Active and Healthy Ageing
~ A League of European Research Universities (LERU) workshop
to inform the development of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP)
10.30 – 17.15, Thursday, 26 April 2012
Engineering Front Executive Suite, First Floor, Roberts Building, UCL,
Malet Place, off Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE
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Chair and convenor: Professor Nick Tyler, CBE, Chadwick Professor of Civil
Engineering, UCL, Director, UCL Crucible Centre for Lifelong Health & Wellbeing
UCL contact: Michael Reade ++ 44 (0)7790 445878
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The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing is
an integral part of the Innovation Union, one of the seven flagship initiatives of
the Europe 2020 Strategy, which aims to create smart, sustainable and
inclusive growth by the end of this decade.
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The overarching target of this pilot partnership will be to increase the average
healthy lifespan by two years by 2020.
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The Innovation Union contains a number of actions that aim to make Europe a
world-class science performer; remove obstacles to innovation and
revolutionise the way public and private sectors work together, notably through
Innovation Partnerships between the European institutions, national and
regional authorities and businesses.
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This LERU workshop will create an important forum for academic researchers
to identify the most important issues for active and healthy ageing research in
the next 100 years and so contribute to the development of the EIP.
PROGRAMME
10.30
Registration and coffee (Room 1.04, Seminar Room)
11.00
Nick Tyler:
 Welcome
 What is an European Innovation Partnership (EIP)?
 Participants reactions to the strategic innovation priority action
areas as identified by the EIP Strategic Innovation Plan (Nov.
2011).
 Participants encouraged to write down their reactions to the SIP on
a wall poster throughout the day.
 Workshop objectives
11.30
Points of clarification – open to the floor
11.45
Lunch and networking (Room 1.04, Seminar Room)
12.45
Introduction to the afternoon breakout session (Nick Tyler)
Afternoon session led by Anthony Bull, Professor of Musculoskeletal
Mechanics, Imperial College London
13.00
Breakout groups: Research Innovation. What are the main issues for
researchers in the next 100 years?
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
What are the innovations in research methods?
What are the innovations in technology?
What are the innovations in clinical and social care?
How can we innovate innovations?
14.30
Breakout groups finalise their conclusions. Conclusions to be written on
flipchart paper and attached to the front wall in lecture room.
14.45
Tea and ‘break-out market’ – participants view and informally discuss the
conclusions from the breakout groups.
15.15
Discussion: reactions to breakout conclusions
15.45
● Consolidate conclusions into themes
● Prioritise themes
● Create action plan to develop the EIP (progress to be reviewed at
next meeting)
i) What needs to be done?
16.15
ii) Who will to do it? Assignment of tasks and drinks reception
16.55
Final comments (Nick Tyler)
17.00
Close and drinks reception