carers, nurses… The ACCESS project aims to develop an easy and permanent communication system in order to share data between elderly people and their stakeholders, through electronic devices. As a consequence, the intervention of each will be adapted to the evolution of the senior situation authorising more efficiency in the visits and a better coordination in services provision. Thus, the objective of the project consists in a standardisation of data exchanges in order to support senior daily life management.
Expected results and impact
Expected results consist in the development and the experimentation of a pilot able to support informal and professional home, especially the management of daily life activities at home. After modelling and validating technical aspects at an industrial level, the pilot is expected to be commercialised in all European countries. Partnerships will be proposed to professional carers’ organisations, senior associations, public health agencies, insurance companies, and different European networks will be involved in the identification of new partners all around Europe. The time to market is estimated at two years.
Partners
Partners involved in the ACCESS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEV | SME | France | www.cev-solutions.com |
| LifeResult | SME | Italy | www.eresult.it |
| APOLOGIC | SME | France | www.apologic.fr |
| Centro Regionale Alzheimer Policlinico Universitario di Roma Tor Vergata | R&D | Italy | www.apologic.fr |
| ADESSA A DOMICILE | End User | France | adessadomicile.org |
| FAMILIEHULP | End User | Belgium | www.familiehulp.be |
- Project name: Assisting Carers for CooperativE Services to Seniors
- Website: http://access-project.org/
- Coordinator: CEV – Groupe Chèque Déjeuner
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09. 2013
- Total budget: € 3.792.383
- Public contribution: € 1.938.736
Objectives
TOPIC aims to support informal carers in their daily needs with a CarePortfolio. It is an integrated set of shared spaces and services to support the physical and mental care ability of informal carers by enabling learning and orientation about care, by offering a platform for cooperation with formal carers, by improving, integrating, and making (mobile) multimodal communication easier and accessible for informal carers to connect with other informal carers, friends, or family members. We claim that we can help informal carers to alleviate stress and increase independence and efficiency.
Expected results and impact
Our consortium will first define technical infrastructure, where as user requirements will be gathered with help of user organisations and seniors. Prototypes will be developed by consortium partners and empirical tests will be done with seniors. Through iterations in prototyping CarePortfolio including all necessary web services and interfaces for user interaction in all scales (computer/tablet-based, mobile, iTV-based) will be integrated to an open customisable system of services, which can be easily composed to other useful products for care giving and self-caring.
Partners
Partners involved in the TOPIC project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.com |
| SOZIAL GLOBAL Aktiengesellschaft | End User | Austria | www.sozial-global.at |
| University of Siegen | R&D | Germany | www.uni-siegen.de |
| SOPHIA Franken GmbH & Co KG | End User | Germany | www.sophia-franken.de |
| AVINOTEC GmbH | SME | Germany | www.avinotec.de |
| Technology University of Troyes | R&D | France | www.utt.fr |
| E-Seniors | End User | France | www.eseniors.eu |
| Webinage | SME | France | www.webinage.fr |
- Project name: The Online Platform for Informal Caregivers
- Website:
- Coordinator: Vienna University of Technology, Assoc. Prof. Hilda Tellioglu
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 745.095,00
- Public contribution: € 558.821,00
Contact
Assoc. Prof. Hilda Tellioglu
E.: hilda.tellioglu@tuwien.ac.at
T.: +4315880118716
Objectives
The NITICS project designs and builds a holistic platform that is expandable and offers advanced ICT services including monitoring and navigational support for the mobility of elderly and disabled persons in their home during their daily activities. Furthermore, it also brings suitable services for elderly and people with diseases or disabilities (mobility handicaps, cognitive disabilities and mental diseases) that can keep their cognitive capability (at both physical and mental levels) intact.
Expected results and impact
NITICS will provide a major impetus to the development of AAL types of services, by taking away many of the hurdles that developers are facing. Thus, NITICS-enabled services will have two major effects: on one hand it will improve the freedom and independence of the elderly, and on the other hand it will lead to cost savings when fully embedded in the health care system. Care costs can be reduced through the appropriate use of technology and hospital admissions can be delayed and even avoided.
Partners
Partners involved in the NITICS project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECLEXYS SAGL | SME | Switzerland | www.eclexys.com |
| SSW, Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | www.ssw.org.pl |
| CITST | End User | Romania | www.citst.ro |
| Warsaw University of Technology | R&D | Poland | www.ire.pw.edu.pl |
| Siemens | Large Industry | Romania | www.siemens.com |
| MKS Electronic Systems Ltd. | End User | Slovenia | www.mks.si |
| VisAge Living Lab | SME | France | www.visagell.com |
| SAPHYRION Sagl | R&D | Switzerland | www.saphyrion.ch |
| Eeleo | SME | France | www.eleo.com |
- Project name: Networked InfrasTructure for Innovative home Care Solutions
- Website: www.eclexys.com
- Coordinator: ECLEXYS SAGL
- Duration: 27 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 4.155.944
- Public contribution: € 2.458.145
Contact
Angelo Consoli
E.: angelo.consoli@eclexys.com
T.: +41 91 600 00 00
Objectives
The mission of MOTION is to increase the life expectancy, independence and quality of life of older adults through a novel holistic ICT-based service for remote multi-user physical training of older adults at home by specialised coaches, thereby enabling a totally new level of physical training effectiveness.
