Objectives
V2me aims at integrating elderly people in pleasant social networks and meaningful activities, enhances physical and mental fitness, empowers reciprocal assistance and help, and thus reduces societal challenges through increased health costs and care expenditures. The easy-to-use V2me solution gives senior citizens not only pleasure, but also quick access to existing and new social contacts with maximized control and protection.
The V2me Virtual Coach, actively initiates and mediates social relationships with friends and partners as well as professional contacts through social networks.
Expected results and impact
The end result of V2me will be a platform based on intuitive user interfaces and innovative virtual character usage in the domain of AAL. This platform will be thoroughly evaluated with end-users and care service professionals in three different countries. Furthermore the effects of the system on a user’s quality-of-life will have been evaluated in a long-term study.
We expect the system to be a viable option for fighting loneliness in Europe’s ageing population, providing an improved social integration, as well as a virtual friend that helps the user to create meaningful relationships and expand his social network.
Partners
Partners involved in the V2me project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. | R&D | Germany | www.fraunhofer.de |
| Diakonie Neuendettelsau | End User | Germany | www.diakonieneuendettelsau.de |
| Hospital IT AS | SME | Norway | www.hospitality.no |
| Mawell Ltd. | SME | Finland | www.mawell.com |
| Graz University of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.tugraz.at |
| User Interface Design GmbH | SME | Germany | www.uid.com |
| Université de Luxembourg | R&D | Luxembourg | www.uni.lu |
| VTT Technical Research Center of Finland | R&D | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
| VU University Amsterdam/Dept. CAMeRA | R&D | Netherlands | www.vu.nl |
- Project name: Virtual coach reaches out “to me” V2me
- Website: www.v2me.org
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer, Germany
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: € 3.600.000
- Public contribution: € 2.600.000
Objectives
WeCare is a collaborative European project which primary goal is to encourage older people to create, participate in and continue their social networks in order to prevent isolation and loneliness. By increasing their autonomy older people will be able to live at home longer, will preserve their quality of life and will continue to give their input and contribution to the neighbourhood and the larger society. Furthermore, by planning family or informal care to older people in a more efficient way, the demand for professional care and social services will decrease. A service, WeCare 2.0, will be developed, evaluated and deployed to accomplish these goals.
Expected results and impact
The following main results are expected:
- A design for a flexible WeCare 2.0 product with a pick and mix structure with services like: video communication, medicine reminder, calendar and broadcast functionalities represented. The WeCare system will encourage older people to create and strengthen their social networks in order to improve their well-being and prevent isolation and loneliness.
- Insights in the effect of ICT on wellbeing of older people and in the habits that improve their social embedding.
- The third goal is that one or two companies will further develop the WeCare 2.0 system into a working product.
Partners
Partners involved in the WeCare project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO | R&D | Netherlands | www.tno.nl |
| Ericsson Telecommunication | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.ericsson.com |
| Simac | Large Industry | Netherlands | www.simac.com |
| ANBO | End User | Netherlands | www.anbo.nl |
| Institute of Innovation for Human Wellbeing I2BC | R&D | Spain | www.i2bc.es |
| Fundación Andaluza de Servicios Sociales FASS | End User | Spain | www.juntadeandalucia.es |
| VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT | R&D | Finland | www.vtt.fi |
| Videra Ltd | SME | Finland | www.videra.com |
| Caritas Foundation | End User | Finland | www.caritas-saatio.fi |
| Skytek Ltd | SME | Finland | www.skytek.com |
- Project name: WeCare AAL WeCare 2.0
- Website: www.wecare-project.eu
- Coordinator: TNO, The Netherlands
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 11.02.2010
- Total budget: € 3.670.000
- Public contribution: € 2.240.000
Objectives
Older persons (aged 60 and above) are underrepresented both in online social communities and online collaborative projects. Considering the increasingly important role and the potential benefits of social media in most societies this poses a serious challenge. The TAO project aims on the one hand to develop efficient methods to raise the number of older persons using and benefiting from online social communities. On the other hand, its goal is to develop strategies for online collaborative projects to successfully integrate older contributors.
