The document provides an overview of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP). The AAL JP is a partnership between EU member states and the European Commission to fund research and development of information and communication technologies to help older adults and persons with disabilities live independently and be active. It aims to strengthen the European research area, create markets for compatible solutions, and include small and medium enterprises and end-users. Projects focus on developing tools, systems and services using ICT. The AAL JP is expected to provide over €600 million in funding between 2008-2013.

1. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
Joint Programme (JP),
Overview
Rafael De Andrés-Medina
Treasurer, Executive Board
AAL Association & Joint Programme
treasurer@aal-europe.eu
1 st European Workshop
How technologies can help. Driving innovation to the real need of the AAL market
3 th June 2010, 10:00 - 17:15
AVANTE
Barcelona, 2 th – 4 th June 2010
http://www.aal-europe.eu/

2. AAL JP:
Aims
• Use of ICT – Tools, Systems and Services
• Develop products and services for aging well at
home, in the community and at work
• Create critical mass of R&D and Innovation:
• Strengthening European Research Area (ERA)
• Create markets through
common and compatible European solutions
• Include SME´s at all levels of activities
• Strengthening the industrial base in Europe
• Include Users at all stages of activities
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3. AAL JP:
ICT applied research for ageing well
New JP, for funding RTD in Europe: 2008 – 2013
• EC participation based on art. 185 of the EC Treaty (former art. 169)
– Decision, European Parliament and Council [of Ministers], published 30 th July 2008
– [now 23] Member States (MMSS) driven JP
– Midterm assessment
• Total expected AAL JP funding ~ 600 M €:
– EC funds < 25 M € per year:
• 6 % JP central administration, 5 % accompanying measures, 89 % calls
– Flexible and variable geometry to increase of the value chain
– Annual call: ~ 60 M € = ~ 37 M € MMSS + ~ 23 M € EC
~ 47 % private and ~ 43 % public funding.
• 12 - 36 months trasnational projects
3 -10 partners from > 3 MMs with only 1 coordinator
> 1 eligible SME partner which can be the business partner
> 1 eligible end-user organization (proactively involved)
– No end-users no industrial total partners < 1/3 total efforts in the project (hours/man months)
– BP, 2 - 3 years market perspective after project´s end) European and MSs
– Transnational Project cost, total budget = 1-7M€
» Maximum public co-funding from the AAL JP: <3M€
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4. Partner State Annual indicative
funding in M €
Austria
Belgium
2.5
1.0
AAL JP:
Partner States Today
Cyprus 0.5
Denmark 0.5
Finland 2.5
France 3.0
Germany 5.0
Greece 1.5
Hungary 2.5
Ireland 0.5
Israel 1.0
Italy 2.5
Luxembourg-FNR 03
20 EU,
LUXINNOVATION 0.3 3 non EU countries
Norway 0.2
Netherlands 1.9
Poland 1.0
Portugal 0.5
Romania 0.2
Slovenia 0.2
Spain-ISCIII 2.4
Spain-MITYC 2.0
Sweden 1,0
Switzerland 2.0
United Kingdom 1.1 AVANTE - WS
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23 partner states ~ 35 Barcelona, June 3 rd, 2010
European Commission < 25

