AAL2Active and Assisted Living

Research and Development Program

Presentation for the Symposium on Active Healthy Ageing @ Home

23 oktober 2014

Greet Bilsen

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Content

• Situating AAL2

• AAL2 Program characteristics

• AAL2 evaluation procedure

• Joint Programming Initiatives

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AAL 2: Active and Assisted LivingResearch and Development Program

• European funding program running from 2014 – 2020supporting applied research and development on innovative ICT-enhanced services for ageing well, with a time to market of 1-3 years

• Driven by the Member States and (financially) supported by the EC (art. 185 (TFUE))

• Successor of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Program (2008-2013)

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Program aims and goal

• Aim: provide innovative ICT-based solutions including products, systems or services to enhance older adults’ quality of life and to strengthen the industrial base in Europe

• Primary goal: improving the autonomy, participation in social life, skills, and employability of older adults and the effectiveness of health and social care provision

• With:involvement of the entire value chain (including the end-user)

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• Annual calls ~ identified challenge (consultations)

• Open to industry (incl. SME’s), research institutes, universities & end-users ofo Participating Member States

• Partner State specific eligibility criteria

o Other countriesNo funding

• Combined EU & Partner State funding

Member State dependent funding rates

Program Characteristics

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Topics of previous calls• AAL

o Call 1: Chronic Conditions o Call 2: Social Interactiono Call 3: “Self-Serve Society" o Call 4: Mobilityo Call 5: Daily Life Activities (Home Care)o Call 6: Supporting Occupation in Life of Older Adults

• AAL2o Call 2014: Care for the Future (An ageing society faces an increasing

need for care. How will ICT contribute to sustainable solutions?)

o Call 2015: topic not known yet; consultation on 3 challenges• Age-friendly environments outside of the home• Living well with age-related diseases & multi-morbidity• Independent living at home

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Participating Member States°Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Denmark

Hungary

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Luxembourg

The Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

° call 2014

Contact NCP

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Call characteristics

• 1 call a year following an open consultation round on potential topics/challenges

• 1 common proposal with 1 partner acting as a coordinator

• electronic submission

• central and national eligibility check

• central evaluation by independent European experts

• proposal selection based on evaluation and selection criteria described in the Guide for Applicants

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Project characteristics• Aims at ICT - based solutions that meet identified end-user

needs

• Project total budget: 1 – 7 M€

• Maximum funding from the AAL2 Programme : 3 M€

• Realistic business case (time-to-market < 2 to 3 years after end of the project)

• Significant involvement of industry and other business partners, particularly SMEs.

• The effort of industry and other business partners in each project is expected to be 50% or more (in person months).

• Proactive end - user involvement throughout the life time of the project

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Evaluation procedure

• Proposal submission

• Central eligibility check

• National pre-eligibility check (type of organisation)

• Evaluation by international teams of independent experts => ranking list

• Selection of projects for funding

• Negotiations and Reconfigurations

• Grant Agreement

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Central eligibility check• Consortium must include at least:

o 3 independent eligible organizations (legal entities), from at least 3

different AAL Partner States, of which:• one eligible business partner• one eligible SME which can be the business partner• one eligible end - user organization

• Size of the consortium: 3 – 10 partners

• Duration of the project: 12 – 36 months

• Electronic submission of the proposal before the call deadline

• English as the language of the proposal

• Adherence to the specifications for structure and technical details (e.g. page count) of the proposal submission.

• Adherence to additional call-specific prerequisites

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National eligibility check• National funding rules ~ concrete participation conditions

such as:o (in)eligibility of types of organisationso national funding quotao eligible costso other national rules

• More info in Guide for Applicants or on websites of NFAs

• Contact your NCP before submitting a proposal.

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Ranking

• Central evaluation of project proposals by (a panel of) independent experts from academia, industry and user organisations

• Evaluation criteria (score 1-5; threshold 3)o Relevance & scopeo Quality of the proposed solution and workplano Quality of the consortium and project managemento Potential impact of the proposed solution on Quality of

Lifeo Potential impact of the proposed solution on Market

development

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Project selection

• Matching ranking list to available budgetso Green list => negotiation phase (incl final eligibility check)o Yellow list => balancingo Red list => notification of rejection

• Additional selection criteriao Quality of project portfolio of the callo Optimal use of available budgetso Thematic spread/avoid overlapo Optimal participation of AAL countries

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Joint Programming Initiatives

• ~ other structure of pooling of national research efforts

• Relevant topics:o A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Lifeo More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and

Challenges of Demographic Change

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More information onhttp://www.aal-europe.eu/

orvia National Contact Points