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INNOVATION AND COOPERATION PLAN D4
Age-friendly buildings, cities and environments 2016-2018
Draft for involving partners of D4, October 20, 2016
Table of content Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3
Development of the Plan ....................................................................................................... 4
General objective D4 ......................................................................................................... 4
Summary general domains and objectives D4 ................................................................... 5
General domain areas: activities, specific results and impacts .............................................. 8
General domain 1: Innovative employment policies and the Silver Economy ..................... 8
General domain 2: Technologies and social networks; innovation, accessibility and universal design ................................................................................................................. 9
General domain 3: Age Friendly Tourism and its impact ...................................................10
General domain 4: Age-friendly design physical environments .........................................13
General domain 5: Inclusive Smart Cities .........................................................................15
General domain 6: Dementia-friendly environments ..........................................................17
Ideas for synergies ...........................................................................................................19
Governance and coordination D4 .........................................................................................22
Governance principles ......................................................................................................22
General domain 7: Increased impact on policy making, communication and scaling up ....22
General domain 8: Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments ...24
Role & responsibilities of Partners .................................................................................25
Role & responsibilities of Coordinators ..........................................................................25
Role & responsibilities of the European Commission .....................................................25
Background and history D4 ..................................................................................................26
Start of the European Innovation Partnership....................................................................26
D4 Age-Friendly Environments 2012-2015 .......................................................................27
D4 Renovated Action Plan 2016-2018, issued February 2016 ..........................................28
Appendix: Glossary of key terms used .................................................................................30
List of abbreviations .............................................................................................................31
Introduction In this paper the innovative actions and collaborative works of the partners of D4 Age-friendly
Buildings, Cities and Environments are presented. This paper is the follow-up and update of
the Renovated Action Plan D4 (issued February 2016), where already main collaborative
works and sprints were described.
The Renovated Action Plan (RAP) D4 formed the base of the new call of commitments of
April 2016. Organisations and individuals were invited to submit or renew their commitment
to become partner of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing,
Action Group D4. They were also invited to subscribe to a collaborative work and its specific
objective or to bring in a new domain of work to D4 in case that their commitment was not
aligned with any of the general domains presented in the RAP.
The new wave of commitments in April 2016, resulted in 140 commitments of potential
partners from which finally 123 have been approved and published. The assessment and
approval of new commitments will occur further on a monthly basis, so new partners are able
to submit their commitment continuously and to join the Action Group D4 at any time during
the coming years.
Some figures about the commitments submitted in April 2016:
• Geographical coverage: 19 countries.
• Stakeholders representation (of the lead organisation):
o Finance and investment: 0
o Industry: 0
o Public administration (national): 2
o Public administration (regional/local): 18
o Start-ups and SMEs: 13
o Healthcare providers (public and private) including public health: 10
o Research and innovation: 44
o Civil society and Patient organisations (advocacy): 16
o European or international organisations (like Covenant on Demographic
Change, EFID, ECTP, Eastern Europe Initiative): 10
Development of the Plan For the period 2016-2018 the D4 Action Group is committed to bring forward the ambitious
objectives set for the coming period taking advantage of the experience of the past period.
These objectives are:
• to consolidate the achievements as relevant tools to make further progress, notably the
European Covenant on Demographic Change
• to further impact on policy-making;
• to positively impact on the lives of older persons and on the effectiveness and efficiency
of services;
• to empower older people by involving them through co-creation processes for the design
of solutions and
• to exploit the opportunity provided by the EIP on AHA to work and network with a wide
range of stakeholders with positive outcomes both for the advancement of age friendly
environments as well as for the own organization (capacity building).
The foundation to shape and implement D4 Action Group activities for the next phase thus
relies on “learning and sharing of good practices to build partnerships in order to
influence policies and stakeholders, especially at local level”.
General objective D4 In line with the overall goals of the EIP on AHA to improve quality of life, increase the
sustainability of systems and services and boost the EU economy's competitiveness, the D4
Action Group overall objective for the period 2016-2018 is to contribute to create a more
inclusive society and communities across Europe by empowering older people
through scaled up inclusive solutions.
This objective has its rationale in pursuing the condition for more inclusive societies with
empowered older people and higher awareness, acceptance and effective use of
technology, as well as more process-oriented approaches such as:
• broader communities taking up solutions,
• increased interoperability between technologies,
• increased potential for scaling up and transfer of best practice.
