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 ...
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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
RecoveryFun
RecoveryFun will develop, test among end-users, and commercialize a new solution for a personalized home rehabilitation composed by: A. A set of exergames for people with rehabilitation needs based ...
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RecoveryFun ambition is to enhance rehabilitation opportunities for people with chronic health conditions that today are receiving sub-optimal care. Our proposal goes beyond a disease-centered approach, and addresses also frailty prevention. Indeed, increasing the level of activities of older adults is the most effective strategy for improving the health profile of the communities, thanks to the reduction of frailty states in the older adults’ population.
Expected Results and Impact:
Leverage the telehealth paradigm and increase the possibility for seniors to perform remotely supervised home-rehabilitation. By doing so, RecoveryFun will improve quality of life (QoL) for primary (senior using the system) and secondary end users (non-professional caregivers), improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of care work (secondary users). Ultimately our solution will provide new ways to deliver cost-effective care (a relevant impact for the managers of the care organization, tertiary end users of the project)
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRCCS INRCA | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it |
| Tech4Care Srl | SME | Italy | www.tech4care.it |
| Hochschule Luzern – iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.ihomelab.ch |
| ZURZACH Care | End-users | Switzerland | www.zurzachcare.ch |
| Canary Technology Innovations SRL | SME | Romania | www.canarytech.ro |
| Unmatched BV | Business | Belgium | www.unmatched.eu |
| Trainm NV | End-users | Belgium | www.trainm.com |
- Project name: An integrated VR-based tele-rehabilitation platform to support RECOVERY and maintenance of FUNctional abilities among seniors (RecoveryFun)
- Website: www.recoveryfun.eu
- Coordinator: IRCCS INRCA (Italy)
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01/01/2022
- Total budget: € 2,540,664
- Public contribution: € 1,290,039
Objectives
As more senior citizens in our society, innovative solutions are needed. Many solutions and products today are based on when the damage has occurred. Still, with PRECISE, we develop a solution before the elderly become too insecure and the falls are a burden for society. The PRECISE project aims to create a solution that takes information about the types of aids the elderly have and how great a need for care is for the elderly. Combining that knowledge, thereby developing a solution that helps the nursing staff see the little red flags that the aids are, and thereby can take action on it.
Expected results and impact
- A Reduction of the risk of falling up to 25 %
- Maximize the control of daily activities by elderlies by 20-30 %
- Decrease the time spent by the professional and informal caregiver in care home care assistance in 79 min/week/elder after 12 weeks of proactive training
- Reduce care expenditures related to people falling up to 25 %.
Below these numbers, it is for the elderly citizens that they become more self-reliant, for greater independence and a better quality of life.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROOS health B.V. | SME | The Netherlands | www.roos.health |
| Aarhus Universitet | R&D | Denmark | www.au.dk |
| Aalborg Kommune | End-users | Denmark | www.aalborg.dk |
| Bydel Sagene Oslo Kommune | End-users | Norway | www.oslo.kommune.no |
| Istituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura Per Anziani | R&D | Italy | www.inrca.it/inrca/ |
| Fundacja na Miejscu | R&D | Poland | www.namiejscu.org |
| Stichting Thuiszorg West-Brabant | End-users | The Netherlands | www.twb.nl |
- Project name: Preact to lower the risk of failing by customized rehabilitation (PRECISE)
- Website: www.precaise.eu
- Coordinator: DigiRehab A/S, Denmark
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.01.2022.
- Total budget: € 1 260 000
- Public contribution: € 965 000
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:
COTIDIANA will develop a mobile solution to support clinical care and drug trials of older adults with rheumatic conditions. Patients will use the smartphone in ambulatory conditions to report their experiences, symptoms/signs, and quality of life. Drawing on the smartphone’s built-in sensors and logs, we will be able to objectively track digital endpoints focused on hand dexterity (as an indicator for function or disease activity), gait and physical activity (as an indicator for mobility, fatigue and pain), and sociability patterns (as an indicator of mental health and wellbeing).
Expected Results and Impact:
COTIDIANA will develop a system that holistically characterises the health state of older adults with rheumatic conditions. When used in clinical practice, the system will improve the clinical care of these patients, as it will provide clinicians with more accurate information on the state of their patients as they leave the clinic. Drug trials will also be improved as the system will provide richer data points for making decisions.
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research | R&D | Portugal | www.aicos.fraunhofer.pt/ |
| Mag. Andreas Raffeiner GmbH | SME | Austria | www.studien-monitor.at/en |
| Medizinische Universität Wien | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ |
| Pryv SA | SME | Switzerland | www.pryv.com/ |
| Universidade NOVA de Lisboa | End-Users | Portugal | www.unl.pt/en |
- Project name: Mobile Patient-centred System to Improve Drug Trials and Care of Older-adults with Rheumatic Diseases (COTIDIANA)
- Website: https://cotidiana.eu
- Coordinator: Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research
- Duration: 28 months
- Starting Date: 01/04/2021
- Total budget: € 1 920 383,00
- Public contribution: € 1 228 400,25
Objectives:
The correctly interact with, and make use of the full potential of eHealth solutions, older adults must have at least a limited level of health-, traditional-, and digital-literacy. When this is not in place, there is a risk that the older adult will ignore or even take prejudicial action when they do not clearly understand the information that is being communicated. The Got-IT project will respond to the need for inclusive and understandable eHealth solutions by developing a toolkit that supports the design of understandable, actionable, and inspiring eHealth applications for older adults with low eHealth literacy.
Expected Results and Impact:
Health solutions developed with the Got-IT toolkit will improve health- and digital literacy, closing the health disparities gap and digital divide, and thus reducing the costs caused by health inequalities and promoting social innovation. Additionally, Got-IT will promote the social inclusion of a group that is often neglected in the development of (health) technology – older adults with low eHealth literacy. For the caregivers of the older adults (secondary users), Got-IT will help improve the quality of the care provided by broadening the range of eHealth tools that they can use with the older adults they care for.
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roessingh Research and Development | SME | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| Pharos Expertisecentrum Gezondheidsverschillen | End-users | Netherlands | www.pharos.nl |
| TU Wien: Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology- Human Computer Interaction Group | R&D | Austria | www.igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci |
| Johanniter Ostereich Ausbildung und Forschung gemeinnutzige GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.johanniter.at |
| Danish Committee for Health Education | R&D | Denmark | ww.dche.eu |
- Project name: A toolkit for inclusive and understandable lifestyle data visualizations in eHealth solutions (Got-IT)
- Website: www.got-it-toolkit.eu
- Coordinator: Roessingh Research and Development (Netherlands)
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 1/04/2021
- Total budget: € 375 811
- Public contribution: € 276 315
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 ...
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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