Expected results and impact
Once the project ends, the participating community partners should have a set of successfully tested measures for the activation and involvement of older persons in their own online communities. The operators of online communities will have a handbook containing instructions on how to activate and involve senior citizens successfully and on how to develop products and services so that they are suitable for senior citizens.
Partners
Partners involved in the TAO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bern University of Applied Sciences: Department Business, Health, Social Work | R&D | Switzerland | www.wgs.bfh.ch |
| United Nations University / University Maastricht, UM-Merit | R&D | Netherlands | www.merit.unu.edu |
| University of Ulm, The Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education (in short ZAWiW) | R&D | Netherlands | www.uni-ulm.de/uni/fak/zawiw/startseite/en |
| Seniorweb Switzerland | End User | Switzerland | www.seniorweb.ch |
| SeniorWeb.NL | End User | Netherlands | www.seniorweb.nl |
| Wikimedia Switzerland | End User | Switzerland | www.wikimedia.ch |
| Wikimedia Germany | End User | Germany | www.wikimedia.de |
| Zeix AG | SME | Switzerland | www.zeix.com |
| Access for All Foundation | End User | Switzerland | www.access-for-all.ch |
| MD Systems | SME | Switzerland | www.md-systems.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
- Project name: TAO Community & Collaboration
- Website: www.thirdageonline.eu
- Coordinator: Bern University of Applied Sciences
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2010
- Total budget: € 3.000.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives
TRAINUTRI AALs project aims to raise consciousness about self wellness, enabling the exchange of knowledge related to physical and nutritional healthy habits. The project will help people (seniors between 50 and 65 years from both sex) to develop healthy habits (keeping them physically active and actively involved into their health maintenance) and will enable people to share and exchange healthy habits related activities, experiences and knowledge allowing them to keep and enrich their social relationships while they age in their preferred environments.
Expected results and impact
The improvement of the quality of life of elderly people is the main objective of this project, as the basis of the project are helping senior to make personalised exercise.
There are also indirect contributions, like the ones derived from the social inclusion, and interaction between people.
Keeping strong and reliable social bonds is essential for maintaining a good quality of life. Elderly will be empowered and remain active in the provision of their health and general well-being.
Partners
Partners involved in the TRAINUTRI project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planet Media | SME | Spain | www.planetmedia.es |
| UPM | R&D | Spain | www.gbt.tfo.upm.es |
| MobiHealth | SME | Netherlands | www.mobihealth.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | http://asg.unige.ch |
| KMOP | End User | Greece | www.kmop.gr |
| UC3M-CAOS | R&D | Spain | www.caos.inf.uc3m.es |
| ArxIT SA | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.ch |
| Vigisense SA | SME | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
- Project name: TRAINing and NUTRItion senior social platform
- Website: www.planetmedia.es
- Coordinator: Planet Media Studios SL.
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: € 3.416.850,20
- Public contribution: € 1.758.830
SILVER GAME
The envisioned platform is conceived as an integrated solution which combines sensor-controlled serious gaming, web-based information services and interactive entertainment and which brings ...
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Silvergame is a multimedia platform, which is to host a variety of game-based applications, community features and web-based services specifically designed to cater to the needs of elderly people. The project focuses on activities like singing, dancing and driving to activate senior citizens and encourage social interaction among them. The idea is to take advantage of information and communications technologies to contribute to the physical and mental well-being of elderly people.
Expected results and impact
Silvergame offers new options for interaction and communication by bringing into play the same mechanisms that have contributed to the success of the web-based social media and network gaming – success stories that have been developing with hardly any participation at all of the elderly people.
The expected result is an established technological platform with three ready-to-use applications catering to the aforementioned goals – and flexible enough to take on additional applications as plug-ins to add more functionalities in the future.
