Objectives
An increasing number of adults aged 55 and more can be found driving on European roads. This number increases due to overall ageing of the European population. Although ageing can be associated to physical and cognitive problems, most ageing people still like to drive. Maintaining mobile for a longer period of time has many advantages, such as maintaining independent, with an active life style and social life. The goal of the project is to develop and evaluate (innovative) services to support older adults to drive safe for a longer period of time.
Expected results and impact
On the long term, the following societal impacts are expected:
- To allow ageing car users to maintain mobile for a longer period of time, under safer conditions, by using personalised Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
- To provide stakeholders with a measurable basis to identify safe and unsafe behaviour, which can be used for different target groups.
Within the 6-month project duration, we expect:
- To gain insight in ageing car user’s interests in the use of personalised ADAS with the purpose of driver training and monitoring.
- To develop user interface concepts which focus on ageing car users.
- To identify a feasible and realistic business model around services for senior drivers.
- To prepare the introduction of a driver feedback and monitoring system allowing ageing car users to learn and maintain safe driving behaviour, within the limitations of their skill set.
- To identify and potentially validate the benefits of the use of personalised ADAS in an ageing population for end-user organisations.
Partners
Partners involved in the CARA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| F2S2 | SME | Belgium | www.F2S2.be |
| EURAG Austria | End User | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| JESCO Auto Training School | SME | Belgium | www.jesco.be |
| KBO-PCOB | End User | The Netherlands | www.kbo-pcob.nl |
| Paris Lodron University Salzburg | R&D | Austria | www.uni-salzburg.at |
| SD-Insights | SME | The Netherlands | www.sd-insights.eu/ |
- Project Name: CuARdian Angel
- Website: www.cuardian-angel.eu
- Coordinator: F2S2
- Duration: 6 months
- Starting Date: 03.12.2018
- Total Budget: € 325.000
- Public contribution: € 230.000
Objectives
SpONSOR will offer a number of core services, activated by the mediating organisations and personalised by the end-users themselves:
- Supporting seniors to identify and specify their preferences and requirements, thereby overcoming age-deficit thinking;
- Enabling seniors to describe and specify competencies, skill sets and conditions of applications in a holistic manner;
- Enabling seniors to describe offers of service and their capabilities specific to the task;
- Presenting these items in a consistent and optimised manner, targeted at the most appropriate organisations and users;
- Advising seniors on legal issues regarding contracts or local labour constraints for senior occupation;
- Advising seniors on the variety of labour regulations regarding post-retirement activities.
Expected results and impact
SpONSOR achieves its goal primarily through enhancing services within senior-oriented organisations (which we will also call end-user organisations), as a generic indirect mechanism building on the motivation, legitimacy and work already performed by these organisations regarding the possibility for seniors to be engaged in effective occupational activities of some kind. Each end-user organisation will be taken into account according to its context, mission and characteristics, and will be able to configure SpONSOR in its own terms by implementing those services best suited to meet their end-users requirements and preferences. For the end-user, the platform is therefore primarily available through their specific organisational affiliation, with accessible interfaces and through different devices: computers, tablets, interactive TV or smartphones. Since the context of use is crucial to the success of matchmaking functionalities, the SpONSOR methodology and technology makes extensive use of participative co-design strategies. SpONSOR will deliver both technology and methodologies in the form of associated toolkits that will enable elderly organisations and their end-users to work together and to use the SpONSOR matchmaking tools to meet the real requirements of both the organisation and its users. By focusing on facilitating this central set of relationships (where we can consider the organisation plus its end-users as “extended users”), we can identify, consider and support the most important interactions. Without such a clear focus, non-technological systems tend to fall apart. SpONSOR will properly contextualise the service and social innovation that is being sought and concentrate its efforts on the fulcrum of this highly dynamic interaction.
Partners
Partners involved in the SpONSOR project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIST | R&D | Luxembourg | www.list.lu |
| CoST | SME | Switzerland | www.coherentstreams.com |
| FST | SME | Switzerland | www.fstlab.ch |
| Institute of Services Science, University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.iss.unige.ch |
| Intech S.A | SME | Luxembourg | www.intech.lu |
| CNR | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| I+ | SME | Italy | www.i-piu.it |
| VBot | SME | Ireland | www.vbot.tv |
| Netwell | R&D | Ireland | www.netwellcasala.org |
- Project Name: SpONSOR: knowledge and competence exchange SOlutioN for Supporting occupation in the life of OldeR adults
- Website: http://sponsor-aal.eu/
- Coordinator: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
- Duration: 40 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2014
- Total Budget: € 3.292.786,89
- Public Contribution: €1.987.121,49
Objectives
The main aims of the zocAALo project are – to develop, deploy and evaluate a platform that will facilitate the widespread uptake of accessible and easy-to-use AAL apps for elderly people across Europe, apps that will be certified as suitable for the needs and features of elderly people; to provide caregivers with tools to adopt existing apps for helping their current services or build new ones and share them with the community, and even find new revenues by doing so; to provide validated tools for the AAL developers community to improve efficiency and synergetic development of AAL apps.
