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 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 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
Frailty syndrome confers disability for activities of daily living (ADL disability) and is an important cause of loss of autonomy. The project idea is to use the proven advantages of elderly fitness to develop a personalised self-care solution based on self-check of health conditions and elderly fitness at home. The solution will use an autonomous fitness system targeting not frailty or pre-frailty elder people living independently at home. The use of this solution will help the elderly to stay independently at home and to deal autonomously with the activities of daily living by allowing them to prevent frailty.
Expected results and impact
The new service presented in ELF@Home is based on four functional innovations: – Elderly people do fitness at home at any time independently where they live. – Although the exercising is done without a human direct supervision, the system is able to monitor exercise execution and give feedback to the user about the correct execution. – The fitness program is personalised according to the user profile and the physical activity level without direct human intervention. – The impact of the fitness program is evaluated by using medical sensors in order to adjust the program.
Partners
Partners involved in the ELF@Home project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundación CTIC - Centro Tecnológico | R&D | Spain | www.fundacionctic.org |
| Izertis | SME | Spain | www.izertis.com |
| Sociedad Gerontológica y Geriátrica del Principado de Asturias | End User | Spain | |
| Umeå University | End User | Sweden | www.informatik.umu.se/english/?languageId=1 |
| Explizit AB | SME | Sweden | www.explizit.se |
| Skellefteå Kommun | End User | Sweden | www.skelleftea.se |
| Franhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits | R&D | Germany | www.iis.fraunhofer.de/med |
| Innovationsmanufaktur GmbH | SME | Germany | www.innovationsmanufaktur.com |
| 2D Debus & Diebold Meßsysteme GmbH | SME | Germany | 2d-datarecording.com |
- Project name: elderly sELF-care based on sELF-check of health conditions and sELF-fitness at home
- Website: www.elfathome.eu
- Coordinator: Fundación CTIC – Centro Tecnológico
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.06.2013
- Total budget: € 2.604.926,00
- Public contribution: € 1.437.492,74
Contact
Juan Luis Carús Candás
E.: juanluis.carus@fundacionctic.org
Sonia García Fernández
E.: sonia.garcia@fundacionctic.org
T.: +34 984291212
Care4Balance
This always-on intelligent dashboard will be used to show status information and will enable communication and coordination towards the professional and the informal caregiver. The information to ...
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C4B will do on-demand and multi-stakeholder service design based on intelligent dashboard systems representing the status & context of the actors involved. The intelligent dashboard is an always-on interactive device that is easy to use for older adults. The system envisages improved and sustainable care provision by informal caregivers, optimized cooperation with formal caregivers and QoL improvement for the older adult. Better communication and cooperation in-between formal and informal caregivers are envisaged. C4B will support task delegation and community based care.
Expected results and impact
Realise and test a flexible and easy to use system that will support the elderly to interact with his/her support circle. Task overview, task delegation, care offerings and supporting intelligence captured through sensor networks will empower all actors involved. Co-creation and interoperability with other networks and services will leverage the go-to-market. The C4B project will test several business scenarios in order to come up with sustainable models for market introduction after the project finalisation in the four involved countries.
Partners
Partners involved in the Care4Balance project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| iMinds | R&D | Belgium | www.iminds.be |
| Televic Healthcare | Large Industry | Belgium | www.televic-healthcare.com |
| connectedcare | SME | The Netherlands | www.connectedcare.nl |
| Hogeschool Amsterdam | R&D | The Netherlands | www.hva.nl |
| Van Dorp Zorg en Welzijn | Large Industry | The Netherlands | www.vandorpzorgenwelzijn.nl |
| AMSTA | End User | The Netherlands | www.amsta.nl |
| Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V | Large Industry | Belgium | www.Alcatel-Lucent.be |
| Pervaya | SME | France | www.pervaya.com |
| VigiSense | Large Industry | Switzerland | www.vigisense.com |
| Hochschule Luzern – iHomeLab | R&D | Switzerland | www.iHomeLab.ch |
- Project name: Care4Balance – Care for balancing informal care delivery through on-demand and multi-stakeholder service design
- Website: www.aal-care4balance.eu
- Coordinator: iMinds
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.03.2013
- Total budget: € 2.380.199
- Public contribution: € 1.532.042
WeTakeCare
WeTakeCare will develop an interactive and multimodal system for the training on ADL, built mainly on software solutions running on off-the-shelf hardware equipment. System functionalities will be: ...
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WeTakeCare project aims to empower the collaborative caring and training between the older person and the non-professional carer, in order to promote the independent living of the older person. Hence, the autonomous performance of Activities of the Daily Living (ADL) by the older person will be encouraged while training and supporting the caregiver in the provision of care, improving the quality of the provided care as well as safeguarding their own physical, physiological and occupational health. This project will integrate the end-users in the development of an interactive and multimodal system for the training of ADL.
