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- Information day for CIP ICT PSP Call 5, 11 February 2011, Brussels
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(28 January 2011) This Information day will offer potential participants the opportunity to share ideas and network with potential partners on the following objectives: ICT Solutions for Fall prevention and ICT and Ageing network ; Digital competences and social inclusion ; e-accessibility. This event is organised prior to the general CIP Call 5 Info Day of 28 February 2011. The info day will be webstreamed.
See also: Link to the webcast
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- European Council gives green light to launch of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
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(4 February 2011) In the conclusions of its meeting of 4 February, the European Council endorses the Commission's proposal for an Innovation Union, and in particular the launch of a European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, by stating that: "Innovation contributes to tackling the most critical societal challenges we are facing. Europe's expertise and resources must be mobilized in a coherent manner and synergies between the EU and the Member States must be fostered in order to ensure that innovations with a societal benefit get to the market quicker. Joint programming should be developed. The launch of the pilot Innovation Partnership on active and healthy ageing is an important step in that context."
See also: statement by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn after the 4 February European Council
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- Access for free a training curriculum for e-facilitators
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(7 February 2011) The animators or facilitators of Public Internet Centers have a key role to play, they are not only ICT trainers but also socio-cultural mediators. They are the promoters of disadvantaged users' inclusion. Today, their profile and status differ greatly from one country to the other as well as their access to formal and non formal training. VET4e-I is a project carried out with the support of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Union. It proposes to develop an innovative VET (Vocational Education and Training) solution to help European countries to cope with the common challenge of e-Inclusion. The project is developing a certifiable training curriculum for e-Inclusion facilitators focused on the development of key competences of users at risk of social exclusion, with a view to their empowerment in the knowledge society. This training curriculum will be based on an innovative blended learning environment inspired in Web 2.0 as well as on user-centred didactics. The VET4e-I project's team is now opening the first modules of its training curriculum of e-facilitators for free. Register on online before 10th February and access a set of 11 modules. Local partners in four countries, France, Bulgaria, Spain and Italy, will be running these training courses.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- The role of technology in achieving extended life years
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1 March 2011 Vienna, Austria
This European Forum will look at the role of technology in achieving extended life years. Presentations and discussions will examine the scientific, end user and private sector perspective and introduce ongoing key European projects in this area.
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- AAATE 2011 conference
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31 August 2011 - 2 September 2011 Maastricht, The Netherlands
The call for papers for the 11th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology, AAATE 2011, is open. Deadline for submission of a full first page of a paper or a draft paper (including full first page) is 7 February!
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- Pre-information notice for a service contract: E-accessibility measurement
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This study will aim to: measure the policy and market status of e-accessibility in all EU Member States and a few third countries which are world leaders in this area; analyse developments taking account of previous data and information; provide recommendations. For this purpose, special consideration will be paid to relevant EU policy and legislation as well as to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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- Pre-information notice for a service contract: ICT and ageing market watch study
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The study will have two aims: 1) to define metrics and measure the uptake of independent living and active ageing solutions for the elderly, savings in institutionalised and professional care in monetary terms, and potential business growth; and 2) to describe emerging business models for the delivery of such solutions and services and analyse them with respect to their viability (in terms of resulting in a viable business operation), sustainability over the longer term, and transferability (to other countries or regions). The study should cover most of the EU care/reimbursements models on a country level. The analysis is to be not only on health care but also on social care reimbursement, as well as on self-payment through consumer market solutions). In order to describe the contribution of such measures to the long-term sustainability of public finances, the study should include forecasts until 2025.
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- SMILING offers life satisfaction
Researchers in Europe continue the good fight against age-related impairments and in favour of social inclusion. Experts from the SMILING ('Self mobility improvement in the elderly by counteracting falls') project, which clinched EUR 2.25 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), focused on tackling injuries caused by falls by training the elderly to walk on uneven ground while carrying out another activity. The result? A pair of computer-controlled shoes that simulate changes in the height and slope of the ground beneath a user's feet during active walking. See also: Euronews Futuris report
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