Care about Care (C^C)
C^C builds on existing software solutions for professional home care and combines two newly developed integrated ICT-enhanced services with established and new organizational processes: (i) The ‘C^C ...
Read moreObjectives
‘Care about Care’ (C^C) aims to support the ecosystem of professional home care (care workers, care recipients, family and non-kin carers, home care organizations, software providers) by providing new ICT-enhanced ways of collaboration, assistance and information exchange. By developing and combining ICT-based solutions C^C intends to: (i) initiate new ways of collaboration, workflows and (remote) support to make care work more attractive, (ii) provide tools for sharing information between members of the care network and (iii) promote knowledge transfer between them.
Expected results and impact
C^C aims to empower the independence of care service users by improving self-management. Moreover, C^C intends to contribute to effective and efficient workflows. C^C end-user organizations will also be enabled to establish a one-stop-shop for distributing services and technologies in addition to care. With respect to service models C^C aims to design, implement, test and evaluate a new care service model focusing on establishing new workflows, providing new job opportunities, scaling-up expert knowledge and reducing travel times.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt | R&D | Austria | www.fhwn.ac.at/ |
| ilogs mobile software GmbH | SME | Austria | www.ilogs.care/ |
| Eichenberger- Szenografie | SME | Switzerland | www.szenografie.com/ |
| Vienna University of Economics and Business | R&D | Austria | www.wu.ac.at/en/altersoekonomie |
| Hilfswerk Niederösterreich | Large enterprise/enduser | Austria | www.hilfswerk.at/niederoesterreich/ |
| Senior Living Group | Large enterprise/end user | Belgium | www.srliving.be/ |
| Stëftung Hëllef Doheem | End-user | Luxembourg | www.shd.lu/ |
| Distrac Group | Large enterprise | Belgium | www.distrac.com/ |
- Project name: Digital Support for Empowering Care Networks (Care about Care – C^C)
- Website: www.careaboutcare.eu
- Coordinator: University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
- Duration: 30 Months
- Starting Date: 01/06/2021
- Total budget: 2.076.820 €
- Public contribution: 1.311.672 €
WisdomOfAge
WisdomOfAge will develop a digital application that takes advantage of the experience and background of people over 50 years old, enabling them to share their knowledge and solve specific problems ...
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WisdomOfAge supports the elderly people to remain active and contribute towards the society with their most important and unique skill: experience. Thus, WisdomOfAge creates a unique and modern, innovative, flexible and open digital platform with a user interface oriented towards the needs and skills of senior people, that will connect them to industrial companies that require their specific knowledge and skill. Thus, continuing the trend from other industries WisdomOfAge will provide on-line and on-time customer-oriented support connecting the seniors with companies in a digital partnership.
Expected results and impact:
After WisdomOfAge implementation, Digital Twin, as the commercial partner, expects to improve the life of at least 100 senior engineers only in the first year after the WisdomOfAge market launch, an event expected to happen before the end of the project (month 24). They will offer their services towards young/inexperienced engineers from at least 40 industrial companies, many already customers of Digital Twin. Through this, WisdomOfAge will contribute to the mentors’ improved social inclusion, a sense of accomplishment and usefulness, financial independence and an active mental state.
Project partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Twin SRL | SME | Romania | www.digitaltwin.ro/en/ |
| Technical University of Cluj-Napoca | R&D | Romania | www.utcluj.ro/en/ |
| Yumytech | SME | Switzerland | www.yumytech.com/ |
| arx iT | SME | Switzerland | www.arxit.com/en/ |
| Institute for Ageing Research | End User | Switzerland | www.ost.ch/en |
| Happy Aging (In4Care vzw) | End User | Belgium | www.in4care.be/happy-aging |
- Project name: A Seniors Digital Platform for Knowledge Transfer towards Industrial Companies (WisdomOfAge)
- Website: https://wisdomofage.eu
- Coordinator: Digital Twin SRL
- Duration: 30 months
- Starting Date: 01.05.2021.
- Total budget: € 2 400 000
- Public contribution: € 1 400 000
Objectives
Anathema will adapt traditional face-to-face sexual health promotion interventions to be delivered through mobile devices, tailoring them for older adults, including those with chronic diseases (and their partners), and to make them highly usable, engaging and non-stigmatising, so that users adhere to the intervention and may experience its benefits.
Unlike traditional sexual health interventions, Anathema increases patients’ adherence and access to the intervention by harnessing advantages of mobile devices and interaction design for individuals and couples.
