Objectives:
The EMILIO Project will enhance self-reliance and will counteract social isolation of elderly clients living in assisted facilities. It will manage a comprehensive set of web services, supporting various use cases to increase their Comfort, Vitality and Safety. Web services are delivered in an intuitive way, fit for use by the target audience. To this aim, an IoT (Internet of Things) infrastructure is deployed in the premise that monitors the client’s Daily Activities and interacts vocally with the person when needed.
Expected Results and Impact:
The EMILIO project will deliver a new system of recognition of the needs of elderly people living in an assisted living facility, triggered by the combination of a vocal interface and the observation of daily activities. This input will communicate to the EMILIO platform, that will connect to relevant web services in an intuitive an simple way. The EMILIO platform will have a large impact on elderly, supporting them in the management of their daily activities and communicate with other people, loved and friends, in a simple way.
Project Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing | End-Users | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| Solving Team SRL | SME | Italy | www.solvingteam.it/ |
| ICT Factory GmbH | SME | Switzerland | www.ictfactory.ch/ |
| Erdmann Design AG | SME | Switzerland | www.erdmann.ch |
| Magicview | SME | Belgium | www.magicview.tv |
| ePoint | SME | Belgium | www.webdisplay.be/point/HTML/index.html |
| Vulpia VZW | End-Users | Belgium | www.vulpia.be/ |
| Institute of Space Science, INFLPR Subsidiary | R&D | Romania | www2.spacescience.ro |
| Transilvania University of Brasov | R&D | Romania | www.unitbv.ro |
- Project name: Increase sElf Management and counteract social IsoLatIOn using a vocal assistant enabled virtual concierge (EMILIO)
- Coordinator: Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (Italy)
- Website: www.emilio-aal.eu
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01/02/2022
- Total budget: € 3 162 745
- Public contribution: € 1 656 758
AID2BeWell
A core aspect of the project is its execution by an iterative development process supporting co-design and co-creation. This will enhance the end-user’s/older person’s capacity to understand the ...
Read moreObjectives:
Likelihood of negative effects from aging can be reduced with life-style interventions that promote an active, positive, and social life. However, knowing which, when, and how to deliver these interventions is difficult. The focus of this proposal is to support older people at home in managing their healthy lifestyle using a social robot with unobtrusive AI technology and Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI). We will integrate emotion analysis and intervention software modules on an open source robot system. In addition, we will investigate the user requirements for such a system to fit the the older population.
Expected Results and Impact:
We will deliver a report on multifaceted requirements for robot support system (ROSS) from the older user perspective, and design guidelines with user scenarios for an AI-based emotion detection and behaviour change support system for social robots at home. We will develop a FaceReader SDK for Linux with innovative emotions estimations. We will integrate the user-centered design guidelines and innovative software into a demonstrator system that can deliver JITAs to older adults in predetermined scenarios. This project can help bring affordable social robots to the market to help people age well.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VicarVision | SME | Netherlands | www.vicarvision.nl |
| Salzburg Research | R&D | Austria | www.salzburgresearch.at |
| Happy Aging, In4care | SME | Belgium | www.in4care.be/happy-aging |
| Sigmund Freud University | R&D | Austria | www.sfu.ac.at |
| 50plus | End-users | Austria | www.50pluscenter.at |
| KempenLIFE | End-users | Netherlands | www.kempenlife.nl |
- Project name: AI-based Emotion Detection and Behaviour Change Robot Support System to Benefit Ageing Well (AID2BeWell)
- Coordinator: VicarVision (Netherlands)
- Website: www.aid2bewell.eu (under construction)
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 02/02/2022
- Total budget: € 453 986
- Public contribution: € 298 877
Objectives:
The AAL4All project aims to democratise the healthcare system by enabling and empowering next-of-kin caregivers to implement digital care monitoring solutions for prevention and improved quality of living for their older adults. The solution provides a Smart Home digital infrastructure as the non-stigmatizing early entry-level offer with the capability to add on digital Care Monitoring services and adapt to changing needs ‘as-a-Service’ over time, including the implementation of voice agent and first responder services via professional care providers.
Expected Results and Impact:
The consortium expects to have a game-changing solution ready for commercialisation by the end of the project, which will be based on non-medical smart home devices enriched with AI and learning care monitoring algorithms for informal and formal caregivers. In
addition to the financial impact shortly after project completion, we expect a significant impact on the quality-of-life for the majority of older adults living alone, and not least their informal next-of-kin caregivers in terms of peace of mind. The targeted non-obtrusive
and non-stigmatizing solution design will also have an ethical impact for the older adults.
