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Welcome to our project section! We are involved in the project "ENGAGED". The articles below relate to the topic of active and healthy ageing.

What would Facebook do if they were responsible for the elderly care in your area?

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The Engaged network organised a multi-centered workshop during the annual symposium of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL). The event convened various experts linked through video conferencing in Brussels (BE), Barcelona (ES) and Ashford (UK) to validate the roadmap for future innovations in health and social care.

Hot topics such as user involvement, value creation and impact assessment were discussed and participants were asked to reflect on and answer questions such as the one in the title of this article and others like “What would Amazon together with Goggle deliver if they were in charge of a project for creating empowered patients?” or “Using modern ICT-platforms, how could users/patients/citizens become value creators in new and innovative business models?”

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Workshop presentations on EHTEL website

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Mutual learning can solve the geek gap and much more

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Solutions for an age-friendly society require the collaboration of stakeholders, which are often not used to work together. IT developers and businesses may have very different ways of looking at a problem. Add to that the point of view of doctors, nurses, informal carers or patients and their sometimes unexpected ways of using technology and you will be heading for total chaos unless they all engage in a process of mutual learning.

How to do this and what types of tools to use were the main questions the over 80 attendees at the Engaged workshop discussed on 21 October in Letterkenny, after an inspiring talk on knowledge transfer and creation by Programme Manager Soo Hun from the Health and Social Care Northern Ireland.

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ENGAGED Mutual Learning Workshop Report

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ENGAGED is a network of stakeholders from different backgrounds and across different European countries, who are interested in learning from each other and together support the further deployment of innovative solutions to promote active and healthy ageing.
This community will actively shape the active and healthy ageing agenda of the EU and deliver knowledge and guidelines on how regions can implement innovate solutions in this area.

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Innovation in integrated care: start now!

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Some 80 people met in Kent (GB) for an ENGAGED workshop on 3 June 2014 on innovation in integrated care around the world. Two topics of the day: the integrated care approach and the impact that innovation hubs can have.

Members of the audience discussed assessment procedures, the patient experience and how people may need to be supported in learning to use technologies. Many issues highlighted are organisational, but – whatever the challenges – speakers were keen to advocate “start now!”. This is also why AER is engaged in both the SmartCare and the Engaged projects, which provide regional stakeholders with tools and more importantly, concrete support, to start the journey.

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Making a real difference!

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In the framework of the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) forum 2013, CORAL*, EUREGHA**, AER and the ENGAGED project organised a lively talk on regional innovation in active and healthy ageing. Five regional politicians explained how they boost innovation in active and healthy ageing in their regions and how they collaborate at European level. Some short videos from regions were also presented, giving the 50 participants the opportunity to discover which are the best practices all over Europe. “It is essential that Europe addresses the issue of large-scale implementation of health and social care innovation”, said Agneta Granström, County Councillor of Norrbotten (S) and Chair of the AER [email protected] network, “For now we only have innovation islands.”

This interactive event allowed to share a number of regional strategies to innovate in health and to go back home with new ideas for the welfare of European seniors through independent living and integrated care. “Design thinking is not only about designing objects and buildings, it is about redesigning processes in health and social care”, said Brigite Van Haaften, Vice-Governor of the Province of Noord-Brabant (NL).

Among the proposals made by the politicians and the audience, the idea of setting a group of Ambassadors to pass on the message of innovation in active ageing locally, in different languages, received support. “We need to find some multipliers for our actions”, agreed the participants.

Commissioner Neelie Kroes welcomed this joint event through a message to the participants. The AAL Joint programme is an important pillar in the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) initiated by the European Commission.

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How regional politicians engage to make a real difference on Active and Healthy Ageing

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Norrköping (S), 24 September 2013

Today, in the framework of the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) forum 2013, CORAL*, EUREGHA**, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and the ENGAGED project organised a lively talk show on regional innovation in active and healthy ageing. During 90 minutes, 5 regional politicians explained to the audience how they boost innovation in active and healthy ageing in their regions and how they collaborate at European level. Some short videos from regions were also presented, giving the fifty participants the opportunity to discover which are the best practices all over Europe. “It is essential that Europe addresses the issue of large-scale implementation of health and social care innovation”, said Agneta Granström, County Councillor of Norrbotten (S) and Chair of the AER [email protected] network, “For now we only have innovation islands.”

This interactive event allowed to share a number of regional strategies to innovate in health and to go back home with new ideas for the welfare of European seniors through independent living and integrated care. “Design thinking is not only about designing objects and buildings, it is about redesigning processes in health and social care”, said Brigite Van Haaften, Vice-Governor of the Province of Noord-Brabant (NL).

Among the proposals made by the politicians and the audience, the idea of setting a group of Ambassadors to pass on the message of innovation in active ageing locally, in different languages, received support. “We need to find some multipliers for our actions”, agreed the participants.

Commissioner Neelie KROES welcomed this joint event through a message to the participants. The AAL Joint programme is an important pillar in the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) initiated by the European Commission.

Useful links:

* CORAL: Regional Policies for Active and Healthy Ageing
** EUREGHA: European Regional and Local Health Authorities
ENGAGED website
European Commission website
AAL forum

AER is happy to remind that 11 member regions were Awarded Reference Sites!
In August, in the framework of the EIP on AHA, the European Commission has invited coalitions of regions, cities, integrated hospitals or care organisations that demonstrate a comprehensive, innovation-based approach to active and healthy ageing to apply to become a Reference Site. Among the 32 Reference Sites awarded, we can find 11 AER member regions: Olomoucz (CZ), Syddanmark (DK), Pohjois-Pohjanmaa (FIN), Ile-de-France (F), Languedoc-Roussillon (F), Alsace (F), Friuli Venezia Giulia (I), Catalunya (E), Valencia (E), Gelderland (NL) and Noord-Brabant (NL). Congratulations to all of them!

The Assembly of European Regions (AER – aer.eu) is the largest independent network of regions in wider Europe. Bringing nearly 230 regions from 35 countries and 15 interregional organisations, AER is the political voice of its members and a forum for interregional cooperation.

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On 4 September 2013, the ENGAGED project – together with the Action Groups C2 Independent Living and B3 Integrated Care of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing – organised a mutual learning workshop on innovative procurement in Bari (I).

What are the tools of public procurement for the acquisition of innovative services and products for independent living and integrated care? Where do we stand today and how to raise awareness on innovative procurement?

The workshop analysed the current approaches and experiences from different European regions, allowing mutual learning and sharing practices among regional representatives and stakeholders. Participating regions identified good practices and explored how these could be replicated and scaled up across Europe to support the objectives of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing programme.

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