• Home
  • AER Elections 2025 – Shape the Future of Our Network
    • Call for amendments – AER Political Priorities 2025-2030
  • About
    • Governance & Structure
      • AER Procedures
      • Statute & strategies
      • The AER Executive Board
      • The AER Secretariat
    • AER stands with Ukraine
    • The History of AER
  • Members
    • Who are AER’s members?
    • Member Directory
    • Join AER!
  • Mutual Learning
    • About Mutual Learning
    • Knowledge Transfer Events
    • Working Groups
      • Ongoing Working Groups
      • Past Working Groups
  • Advocacy
    • About Our Advocacy Work
    • The Bureau
    • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
    • AER Political Priorities 2020-2025
  • Projects
    • About Our Projects
    • Ongoing Projects
    • Look for Partners
    • Completed Projects
  • AER Programmes
    • Eurodyssey – A traineeship mobility programme for young people, entirely managed at regional level
    • Intercultural Regions Network
    • AER SUMMER ACADEMY
    • AER Youth Regional Network (YRN)
  • Events
    • AER Event Calendar
    • AER events
    • Other events

Assembly of European Regions

Connecting regions, inspiring Europe since 1985

You are here: Home / News / Reference site status for AER regions

Reference site status for AER regions

8 September, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Facebooktwitterlinkedinmail
Share this!

A recognition of excellence

A Call for Reference sites 2016 was launched in December 2015 at the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.

A total of 74 regional and local organisations have now been awarded “Reference Site” status.

These organisations have demonstrated the existence of comprehensive strategies to advance innovation for active and healthy ageing, based on a “Quadruple Helix” model that includes stakeholders from industry, civil society, academia and government authorities at a regional and local level.

Investing in active and healthy ageing

Together these regions represent a commitment of over four billion € (2016-2019 period) to invest in innovative solutions that will lead to improvements in the quality of life of the ageing population, support efficiencies and sustainability of health and social care delivery and finally, stimulate economic growth and competitiveness. These investments will benefit an expected five million people in the next three years.

Scaling-up: IT innovation for the Silver Economy

The Reference Site status is granted to organisations, which have demonstrated excellence in: the development, the adoption of the scaling up of innovative practices for active and healthy ageing. All this being in line with the strategic objectives of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) and particularly the European Scaling Up Strategy for Innovation in Active and Healthy Ageing.

The Scaling Up strategy supports the European Commission priority of establishing a Digital Single Market to unlock online opportunities for digital products and services.

Stars for AER regions!

The European Innovation Partnership recognised 8 AER member regions with “reference site” status: Catalonia (ES) ****, City of Zagreb (HR)*, East of France (FR)**, Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT)***, Murcia (ES)**, Norrbotten (SE)***, Noorth Brabant Province (NL)***, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (FR)**.

Links

The official announcement and the full list of nominees is available on the Scale AHA website

More information on the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

Upcoming events on e-health

“E-health: let’s find a common language”: AER event which will bring together companies & regional stakeholders on e-health and provide insights and free P2P meetings, information on funding etc to boost cooperation between stakeholders

European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing: Transforming the future of Health and Care in Europe: event organised by the European Commission

ALEC 2017 Accelerating Digital Health: the fifth Arctic Light e-Health Conference (ALEC), is a captivating event uniting digital health professionals from across the globe in the arctic region of Norrbotten for two days of inspiration, networking and skill development. Top-level politicians, digital health thought leaders, business innovators and ehealth professionals will meet to experience thought provoking keynotes on digital transformation.

 

 

 

Print Friendly, PDF & Email
Follow AER!
Facebooktwitterlinkedinrss

Filed Under: News, Policies Tagged With: Arctic, Digital Transformation, E-Health, Economy, Growth, Health, Innovation, Project Active and healthy ageing, Regional development

← Guide on EU funding for the tourism sector – updated version Black Sea Summit 2016 is ready to start →

More articles on this topic

Committee 2 Progress Report Spring 2018
E-health: how to find a common language?
Committee 3 Progress Report Spring 2018
Committee 1 Progress Report Spring 2018
AER E-health journey

AER. Connecting regions, inspiring Europe since 1985.

Follow our newsletter!




View previous campaigns.


  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

2025 AER General Assembly

  • AER Elections 2025

AER Projects

  • Ongoing projects
    • EU-BELONG: An Intercultural Approach to Migrant Integration in Europe’s Regions
    • MEET: Mobilise Europe = Engage Together
    • CL-YE | Climbing the Ladder: Fostering a Culture of Youth Engagement
  • Partner search

Library

Statutory Documents
AER Strategies
Minutes
Media Kit
Activity Reports
Newsletters
European Regions Map

Join AER!

Become a Member

Job Opportunities

Sign up for our Newsletter

Website map

Brussels · Strasbourg · Alba Iulia

A Network, a Partner and a Voice of European regions, since 1985 · Copyright © 2025 · Assembly of European Regions · info@aer.eu · Log in