Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development (BRAID) is an EU FP7 Support Action spanning 24
months (start date 1st March 2010) which will develop a comprehensive RTD roadmap for active
ageing by consolidating existing roadmaps and by describing and launching a stakeholder co‐ordination
and consultation mechanism.
An open call for experts has been launched for engaging in critical stakeholder dialogue.
For details on the call please see: Call for Experts
Workshop on Roadmaps towards a strategic research agenda for ICT in active ageing - Organized in association with the Pervasive Health 2010 Conference, 22 March 2010 - Munich, Germany
Sponsored by the FP7 ePAL project, the AGEmap workshop is intended to discuss current proposals towards a strategic RTD roadmap, focused on novel collaborative solutions and ensuring a balanced post-retirement life-style.
Call for papers
http://agemap.eu/
Saint-Etienne, France, 11-13 October 2010 - PRO-VE 10 Conference on Collaborative Networks
www.pro-ve.org
PRO-VE'09 Conference on Collaborative Networks. Held in France, this conference will address Virtual enterprises/organizations and Professional Virtual Communities networks.
A set of Consensus Building Events - Towards a roadmap for active ageing and silver economy will take place in four different European cities with the participation of a wide variety of stakeholders. The aim of such events is to revise and consolidate the baseline, vision and proposed roadmap actions.
People interested in participating in these events please contact, Prof. Luis Camarinha-Matos (cam@uninova.pt).
The dates and locations are the following:
Porto (PT) - 17 Jun 2009
Seville (ES) - 7 Jul 2009
London (UK) - 16 Jul 2009
Madrid (ES) - 10 Sep 2009
Maastricht (NL) - 24 Sep 2009
AGENDA
09:30 Welcome
09:45 General introduction to ePAL - goals and findings
10:30 Methodology for the meeting
10:45 Baseline summary - current situation on active ageing and silver economy
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Working groups - discussion of baseline
11:30 Summary of conclusions (plenary)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Vision summary - a new strategic vision for active ageing and silver economy
14:45 Working groups - discussion of vision
15:45 Summary of conclusions (plenary)
16:00 Proposed strategic actions - social, organizational and technological perspectives
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 Working groups - discussion of actions
17:45 Summary of conclusions (plenary)
18:00 General conclusions and next steps
18:30 Closing
Sponsored by the FP7 ePAL project, the objective of the session is to contribute to defining a new research agenda in the area of ICT and Ageing and to sharing knowledge and experiences on promising related new approaches.
To visit the session webpage click here.
The ePAL Newsletter is now available in other languages! Please visit the Newsletter page.
Madrid will host the seminar on extension of professional active life which will have the participation of various experts in the active aging area, stakeholders and seniors as well.
The ePAL consortium met in London for another internal meeting and workshop with invited experts. The main objective for this meeting was the developments of WP2 (Building the Vision) and the work going on in other two work packages: WP3 (Gap Analysis) and WP4 (Implementation Models). Regarding WP2 a considerable work was done in order to tune some work on the scenarios and key drivers as well as defining entities and working terms and concepts. The WP3 was essentially devoted to the methodology that ePAL should take and the in the WP4 it was discussed the different types of market and clients as well as the potential stakeholders. The workshop was held on two afternoons. The first part focused on the social and economic areas with presentations from Martin Suenson from Dinossaur Exchange, Professor Harry Gray and Andrea Baron from Age Concern. The second day was dedicated to technical knowledge analysis with the participation of Nadia Berthouze an expert in affective computing; Pietro Panzarasa in the area of the network science and finally Vesna Brujic that presented Web 2.0 technologies. Experts brought to consortium some ideas and different visions of the ePAL concept what was extremely interesting to take in consideration.
Poznan, Poland - 8th-10th September 2008 - PRO-VE 08 Conference on Collaborative Networks
www.pro-ve.org
PRO-VE'08 Conference on Collaborative Networks. Held in Poland, this conference will address Virtual enterprises/organizations and Professional Virtual Communities networks.
ePAL partners met in Maastricht to review work and research carried out for the first deliverable of WP1 (Baseline Consolidation) and also to carry on with the work started in WP2 (Building the Vision) and WP5 (Community Building and Dissemination). Being at its final stage, the deliverable from WP1 focuses essentially on the study made to 29 organizations working on the active aging domain and also on the state-of-the art in research on related issues. The started WP2 was in this meeting further developed and some achievements were accomplished such as what should be the key drivers, how to build a good scenario and what kind of entities ePAL is focusing on and what we can benefit from the expertise of each entity. During this meeting ePAL consortium had the chance to host one expert in the socio-economic area (Drs. J. M. J. Severijns - Limburg Provence) and other two experts in the technological fields (Henriette Cramer and Maarten van Someren - University of Amsterdam). Experts contributed with presentations and participated in the consortium discussions about the vision and needs.
Porto, Portugal - 23rd-25th June 2008 - 8th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems
www.basysconference.org
A major event in the area of emerging information technologies and automation in manufacturing and services, held in Porto.
The ePAL consortium met in Seville to review work and research carried out for the WP1 stage of the project. Partners reported back on information gathered on "active aging" networks and introduced relevant strands of research such as ICT and behavioural modelling. Priorities and objectives were established for proceeding to the WP2 stage ("Building The Vision") of the project; how best to capture the key drivers of change and record positive and negative trends within the active aging field. Further to Partners' presentations, the structure for a consolidated and integrated baseline was agreed upon.
Porto saw the inaugural event for the ePAL project. The Partner organisations making up the ePAL consortium met to establish priorities and coordinate efforts to achieving a comprehensive baseline and landscape of present initiatives in the field of "active aging". This meeting saw the initiation of the WP1 stage of the project and presented the chance for Partners to establish a coordinated view of how the project should progress in the future.