Expected results and impact
zocAALo is focusing to the group of elder people living alone and want to preserve its capacity for autonomy at home and improve their quality of life. This product is also aimed at the elderly already having different capabilities to be exercised like symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases. zocAALo will support caregivers and professionals with an easy-to-use and select certified and adapted apps for elder people better assistance. The service will be promoted to the end-users mainly caregiver organisations, public municipalities, insurance companies, will be targeted to work as distribution channels.
Partners
Partners involved in the zocAALo project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eurohelp Consulting S.L. | SME | Spain | www.eurohelp.es |
| Ideable Solutions SLL | SME | Spain | www.ideable.net |
| Cognitiva S.L. | SME | Spain | www.cognitivaunidadmemoria.com |
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Engineering & Architecture CEESAR-iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| YouPers AG | SME | Switzerland | www.youpers.com |
| COOSS Cooperativa Sociale | Large Industry | Italy | www.cooss.it |
| Exthex GmbH | SME | Austria | www.exthex.com |
- Project name: Platform for widespread uptake of certified, accessible and easy-to-use AAL mobile apps in Europe – zocAALo
- Website: www.zocaalo.eu
- Coordinator: Eurohelp Consulting S.L.
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.450.522,00
- Public contribution: € 1.405.865,00
Objectives
Our goal is to support blind and visually impaired people in challenging tasks like participating in urban mobility, providing a simple, effective and affordable door to door navigation and mobility assistance solution. We also target when blind person plans a journey which includes travelling through unfamiliar indoor environments (subway systems) or visiting complex buildings (shopping mall, business centre). The envisioned service is also suitable for companies, offices (local government) where blind people can work or just turn-out, by helping to integrate them in an open community.
Expected results and impact
- enhanced self-management and enhancing autonomy;
- improved quality of life for older adults and their carers;
- informal carers continue working and participating in society whilst caring for relatives;
- encourage prevention and support to improve the well-being of older people;
- sustained health outcomes to regain independent lifestyles of older adults;
- improved efficiency of service delivery by new solutions; quality of service remains the same or improves.
Partners
Partners involved in the VUK project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics | R&D | Hungary | www.bme.hu |
| IT Foundation for the Visually Impaired | End User | Hungary | www.infoalap.hu |
| Transdanubia Nikolai GesmbH | SME | Austria | www.tsb.co.at |
| Instituto Universario de Lisboa | R&D | Portugal | www.iscte-iul.pt |
| INOVAMAIS – Servicos de Consultaoria em Inovacao Tecnologica S.A | SME | Portugal | inovamais.eu |
| HI Iberia: HI-IBERIA Ingeniería y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| Erlang Solutions | SME | United Kingdom | www.erlang-solutions.com |
| Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreich | End User | Austria | www.hilfsgemeinschaft.at |
- Project name: Visionless sUpporting framework – VUK
- Website: www.vuk-project.eu
- Coordinator: Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research (BZN)
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.01.2016
- Total budget: € 2.263.323,00
- Public contribution: € 1.558.141,00
SOCIALCARE
SOCIALCARE will be a central digital meeting point where citizens in a local community can come together to organise and provide care and well-being for older persons. Depending on the care need of a ...
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Due to the continued pressure on European care systems, citizens are starting to take control of their own community by organising care and well-being services for older people. These communities we call transition towns. They are grassroots community projects set up in response to the societal challenge of providing care and well-being in an ageing society. Some transition towns even create formal care cooperatives where care for older people is organised bottom up, in collaboration with older people, volunteers, families, neighbours and professional caregivers. The SOCIALCARE project aims to support these initiatives.
Expected results and impact
The aim is to provide for a ready to use platform for communities organising themselves to support older people. A business model is being developed, foreseeing a social enterprise that exploits the SOCIALCARE platform together with consultancy services for communities. Consultancy services focus on setting up community cooperatives with the support of the SOCIALCARE platform, organising volunteers, involving local stakeholders and introducing ICT to older people. SOCIALCARE aims to offer an alternative in the way we organise care in Europe by supporting these bottom up approaches of transition towns.
