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- NEWS ARTICLE
- Information events on the 4th Call for proposals of the AAL Joint Programme: "ICT based solutions for Advancement of Older Persons' Mobility".
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(21 March 2011) A series of information days on Call 4 of the AAL Joint Programme is organised in the coming weeks in Brussels and in the Member States.
See also: Pre-announcement of the 4th call for proposals of the AAL JP
- PRESS RELEASE
- Research on population ageing: Commission awards new EU legal status to cross-border databank
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(21 March 2011) A major multi-national research databank on population ageing will be the first ever research infrastructure project to enjoy a new European legal status that will make such projects easier to set up and simpler to run, the European Commission decided today. The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will become the first European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). This will give it many of the administrative advantages and tax exemptions enjoyed by major international organisations, with much simpler procedures. SHARE-ERIC is hosted by Tilburg University in the Netherlands, provides open and free of charge access to data, and aims to help researchers understand the impact of population ageing on European societies and thus to help policy makers make decisions on health, social and economic policy. Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands, with Switzerland as an observer, are the founding members of the new European Research Infrastructure Consortium SHARE-ERIC. Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Ireland, Estonia, Luxembourg, Hungary and Slovenia are the other EU countries (along with Israel) which have so far taken part in the SHARE project and may sign up later to the new legal status.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Telecentre heroes help 112,000 people in European Get Online Week
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(21 March 2011) More than one hundred thousand Europeans were reached in about 5,000 telecentres in 30 countries across Europe in the 2011 Get Online Week campaign. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission thanked telecentre staff and hailed them 'European heroes'. For about one in six of those 112,000 this was the first time they had ever used the internet. Their technology journey was just starting. Gabi Barna, Chair of Telecentre-Europe, and Director of EOS in Romania said: "The people who visited telecentres during Get Online Week, will be supported this week, and next week, and likely for a number of weeks to come. They started a journey of discovery about computers and the internet, which will lead them to benefit from better job prospects and wage premiums. They will have better social, community and civic connections, and personal economic savings and benefits to them, as well as macro-economic savings and benefits to their governments' and to industry". The rest, just over 90,000 people, had already started their journey, but were in a telecentre being introduced to online services for the first time, or receiving ongoing support or learning. This ongoing support that local telecentres provide is vital.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- BRAID joins AAL Open Association
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(23 March 2011) The European Support Action BRAID (Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development) is joining the AALOA (AAL Open Association) community. AALOA is already supported by a number of European Research projects: MonAMI, OASIS, OsAmI-commons, PERSONA, SOPRANO, universAAL and WASP, which have joined forces and decided to start a convergence process in order to build a common platform for the standardization of AAL systems. BRAID expects to undertake a number of initiatives within AALOA to share and encourage discussion of its early results within the AALOA community, enhancing the dissemination impacts of each.
See also: Braid project
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Keynote Speakers at eHealth Week 2011 Call for Significant IT Investments in Health Systems of the Future
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10 May 2011 - 12 May 2011 Budapest, Hungary
Keynote speakers at eHealth Week 2011 will emphasize on the role of technology in shaping up health systems of the future. They will discuss how to push information out into the 'eco-system': finding ways to move data from solely within the hospital out into the community, and from the GP's office, or even the home, to the electronic medical record. For the first time, the Ministerial Conference of Day 1 will be open to the World of Health IT delegates.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Registration is open (Early bird until 1st April 2011)
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- AUDIOVISUAL
- Presentation video of CommonWell project
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15 January 2011
CommonWell aims to support high quality independent living and wellbeing for older people across Europe by integrating ICT-based services across provider organisations on open platforms. The integrated services are to support the effective management of chronic disease, and to address issues which affect independence, such as reduced agility, vision or hearing, in order to significantly improve the quality of life for older people and their families.
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