Furthermore, the Action Group should promote a wider availability of resources, a higher
engagement of Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) and research, NGO, public and
private organisations, develop or be involved with more prevention initiatives, more
evaluation and follow up processes of projects and an increasing attention for dementia.
Taking into account the rationale and the overall objective as well as the ideas of
coordinators and expertise for collaborative works expelled from the wave of commitments,
six broad domain areas and two governance and coordination areas have been
identified to address the challenges of the D4 Action Group and organize the work ahead.
Namely:
General domains
1. Employment and Silver Economy
2. Age-friendly technology and accessibility
3. Age-friendly tourism
4. Age-friendly design physical environments
5. Inclusive smart cities (rural and urban)
6. Dementia-friendly environments
Governance and coordination
7. Increased impact on policy making and scaling up
8. Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments
Summary general domains and objectives D4
Topic Domains Specific Objectives for collaborative works
Actions
BROAD DOMAIN AREAS
1. Employment and Silver Economy
O.1.1. To identify the current state of the art of legislation and policy initiatives promoting employment for 50+ in Europe. O.1.2. To attract business partners to
work on 50+ employment challenges.
A.1.1. To map legislation and policy initiatives on employment for 50+.
A.1.2. To review the benefits of labour inclusion policies for 50+ A.1.3. To disseminate and communicate the results of the previous review among business partners. A.1.4. To work on the assessment of evidence and good practices in employment
policies for 50+ and to develop recommendations for LRAs and businesses.
2. Technology, social networks; innovation, accessibility and universal design
O.2.1. To facilitate the participation and inclusion of older people by assuring accessibility and usability of technology based services and products.
A.2.1. To promote Universal Design of
products and services. A2.2. To work on the training of older people
to engage with technology and to make more effective use of it. A2.3. To promote the participation of elderly and caregivers in technologies development,
from needs and requirements to its assessment in real life scenarios.
3. Age-friendly tourism
O.3.1. To promote active and healthy habits through increased participation of older people in leisure activities linked to age-friendly tourism O.3.2. To analyse the economic and social benefits linked to age-friendly tourism contribution to the silver economy O.3.3. To share good practices in the domain of age-friendly tourism
A.3.1. To analyse the health and social benefits of promoting age-friendly tourism as a strategy to promote active and healthy ageing A.3.2. To study the economic benefits of promoting age-friendly tourism A.3.3. To align Age-friendly tourism into the Smart Cities agenda and to enhance the need for accessible accommodation and activities, as well as user centred technologies and communication services/facilities A.3.4. Mapping and sharing good practices in age-friendly tourism
4. Age-friendly design physical environments
O.4.1.: To build up and disseminate a holistic understanding of the potential of innovation buildings and home environments and public (urban) spaces, to contribute to inclusive, supportive societies for all. O.4.2.: To advance the state of the art in the research and innovation field through contributing to the development of more appropriate experimental and interpretative framework O.4.3.: To contribute to the emergence of a collaborative network of living labs and test sites O.4.4: To help advance the potential for scaling up of and investment in successful solutions
A.4.1.: Share and disseminate information on research and innovative practice in age-friendly physical environments within the domain, AG and the EIP AHA more generally A.4.2: Map and structure research and methodology challenges and perform a gap analysis against the current state of the art. Stimulate collaboration on work to close the gap A.4.3.: Build up a network and exchange group for public and private stakeholders in the field, utilizing existing facilities (e.g. EIP AHA repository) A.4.4.: Bring together and facilitate a network of living lab settings and test sites in age-friendly physical environment; identify and
O.4.5.: To collect, share and disseminate promising innovative practices in the field
pursue opportunities for collaborative participation A.4.5.: Identify possible test-sites for pilot implementations of physical environment solutions along lines of the quadruple helix model. Pilots could involve public sector and/or private sector actors and be built around “real” investment cases. A.4.6.: Pursue opportunities for collaborative participation in these pilots, and use analysis of progress and results to deepen understanding of socio-economic business case mechanisms and enabling frameworks.
5. Inclusive Smart Cities
O.5.1. To connect with the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities and the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) to make sure that the principles of AFE are embedded in concepts, theory and practice.