Expected results and impact
There are 10-21 M older people with a light or moderate physical limitation hampering the autonomous performance of ADLs. It is estimated that 70% of the dependent older population solely receive informal care. The uptake of ADL by the non-professional carer leads to an overload of activities to perform, thus affecting negatively the physical and psychological health of the caregiver. WeTakeCare will address the specific assistance needs of older people in maintaining their autonomy in performing ADLs, as well as supporting their caregivers.
Partners
Partners involved in the WeTakeCare project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia | R&D | Spain | www.ibv.org |
| Centro de Producción Multimedia para la Televisión Interactiva S.L. | SME | Spain | www.cpmti.es |
| Kaasa health GmbH | SME | Germany | kaasahealth.com |
| Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften | R&D | Switzerland | www.gesundheit.zhaw.ch/en/health-professions-g |
| Vereinigung aktiver Senioren- und Selbsthilfe-Organisationen der Schweiz | End User | Switzerland | www.vasos.ch |
- Project name: Collaborative interaction in caring & training to improve the autonomy in Activities of Daily Living
- Website: www.wetakecare.ibv.org
- Coordinator: Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia (IBV)
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 1.746.741,00
- Public contribution: € 995.007,10
Objectives
EDLAH will utilise both current and developed technology, the aim is to provide the older person with a greater level of independence, motivation and capability, allowing them to live in their own home for as long as possible.
Technology relevant to the older person, their professional and informal carers, will be available in one easy to use platform. Giving the older person immediate contact to loved ones, peers, emergency services etc. The project will also provide assistance in the functional elements of life such as medication reminders, ‘lost’ object retrieval, dietary information etc. For the professional staff, care recording, care tips and information, health indicators and trends, etc, will also be available through the same service.
Expected results and impact
The EDLAH service is based on individual empowerment, motivation and user engagement. It is this user interaction, empowerment and motivation that are the keys to disease prevention and management, lifestyle and diet management; leading to an improvement in daily life and long-term health.
The older person will enjoy a greater independence and connection with their family, friends and carers. This will give a more motivated and improved lifestyle outcome.
There will also be specific knowledge available, leading to greater confidence in the care provided. The carer community will be more efficient, effective and therefore have improved cost effectiveness and productivity.
Partners
Partners involved in the EDLAH project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karis Group Ltd | SME | United Kingdom | www.karisgroup.icareproducts.co.uk |
| EverDream Soft | SME | Switzerland | www.everdreamsoft.com |
| Karis Homes Ltd | End User | United Kingdom | www.beaumontvillage.co.uk |
| La Maison de Retraite du Petit-Saconnex | End User | Switzerland | www.mrps.ch |
| Pyxima | SME | Belgium | www.pyxima.com |
| Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbh | R&D | Austria | www.researchstudio.at |
| Universite de Geneve | R&D | Switzerland | www.unige.ch |
- Project name: Enhanced Daily Living and Health, EDLAH
- Website: www.edlah.eu
- Coordinator: Karis Group Ltd
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 2.800.000
- Public contribution: € 1.550.000
Contact
Mike O’Connor
E.: moconnor@karisgroup.com
T.: 00441962 601244
RelaxedCare
The RelaxedCare project is a research project with partners from Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Spain. Nine different partners with interesting backgrounds work together to develop the ...
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“Is my mum doing fine right now?” Answering this question, in a quick comprehensible way without the need of calling or passing by could relieve a lot of stress from informal caregivers. The “RelaxedCare System” aims to build a “system in a box” solution upon an existing AAL platform, using multi-level pattern recognition to detect the actual state of an assisted person and communicates it in a pervasive and unobtrusive way to the caregiver. The outcome will be a highly accepted, well designed, and working and market orientated “AAL system in a box”
Expected results and impact
- RelaxedCare will connect informal caregivers and assisted persons.
- RelaxedCare will help to reassure informal caregivers.
- RelaxedCare will help assisted persons to feel socially connected.
- RelaxedCare will create nicely designed and accepted pervasive user interfaces.
- RelaxedCare will bring up new methods for AAL pattern recognition on different levels.
- RelaxedCare will contribute to the AAL community by widespread dissemination.
- RelaxedCare will be developed to be brought to market as “AAL system in a box”.
Partners
Partners involved in the RelaxedCare project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at |
| Hochschule Luzern Technik & Architektur – iHomeLab | R&D | Austria | www.ihomelab.ch |
| 50plus GmbH | End User / SME | Switzerland | www.50plusgmbh.com |
| New Design University | R&D | Austria | www.ndu.ac.at |
| Mobili | SME | Slovenia | www.mobili.si |
| Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com |
| Ibernex | Large Industry | Spain | www.ibernex.es |
| Soultank AG | SME | Switzerland | www.soultank.ch |
| Schweizerisches Rote Kreuz Luzern | End User / SME | Switzerland | www.srk-luzern.ch |
- Project name: RelaxedCare-destress care relations by unobtrusive information
- Website: www.relaxedcare.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Duration: 36 Months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2013
- Total budget: € 3.062.000
- Public contribution: € 1.834.000