Expected results and impact
The direct result of the MOTION project will be the overall MOTION service supported through a dedicated ICT platform. Ideally the consortium wishes to commercialise the service within a few months after the project.
Furthermore, MOTION is expected to have a substantial impact on public health and associated costs. Physical activities allow the older adults to stay at home longer and thereby substantially decreased costs for assistance.
Partners
Partners involved in the MOTION project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siel Bleu | End User | France | www.sielbleu.org |
| NEOLINKS S.A.R.L. | SME | France | www.neolinks.com |
| COMETE | R&D | France | http://urlmetriques.com |
| M3 Connect GmbH | SME | Germany | www.m3connect.de |
| CUP 2000 S.p.A | Large Industry | Italy | www.cup2000.it |
| CRP Henri Tudor | R&D | Luxembourg | www.tudor.lu |
| SCHULTHESS KLINIK | R&D | Switzerland | www.schulthess-klinik.ch |
| University Bologna | R&D | Italy | www.unibo.it/it |
| Arx iT SA | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.com |
- Project name: Remote Home-Physical Training for Seniors
- Website: www.sielbleu.org
- Coordinator: Siel Bleu
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2013
- Total budget: € 4.100.000
- Public contribution: € 2.300.000
Objectives
DALIA (Assistant for Daily Life Activities at Home) will provide an integrated home system that supports older adults as primary end-users, offers support to their informal carers as secondary end-users, and can be extended to interface with services of formal care and medical services. DALIA will hide the technical complexities of the DALIA platform behind a Personal Virtual Assistant (PVA), a human-looking avatar endowed with speech recognition and speech capabilities. Both the older adults and their informal carers will be able to interact through the PVA user interface with the DALIA platform – and are intended to grow the PVA as their “best friend at home”.
Expected results and impact
DALIA supports elder people in every situation of their lives and will break the barrier between elder people and new technology. By the use of common technology the costs can be reduced enormous. The old person can talk to the avatar and DALIA can access different sensors to tell the result to the customer to help them, thereby elder people get more independent. Informal carers have access to the same avatar, which can tell them what they have to do in different situations or just to talk with the person cared for. DALIA will revolutionise the way clients interact with the virtual world by bringing together the temporal and spatial distances between elderly and younger relatives, caregivers and other society members.
Partners
Partners involved in the DALIA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exthex GmbH | SME | Austria | www.exthex.com |
| Virtual Assistant bv | SME | The Netherlands | www.virtask.nl |
| TP Vision Belgium | Large Industry | Belgium | www.tpvision.com |
| Graz University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.iaik.tugraz.at |
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts / iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences / Institute of Applied Health and Social Sciences | R&D | Austria | www.fh-linz.at |
| Volkshilfe Steiermark – gemeinnützige Betriebs GmbH | End User | Austria | www.stmk.volkshilfe.at |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| Woonzorg- en dienstencentrum´t Dijkhuis | End User | The Netherlands | www.hetdijkhuis.nl |
| Steftung Hellef Doheem | End User | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu |
- Project name: Assistant for DAily LIfe Activities at Home
- Website: www.dalia-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Exthex GmbH (Austria)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2013
- Total budget: € 2.840.748
- Public contribution: € 1.576.876
ChefMySelf
Target groups: Independent older people with no severe illnesses or disabilities, but not excluding elderly with some mobility impairments or mild cognitive limitations. To assure the success of the ...
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ChefMySelf project main goal is to develop a customisable and extensible (ICT) service ecosystem built around an automatic cooking solution to support older people in preparing meals and maintaining healthy eating habits. A food processor with an accessible interface, specially tailored for the elderly, will encourage them to self-care, accordingly to their particular nutrition requirements, and a social network focused on the topic of healthy ageing and eating, will become a tool to motivate them to be active and maintaining existing social relationships and creating new ones.
Expected results and impact
ChefMySelf will support elderly in developing culturally appropriate guidelines for healthy eating, contributing to reduce risk factors associated with major diseases and increase factors that protect health throughout the life course .
The solution proposed by ChefMySelf Project is going to be applicable all around Europe and will be culturally appropriate and adapted to the user tastes. So solution will feed needs of one of the most increasing collectives of Europe: health elderly people living alone.
Partners
Partners involved in the ChefMySelf project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundación Cetemmsa | R&D | Spain | www.cetemmsa.com |
| Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura per Anziani | End User | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| POLNE, S.L (Taurus Group) | Large Industry | Spain | www.group-taurus.com |
| Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research | R&D | Portugal | www.fraunhofer.pt |
| Unie KBO | End User | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
| ASM Market Research and Analysis Centre Ltd. | SME | Poland | www.asm-poland.com.pl/en |
| ME.TE.DA. s.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.meteda.it |
- Project name: Assistance solution for improving cooking skills and nutritional knowledge for independent elders
- Website: www.chefmyself.eu
- Coordinator: Fundación Cetemmsa
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2013
- Total budget: € 1.696.215,40
- Public contribution: € 1.085.108,80
Contact
Ana Villacampa
E.: avillacampa@cetemmsa.com
T.: +34 937419100