5. The AAL Association,
Organisation of the Legal Entity of AAL JP
AAL Association [AALA]
General Assembly [GA]
•Final decision body: 1 vote per partner state [MMs]
European
Commission[EC]
Executive Board [EB] Working Groups[WGs]
4 Members (person) working programme [wp]
(now delegates from Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden) Call preparation
• Political, legal, administrative, financial Workshops [WSs]
• Represents the AALA & JP etc
Advisory
Group[AB]
• Overall strategy Management Unit [MU]: Operational
•Central Management Unit [CMU]. Staff: 5-6 persons
•National Contact Persons [NCPs]: 1 per MS agency
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6. AAL JP,
in action
– Annual work programme 2008
Prevention and management of chronic conditions.
– Launched in April 2008 (118 submitted) - Start of 23 funded transnational projects ~ 2009 q2
– Annual work programme 2009
ICT based solutions for Advancement of Social Interaction of Elderly People
– Launched in February 2009 (104 submitted) - Start of ~ 30 funded transnational projects ~ 2010 q2
– Governments, regions/municipalities, policy makers, researchers, industry, insurance
organisations, users, buyers
– 600+ participants ~ 40 exhibitors
– Annual work programme 2010
ICT-based Solutions for Advancement of Older Persons Independence and
Participation in the “Self-serve Society”.
– Launched in April 2010 - Start of funded transnational projects ~ 2011 q2
– Governments, regions/municipalities, policy makers, researchers, industry, insurance
organisations, users, buyers, market intelligence
– AAL Virtual Community,
– Annual work programme 2011
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7. AAL call-1 (2008) and call-2 (2009),
coordinators per AAL parnter state
Call-1. Nº Coordinators per AAL partner state in the ranked proposals (N = 56)
Call-2. Nº Coordinators per AAL partner state the ranked proposals (N = 41)
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8. 15-17 SEPTEMBER 2010
ODENSE, DENMARK AAL JP
ACTIVE AGEING: SMART SOLUTIONS, NEW
FORUM 2010
MARKETS
AAL JP Forum 2010 Chairs
•Prof. Dr. Lena Gustafsson,
AAL Association & Joint Programme President
•Mr. Claus Nilssen,
ALL JP Forum 2010 Committee Chair,
•Mr. Reinhard Goebl,
AAL JP Investment Forum 2010 Chair,
AAL JP FORUM 2010
ACTIVE AGEING: SMART SOLUTIONS, NEW MARKETS
city of Odense
15-17 SEPTEMBER - DENMARK, ODENSE
AAL JP INVESTMENT FORUM
14-15 SEPTEMBER - ODENSE, DENMARK
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9. AAL JP,
challenges
Compulsory external midterm evaluation: Feedback and after
• Foster research outcome deployment
Extension in time, after 2013
• Inter-country cohesion improvement: win- win to win
• Intra-country coherence between available funds and potential
RTD community
• Global positioning and cooperation
• Interoperability
• Digital ageing
• Frugal innovation
• Escalation and its affordability
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10. AAL JP,
Political frame EU
• Digital Agenda for Europe COM(2010) 245
2.7.2. Sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for dignified and independent livingn living
– Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies put ICT within the reach of all. The EU
AAL-dedicated Joint Programme with Member States and related advanced research,
– Other actions:
• Reinforce the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme to allow older
people and persons with disabilities to live independently and be active in society.
• Europe 2020. A Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth COM(2010) 2020
– Flagship Initiative: "Innovation Union"
• To launch 'European Innovation Partnerships' between the EU and national
levels to speed up the development and deployment of the technologies needed to
meet the challenges identified. The first will include: 'building the bio-economy by
2020', 'the key enabling technologies to shape Europe's industrial future' and
'technologies to allow older people to live independently and be active in
society';
– Flagship Initiative: "An industrial policy for the globalisation era“
– Flagship Initiative: "An Agenda for new skills and jobs"
– 3.2. Investing in growth: cohesion policy,
mobilising the EU budget and private finance
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11. Some still pending
AAL challenges
• A societal [re-]adaptation of ageing paradigm
and its personal self perception:
• Ageing and ageing actors and stakeholder at socio-economic mean stream
• Shall we need a [re-]adaptation of the ethical paradigm too?
• Political, societal and socio-economic re-engineering
• of the RTD and industrial systems both as proccesses and as organisations
• at the scope of new skills for some existing care professions, as well as for new professions.
• Clustering polymorphic polysemic “identities” of PPP of actors and stakeholders with
cross-cutting comprehensive [S&T + societal + socio-economic] agendas
• Tackle the escalation issue:
• Qualitative and quantitative:
» Technical and political complexity
» transition from low escale to big figures is not only about increased absolute
figures and costs
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12. Many thanks for your
attention!
Dr. Rafael De Andrés-Medina
Fund For health Researh
UnderDirectorate General for Research
Assessment and Promotion.
Institute of Health Carlos III
Spain
rdam@isciii.es
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