A.5.1. To connect with the Smart Cities initiatives, (such as the EIP on Smart Cities
and Communities) to make sure that the principles of AFE are embedded in concepts, theory and practice. A.5.2. To investigate strategies to apply principles that work for cities to rural areas as well (smart rural areas).
A.5.3. To set up a group of local/regional authorities with similar challenges (rural, urban, coastal) –work on WHO Guidelines to develop a version suitable for them. A.5.4. To advocate to connect the work done in the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities with the challenges faced by rural areas. A.5.5. To identify good practices on provision of public services, social services (…) to support older citizens’ autonomy (ageing in place).
6. Dementia-friendly environments
O.6.1.: To support inclusive environments for people living with dementia and their carers. O.6.2.: To create learning and partnership opportunities and sharing good practices O.6.3.: To promote research and development of systems, tools, and applications to support behavioural monitoring for early detection of cognitive decline O.6.4.: To promote healthy habits (about nutrition, physical and cognitive training, sleep quality…) through virtual coaching in adult population at risk of developing dementia O.6.5: To promote educational and learning activities towards caregivers, for the adoption of ICT tools in dementia management
A.6.1.: Identify and set up the subgroup of commitments specifically related to dementia. A.6.2.: Recruit other organisations that work on dementia to become a member of D4. A.6.3.: To set up peering and learning activities
GOVERNANCE AND COORDINATION AREAS
7. Increased impact on policy making, communication and scaling up
O.7.1.: To ensure that the EIP on AHA remains a high priority at EU level O.7.2.: To mobilize LRAs and local organisations to work on age-friendly environments O.7.3.: To improve the internal and external communication of D4 O.7.4.: To improve the accessibility of D4 for LRAs and other organisations that face problems with English language O.7.5.: To better recognize priorities in communication
A.7.1. To organise consensus with other Action Groups to formally request a steering group to be set up; to identify and nominate the right people. A.7.2. To define a roadmap to influence EU. A.7.3. Funding: analysis and insights in funding models. Identify and describe opportunities / mechanisms for engaging seed money, catalyst investments, venture capital etc. A.7.4. To develop a more structured communication strategy for the Action Group
external communication, delivering content in an accessible format: A.7.5. To work towards adopting strategies and tools for multi lingual communication.
8. Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments
O.8.1.: To mobilize LRAs and local networks (e.g. reference sites) to work on age-friendly environments O.8.2.: To promote the sharing of good practices of local and regional authorities and organisations O.8.3.: To help local initiatives to leverage their experiences, providing them European visibility and facilitating their dissemination and scaling up O.8.4.: To support the networking, peer exchange, transfer of experience and twinning by using the framework offered by the European Covenant on Demographic Change
A.8.1. To map and align existing activities of local and regional authorities A.8.2. To develop and implement match making instruments that facilitate the emergence of practical learning groups as well as the one-on-one capacity building relationships billed as “Town twinning or peering”. A.8.3.To create or facilitate access to existing dissemination tools (like newsletters and events) that will help scaling up of good practice. A.8.4. To develop a network of cities and regions with some practical experience in AFE that support transfer and local adaptation of successful solutions.
General domain areas: activities, specific results and impacts Activities to be undertaken to progress on this Innovation Plan are numerous. They will involve different resources and actors and will be common to different objectives. They are not fully detailed in this document. What follows is a list of key activities that will be carried out by the partners to develop further and implement the plan and a list of the expected tangible results that different partners have committed to obtain.
General domain 1: Innovative employment policies and the Silver Economy
Lead partners: Age Platform Europe and ECTP Coordinators: Anne-Sophie Parent and Menno Hinkema, stand-in: Les Ruddock Contributing partners: ………………………..
Title: Age-friendly employment/the silver economy Objectives for collaborative works:
• O.1.1. To identify the current state of the art of legislation, policy initiatives and good practices promoting employment for 50+ in Europe.
• O.1.2. To attract business partners to work on 50+ employment challenges Needs:
• There is a lack of examples of age friendly working environments.