Partners
Partners involved in the SOCIALCARE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stichting Nationaal Ouderenfonds | End User | The Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| Eerste Verdieping Internet Communities | SME | The Netherlands | www.eersteverdieping.nl |
| LIFEtool gem. GmbH | End User | Austria | www.lifetool.at |
| University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria | R&D | Austria | www.fh-ooe.at |
| Johanniter Österreich Ausbildung und Forschung gem. GmbH. | SME | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| ISOIN - Ingeniería y Soluciones Informáticas | SME | Spain | www.isoin.es |
| Worldline Iberia SA | Large Industry | Spain | es.worldline.com |
| Johanniter International | End User | Belgium | www.johanniter.org |
- Project name: SOCIALCARE – A SOCIALCARE NETWORK for CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT and CARE SUPPORT in LOCAL COMMUNITIES
- Website: www.socialcarecommunity.eu
- Coordinator: Stichting Nationaal Ouderenfonds (National Foundation for the Elderly)
- Duration: 28 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2015
- Total budget: € 2.381.441,00
- Public contribution: € 1.558.878,00
Objectives
The SmartHeat project proposes to leverage on modern IoT (Internet of Things) technologies in order to radically change the home heating experience for health, comfort and well-being of elderly people. The IoT allows physical environments to be connected to the Internet by means of smart objects. A smart object can be defined as any physical entity enhanced with sensing/actuating, computation and communication capabilities. The goal will be achieved via the development of a smart, secure and elderly friendly ICT system for heating monitoring and control.
Expected results and impact
Improve self-management of older adults at home and to enhance autonomy.
The system is also able to send alert message to report or to inform secondary users about possible temperature settings which might be dangerous for the older adults. Besides enhance older adults’ autonomy, the system allow informal carers to have their social life outside home but at the same time have constant control of the proper home heating conditions of their older relatives.
Partners
Partners involved in the SmartHeat project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL (Coordinator) | Large Industry | Romania | www.teamnet.ro |
| ModoSmart S.L. | SME | Spain | www.modosmart.com |
| MX-SI S.L. | SME | Spain | www.mx-si.net |
| SensorID s.n.c. | SME | Italy | www.sensorid.it |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| EURAG | End User | Austria | www.eurag-europe.org |
| Glukadvice | SME | The Netherlands | www.glukadvice.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
- Project name: SmartHeat (Smart, secure and user friendly heating monitoring and control for elderly people) – SmartHeat.AAL.EC
- Website: www.smartheat-aal.eu
- Coordinator: TEAMNET INTERNATIONAL
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 2.746.870,69
- Public contribution: 45% National + 55% AAL
Contact
Cristina Stanica
E.: Cristina.Stanica@teamnet.ro
T.: +40 723 190 430
Monica Georgescu
E.: Monica.Georgescu@teamnet.ro
Phone: +40 723 766 075
Cristian Cheru
T.: +40 732 714 230
Objectives
In this project, we set as central objective to develop a platform for providing formal and informal caregiving services to older adults that live alone in their own homes, at low cost, and that focuses on the active prevention and the maintenance of relationships with friends, family, and the community.
We start from a basic assumption: that the use of the TV as the central element of the system is appropriate for delivering this kind of services to older adults at their own homes.
Expected results and impact
The immediate outcome from the project will be the SENIOR-TV platform, a Smart TV based ecosystem to deploy services for the elderly at home. Several applications, covering both formal and informal services, will be available as open source at the end of the project.
Third parties will be allowed to develop their own applications the will be distributed through the SENIOR-TV app store. Different marketing strategies will be explored in order to produce a sustainable model to facilitate the mainstreaming of SENIOR TV across Europe after the end of the project.
Partners
Partners involved in the SENIOR-TV project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute | R&D | Cyprus | www.cnti.org.cy |
| Imatia Innovation SL | SME | Spain | www.imatia.com |
| Gluk Advice | SME | The Netherlands | www.glukadvice.com |
| Compexin S.A. | SME | Romania | www.compexin.ro |
| Dom upokojencev Nova Gorica | End User | Slovenia | http://www.dung.si |
| Development Centre of Information and Communication Technologies Savinja Žalec, Ltd. | SME | Slovenia | www.rcikt.com |
| "Ana Aslan" International Foundation | End User | Romania | www.brainaging.ro |
| Strovolos Municial Multi-Functional Foundation | End User | Cyprus | www.strovolos.org.cy |
- Project name: SENIOR-TV
- Website: seniortv-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute – CNTI
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.11.2015
- Total budget: € 1.775.300,18
- Public contribution: € 1.315.820,96
Objectives
This project aims to provide an answer to societal challenges, by providing an innovative Organisational Life Assistant (OLA), a virtual presence that supports instrumental activities relating to daily living needs of older adults, allowing them to be more independent, self-assured and to have a healthier, safer and organised life. It also facilitates caregivers by supporting them on offering high-quality assistance; OLA will mediate and facilitate interaction (communication and collaboration) between senior citizens and their informal caregivers or other services or professionals, through technological devices such as standard computers, mobile devices (tablets) and home automation modules.