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anyware Solutions ApS | SME | Denmark | https://anyware.solutions/ |
| exthex GmbH | SME | Austria | https://www.exthex.com/ |
| Hochschule LuzerniHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | https://www.ihomelab.ch |
| Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra | End-users | Portugal | www.caritascoimbra.pt/ |
| Fundatia Ana Aslan International | End-users | Romania | www.anaaslanacademy.ro/ |
| bonacasa AG | SME | Switzerland | www.bonacasa.ch/ |
| Blaeksrutten | End-users | Denmark | www.blaeksprutten.dk/ |
- Project name: AAL4All
- Website: www.aal4all.com
- Coordinator: AnyWare Solutions (Denmark)
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01/01/2022
- Total budget: € 2 100 000
- Public contribution: € 1 400 000
Objectives:
The goal of the engAGE project is to combat and slow down cognitive decline progression, to enhance the intrinsic capacity of the users, and to support the wellbeing of older adults with mild cognitive impairment by providing an ecosystem of services that integrates: (1) holistic monitoring of the ability to conduct activities of daily living and wellbeing, (2) machine learning-based cognitive decline evaluation and (3) coaching, cognitive stimulation and social interaction using social robots.
Expected Results and Impact:
engAGE will contribute to combating and slowing down cognitive decline progression, and to supporting the wellbeing of older persons with mild cognitive impairment. Older adults can be benefited by maintaining / improving their cognitive function and thus, their ability to live independently for longer. Family caregivers can have an objective measure to monitor their loved one’s cognitive progress. Healthcare professionals involved in different care organizations may significantly improve their practice efficacy, using the system as a constant source for patients’ cognitive performance data.
Project partners
Partners in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro/en/ |
| Iris Robotics | SME | Romania | ww.irisrobotics.ro/# |
| Tellu AS | Large Enterprise | Norway | www.tellu.no/ |
| Karde AS | SME | Norway | www.karde.no/ |
| University Hospitals of Geneva | End Users | Switzerland | www.hug-ge.ch/sciences-information-medicale/equipe-du-service-sciences-information-medicale |
| IRCCS INRCA | End Users | Italy | www.inrca.it/ |
- Project name: Managing cognitivE decliNe throuGh theatre therapy, Artificial intelligence and social robots drivEn interventions (engAGE)
- Website: https://engage-aal-project.eu/
- Coordinator: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 1/12/2021
- Total budget: € 1 900 000
- Public contribution: € 1 300 000
Objectives:
The project develops and evaluates new types of supportive, autonomy promoting, smart toilet solutions for ageing people and persons of all ages with impairments/disabilities.
There is a lack of such smart self-adapting toilets which are able to adapt to individual needs automatically. The project aims at empowering old and disabled people to leave home and participate in societal life by providing self-adapting toilets outside home in public or semi-public environments (e.g. in community centres, town halls, shopping malls, museums, theatres, hotels, leisure and sports areas etc.).
Expected Results and Impact:
This new type of toilet support in the new application area of (semi-)public places, will contribute to the active life of older and impaired persons, including wheelchair users and bariatric persons, making it easier for them to leave home and participate in social activities outside home knowing that accessible and personalised toilets optimised for their needs and wishes are available. This supports autonomy and participation and also increases safety during the use of the toilet. T4ME2 is applicable to multiple contexts, from newly built barrier-free toilets up to the recently proposed bigger Changing Places toilets (mostly in UK).
Project Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TU Wien (Vienna Univ. of Technology) | R&D | Austria | www.igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/ |
| CareCenter Software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.carecenter.at/ |
| Stichting Gouden Dagen | End Users | The Netherlands | www.goudendagen.nl/ |
| Zorggroep Heilig Hart | End Users | Belgium | www.h-hart.be/ |
| BEIA Consult International | SME | Romania | www.beiaro.eu/ |
| On Site Foundation | End Users | Poland | www.namiejscu.org/ |
| Sanmedi bv | SME | The Netherlands | www.sanmedi.nl/ |
| cogvis software & consulting GmbH | SME | Austria | www.cogvis.at/ |
| Sanitronics International B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.sanitronics.eu/ |
| Santis Kft | SME | Hungary | www.santis.org/ |
- Project name: Toilet for me too, supporting active living in (semi-) public environments by suitable toilets (T4ME2)
- Website: http://toiletforme.com/, http://toilet4me-project.eu/t4me2.html
- Coordinator: TU Wien (Vienna Univ. of Technology)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01/03/2021
- Total budget: € 249 000 000
- Public contribution: €
CoSoPhy FX
Three startups (Senopi, SenX, TMMC) enter the project with prototypes of their innovative solutions for: a) providing Virtual Reality (VR) experiences to seniors, b) VR motion-‐tracking ...
