The AAL Programme : Why investing in ICT for ageing? A regional perspective

Brussels, 8 October 2014Karina MarcusDirectorAAL Association, Central Management Unit

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AAL Programme Objectives

Quality of life of older

adults

EU ICT industry

Social inclusionAGEING

CHALLENGES AGEING OPPORTUNITIES

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• APPLIED RESEARCH• INNOVATION CLOSER TO MARKET

COFUNDING ACTIVITY

• > 3 COUNTRIES INVOLVED• BUSINESS/SMES/USERS/RESEARCH

TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS

• INNOVATION PARADIGMS• CONCEPTION/TESTING/BUSINESSUSER DRIVEN

What is AAL?

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AAL Programme 2014-2020

Member state driven R&D&I programme for Europe

22 States involved19 EU members 3 Associated States

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 5: Home Care

Call 3: Self-Serve Society

Call 2: Social Interaction

Call 4: Mobility

Call 1: Chronic Conditions

Call 6: Occupation in Life

AAL JP 2008-2013

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Type of Organisations involved with AAL JP projects, in terms of proposals submitted

AAL JP

Call 1 2008

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Call 2 2009

AAL JP

Call 3 2010

AAL JP

Call 4 2011

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Call 5 2012

AAL JP

Call 6 2013

FP 7 ICT programme, ICT & Ageing,

First Call

Large enterprises

9% 7% 10% 10% 7% 9% 10%

SMEs 38% 46% 49% 52% 44% 47% 19%User and other organisations

18% 14% 11% 11% 21% 16% 6%

Research performing organisations

19% 21% 19% 14% 12% 15% 35%

Universities 16% 12% 9% 13% 16% 13% 30%Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 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).

30% of entities with an end-user role

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Achievements 2008 2013

Users engaged in

ICT R&D

Increased outreach of

SMEs

Network effects AAL community

IPR and AAL solutions closer to market

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Socio-economic

challenges as drivers of

innovation

Increased adoption of

solutions

Delivery of new solutions

to market

More ideas and approaches

Improved efficiency

2014-2020 – Calls Challenge Led

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Challenges Identified

Independent living at home

Age-friendly environments outside home

Living well with Age related diseases and multimorbidity

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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.

Consortium Composition

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AAL JP - Support Actions• 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

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AAL JP - Support Actions• 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)Participants 722 Exhibitors

23Posters 75Sessions 35

Participants 500Exhibitors

25Posters

50Sessions

18

• Odense, Denmark (2010)

• Lecce, Italy (2011)Participants600 Exhibitors

47Sessions

25Posters

75

• Eindhoven, Netherlands (2012)

Participants 1229Exhibitors

73Sponsors

6Sessions

44

AAL Forum

• Norrkoping, Sweden (2013)Participants802 Exhibitors

46Sessions

22Side events

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AAL FORUM 20149-12 September 2014,

Bucharest, Romania

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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…

Sessions dedicated to the regions

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