Expected results and impact
OLA will promote the maintenance of older adults in what is the most comfortable environment for them: their home. This will not only benefit elderly citizens, but also their families and the community as a whole, and therefore help foster social values. The improvement of the autonomy levels will also contribute to enhance the older adult’s capabilities and will enable increased confidence, making the elderly more active in today’s society and consequently less inclined to be confined in formal healthcare providers. This will lead to a more inclusive society while helping to counter societal and economic problems that an ageing population will inevitably provoke.
Partners
Partners involved in the OLA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inovamais, S.A. | SME | Portugal | inovamais.eu |
| ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon | R&D | Portugal | www.iscte-iul.pt |
| Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research | R&D | Hungary | www.bayzoltan.hu |
| Comfort Keepers - Comfort at Home, Lda. | End User | Portugal | www.comfortkeepers.pt |
| Knowledge Society Association | End User | Poland | gb.pl.ssw.org.pl |
| Liquid Media AB | SME | Sweden | www.liquid.se |
- Project name: OLA – Organisational Life Assistant for future active ageing
- Website: http://project-ola.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/organizationallifeassistant
- Coordinator: Inovamais, S.A.
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2015
- Total budget: € 1.099.977,46
- Public contribution: € 731.342,37
Objectives
In the context of self-management and prevention of disease, the goal of MAESTRO is to provide clarification, orientation and advisory services to a variety of users, and motivate fieldwork players and manufacturing and product distributing companies to participate in enriching the collective knowledge which it represents. This will be done through several building stages, first defining preliminary evaluation tools and building upon an initial inventory of devices, connected or not, and then testing them in a Pilot phase, to end up with fieldwork findings and tiers-robust reinforcement of both the Reference framework and the assessment methodology, all this translated into a platform, the MAESTRO portal.
Expected results and impact
The MAESTRO project aims at building-up, testing and disseminating in the broad European context, through an open platform, a dynamic Reference Framework( RF refers to a broad concept corresponding to the French term of « Référentiel ») concerning monitoring and self-monitoring devices, connected or not.
The output will be a documented usage framework, with models, maps, supportive indications, metrics and modes of use for a variety of stakeholders, among whom, as a pivotal figure, we find the elderly, as well as tools for any user to post questions and demands and share information with any other user.
Partners
Partners involved in the MAESTRO project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIST | R&D | Luxembourg | www.list.lu |
| CoST | SME | Switzerland | www.coherentstreams.com |
| FST | SME | Switzerland | www.fstlab.ch |
| CNR | R&D | Italy | www.istc.cnr.it |
| I+ | SME | Italy | www.i-piu.it |
| DOMO | SME | Switzerland | www.domo-safety.com |
| Netwell | R&D | Ireland | www.netwellcasala.org |
| StatSports | SME | Ireland | www.statsports.com |
- Project name: MAESTRO: Sustainable Reference Framework evaluating quantified-self equipment and services for seniors
- Website: www.maestro-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2015
- Total budget: € 3.100.000,00
- Public contribution: € 1.900.000,00
Objectives
Internet-based and micro technologies have changed the way we live. But elderly people receiving care have not always benefited from these developments. IntegrAAL uses technology to help improve care for older people. Older people are often cared for by many different people, known as a circle of care. This circle may include informal carers as well as formal care from medical and social services. Sometimes it is difficult for the people in a circle of care to talk and share important information. IntegrAAL supports self-management and makes communication within a circle of care better, and smarter.
Expected results and impact
There are two types of impact measures for this project.
- Product Adoption Ratios: indications of how the product is being used by care providers and service users. It is our aim that carer apps become adopted and are used with a high frequency by care workers and service users.
- Care Outcomes: once the product is deployed and in use, the main measures to be tracked are improved social and health care outcomes. This includes outcomes regarding dehydration management, people with dementia and effectiveness of circles of care.
Partners
Partners involved in the IntegrAAL project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nourish Care Systems Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.nourishcare.co.uk |
| Dorset County Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.dorsetforyou.com |
| The university college vzw Odisee | R&D | Belgium | www.odisee.be |
| Huis voor Gezondheid | End User | Belgium | www.huisvoorgezondheid.be |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| Associação de Desenvolvimento e Formação Profissional | End User | Portugal | www.adfp.pt |
| AlertiSugere Lda | SME | Portugal | www.cuidar.pt |
- Project name: Integration of AAL Components for Innovative Care Pathways – IntegrAAL
- Website: www.projectintegraal.eu
- Coordinator: Nourish Care Systems Ltd
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 02.01.2015
- Total budget: € 1.200.000,00
- Public contribution: € 820.000,00