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SIforAGE organizes the last TEC

10 Febrero / 2015
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The 3rd and 4th of February, SIforAGE partner DFKI organized the fourth and last event in the project’s series of Technology Experience Cafés (TECs) in Saarbruecken (Germany).  These events aim at involving older persons into the development of technologies specially designed for them. As a matter of fact, technology is capable of dramatically improving older persons’ quality of life. However, these technologies are typically developed by younger people, thus putting aside older users’ needs and opinions. This, in turn, leads to low acceptance of new technologies by older persons. Through the TECs, SIforAGE seeks to involve older persons in the development cycle right from the beginning by giving them the opportunity to assess the coming technologies and to enable open and direct dialogue between older citizens (users of technology) and representatives of those assistive technologies.

During the fourth TEC, two research prototypes were tested: “Kochbot (speech assistant) in the intelligent kitchen” and “Elena” – an indoor navigation system for all” and 46 individuals aged 60+ took part in the event. The TEC generated a valuable feedback to be used for future technology development activities. Moreover, it was a place for very fruitful discussions that will be summarized in a report. The results from this report will be posted soon on the SIforAGE website.

All in all, the 4 SIforAGE TECs organized in France, Italy, Denmark and Germany gave a great example of social innovation in active and healthy ageing and demonstrated a very promising methodology of engaging older persons in the design and development of technologies important to them.

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European Commission Report: The Role of Nutrition in Active and Healthy Ageing

30 Enero / 2015
  European Commission  |  European Commission

The European Commission in support of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing has published a report aiming at reviewing the contribution of diet and nutrition in increasing healthy life years and promoting active and healthy ageing (AHA). The report gives a description of the key determinants of AHA including economic, social and behavioural contributions and how they can be related to diet. It focuses on the issue of undernutrition in older people both as a cause and consequence of functional decline. Finally, the report summarises the evidence on key micronutrient supplementations in the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases and conditions.

Further information about this report and full-access to it can be found here:

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Workshop Business Coaching held by SCML

26 Enero / 2015
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SIforAGE partners Santa Casa da Misericordia (SCML) and Investornet organized a 2-day business coaching workshop last November in the framework of SIforAGE Project. This workshop aimed at promoting innovation and new models for companies with a focus on the older people segment. This session was developed both by SCML and Investornet, following a latter’s training model. By means of a meeting with both big and small companies as well as start-ups, the workshop evolved as a training session. The main aim was to explain how to present a successful proposal to H2020 funding and to make companies aware of how the older people’s needs generate new models of business. For these purposes, a brief overview of how society will be in the next twenty years was presented, and potential services and business models addressing aged people’s needs were tackled. The workshop followed the SIforAGE agenda and also evaluated the validity and strength of intergenerationality and social cooperation. This kind of events helps to promote and ensure social development and provide new answers to older people’s challenges.

You can find below a video summarizing this experience:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DeJRJjoC3zA

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SIforAGE Policy Recommendation Guide

22 Diciembre / 2014
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SIforAGE publishes a decisive result from two years of investigation. A policy recommendations guide for Europe on the thematic area of ageing has been published. This guide is a result of two years of investigation which is meant to be implemented in all European countries to significantly improve older people's life. The guide sums up evidence-based data of innovative approaches in R&D policy-making in ageing. The guide investigates, furthermore, comparative analyses of anti-ageing discriminatory and policy-making in the fields of health policy, labour policy and finally, transport policy. This guide will be translated in all the languages of the consortia, published in open access and spread to public administrations. 

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SIforAGE organizes a roundtable on ethics and social responsibility in ageing research in Barcelona

20 Diciembre / 2014
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SIforAGE organizes a roundtable and a public conference on ethics and social responsibility and research in ageing. The event took place at Barcelona University (UB) on Decempber, 9th. SIforAGE partners attended the event were Basque Culinary Center, Lleida University and GISME-UB. They contribute with comments and suggestions to the discussion and played the moderation role. 

Three well-known experts from three different disciplines were presenting their perspectives on the challenge. These three professors were: Dr.Vinyes from Lleida University,lecturer in bioethics. Dr. Esteve lecturer in administrative Law at Barcelona University and Dr. Innerarity lecturer in philosophy at Basque Country University. 

Dr. Vinyes took about regenerative medicine and the new challenges and opportunities that these new discoveries will generate in the near future. Nevertheless, he highlighted the fact that projects such as SIforAGE were tuly decisive to promote new ways to face the ageing challenge. Dr Esteve, lecturer on Administrative Law, mentioned the need for interdisciplinary work to face these new challenges from the law perspective and to regulate situations that are absolutely new such as those posed by ageing. Finally, Dr. Innerarity, talked about the importance of scientific discoveries for the society and the difficulties whithin when trying to govern ethically such new discoveries. 

To finish, Dr. Urdaneta, SIforAGE's scientific coordinator asked speakers on the responsiblity of researchers facing the challenge of improving Europe's life expectancy without disabilities. Eva Barallot, from Lleida Univesity raised the issue of intergenerational knowledge and research and how the results of that research may have an impact in the society as a whole. 

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