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- NEWS ARTICLE
- Brainport region is the 'smartest region of the world'
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(3 June 2011) Brainport region -Eindhoven, Helmond and around- was rewarded last friday the 'smartest region of the world' in New York by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) under the theme Health & ICT. This is one more example of the added value that regions can have in boosting innovation. To drive further growth, Brainport created a project called Brainport Health Innovation (BHI). Its goals are to foster increased well-being for the elderly and chronically ill, to reduce healthcare costs and increase productivity, and to do so while generating economic opportunities for the region.
Contact: emermans@brabant.nl
See also: More about Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) - NEWS ARTICLE
- A Giant Step for Ageing Research in Europe - call for multidisciplinary research applications
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(6 June 2011) The European Research Area in Ageing (ERA-AGE 2) has launched Europe's first joint research programme in the ageing field by publishing a call for multidisciplinary research applications on "Active and Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course". The call is dedicated to the achievement of enhanced and healthy ageing and, in particular, to address the major priority established by the AHAIP (Active and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership) of a 2 year increase in healthy life expectancy in the European Union by 2020. Twelve funders in nine countries have committed €4.2 million to fund research projects of up to three years. This is Europe's first joint call for ageing research and follows the second round of ERA-AGE's post-doctoral fellowship programme, FLARE (Future Leaders of Ageing Research in Europe). Applications are invited from multidisciplinary research groups representing 3 to 5 funding countries. Stage-one pre-proposals can be submitted between 1 June 2011 and 3 October 2011 to investigate specific research questions related to these three objectives of the call: - Generate new knowledge on the biological, clinical, behavioural, social and environmental factors that enable individuals to live actively and healthily into later life. - Explore comparatively different models, methods, approaches and good practices in societal responses to increased longevity which emphasise both social inclusion and sustainability. - Engage in effective knowledge exchange activities that will assist European and other countries to achieve the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy by 2 years by 2020.
Contact: contact e-mail
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Ask your question to the speakers of the Digital Assembly Workshop "Addressing demographic change: a socio-economic challenge and opportunity for Europe"
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(6 June 2011) The aim of the workshop is to present progress in the pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing and invite stakeholder feedback. Members of the Steering Group of this EIP will highlight its first areas of work. Stakeholders will have the opportunity to contribute their feedback, suggestions and experiences to the session, draw inspiration from others' experiences as well as find potential partners. Registration to the Digital Assembly has now closed. However, even if you cannot attend, you can ask your questions to the speakers via the Comment box on this page. Please indicate whether your question is for industry, government or users representatives. A report of the workshop will be made available shorlty after the event.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Telehealth in support of integrated care: Call for submission of success stories - Ddl 31/07/2011
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(7 June 2011) The Telehealth Campaign is a series of initiatives whose objectives are to increase the collaboration and awareness about telehealth in support of integrated care in Europe amongst all the relevant stakeholders. The current promoters, representing patients, hospitals, health managers, health insurers and industry are AIM, EHMA, EPF, COCIR, CONTINUA, EHTEL and HOPE. The Telehealth Campaign is calling for submissions of successful Telehealth stories to be part of a brochure titled "Real Telehealth Stories". The brochure will be disseminated across a wide audience, namely the EU institutions, national and regional policymakers and officials, patients, healthcare professionals and managers, and industry. If you would like to contribute to the development of Telehealth in Europe and let the world know about your work, then submit your success Telehealth story.
Contact: Send your successful stories
- PRESS RELEASE
- Commission report highlights Europe's innovation emergency and analyses Member States' progress
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(9 June 2011) The EU's innovation performance needs major improvements in many areas if the Europe 2020 strategy is to deliver smart sustainable growth, concludes the European Commission's 2011 Innovation Union Competitiveness Report. Europe needs more and "smarter" investment in both public and private research and development – not only does this boost growth in the medium-term, it also has a counter-cyclical effect in times of crisis. More research cooperation within the EU and internationally is needed, along with better use of research results, including through a stronger intellectual property regime. Education systems need to be adapted to business innovation needs. Innovative and fast-growing SME's need more encouragement. A concerted effort is necessary to build on Europe's promising record in innovation tackling global challenges such as climate change. The gender gap in science and research must be closed.
See also: Innovation Union Competitiveness report 2011 – frequently asked questions
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Smart Accessibility Awards
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14 June 2011 Brussels, Belgium
The European Disability Forum (EDF), AGE Platform Europe (AGE) and the Vodafone Foundation are jointly launching "Smart Accessibility Awards". Researchers and developers are asked to create mobile applications to improve the lives of ageing users and users with disabilities. The competition will be held in 4 categories: social participation, independent living, mobility and well-being. During this launch event the debate will focus on how the smartphone platforms can enable low cost and rapid innovation and ensure the widespread distribution of new functionalities to users who may otherwise be excluded from the benefits of today's digital society.
Contact: Cindy De Koninck
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Service contract for a Study on Business and Financing Models related to ICT for Ageing Well - SMART 2011/0071
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(Deadline: 18/07/2011) The objective of the study is to address innovative solutions on sustainable business and financing models within information and communication technologies (ICT). The target solutions should be of high proven relevance for the ageing population in terms of improved quality of life of elderly people and their carers, increased efficiency of care and market potential. This excludes institutional healthcare settings.
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Service contract for a Study on assessing and promoting e-accessibility - SMART 2011/0070
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(Deadline: 06/07/2011) The study aims to measure the policy and market status of e-accessibility in all EU Member States and a few world-leading third countries as reference countries, analyse developments taking into account previous data and information, provide recommendations and disseminate the results to different ICTs and environments covered. Consideration will also be paid to relevant EU policy and legislation as well as to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
New in the Library
- AUDIOVISUAL
- Netc@rds - A step towards the electronic European Health Insurance Card
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27 May 2011
NETC@RDS enables the Health Practitioners to check foreign patients' entitlement to health care. It is based on an agreement, so-called the General Agreement, between Health Insurance Organisations (HIO) aiming to provide easier access to cross-border healthcare for citizens travelling abroad but inside the EEE/EU and Switzerland. The service can be provided via an eye-readable EHIC, a national health insurance electronic card, or via certain national e-ID chip cards issued by the responsible government authorities of the participating partners.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Netc@rds EU funded project website
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