INSPIRATION
The Inspiration project will apply state of the art development processes. The coordinator YouPers with u-sentric and its associated experienced development partners, will introduce its user centred ...
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The goal of INSPIRATION is it to help older adults living a healthier life to stay mentally and physically fit. Our digital coach will motivate them to be active – every day!
INSPIRATION provides health tips and motivates to perform recurring movement exercises. A daily planner schedules activities and also integrates health tips into shopping lists. Activities are recorded and displayed in a health agenda, where reading rights can be granted to relatives, friends and caregivers. Pressing the done button and the awareness of the performed activities become the main motivators.
Expected results and impact
INSPIRATION will deliver a comprehensive working prototype for mobile applications, which will be validated with end-users in Switzerland and Belgium.
The systems main results will be: (1) a unified and intuitive user interface that appeals to people who are not familiar with technology, (2) provision of content regarding daily live activities and nutrition, (3) provision of inspiration management including agendas and reminders and (4) basic information for third partners to display health status for caregivers and friends.
Partners
Partners involved in the INSPIRATION project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouPers AG | SME | Switzerland | www.youpers.ch |
| CREAGY AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch |
| Romus AG | SME | Switzerland | www.romus.ch |
| Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Engineering & Architecture CEESAR - iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
| terzStiftung | End User | Switzerland | www.terzstiftung.ch |
| u-sentric | SME | Belgium | www.u-sentric.com |
| Alternatief VZW | End User | Belgium | www.alternatiefvzw.be |
| OpenSky Data Systems | SME | Ireland | www.openskydata.com |
| Waterford Institute of Technologie – Telecommunications Software & Systems Group | R&D | Ireland | www.tssg.org |
- Project name: INSPIRATION
- Website: www.youpers.ch
- Coordinator: YouPers AG
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.08.2013
- Total budget: € 2.749.960,00
- Public contribution: € 1.457.480,00
Contact
Urs Baumeler
E.: urs.baumeler@youpers.com
T.: +41 79 479 72 56
Objectives
Project partners and end-users co-design a reciprocal exchange-service for an engaged senior life. The service addresses a market opportunity and releases an unexploited societal potential for solving tasks predominantly under the public sector realm. Behind the need and opportunity are societal macro trends as well as documented positive effects of seniors’ prolonged professional activity and voluntary work. Give&Take empowers seniors, by improving occupational lifestyle through a reciprocal exchange-service to maintain societal engagement as a key to mental, social and physical fitness.
Expected results and impact
The project will have important impact for European societies in the area of welfare and quality of life for senior citizens. Through social and digital media innovation the Give&Take project will 1) release a currently unexploited societal potential for tasks currently under the public sector realm, 2) increase empowerment of independent living of seniors and 3) strengthen quality of life of seniors through occupation and social engagement as a key to mental, social and physical fitness – and by this further (indirect) effects on welfare state by delaying the need for intensive public care.
Partners
Partners involved in the Give&Take project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT University of Copenhagen | R&D | Denmark | www.itu.dk/en/ |
| Socialsquare | SME | Denmark | www.socialsquare.dk |
| TakeTheWind | SME | Portugal | www.takethewind.com |
| Technical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.tuwien.ac.at/en/ |
| Frederiksberg Municipality | End User | Denmark | www.frederiksberg.dk/da/Borger/Information-in-English.aspx |
| Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design | R&D | Denmark | http://kadk.dk/en/ |
- Project name: Give&Take: Designing a reciprocal exchange service for a good and engaged senior life
- Website: www.givetake.eu
- Coordinator: IT University of Copenhagen
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2014
- Total budget: € 1.601.762
- Public contribution: € 1.080.545
Objectives
Over 5% of the world’s population suffer from a disabling hearing loss. Profoundly deaf people can be helped with a cochlear implant, and for milder losses a bone conduction implant can bring relief. These devices are rather complex containing many advanced features, i.e. connectivity solutions. This project aims at developing a telehealth platform empowering senior users in their daily life. It provides a communication channel with clinicians and manufacturers offering counselling and troubleshooting information, training and hearing assessment, and device use and fitting services.
Expected results and impact
Deafness is very disabling causing social isolation and is possible linked to accelerated cognitive decline. Hearing implants are not always available, as the devices are expensive and the after care is intensive requiring regular travel to the clinic, audiological centre or the speech therapist. The proposed telehealth system intends to increase the quality of the hearing therapy (e.g. less down time, better information and training, optimal hearing in everyday environment), reduce the cost of ownership (e.g. less need for specialist consultations) and empower the hearing implant recipient.