Partners
Partners involved in the Silvergame project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exozet Berlin GmbH (Coordinator) | SME | Germany | www.exozet.com |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Audio Riders Oy | SME | Finland | www.audioriders.fi |
| Fraunhofer FIRST | R&D | Germany | www.first.fraunhofer.de |
| Golden Oldies / Grenville Jones | End User | United Kingdom | www.golden-oldies.org.uk |
| Reha-Zentrum Lübben | End User | Germany | www.rehazentrum.com |
- Project name: SilverGame: A platform for serious gaming to foster the social inclusion of elderly people
- Website: www.silvergame.eu
- Coordinator: Exozet Berlin GmbH, Berit Hanold
- Duration: 26 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2010
- Total budget: € 2.777.061
- Public contribution: € 1.862.012
Contact
Berit Hanold
E.: berit.hanold@exozet.com
T.: 0049 (30) 2465600
Objectives
Objective is to make social media usable for senior people:
- to build social media applications and activities around the content; to provide easy ways to create, store and share knowledge, experiences and memories
- to provide easy fast communication, social interaction and creation of social networks to develop tools that support co experience and co presence
- to develop easy, adaptable and guided user interfaces for creating, managing and sharing content taking into account the mental and physical capabilities of the elderly people
The service can be used with users own language and supports multicultural communication
Expected results and impact
Technology deployment timeline we have two different kinds of results:
SoMedAll software platform with including modules that has been developed in the project as the prototype and pilot. Pilot is expected to be ready for deployment in the short term.
Service concepts that use the new SoMedAll software modules to adapt to the user conditions and predict their evolution and adaptive interfaces will only be deployed in homes in the medium term.
One important result will be also the knowledge achieved concerning the cultural differences and attitudes towards technology based social media services among elderly people.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miina Sillanpää Foundation | End User | Finland | www.miinasillanpaansaatio.fi |
| Gonga Group Oy | SME | Finland | www.conga.fi |
| National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) | R&D | Italy | www.cnit.it |
| Cooperativa sociale A R. L (ALDIA) | End User | Italy | www.aldia.it |
| Mediasoft Ltd | SME | Slovenia | www.mediasoft.si |
- Project name: Social Media for All Elderly People
- Website: http://somedall.vtt.fi/
- Coordinator: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.02.2010
- Total budget: € 1.679.834
- Public contribution: € 907.250,50
SENIOR CHANNEL
SeniorChannel will give elderly care professionals an innovative approach to developing and managing the specific social needs of the elderly in the wider community. To achieve this goal, ...
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The goal in project SeniorChannel is to integrate innovative technologies and high added value content in order to provide elderly people with an opportunity to interact and share their knowledge, opinions and aspirations with the wider community and derive enjoyment from the experience.
SeniorChannel will develop an Interactive Internet Protocol Television Channel (SENIORCHANNEL) that will not only provide elderly people with a method of interacting but also with a unique means of access to the range of diverse activities in their community including the opportunity to share knowledge and experience, the ability to participate in topical debates, entertainment services, work-shops and discussion groups regardless of their geographical location.
Expected results and impact
The expected results includes:
- The first interactive IPTV channel exclusively for elderly people with content and programmes specifically designed to promote socialisation.
- First, substantive experience in interactive TV using hybrid Set-top Boxes designed to meet the specific requirements of the elderly;
- A low cost integrated TV Studio and production centre with all the necessary equipment and software to produce interactive IPTV content
- The first repository of documentaries and programs specifically produced for elderly people;
- The first broadcast service which will provide elderly people with a mechanism for expressing their creativity by involving them in the production and broadcast of programme content and formats as well as allowing them to participate in programmes from the comfort of their own homes.
Partners
Partners involved in the SeniorChannel project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indra Software Labs | Large Industry | Spain | www.indracompany.com |
| University of Padova | R&D | Italy | www.unipd.it |
| Brainstorm Multimedia | SME | Spain | www.brainstorm.es |
| Audemat | SME | France | www.audemat.com |
| Asociación Parque Galicia | End User | Spain | |
| M31 Spa | SME | Italy | www.m31.com |
- Project name: SENIOR CHANNEL an Interactive Digital Television Channel for Promoting Entertainment and Social Interaction amongst Elderly People
- Website: http://innovation-labs.com/seniorchannel/
- Coordinator: Indra Software Labs
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2012
- Total budget: € 4.336.084
- Public contribution: € 2.060.072
Contact
Salvador Aguilar González
T.: +34914807010
Ernesto Ruiz Murcia
T.: +34914807010
SENIOR ENGAGE
SENIORENGAGE will provide a practical networking platform which seniors and new professionals may network with each other, and which comprises the following: RetiredProf System: This module will ...
