A new addition to the Annual Forum: Citizen Accelerator
In connection with this year’s Forum in Aarhus in September, the AAL Programme, in cooperation with the Danish agency Happy42, organized a competition for new and aspiring start-ups in the field of ...
Read moreIs a good idea enough to reach the silver economy market?
There are a lot of ways to evaluate a business idea, and generally there is not only one and right solution, sometimes an entrepreneur can come up even with several good ideas for his or her ...
Read morePre-announcement of AAL Call Challenge 2020
AAL Call 2020 is part of the Active & Assisted Living Programme (AAL Programme) that was approved in May 2014 by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. As part of the work ...
Read moreHighlights of the AAL Forum 2019
The AAL Forum 2019 took place in the city of Aarhus in Denmark – a city world-renowned for having embraced technology to help older people live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives in their own homes ...
Read morePROJECT OF THE MONTH: September 2019
September is the World’s Alzheimer’s month, which is why we have paid special attention to those AAL projects contributing to the well-being of dementia patients. As we explored in our previous ...
Read moreInternational Day for Older Persons
Source: the UN/Paulo Filgueiras Today’s international day of older persons marks an important moment to highlight the important contributions that this increasing part of citizens make to society and ...
Read moreIs Europe ready for Alzheimer’s?
As the European population grows and the number of older persons increases, one can observe new trends in health care issues. Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise in the world including the European ...
Read moreSustainable Development Goals: the challenges and opportunities of an ageing population
In today’s world states face many challenges cutting across their own borders and even continents that are affecting areas spanning from economy to ecology. This has prompted new ways of working ...
Read moreHow technology can help care associations bear the burden
The growing proportion of older people in Europe is placing informal carers and care associations under increasing pressure. Tech products and services designed to alleviate this could provide the ...
Read morePROJECT OF THE MONTH: August 2019
This August, the AAL Programme would like to highlight a project, which addresses not only the challenges of demographic change in our societies, but also highlights the opportunities that an ageing ...
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