• Lack of expertise, of financial resources and of political attention. Insights:
• Employment rates are low
• Age discrimination exists
• Challenges for older women are present
• Policy shift to younger workers
• Dementia (enabling persons with mild dementia and informal carers of persons with dementia to continue to work)
Stakeholders:
• Social partners (trade unions and employers)
• Local and Regional Administrations (LRA’s)
• Older people’s organisations, including informal carers and persons with dementia
• Care providers and caregiver organisations Steps/Actions: A.1.1. To map legislation and policy initiatives on employment for 50+ and collect feedback from LRA’s + older people. A.1.2. To review the benefits of labour inclusion policies for 50+, collect insights on the impact of age friendly environments in the quality of life and wellbeing of older workers and informal carers of older persons, and draw recommendations for scaling up. A.1.3. To disseminate and communicate the results of the previous review among business partners. A.1.4. To work on the assessment of evidence and good practices in employment policies for 50+ and to develop recommendations for LRAs and businesses. Expected outcomes:
• Greater awareness of what can be done at local level + EU support for age-friendly (AF) employment, longer working life and volunteering.
Sprints connected to Actions:
• Send recommendations to influence the Country Specific Recommendations 2016 (AGE) by early 2016 and repeat every year.
• Influence the debate on occupational health and safety to link up with initiatives related to age friendly environments by early 2016.
General domain 2: Technologies and social networks; innovation, accessibility and universal design
Lead partners: Central European Initiative (FVG Region) and CTIC Foundation ICT Technology Centre, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Cáritas Coimbra Coordinators: Gian Matteo Apuzzo and Ángel Retamar Arias, stand-in: Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez, Carina Dantas Contributing partners: ……………….
Title: Access to technology - Accessibility Objective for collaborative work: O.2.1: To facilitate the participation and inclusion of older people by assuring accessibility and usability of technology based services and products.
• To increase the access of older people to new technologies
• To strengthen/improve criteria for Universal Design
• To use new technologies as a possible tool to reduce social isolation
Needs:
• Difficulty for older people to access new technology
• New technologies are not perceived as opportunities for promoting wellbeing and participation/inclusion of older people
• Necessity to avoid social isolation of older people
• Necessity to innovate in the non-invasive technology and personalized interventions
• Connect with the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) to bring in older people’s perspective
Stakeholders:
• Companies
• Research Institutes
• Users/user groups
• Caregivers organisations
• Authorities at all levels (from local to EU)
• AIOTI WG5 and WG7 Steps /Actions: A.2.1. To promote Universal Design of products and services.
• Coordinate with the European Disability Forum (EDF) and ANEC for a position on the new proposal for an Accessibility Act
• Identification of a methodology to classify frailty and disability (i.e. WHO ICF) and adaptive solutions for design.
• Development and testing of ICT solutions for detecting, monitoring and counteract frailty consequences
• Developing and testing human machine interfaces and interoperability to improve older people’s wellbeing.
A2.2. To work on the training of older people to engage with technology and to make more effective use of it.
• Training and education of older people on the use and opportunities offered by new technologies, including the development of guidelines on age-friendly ICT devices.
A2.3. To promote the participation of elderly and caregivers in technologies development, from needs and requirements to its assessment in real life scenarios
• Favour the creation of technologies that are actually needed by the elderly and caregivers
• Promote the participation of the users in the development process, favouring their future acceptance of the products and also their success in market exploitation.
Expected outcomes:
• Coordinated position between AGE, EDF and ANEC on the proposed Accessibility Act.
• Framework for older people’ training
• Scenarios for older people using ICT
• Methodology for implementing Universal Design criteria Sprints connected to Actions
• Pilot assessment of training activities with older people
• Methodology based on WHO ICF for Universal Design
General domain 3: Age Friendly Tourism and its impact
Lead partners: Polibienestar -UVEG and Municipality of Porto and CITTA Coordinators: Mireia Ferri and Lara Mendes Contributing partners: SEGITTUR, Ambienta 45, ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano, Consejería de Sanidad de la Región de Murcia, Stefan Durco, FORTH – Institute of Computer Science, LOREX MEDICAL s.r.o, Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria n. 2 "Bassa Friulana-Isontina", Murcia’s Regional Ministry of Health, Murcia’s Foundation for Research and Education in Health (FFIS), Murcia’s Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIB), Department of Family and Equal Opportunities, Murcia’s Social Action Institute (IMAS) - elderly people branch-, City council of Murcia capital town. University of Murcia (Department of Food Technology, Nutrition and Food Science, Research Group in Technology Modeling, Knowledge Management and Processing; and Murcia Institute for Research in Aging, Murcia Nursing Society, Murcia Geriatrics and Gerontology Society, and the College of Psychologists), Murcia’s Regional Federation of Diabetics (FREUD), Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI), Murcia Federation of associations of People with Disabilities (FAMDIF), Murcia Federation of Housewives, Consumers and Users (THADER), Therapeutic Patient’s Education, Nursing Home San Pablo, Foodtopia, TICBiomed, OrionHealth, Stacks, BuggyPower S.L. MELABEV, Technical University of Crete, Allilegi, Kainuun Etu Oy Seminaarinkatu , Università Politecnica delle Marche, AGE Platform Europe, and University of Aveiro (Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism), Matia Institute, and Research Group Tourism, Healthy Ageing and ICT.