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SENIORENGAGE addresses the need to help retired senior professionals retain their sense of self-worth and continue to participate in society in the post-retirement years by developing network of online knowledge sharing and community.
The aim of the SENIORENGAGE project is to become a driving force in combating exclusion and depression in the retired individual by providing a platform in which he or she can continue to feel useful and improve feelings of self-worth, helping reduce isolation and encourage active engagement in community regardless of physical health.
Expected results and impact
The main result of SeniorEngage project is to provide a tool by which seniors and new professionals may network with each other using the latest Web 2.0 and social networking tools in a single online destination.
The technology will be available for post R&D best practice dissemination through the use of the projects’ case studies. The objective market is retired elderly professionals in Europe. Several contacts have taken place among the SME partners of the consortium and senior citizen organisations, who see a huge potential benefit in the product with regard to adapting the software to suit their own needs.
Partners
Partners involved in the SeniorEngage project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre de Recerca I Innovació de Catalunya, S.A. (CRIC) | R&D / SME | Spain | www.cric.cat |
| Feltalálói És Kutató Központ Szolgáltató KFT (MFKK) | R&D / SME | Hungary | www.mfkk.hu |
| Center for Usability Research and Engineering (CURE) | R&D | Austria | www.cure.at |
| JAMK University of Applied Sciences (JAMK) | R&D | Finland | www.jamk.fi |
| Microlink PC Ltd (MICROLINK) | SME | United Kingdom | www.microlinkpc.com |
| Association of Care Giving Relatives of Jyväskylä Region (CAJYR) | End User | Finland |
- Project name: Virtual Network to empower the integration of Seniors into an Active Community in the post retirement years
- Website: www.seniorengage.eu
- Coordinator: Centre de Recerca i Innovació de Catalunya, S.A. (CRIC)
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.12.2010
- Total budget: € 1.272.595
- Public contribution: € 723.685
Contact
Llani Tena Ligero
E.: llani.tena@cric.cat
T.: +34 93 204 99 22
Objectives
The HOPES project aims at developing an intelligent multimedia platform providing innovative social e-services for European elderly persons and their social entourage (as carers / supporters and ICT tutors when needed). Through this platform, HOPES will create the first European network dedicated to social interactions of the elderly and self-animated by its adherents. The ultimate goal of the project is to enhance socialisation, quality of life and autonomy of elderly persons by preventing isolation and loneliness, and generating positive social experiences and behaviour.
Specifically, HOPES aims to address the needs of the elderly population with adapted ICT, by:
- Creating a European network of virtual greying e-community(ies) in a multicultural and multilingual social environment, following European guidelines concerning quality,reliability and privacy;
- Preventing social exclusion by encouraging and/or re-creating special interactions,social engagement and self-esteem, as well as sharing of knowledge with other seniors (“communitying”);
- Carrying out a large analysis of user expectations, barriers, requirements and meaningful solutions that have the potential to change aging persons’ behaviour regarding ICT;
- Providing the technical environment, based on a web platform with innovative but validated ICT (containers, features / interfaces and contents), that allows to search for or create, evaluate and validate, organise and disseminate shared solutions for SBP in an iterative process allowing stepwise optimisation of the proposed SBP (“HOPES virtuous circle”);
- Using ICT to create / develop the “personal social calendar”, to organise and prioritise day-to-day rituals and social experiences, and recommend the preferred time for SBP; with electronic motivator services, e.g. email alerts; ;
- Enabling an active and intuitive interaction of users (elderly persons and their entourage when needed) with the system and with other people through the system, by means of an advanced multimedia and multilingual cooperation platform, according to a social web philosophy;
- Using adapted ergonomic interfaces and features, intelligent information solutions and ontologic / semantic technologies to ease management, sharing and use of its validated content, especially with regard to the targeted user group of elderly people who are generally weak users of ICT;
- Developing and implementing a participative, interactive and personalised validation system, (“HOPES certification”) based on a Web 2.0 strategy (online when possible,otherwise with help from entourage) and the EBM method, to guarantee the quality of the SBP and other solutions stored in the HOPES repository and shared with all users;
- Evaluating the time spent by end users (or their relatives as helpers / tutors) to use HOPES e-services properly, and use this information to improve the platform ergonomics;
- Evaluating the HOPES platform and SBP in a real end user situation (European-size
Expected results and impact
The HOPES project proposes to foster social interactions through the development of an accessible, easy-to-use and innovative ICT platform as forum of well aging and exchange of SBP and socialisation services in a European network.
