European Innovation Partnership (EIP) “Active & Healthy Ageing”

Learn  more about the EU actions in the field of Healthcare and the ageing challenge

Having identified active and healthy ageing as a major societal challenge as well as economic opportunities, the European Commission has launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. The overarching target of this pilot partnership is to increase the average healthy lifespan by two years by 2020, pursuing the three main objectives of enabling EU citizens to live healthy, active and independent while ageing; improving the efficiency of health care systems; and of turning the ageing challenge into new business opportunities.

If you are interested in submitting projects under this topic, 3 calls are open.

Call under the Health Programme (FP7)

You can submit your projects until the 9 March 2012. The call seeks to support the deployment of innovative solutions for care provision in terms of innovative policies and business models. It will also focus on chronic disease management.

It covers three different types of actions:

- seed money for pilot projects on change of care delivery;

- support for a partnership approach towards change in care delivery;

- supporting older people's health.

An information session on this call was held on 11 January 2012 in Brussels. Web streaming of the session is available at http://webcast.ec.europa.eu/eutv/portal/player/index_player_streaming.html?id=13585 .

Call under the CIP Programme, Theme 3 ICT for Health (ICT PSP WP 2012)

Theme 3 will cover the following objectives:

o Objective 3.1: Wide deployment of integrated care services;

o Objective 3.2: Towards open and personalised solutions for active and independent living;

o Objective 3.3 : Digital capacity and skills of health, social care and social inclusion actors;

o Objective 3.4: Fall prevention network for older persons;

o Objective 3.5: Large scale deployment of telehealth services for chronic conditions management;

o Objective 3.6: Adoption, taking up and testing of standards and specifications for eHealth interoperability;

o Objective 3.7: Community Building on Active and Healthy Ageing.

The Call is now open and the closing date is 15 May 2012.

If you intend to submit a proposal under this call, a Workshop is organized on 17.02, providing an opportunity to present your project idea and hold consultations with European Commission representatives.

Further information at http://www.epractice.eu/en/events/2012-cip-workshop-health-ageing-inclusion

Call under the AAL Joint Programme (Ambient Assisted Living)

 The 5^th Call for Proposals of the AAL Joint Programme will aim at the development of ICT-based solutions which enable and sustain older adults to continue managing their daily activities in their home. This call aims also at ICT-based solutions which support informal careers in their assistance.

It is anticipated that the call will be launched end of February 2012, with a proposal submission deadline end May 2012. The information event will take place on 13th March 2012, in Brussels.  More information at

http://www.aal-europe.eu/news-and-events/pre-announcement-of-the-5th-call-for-proposals-of-the-aal-jp

Need further information?

http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing&pg=calls

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