Expected Results and Impact
By the end of the project, we will have a set of modules integrated in partner Instahelp’s existing platform for psychology counselling, as well as a standalone application commercialised by partner SPRIGS for self-guided sexual health promotion.
The pilots in three countries are expected to provide measurable outcomes on relevant aspects of technology use, such as sexual and relationship satisfaction, health-related quality of life, sexual activity frequency, as well as happiness, satisfaction, engagement, adoption, retention and task success using the applications.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research | R&D | Portugal | www.aicos.fraunhofer.pt |
| SexLab | R&D | Portugal | www.fpce.up.pt/sexlab |
| InstaHelp | SME | Austria | www.instahelp.me |
| Sprigs | SME | Netherlands | www.sprigs.eu |
| KBO PCOB | End Users | Netherlands | www.uniekbo.nl |
- Project name: Technology for ageless sexual health (Anathema)
- Website: https://anathemaproject.eu/
- Coordinator: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
- Duration: 24 Months
- Starting Date: 01/04/2021
- Total budget: 1 235 366,33 €
- Public contribution: 877.634,12 €
Contact
Ana Correia de Barros
E.: ana.barros@fraunhofer.pt
T.:
Objectives
FaceRehab will develop a solution for supporting facial rehabilitation exercises at home using technology as a mean to improve digital transformation of the health and care for people affected with Facial Paralysis. It will contribute to integrate actions of formal and informal carers using a common ICT-based solution by extending rehabilitation programs performed in hospital or clinical environments to the community setting. In particular, FaceRehab will address the need for technological solutions that monitor the realization of facial paralysis rehabilitation exercises at home. A need felt by patients, physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists while undergoing a rehabilitation program.
Expected results and impact
FaceRehab expects to improve the quality of life (QoL) for primary end-users. The most important contribution to the QoL provided by FaceRehab solution is that it is addressing an often disregarded but prevalent problem of facial nerve paralysis. This consequence can be caused by an acute event like stroke, but it can also appear without an apparent cause. It has devastating consequences on self-esteem and causes self-isolation, physical issues (deglutition, corneal protection, dampening of noise) and mental disorders. The paralysis results in facial asymmetry that alters identity, ability to communicate, and effective expression of emotion. FaceRehab aims to develop a solution that can support better and quicker rehabilitation through exercises and bio-feedback at home, which will have a great impact on peoples’ lives.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Pedro Nunes | R&D | Portugal | www.ipn.pt |
| Centro de Medicina Fisica e Reabilitação - Fisioermesinde | SME | Portugal | |
| ThinkDigital | SME | Portugal | |
| Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu | End User | Spain | |
| Rehazenter | End User | Luxembourg |
- Project name: Facial paralysis Rehabilitation at home (FaceRehab)
- Website: http: //facerehab.las.ipn.pt
- Coordinator: Instituto Pedro Nunes – IPN
- Duration: 24 months
- Starting Date: 01/05/2021
- Total budget: 821 812, 5€
- Public contribution: 681 906,25 €
Objective of the project
The Sense Garden Home project is a follow up of the previous SENSE-GARDEN project (AAL/Call2016/054-b/2017, implementation period June 2017 – November 2020) which was funded by AAL Programme , co-funded by the European Commission and National Funding Authorities of Norway, Belgium, Romania, and Portugal. Creating a Sense Garden experience with minimal resources in the comfort of the Person with dementia’s own cosy and safe environment, their home.
Expected Results and Impact
The main question answered in the previous SENSE-GARDEN was that we can use technological adaptive space, stimulating senses with music, images, smells, to be used as a therapy offered to older adults living with dementia to reduce the progression of the disease. The project used these immersive spaces, simulating images of mountains, music of singing birds, and forest aromas.
SENSE-GARDEN Home will be the commercialization track of these immersive experiences in the comfort of their own home and enjoying past long time memories with friends and family. Three countries are involved to attract European market interest.
