The AAL Programme :
Why investing in ICT for ageing?
A regional perspective
Brussels, 8 October 2014
Karina Marcus
Director
AAL Association,
Central Management Unit www.aal-europe.eu
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AGEING
CHALLENGES
AGEING
OPPORTUNITIES
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COFUNDING
ACTIVITY
• APPLIED RESEARCH
• INNOVATION CLOSER TO MARKET
TRANSNATIONAL
PROJECTS
• > 3 COUNTRIES INVOLVED
• BUSINESS/SMES/USERS/RESEARCH
USER DRIVEN
• INNOVATION PARADIGMS
• CONCEPTION/TESTING/BUSINESS
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 Member state driven R&D&I programme for Europe
22 States involved
19 EU members
3 Associated States www.aal-europe.eu
 Total funding: ~ 700 Million €
 with ~ 50% public funding by AAL
Member States and EC and
 with ~ 50% private funding from industry and user organisations
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Call 1:
Chronic
Conditions
Call 3:
Self-Serve Society
Call 2:
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Call 5:
Home
Care
Call 6:
Occupation in Life
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Type of Organisations involved with AAL JP
AAL JP AAL JP AAL JP AAL JP AAL JP
2008
9%
2009
7%
2010
10%
Call 4
2011
10%
Call 5
2012
7%
Call 6
2013
9%
FP 7 ICT programme,
ICT & Ageing,
First Call
10% Large enterprises
SMEs
User and other organisations
Research performing organisations
Universities
Total
38%
18%
19%
16%
100%
46%
14%
21%
49%
11%
19%
52%
11%
14%
12% 9% 13%
100% 100% 100%
44%
21%
12%
16%
100%
47%
16%
19%
6%
15% 35%
30% of entities with an end-user role
13%
100%
30%
100%
[1] The data shown for AAL JP are those ones for submitted proposals, and are very similar to the data for ranked proposals – i.e. those eligible for funding – so the latter data are excluded.
[2] Average SME participation in the whole FP7 ICT programme is 14.4% (FP7 report, Spring 2010, EC DG-Research).
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2014-2020 – Calls Challenge Led
Increased adoption of solutions
Improved efficiency
Socioeconomic challenges as drivers of innovation
Delivery of new solutions to market
More ideas and approaches
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• Consortium must include at least three independent eligible organisations from at least three different AAL
Partner States participating in the Call for Proposals
• Consortium must include at least
– one business partner
– one SME partner which can be the business partner
– one end-user organization
• Compliance of the consortium members to the specific national eligibility rules found at www.aal-europe.eu
• Adherence to the specifications for structure and technical details (e.g. page count) of the proposal submission.
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• AAL2Business
– To support AAL JP projects to bring their developed solutions to the market within 2 to 3 years after the end of the funding period: business workshops, coaching, project labelling
• Collaboration with Regions
– Workshops with local and regional representatives to raise awareness of AAL JP projects and to foster exchange of experience between European regions.
• User involvement in AAL JP projects
– Current state and analysis of user involvement and workshops, toolkit, requirements
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• Standards & Interoperability in AAL
– Workshops to raise awareness about interoperability issues of
AAL solutions to facilitate market uptake; collection of use cases and mapping to standards
• AAL Information Portal preliminary study
– Information about the existing portals available
• Market Observatory in AAL preliminary study
– What would help the supply and demand side actors to find information and take sound investment decisions?
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• Vienna, Austria (2009) • Odense, Denmark (2010)
Participants
Exhibitors
Posters
Sessions
500
25
50
18
• Lecce, Italy (2011)
Participants
Exhibitors
Sessions
Posters
600
47
25
75
Participants
Exhibitors
Posters
Sessions
722
23
75
35
• Eindhoven, Netherlands (2012)
Participants
Exhibitors
Sponsors
Sessions
• Norrkoping, Sweden (2013)
1229
73
6
44
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Participants
Exhibitors
Sessions
Side events
802
46
22
18
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• Plenary: Local and regional authorities:
Key actors for large scale deployment of AAL solutions
• B3 – Europe Health Cluster
• B4 – Smart Cities and AAL
• C5 – Promoting innovation by scaling up: myth or fact?
And many others…

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