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- NEWS ARTICLE
- European Social Innovation Competition
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(12 November 2012) This Competition is launched by the European Commission in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos. The aim is to find the best social innovation solutions to help people move towards work or into new types of work. Over 25 million Europeans are out of work. On top of that, many people are stuck in low-paid jobs or sense that they have few opportunities on the job market – sometimes because of their gender, age or a handicap. This Competition invites any European to come up with new solutions to create new opportunities for work, and for better work. Not doing anything about unemployment and under-employment is not just cruel and wasteful; the corrosive effects of high unemployment will cast a shadow over the economy and our society for years to come. The Competition, launched on 1 October 2012 with as deadline 21 December 2012, includes a strong mentoring component for shortlisted entries. Eventually the three best proposals (indicative maximum) will each be awarded with a prize of 20,000 euros in May 2013. A second prize competition will be launched in 2014.
See also: Main features of the competition
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS
- Call for Proposals for Social Policy Experimentations
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(Deadline: 15/02/2013) This call for proposals on social policy experimentations intends to improve the quality and effectiveness of social policies and to facilitate their adaptation to new social needs and societal challenges. Through this call, PROGRESS countries embarking on welfare reforms are offered financial support to experiment envisaged policy changes and reforms before implementing them, if successful, on a wider scale. Selected projects have to contribute to developing and testing socially innovative approaches to policy priorities in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Open Method of Coordination on social protection and social inclusion.The Commission invites potential applicants to consider in particular the following themes: • Promotion of active and healthy ageing, which is underpinned by cross-sectoral actions aiming, among others, at improving the health status and the quality of life, supporting the sustainability and efficiency of health care and social services systems, ensuring decent working conditions and prolonging working lives, as well as at promoting social inclusion and independent living for all citizens, with a particular focus on older people, as outlined in the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. • Promotion of youth activation measures to tackle and prevent youth unemployment and exclusion, in particular for young people facing multiple barriers to labour market entry; • Provision of quality childcare services, which requires a comprehensive approach in line with the Strategy for Equality between women and men (2010- 2015) and the Communication on Early Childhood Education and Care .
See also: Reference information about social policy experimentation
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Call for papers EFMI STC 2013 Prague - workshop "Decision support and decision making enabled by personal portable devices"
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(12 November 2012) Currently the mobile technologies in general as well as sensors and other devices enable collecting and communicating a vast amount of data of individuals. This multi-parametric data may include physiological measurements, genetic data, medical images, laboratory examinations, and other measurements related to a person's activity, lifestyle, and surrounding environment. There will be increased demand on processing and interpreting such data for accurate alerting and signalling of risks and for supporting healthcare professionals in their decision making, informing family members, and the person himself/herself. With these facts in mind we can distinguish three large groups of applications and levels of systems. The first group contains systems we call recommendation and suggestion systems, which are systems we can find, for example, in the area of well-being and fitness, and which serve mainly for informing the clients about their health status. The second group -decision support systems- should serve as guidance for professionals and experienced users, like activy athletes. The third group -decision making systems- are systems that are directly linked with actuator part influencing patient health. Deadline for contributions is 20 December 2012.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- Future BNCI book now available!
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(12 November 2012) Springer Publishing has released the book developed through the Future BNCI project, called "Towards Practical Brain Computer Interfaces". This book contains chapters from some of the top people in BCI research, edited by the FBNCI team. Future BNCI was a project devoted to helping BCI research and the BCI research community. It ran over two years from January 2010 to December 2011 and was co-funded under the European Commission's seventh research framework programme.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- The future of work for an ageing population: how innovation and technologies will transform organizations
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18 December 2012 Barcelona, Spain
The European population is quickly ageing. With the retiring baby boom generation the number of people aged from 65 to 80 will rise by nearly 40% between 2010 and 2030. Governments are looking at the challenges associated with maintaining the current social welfare. One of the actions is increasing retirement age. Ageing workers are becoming an important part of companies and organizations. These people bring expertise and knowledge bringing important advantages to those that know how to keep them engaged. This session will present the findings of the Goldenworkers project, co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th research framework programme, on how organizations are adapting to this new reality. The session will address how technology will support the contribution of ageing people in organizations and which innovative technology solutions should be developed. These technologies can transform organizations making them more flexible, enabling the transfer of knowledge between generations, supporting lifelong learning, simplifying the integration of paid work and informal care, increasing the entrepreneurial possibilities for older workers, and matching skills and stimulating older workers innovativeness. Comments on the Goldenworkers roadmap are still open until 20 November.
See also: Website of the Goldenworkers project
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Priorities for Future Research on Accessible Information and Communication Technology Systems and Services
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22 January 2013 London
The aim of this conference is to obtain a consensus on priorities for future research on accessible information and communication technology systems and services. Funding bodies need to ascertain the best strategy for investing their finite resources in research and development to benefit disabled and elderly people. The scope will include network-based services (social networks, collective intelligent systems, augmented reality, cloud computing, advanced location aware services and ambient intelligent systems) as well as novel user interfaces and technology transfer. Speakers include Mike Short, Brian Collins, Gregg Vanderheiden, Graham Worsley, Patrick Roe, Alan Newell, Deborah Pullen, Gunela Astbrink and Guido Gybels. The conference is being organised by the Cardiac project, a project co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, in collaboration with the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network. The venue is wheelchair accessible and a hearing aid loop will be provided.
See also: Cardiac project
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- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- The TechnolAGE study identifies 20 best practices of ICT solutions for ageing well around Europe
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12 November 2012
The Study on business and financing models related to ICT for ageing well (a project commissioned by DG CONNECT and conducted by Ernst & Young and the Danish Technological Institute), has identified and analyzed 20 European best practices of ICT solutions for ageing well, with the aim of showing that this is an area worth investing funds on, and that it is capable of generating a return on investment, in line with the social and economic European context. Based on the findings, it is clear that the public sector, policy makers, the private sector and commercial actors can successfully work together to overcome the barriers identified in this particular market (such as the lack of European-wide standards and the absence of clear funding and reimbursement models), at the same time making the most of the precious lessons learned to date (such as taking a medium/long-term view on the possibilities of this market and working with new business and partnership models). A more specific analysis on 5 of the 20 cases will be published soon, focused on assessing their actual and potential replicability and scalability.
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