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| e-Point | SME | Belgium | www.e-point-the-electronic-point-of-care.com |
| Canarytech | SME | Romania | www.canarytech.ro |
| Integro Sint Jan Berchmans Campus | End User | Belgium | www.integrozorg.eu |
| Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Bucharest | End User | Romania | www.umfcd.ro |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology | R&D | Norway | www.ntnu.no |
- Project name: SENSE GARDEN HOME (SGH)
- Coordinator: ePoint bv
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date:
- Total budget: € 350.000
- Public contribution: €
Contact:
Ronny Broekx
E: Ronny.Broekx@epoint.be
T:+32495104408
Objectives
The project will produce prototypes of a simple, wearable device, ALTO, that improves the wellbeing – both mental and physical – for users in the +65-year age segment. Restlessness, difficulties to sleep and a lack of energy are all prevalent feelings in the ageing population. The developed solution builds on proven, carefully researched benefits of the combination of light and aroma stimulation to increase the quality of life amongst its users and to positively influence relevant biomarkers. The objective of the project is to validate the interest for the concept/device in different markets and sales channels.
Expected results and impact
The expected project result is a validated concept with a tested prototype, and with the potential to be industrialised, approved for sales in Europe and commercialised. The solution can potentially add value to for a multitude of end-users and for different use cases related to the wellbeing of the +65 years old. It is estimated that the product can be introduced in the first market within 6 months of the completion of the project, and ultimately be easily available (OTC) in developed markets globally and by that define a new niche category within the self-care market: “personal space air/light enhancement”.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heveas | SME | Denmark | www.heveas.com |
| Achilles | SME | Belgium | www.achilles.be |
| Fundesalud | End Users | Spain | www.fundesalud.es |
| National Cheng Kung University | R&D | Taiwan | www.ncku.edu.tw |
- Project name: Aroma Light Therapy Organiser (ALTO)
- Coordinator: Heveas ApS
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting Date: 03/2021
- Total budget: € 282,305
- Public contribution: € 202,305
Contact
Søren Jensen
E: ssj@heveas.com
T:+45 3699 1364
mHealthINX
mHealthINX users will be able to measure, assess, and elaborate on the personal stress level in a mobile and unobtrusive way. The system will indicate critical stress levels and suggest personalized ...
Read moreObjectives:
Age-related decline of physical and cognitive abilities produces often stressful situations for older employees. Especially at an older age, occupational stress is a key risk factor for developing mental disorders or cardiovascular diseases. In recent years many Apps have emerged trying to tackle the topic but with the main problem of are lacking clinical evidence. Besides, they miss a holistic approach because they are not co-designed with the target group. In contrast to that, the mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent, and holistic solution for supporting older employees in occupational stress management and mental health provision.
Expected Results and Impact:
The mHealthINX solution will provide a user-friendly, coherent and holistic solution to support older employees in managing their stress level and in promoting their mental health. It will combine advantages of assessment using self-reported and objective bio signal-based measures with advantages of App- and VR-based interventions. The solution will prove its effectiveness in the field. The strong business- and end-user-oriented consortium, having access to various stakeholders, and the low-cost hardware design are promising factors for making the mHealthINX solution very fast attractive to the market.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH | R&D | Austria | www.ait.ac.at/ |
| Medical University of Vienna | R&D | Austria | www.meduniwien.ac.at |
| mindcoa.ch GmbH | SME | Austria | www.mindcoa.ch/ |
| Creagy AG | SME | Switzerland | www.creagy.ch/ |
| ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences | R&D | Switzerland | www.zhaw.ch |
| tanteLouise | End Users | Netherlands | www.tantelouise.nl/ |
| MedRecord B.V. | SME | Nertherlands | www.medrecord.io/ |
| GameSolutionsLab B.V. | SME | Netherlands | www.gamesolutionslab.com/ |
| terzStiftung | End Users | Switzerland | www.terzstifung.ch |
| Ovos media gmbh | SME | Austria | www.ovos.at |
- Project name: The mental Health eXperience; Indication – iNtervention – eXperience (mHealthINX)
- Website: www.mhealthinx.eu
- Coordinator: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 03/2020
- Total budget: € 2.900.000
- Public contribution: € 1.800.000
Objectives:
It happens to a lot of older adults: Losing a partner. While most older adults mourn for some time and then continue their lives, another group of older adults cannot process this loss properly and experience prolonged grief. Prolonged grief, on its turn, leads to other health problems, such as loneliness, cardiovascular problems, and depression. The LEAVES project will result in an online service that supports older adults in processing their loss. It will use a combination of online, blended and offline services to help the older adult and to determine the onset of mental problems early on.