Title: Working towards growth opportunities & improved QoL using Age-friendly tourism in an inclusive AFE context for LRAs
Objectives for collaborative work:
O.3.1. To promote active and healthy habits through increased participation of older people in leisure activities linked to age-friendly tourism.
• Improving health through the enjoyment of nature (Ambienta 45)
• Contributing to the physical cognitive and emotional wellbeing of senior citizens through their participation in sustainable tourism (ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano)
• Fostering interaction between seniors of different countries with age-friendly tourism (ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano)
• Enhancing the possibility of active circuits to mobilize the population as a whole as much as the domestic and the foreign tourism to achieve higher levels of physical activity (Consejería de Sanidad de la Región de Murcia)
• Pilot development of applications and integrated ICT solutions to support elderly travelers, tourists, visitors (FORTH – Institute of Computer Science)
• Promoting senior tourism as a social policy to promote Quality of Life and wellbeing of senior tourists (Polibienestar-UVEG)
• Collecting data and assessing the impact of tourism in a healthy and active ageing, ideally considering subjective and objective measurements of well- being (Research Group Tourism, Healthy Ageing and ICT; Polibienestar - UVEG)
• Promoting dialogue between healthcare and tourist sectors on strengthening on active and healthy ageing for the best quality of life of elderly (Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria n. 2 "Bassa Friulana-Isontina")
• Putting age-friendly tourism in the LRAs agenda (Polibienestar-UVEG) O.3.2. To analyse the economic and social benefits linked to age-friendly tourism contribution to the silver economy:
• To assess the economic opportunities and social impact generated by the senior tourism and analyse its profitability for all (SEGITTUR, ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano, Polibienestar-UVEG)
• To promote rural and regional development (Ambienta 45 and Polibienestar-UVEG) O.3.3. To share good practices in age-friendly tourism ( Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria n. 2 "Bassa Friulana-Isontina" and Matia Institute) Needs:
• Partners committing to this action, including stakeholders group of DG GROW
• Covenant on Demographic Change – LRA (Local and Regional Authorities)
• Partners’ commitments (LRAs pilots) -> identifying expression of interest
• To mobilise commitments on twinning and scaling up
• More research about the impact of tourism participation as strategy to promote active and healthy ageing
Insights:
• DG GROW ended their work on tourism: its group on senior tourism has been encouraged to join this working group on age-friendly tourism
• Links with ICT/Smart cities
• European organisations working in social and accessible tourism
• European programmes that facilitate senior tourism
• Evidence about the positive impact of tourism participation in older people quality of life and wellbeing
• Data about the economic benefits of promoting senior tourism
Stakeholders:
• LRA’s & the Covenant
• Older people
• Existing tourism networks / stakeholders (accessible tourism, social tourism, etc.)
• Academia (to identify indicators and assess the social and economic impact/benefits) Steps/Actions: A.3.1. To analyse the health and social benefits of promoting age-friendly tourism as strategy to promote an active and healthy ageing:
• Establishing indicators to assess the quality of life of older people linked with age-friendly tourism and impact analysis (Research Group Tourism, Healthy Ageing and ICT; Polibienestar – UVEG)
• Establishing indicators to the territories (environment, infrastructures, biodiversity, education and training of the tourism and health sectors, etc.) (Ambienta 45)
• Social networks analysis (ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano)
• Test the possibility of active circuits for physical health (Consejería de Sanidad de la Región de Murcia)
• Start the dialogue between healthcare and tourist sectors (Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria n. 2 "Bassa Friulana-Isontina")
A.3.2. To study the economic benefits of promoting age-friendly tourism:
• Establishing indicators of economic growth linked with age-friendly tourism and contribution to the Silver economy (SEGITTUR, ANCESCAO Coordinamento Città Metropolitana di Milano, Polibienestar-UVEG)
• Contribution to the rural development (Ambienta 45)
• Contribution to the regional development (Polibienestar-UVEG)
• Contribution to regional smart specialisation aligning age-friendly tourism with thematic tourism products such as wellbeing and regeneration tourism (Kainuun Etu Oy Seminaarinkatu).