Partners
Partners involved in the SHiEC project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cochlear Technology Centre | Large Industry | Belgium | www.cochlear.com |
| Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions | Large Industry | Sweden | www.cochlear.com |
| Otoconsult | SME | Belgium | www.otoconsult.com |
| Vrije Universiteit Medical Center | R&D | The Netherlands | www.vumc.nl |
| Onafhankelijk Platform voor Cochleaire Implantatie | End User | The Netherlands | www.opciweb.nl |
- Project name: Supporting Hearing in Elderly Citizens -SHiEC
- Website: www.shiec.eu
- Coordinator: Cochlear Technology Centre
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2014
- Total budget: € 4.306.577
- Public contribution: € 1.958.418
Objectives
The project ANIMATE born with the aim of using new technologies to address one of the main problems of generational relay: the loss of knowledge by a lack of adequate transmission of experience among the older generations and younger generations. ANIMATE also seeks to solve a problem that affects people of a certain age: the feeling of not being useful, due to be jobless or have a job that does not conform to their current abilities and interests, leads to absence of ambition and a sedentary lifestyle. Moreover ANIMATE aims to help the development of the manufacturing sector across Europe.
Expected results and impact
ANIMATE is designed to maximise the recuperative and preventive effects of occupation on health and well-being. The solution highlights the important role of qualified older adults in the labour market and targets the preservation of their extended knowledge. The ANIMATE project aims to create a European wide community of intergenerational knowledge transfer which will bring together older and younger generations across the continent for the exchange of expertise and know-how.
Partners
Partners involved in the ANIMATE project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL | SME | Spain | www.hi-iberia.es |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | www.qol.unige.ch |
| Thurrock Council | End User | United Kingdom | www.Thurrock.gov.uk |
| e-learning Studios Ltd. | SME | United Kingdom | www.e-learningstudios.com |
| Biomedical Research Institute for Health in Lleida | End User | Spain | www.gss.cat/es |
- Project name: ANIMATE – intergenerAtioNal communIty for coMpAny knowledge TransfEr
- Website: www.animate-aal.eu
- Coordinator: HI-IBERIA INGENIERIA Y PROYECTOS SL
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.04.2014
- Total budget: € 2.136.512
- Public contribution: € 1.170.685
Objectives
The project brings together 3 universities and 5 companies active and experienced in R&D of assistive devices to specify the full-body personal mobility, reaching, and grasping requirements of elderly persons allowing them to continue managing their daily activities related to voluntary occupation (maintaining gardens or carrying groceries of more needy people) , as well as participating in local social activities while preserving their health and providing motivation to remain active and independent. Basic products comprising upper-, lower- and full-body assistive exoskeletons will be designed, developed, and validated.
Expected results and impact
The AXO-SUIT integrates recent advances in assistive technology to study and design exoskeletons and to meet the challenges in helping elderly workers. The results will include novel exoskeletons consisting of modules to allow integration to realise prototype upper-, lower- and full-body assistive suits. They will comprehensively supplement the strength of elderly persons with effective and affordable exoskeletons and improve directly their quality of life. The exoskeletons could also be extended to more aged persons, weak or disabled adults, or elder employees as their needs are similar.
Partners
Partners involved in the AXO-SUIT project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aalborg University | End User | Denmark | www.aau.dk |
| University of Gävle | End User | Sweden | www.hig.se |
| University of Limerick | R&D | Ireland | www.ul.ie |
| Welldana A/S | End User | Denmark | www.welldana-innocare.com |
| Bioservo Technologies AB | Large Industry | Sweden | www.bioservo.se |
| MTD Precision Engineering Ltd | SME | Ireland | www.tooling.ie |
| COMmeto bvba | SME | Belgium | www.commeto.be |
| Hjälpmedelsteknik Sverige | End user | Sweden | www.hjalpmedelsteknik.se |
- Project name: Assistive exoskeleton suitable for elderly persons / AXO-SUIT
- Website: www.axo-suit.eu
- Coordinator: Aalborg University, Denmark
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.10.2014
- Total budget: € 2.788.762
- Public contribution: € 1.641.470
Objectives
The target of CaMeLi. Is to create an ICT based solution for supporting the elderly in his daily in-house activities, minimising the need for formal and informal carers’ interventions. The CaMeLi services will be provided in the most natural form of interaction, and namely as an human avatar able to interact with natural language, recognise the emotional state of the elderly and express emotions in guiding the elderly in his daily tasks.