Read moreObjectives:
This project is developing an online service to provide scientifically validated virtual reality activities for high-‐functioning seniors and prolong their functional independence. It addresses multiple issues for numerous stakeholders; most importantly: a) the lack of engaging exercise programs featuring proven, well-‐documented beneficial effects, that seniors can participate in, on their own, at home; b) the remote monitoring of seniors’ cognitive and physical abilities by their family and doctors; c) optimising resources and revenue in rehabilitation clinics and senior care homes.
Expected Results and Impact:
The project is primarily expected to result in a service that improves certain cognitive and motor abilities in healthy seniors, thereby distancing them further from clinical thresholds for age-‐related debilitation and prolonging their healthy life years. In parallel, the project is expected to demonstrate the positive financial effects such a service can have on the senior healthcare ecosystem, as well as to provide a platform for scientific research labs to increase their efficiency, monetise their research output and maximise their societal impact.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senopi AG | SME | Switzerland | www.senopi.com |
| Akademie Berlingen | End Users | Switzerland | www.akademie-‐berlingen.ch |
| Sensoryx AG | SME | Switzerland | www.sensoryx.com |
| Medical University of Lodz | R&D | Poland | www.en.umed.pl/ |
| The Music Medicine Consultancy | SME | Austria | www.tmmc.eu |
| CatoSenteret | End Users | Norway | www.catosenteret.no |
- Project name: Bringing the beneficial cognitive, social and physical effects of immersive training to the high-‐functioning senior home-‐user (CoSoPhy FX)
- Website: www.cosophy.com
- Coordinator: Senopi AG
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting Date: 01/06/2021
- Total budget: € 1,661,253.50
- Public contribution: € 938,782.35
CleverGuard
CleverGuard starts with the commercially available, CLEMAP One smart meter and the corresponding IOT-cloud infrastructure, allowing advanced NILM detection and load disaggregation monitoring. Adding ...
Read moreObjectives
The CleverGuard system is a novel smart-home-monitoring solution for seniors and their caregivers. By measuring and analysing the electric energy consumption of the household, the activities of daily living of the residents are derived, using an easily retrofitable low cost smart meter. Short and long term deviations from the daily/weekly routine are detected. Depending on the urgency a notification or alert to relatives and/or formal caregivers is issued in an user friendly and secure way. Due its non-visible character, the solution is non-stigmatizing, and fosters security, and peace of mind for all stakeholders.
Expected results and impact
Cleverguard supports the ubiquitous desire of most elderly persons to live as long as possible self-determined and independent. It targets this desire through three main aspects: safety, prevention and data. It provides: 1) Continuous monitoring of appliance usage and related activities of residents, using electric energy consumption low maintenance smart meter in combination with sophisticated data analytics; 2) Notification of abnormal situations and early prevention of potential upcoming risks; 3) Activity status information of appliance usage, activity patterns and their variations.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEMAP AG | Business | Switzerland | www.clemap.ch |
| Vicino | Business | Switzerland | www.vicino-luzern.ch |
| Hochschule Luzern T&A, iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| Korian Belgium | End User | Belgium | www.korian.be/ |
| Telecom-IT | Business | Belgium | www.telecom-it.be/ |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Appl. Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu/ |
| Inspiring Culture Kft | Business | Hungary | www.inspiringculture.org/ |
- Project name: ICT solution based on energy data for protecting elderly at home, staying safe and
independently (CleverGuard) - Website: www.cleverguard.care
- Coordinator: CLEMAP AG, Switzerland
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2021
- Total budget: € 2 555 839
- Public contribution: € 1 422 429
Objectives
The aim of the SmartSE project is to develop and test the concept for a digital matchmaker tool that connects seniors with startups in need for their competence to a European level. A greater focus on skills and competencies among seniors, will increase the demand and thereby employment among seniors. The Startup ecosystem is an important workplace generator, and also in need of competency in order to succeed. By focusing on both seniors and the start-up ecosystem, the SmartSE will be addressing a life-long perspective of active working and healthy ageing .
