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The solutions and findings of the AAL Programme

Healthier living with new technologies

February 2020

Nicola Filizola – Communication and Public Affairs Manager

Sources:European Commission on Ageing / UN World Population Ageing 1950-2050Graph 1.3 page 59 of European Commission on Ageing

"Every retired person has the right to live in dignity. This is a key principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights."

Marianne ThyssenCommissioner for

Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labor Mobility

37% The expected percentage of the European population aged 60 and older by 2050

86 The average life expectancy for a European in 2060

2:1 Dependency ratio: by 2060 only two people at work per person older than 65

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WHATA unique public-public partnership of national funding agencies fromcurrently 20 countries around Europe plus Canada, who are the membersof the AAL Association, with financial support from the EuropeanCommission’s Horizon 2020 R&D programme.

The AAL Programme

WHY:1. Enhancing older adults’ quality of life through innovative digital

technology-based solutions2. Support long-term sustainability of health and care systems3. Strengthening the emerging industrial base in Europe

Learnings from Impact Assessment of AAL1 in 2019

Quality of Life of Older Persons

Sustainability ofHealth & Care Systems

A European AgeTech Sector

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Annual Call for Proposal

Project and programme support actions:• AAL2Business: Support towards developing a viable business logic

and path to market introduction through targeted consulting,coaching and training of AAL funded projects via the AAL2Business

• The provision of market intelligence and the exposure to potentialfuture investors via our Market Observatory

The bi-annual challenge prize

The AAL Forum

The Instruments

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AAL Application Domains

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10 Project calls supported Over 800 SMEs, 330 end-user organisations and 530 research organisations

The Emerging Impact

• 40% of projects commercially launched an AAL solution or planned to launch

• 35% of projects received financial investment for follow-on innovation

• 12% of projects created a spin-off as result of AAL support*

* From a first impact assessment in 2016 of 50 projects of a then total of 130 funds projects revealed

Learnings from Impact Assessment of AAL1 in 2019

Learnings from Impact Assessment of AAL1 in 2019

Learnings from Impact Assessment of AAL1 in 2019

Smart monitoring solutions for senior care

“ [Sensara] can make a big difference to the growing number of older people who live alone and wish to stay where they are.“

Living safely at home

in this background we would really appreciate if you could contribute to shed some light to the debate in the first panel " Healthier living with new technologies", by showing the key approach in your view for adapting innovation in products and services , in particular digital technologies, to elderly people and how these new technologies/products could contribute to a more healthy and independent living. Success stories will certainly be most appreciated.

Key approach is:

Co-design with end users *(not only testing of solutions, but also in the concept phase, in the

validation as well as in the business modelling of the solutions

Technological component is key but human factor is even more important

Areas where digital solutions for ageing well proved to be successful (in the overall market*

- Living independently/smart homes

- Health platforms and monitoring

- Localization/transport

- Social interaction

- …

Technologies where opportunities can arise**:

- 5G

- Artificial Intelligence

- Blockchain Internet of Things

- Fog Computing

- Wearables

- …

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