Expected results and impact
The Project will provide a system simulating human interaction and conversation. The user will interact intuitively with the system having the illusion of communicating with a real human who understands behaviour and emotion and assists the user appropriately. The system will provide benefits on a practical, psychological and social level enabling the user to feel self confident to remain longer active and independent at home improving well being.
Partners
Partners involved in the CaMeLi project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIEMENS AG | Large Industry | Germany | www.siemens.com |
| University of Geneva | R&D | Switzerland | http://iss.unige.ch |
| ORBIS Medical & Care Group | End User | Netherlands | www.orbisconcern.nl |
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| NetUnion SA | SME | Switzerland | www.netunion.com |
| ViVa Association | End User | Switzerland | www.association-viva.org |
| Noldus Information Technology | SME | Netherlands | www.noldus.com |
| Citard Services Ltd* | SME | Cyprus | www.citard-serv.com |
- Project name: Care Me for Life
- Website: www.cameli.eu
- Coordinator: Siemens AG, Markus Dubielzig
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2013
- Total budget: € 3.455.319
- Public contribution:€ 1.898.932
Contact
Markus Dubielzig (Coordinator)
E.: Markus.dubielzig@Siemens.com
T.: +49 52 51 60 61 45
Prof. Dimitri Konstantas (tech. Coordinator)
E.: Dimitri.Konstantas@unige.ch
T.: +41 (22) 379 0237
understAID
The understAID project focuses on easing the lives of informal caregivers and directly addressing their currently unmet needs for accessible educational support. The solution will be based on new ...
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The project will build an application to help informal caregivers of demented people (typically a spouse or an adult child) understand and aid their demented relatives and help them manage their new life situation.
Expected results and impact
understAID will significantly improve the quality of life of informal caregivers by providing accessible information and relevant support. The services will increase the quality of care and caregivers’ confidence in performing care and help to reduce the physical, psychological and financial burden of dementia on caregivers. The total estimated worldwide costs of dementia were €465 billion in 2010. The consortium will mobilise resources and key stakeholders, possibly large players with strong market access, to bring the solution to these markets.
Partners
Partners involved in the understAID project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIA University College | R&D | Denmark | www.viauc.com |
| Sekoia Assisted Living ApS | SME | Denmark | www.sekoia.dk |
| The Centre of Supercomputing of Galicia – CESGA | R&D | Spain | www.cesga.es |
| Balidea Consulting and Programming | SME | Spain | www.Balidea.com |
| Poznan University of Medical Sciences | R&D | Poland | www.pums.ump.edu.pl |
| Danish Alzheimer Association | End User | Denmark | www.alzheimer.dk |
| The Gerontological Complex La Milagrosa – UDP A Coruña | End User | Spain | www.centrolamilagrosa.org/lamilagrosa |
| Ortopedyczno-Rehabilitacyjny Szpital Kliniczny nr 4 im. W. Degi | End User | Poland | www.orsk.ump.edu.pl |
| Skanderborg Municipality | End User | Denmark | www.skanderborg.dk |
- Project name: A platform that helps informal caregivers to understand and aid their demented relatives.
- Website: www.understAID.com
- Coordinator: VIA University College, Denmark
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 11.04.2013
- Total budget: € 1.526.217
- Public contribution: € 962.846
HELICOPTER
Bad life habits play a major role in developing and progression of age-related diseases: nutrition, medical therapies and physical exercise are among the keys for prevention and control. Regular ...
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The HELICOPTER proposal aims at exploiting ambient-assisted living techniques to provide older adults and their informal caregivers with support, motivation and guidance in pursuing a healthy and safe lifestyle. The proposal is targeted at 65+ adults, not suffering from major chronic diseases or severe disabilities, yet possibly being affected by (or being at risk of) metabolic or circulatory malfunctioning (e.g., hypertension, mild diabetes) or by mild cognitive deficits. Behavioural analysis is exploited to make health monitoring more effective and less invasive.
Expected results and impact
A heterogeneous sensor network will be designed and implemented, including environmental, wearable and clinical sensors. A global monitoring framework will be developed, in which all data converge toward a common database feeding a data analysis engine, capable of inferring from logged data current activity and behavioural information.