Expected Results and Impact:
The impact that the project hopes to achieve on well-being, focuses on, for example, decreasing grief symptoms, and prolonged grief (with a reduction from 25% (average rate) to 17.5%). At the end of the project, we aim to have at least three opportunities for exploitation, whereby a preferred supplier (a large company or organizations focused on psychiatric care) for the service for each country is present in the consortium. It is the goal to have a marketable product ready by the end of the project that will be expanded with personalization features in the years that follow.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roessingh Research and Development | SME | Netherlands | www.rrd.nl |
| National Foundation for the Elderly | End Users | Netherlands | www.ouderenfonds.nl |
| University of Bern | End Users | Switzerland | www.unibe.ch |
| School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Olten | University | Switzerland | www.fhnw.ch/ |
| Nothing AG | SME | Switzerland | www.nothing.ch |
| NOVA University of Lisbon | University | Portugal | www.unl.pt |
| Psychiatric Department at the Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo | End Users | Portugal | www.ulsba.min-saude.pt/ |
| Sensing Future Technologies | SME | Portugal | www.sensingfuture.com |
| DELA Natura- en levensverzekeringen N.V. | Large Enterprise | Netherlands | www.dela.nl |
- Project name: optimizing the mentaL health and resiliencE of older Adults that haVe lost thEir spouSe via blended, online therapy (LEAVES)
- Website: https://www.leaves-project.eu/
- Coordinator: Roessingh Research and Development
- Duration: 36 months
- Starting date: 02/2020
- Total budget: € 2.500.000
- Public contribution: € 1.500.000
Objectives:
Often frailty in elderly is strengthened by too low levels of activity. Physical exercise has been proven to be a good intervention to increase self-reliance and independence. It also enhances the quality of life and can cut costs of care. However, not all elderly are in touch with professionals who are trained to assess the physical capacity and set up a training program. This project empowers (home) care workers and citizens to take up this role, by offering them an app, with the exercises.
Expected results and impact:
The project will result in an app for self-training which might be almost ready for approaching the market (TRL 6-7). For the other countries the result is a report on market analysis and business strategy and possible partnership for market access of the assisted-training app. This will be suitable for all elderly in these countries and can have a high impact on their wellbeing. In order to reach this, this project facilitates the pilots and research needed.
Partners
Partners involved in a project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| DigiRehab | SME | Denmark | www.digirehab.dk/us/ |
| Zorggroep.H.Hart | End User | Belgium | http://www.h-hart.be/ |
| AlpScapes | SME | Austria | www.alpscapes.com/ |
| Favrskov Kommune | End Users | Denmark | www.favrskov.dk/ |
- Project name: Digital training for improved Elderlies self-reliance and quality of LIFE (e-LIFE)
- Website: www.digirehab.dk/elife
- Coordinator: DigiRehab A/S
- Duration: 9 months
- Starting date: 03/2020
- Total budget: € 458.682
- Public contribution: € 196.452
Contact:
Niels Heuer
E.: niels@digirehab.dk
T.: +45 22 72 72 20
Objectives:
An increasing number of adults aged 55 and more can be found driving on European roads. Despite the correlation between ageing and physical and cognitive problems, most ageing people still like to drive. They require tailor-made solutions in order to keep on driving independently in a safe, comfortable and stress-less way. 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 tools that allow them to drive more comfortably and with less stress.
- To provide stakeholders with a measurable basis to identify safe and unsafe behaviour, which can be used for different target groups.
Within the project we expect:
- To develop close-to-marketable products (TRL 7 or 8) that provide the ageing drivers with the support they need or want.
- To advance the ageing car user’s acceptance of the use of such systems
- To trigger secondary and tertiary end-users in using the to-be developed tools.
Partners
Partners involved in the project
| Organization | Type | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| F2S2 | Small enterprise | Belgium | www.f2s2.be |
| EURAG Austria | End-Users | Austria | www.eurag.at |
| JESCO Auto Training School | Small enterpirse | Belgium | www.jesco.be |
| KBO-PCOB | End Users | Netherlands | www.kbo-pcob.nl |
| Paris Lodron University Salzburg | University | Austria | www.uni-salzburg.nl |
| SD-insights | Small enterprise | Netherlands | www.sd-insights.eu/en/ |
| NEOS | End Users | Belgium | www.neoszw.be |
| Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit | Medium Enterprise | Austria | www.kfv.at |
| 50PLUS | End Users | Austria | www.seniorenbund.com/ |
- Project name: CuARdian Angel 2 (CARA 2)
- Website: https://www.cuardian-angel.eu/
- Coordinator: F2S2
- Duration: 18 months
- Starting date: 12/2019
- Total budget: € 1.630.000
- Public contribution: € 1.000.000