Through the cooperative multimedia and multi-language social platform created by HOPES, its intelligent support systems, knowledge repository of SBP, social calendar and practical solutions, and provision of services “on the spot”, elderly people and their social entourage will be empowered to help themselves and others in their everyday life
Increased beneficial social interaction will reduce isolation and loneliness by conserving personal social rituals for better quality of life and mobility.
HOPES will contribute to progress beyond the state-of-the-art by developing a Europeanwide, social network platform for elderly and their entourage. HOPES innovation will come from implementation of an innovative ICT service with the most up-to-date yet userfriendly technology (hard-/software, interfaces) on the one side, and focus on an innovative elderly-centred approach with adapted models from geriatric psychology and ethnology, person-centred communication, evidence based medicine, practice and healthcare and health belief models on the other side.
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HOPES will contribute to the improvement of quality of life both directly and indirectly by considering three main dimensions of enhancing social interactions and quality of life of elderly persons (wellness and healthy behaviour; social and cognitive activities; improving / re-activating rituals)
Partners
Partners involved in the HOPES project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| GTN SAS | SME | France | www.gtn-grandtalentnetwork.com |
| Microsoft UK | Large Industry | United Kingdom | www.microsoft.com |
| Universität Stuttgart | R&D | Germany | www.uni-stuttgart.de |
| LUISS Guido Carli / CeRSI | R&D | Italy | www.luiss.edu |
| Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Internal Medicine (geriatric unit), Avicenne Hospital (Bobigny - France) | R&D | France | www.aphp.fr |
| Sport Initiative et Loisir Bleu | End User | France | www.sielbleu.org |
| Cup2000 | Large Industry | Italy | www.cup2000.it |
- Project name: Help and social interaction for elderly On a multimedia Platform with E-Social best practices
- Coordinator: GTN SAS, France
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2010
- Total budget: €4.997.878
- Public contribution: €2.607.085
Contact
Christian Schoen
E. : cschoen@info-techno.com
T. : +33 (0)6 85 10 60 59
GO-MY LIFE
Go-myLife aims to improve the quality of life for older people through the use of online social networks combined with mobile technologies. The Go-myLife architecture consists of a core social ...
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The Go-myLife project has three main objectives:
- A platform built around the needs of elderly people
Conventional online social networks were started with young people in mind and have only slowly expanded to include older demographics. - A platform fully integrated with mainstream on-line social networks
Older people are keen to maintain contact with the different generations of their family. - A platform based on mobility and location awareness
It is important for older people to be supported not only in their homes, but also while they are out and about.
Expected results and impact
The Go-MyLife platform will have significant impact in improving the quality of life of older people. We see several areas of benefit, from helping some older people to take their first steps onto the internet and online social networking, to enabling other, more experienced internet users, to use the platform to more easily and confidently express their thoughts and ideas and to engage with mainstream discussion and debate. The fact that the platform will be optimised for smartphone use will help older people feel more confident and secure while out and about, knowing that they are “carrying their social network with them”.
Partners
Partners involved in the Go-MyLife project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atos Origin | Large Industry | Spain | www.es.atoso rigin.com/es-es/ |
| The 451 group | SME | United Kingdom | www.the451g roup.com |
| Institute of Communication & Computer Systems | R&D | Greece | www.iccs.gr |
| Zentrum fuer Soziale Innovation | R&D | Austria | www.zsi.at |
| IS Communications Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.iscomm.com |
| Andago Ingeniería S.L. | SME | Spain | www.andago.com |
| Stowarzyszenie Spoleczenstwa Wiedzy | SME | Poland | www.ssw.org.pl |
- Project name: Going on line: my social Life
- Website: http://gomylife-project.eu/
- Coordinator: ATOS Origin (Spain)
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2010
- Total budget: € 2.400.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000