The inference model will involve medical knowledge as well as suitable “big data” analysis techniques. The HELICOPTER environment will be deployed and tested at several pilot sites, located in Sweden and in The Netherlands, for a 18 months period.
Partners
Partners involved in the HELICOPTER project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Me.Te.Da. S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.meteda.it |
| Università degli Studi di Parma | R&D | Italy | www.unipr.it |
| SC Vision Systems SRL | SME | Romania | www.vision-systems.ro |
| University of Skövde | R&D | Sweden | www.his.se |
| Laboratorio delle Idee S.r.l. | SME | Italy | www.labidee.com |
| Municipality of Skövde | End User | Sweden | www.skovde.se |
| Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design | SME | Denmark | www.ciid.dk |
| Coöperatie Slimmer Leven 2020 | End User | The Netherlands | www.slimmerleven2020.org |
| International Business School, Jönköping University | R&D | Sweden | hj.se/jibs |
- Project name: Healthy Life support through Comprehensive Tracking of individual and Environmental Behaviors
- Website: www.helicopter-aal.eu
- Coordinator: Me.Te.Da. S.r.l.
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.07.2013
- Total budget: € 2.880.010,00
- Public contribution: € 1.655.905,00
Contact
Sandro Girolami, MeTeDa Srl
T.: +39 347 3572118
Paolo Ciampolini, University of Parma
T.: +39 0521 905828, +39 334 6669195,
Objectives
With our channel-line “YouDo – We help!” we want to help informal carers to handle.Their challenging task and give them the information & training they need. Every channel covers one of the six main care topics. The content will be edited, produced and distributed in cooperation with physicians and care services. The informal carers will find help for every different level of care.
Expected results and impact
We focus on a better quality if live of both – the elder and the caregiver. The support of people who slowly drift into care of another person or who are suddenly confronted with this situation and the exchange of experiences, concerns, emotions and success’ in a virtual group in a social media way. YouDo connects and coordinate relatives and professional providers of care and support in a really early state of care. On the one hand to build up a network between caring relatives and on the other hand for a good cooperation to handle the increasing need of support and care.
Partners
Partners involved in the YouDo project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| b-mobile | SME | Switzerland | www.b-mobile.ch |
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Fachhochschule Vorarlberg | R&D | Austria | www.fhv.at |
| iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
| Diakonie München-Moosach | End User | Germany | www.diakonie-moosach.de |
| Meditrainment | SME | Germany | www.meditrainment.com |
- Project name: YouDo – we help!
- Website: www.youdo-project.eu
- Coordinator: b-mobile GmbH
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.09.2013
- Total budget: € 2.827.260
- Public contribution: € 1.572.698
Objectives
Collected data enables the system to track variations in the daily activities over time in order to detect the right time to provide a recommendation. This allows for timely access to quantitative data from the user and allows the activation of individual and social recommendations. The offered recommendations can be in the form of suggesting individual activities at home, such as preparing meals or social interactions with peers.
Expected results and impact
The goals of the project are in line with the goals of the end-user organisations. Each organisation is expected to agree on an expected outcome with their end-users and work with them to achieve this. The ideal goal is that the individual end-user will develop an increased personal confidence and competency from using the system and recognise it as a user-friendly and easy-to-use technology device with flexible features. It is expected that end-user organisations working on the project will continue to suggest features that can further enhance the service.
Partners
Partners involved in the SONOPA project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docobo | R&D | United Kingdom | www.docobo.co.uk |
| Saxion University of Applied Sciences | R&D | The Netherlands | www.saxion.edu |
| Smart Signs | R&D | The Netherlands | www.smartsigns.nl |
| University of Deusto | SME | Spain | www.deusto.es |
| SpringTechno | SME | Germany | www.springtechno.com |
| Blue Danube Robotic | SME | Austria | bluedanuberobotics.com |
| E-seniors | SME | France | www.e-seniors.asso.fr |
| Camera-Contact | R&D | France | http://camera-contact.com |
| The Christelijke Mutualiteit | SME / End User | Belgium | www.cm.be |
| iMinds/Ghent University | SME | Belgium | http://www.iminds.be |
- Project name: SOcial Networks for Older adults to Promote an Active Life (SONOPA)
- Website: www.sonopa.eu
- Coordinator: Docobo Limited
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 3.238.818,93
- Public contribution: € 1.444.061,22