Expected results and impact
The outcome of the small collaboration project is a first version of SmartSE, a European-wide digital matchmaking tool meant to encourage senior entrepreneurship and provide valuable expertise to the start-up ecosystems. By lowering the threshold of trying new possibilities, and offering a flexible solution to use their competence, time or money, we keep seniors longer in work and give them a way to use their professional, human and financial resources to create solutions for a better society. In addition we will also strengthening the ecosystem around entrepreneurship in the Europe.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Science Innovation North Denmark | SME | Denmark | www.lifescienceinnovation.dk/ |
| Spherik Accelerator | SME | Romania | www.spherikaccelerator.com/ |
| Nordisk institutt for forskning og innovasjon | R&D | Norway | www.nifu.no/ |
| Senter for seniorpolitikk | End-User | Norway | www.seniorpolitikk.no/ |
| World Startup | SME | The Netherlands | www.worldstartup.co/ |
- Project name: AAL SmartSE
- Website: https://50til100.no/aal-call-2020/
- Coordinator: 50 til 100 AS
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2021
- Total budget: € 299 810
- Public contribution: €
Easierphone
Easierphone consists of a core app with a simplified interface for basic smartphone functionalities and additional modules to deliver Quality of Life services to Seniors and their families. These ...
Read moreObjectives:
Easierphone simplifies smartphones.
Today’s smartphones are complex, but many users only need a fraction of the functionalities available. The Easierphone app provides a simple, clear home screen and easy to use apps for Android phones. To solve technical problems, Easierphone can be remotely supported by a family member. Optional monitoring of well-being and emergency protocols can provide peace of mind for senior citizens and their families.
Expected results and impact:
For senior users: Satisfaction of confident smartphone use; improved social inclusion, more autonomy, stimulation, safety, improved mobility through better access to services.
For supporting families: Easy way to support a device remotely, peace of mind through emergency protocol and optional monitoring of well-being.
For service providers: Access to a platform with active mobile senior users and their supporters.
Easierphone will be launched commercially at the end of this project and will be available for Android smartphones through the Google Play Store no later than September 2023
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pappy GmbH | SME | Switzerland | www.pappy.ch |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.tam.unige.ch/ |
| Almende B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.almende.com/ |
| Institute for Aging Research | End-user | Switzerland | www.ost.ch/en |
| MOB Drechtsteden B.V. Internos | End-user | The Netherlands | www.mob.nu/ |
| ASM - Market Research and Analysis Center | SME | Poland | www.asm-poland.com.pl/en/ |
- Project name: Easierphone – app platform to empower and assist seniors with smartphones (Easierphone)
- Website: www.easierphone.com
- Coordinator: Pappy GmbH
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2021.
- Total budget: € 2 500 000
- Public contribution: € 1 500 000
Objectives
Recruiting a trustworthy caregiver is a time-consuming and frustrating process. Families have neither the time nor the experience to choose among candidates. Care homes invest precious time to screen many candidates until they find the right ones. HEROES aims to build a platform that makes hiring caregivers fast and cost effective.
The platform will connect:
1) a community of older people and nurses that screen and rate candidates online (i.e. reviewers);
2) families and care homes looking for trustworthy caregivers (i.e recruiters);
3) individuals with formal or informal experience as caregivers and who are looking for work (i.e. candidates);
Expected Results and Impact
Project HEROES aims to create a recruitment platform for all ages that is easy to use and friendly, with a UX measurement score of at least 80. As one of the key objectives is to improve the quality of life of older people by engaging them in recruiting activities, we expect at least 5% increase in the quality of life of people using the platform (measured using, for ex. WHOQOL – BREF). Since the social impact is key, we aim to engage 75+ retirees, nurses and families during field trials in 5 separate communities. The pilots aim to have a balanced gender representation.
Finally, we will track the success of the recruitment process, aiming to have more than 80% recommendations accepted by recruiters and at least 30% promoters and not more than 30% detractors among recruiters.
Partners
Partners in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Care Hub SRL | SME | Romania | www.thecarehub.ro |
| Institute for Ageing Research | End user | Switzerland | www.ost.ch/en |
| FH Kärnten - gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH | R&D | Austria | www.iara.ac.at |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| rapid user feedback GmbH | SME | Austria | www.userfeedback.at |
| Tricubiq Solutions SRL | SME | Romania | www.tricubiq.com |
- Project name: HEROES
- Coordinator: The Care Hub SRL (Romania)
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 05/04/2021
- Total budget: € 1,543,126
- Public contribution: € 989,434