A.3.3. To align age-friendly tourism into the Smart Cities agenda and to enhance the need for accessible accommodation and activities, as well as user centred technologies and communication services/facilities:
• Test applications to support elderly tourists (FORTH – Institute of Computer Science)
A.3.4. Mapping and sharing good practices in age-friendly tourism:
• Mapping good practices in age-friendly tourism (Azienda per l'Assistenza Sanitaria n. 2 "Bassa Friulana-Isontina" and Matia Institute)
• Mapping EIP partners and Covenant Community (Polibienestar-UVEG)
• Twinning – scaling up Expected outcomes:
• PPP
• Improved quality of life
• Opportunities for growth (silver economy)
• Scientific evidences about the link between tourism and wellbeing
• Improved senior tourism branding Sprints:
• Examples of age-friendly tourism in LRAs
• Identifying indicators
General domain 4: Age-friendly design physical environments
Lead partners: Municipality of Porto and CITTA, ECTP and The Bartlett-University College London, Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación Coordinators: Lara Mendes and Menno Hinkema; stand-ins: Evangelia Chrysikou, Silvia Urra, Carolina Mateo Cecilía Contributing partners: PROVISIONAL LIST BASED ON INTERPRETATION OF THE COMMITMENT TEXTS AND DESCRIPTIONS SUBMITTED. NOT YET VERIFIED WITH COMMITMENTS IN QUESTION. NetwellCASALA, ISOIN, FORTH-Institute of Computer Science, Lombardy Cluster Technologies for Living Environments (TECHforLIFE), DRC, Louth County Council, AD Normandie / Silver Normandie, Ageing@Coimbra/Cáritas Coimbra, Hamburg Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection, Municipality of Albertslund, Care City, University of Porto, Università Politecnica delle Marche, University of Southern Denmark, GGD Zuid Limburg, Politecnico di Milano – DASTU, Greater Manchester Ageing Hub, EUROCITIES, Stockport Council, Matia Institute, Federico II University Hospital, LiCaLab vzw, Polibienestar, Agostinho Cruz, UCL with MELABEV, INEGI, Municipality of The Hague, Smart Homes, Camera Municipal do Porto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Age-friendly Ireland
Title: Age-friendly design physical environments Objectives: O.4.1.: To build up and disseminate a holistic understanding of the potential of innovation regarding buildings including home environments and public (urban) spaces, to contribute to inclusive, supportive societies for all. O.4.2.: To advance the state of the art in the research and innovation field through contributing to the development of more appropriate experimental and interpretative framework O.4.3.: To contribute to the emergence of a collaborative network of living labs and test sites O.4.4: To help advance the potential for scaling up of and investment in successful solutions O.4.5.: To collect, share and disseminate promising innovative practices in the field. Needs: Age-friendly physical environments has been a theme in D4 since the start of the AG. Compared to 2012, many positive developments have taken place. The WHO AFEE project, the Agile Ageing Alliance for smart living environments, previous work done in the AG’s thematic area on Architecture, Housing and Urban Design, and the growing attention of the EIP Reference Sites to this domain of AHA innovation all signal a growing awareness and understanding of the role of the physical, built environment in creating supportive, enabling living conditions. At the same time, developments in policy, in eHealth and mHealth technology, and the full-scale emergence into the innovation arena of IoT-innovation mean that more older citizens are living independently for longer, and that ever more complex demands are being placed on their home environments and surroundings. Through networks like the WHO AFC and AFEE networks and the Covenant on Demographic Change the importance of stimulating age-friendly built environments at the local level is being propagated, and it is becoming evident that “age-friendly” is not a special interest group pursuit, but that well-designed living environments can improve the lives of all citizens and contribute to more cohesive and inclusive societies. A network like
the ECTP’s Active Ageing and Design group is already linked to the AG and brings together companies, universities and research institutes around research, innovation, and business scale-up themes. Challenges, however, remain and new challenges manifest themselves as the R&I-field matures. These challenges revolve around the following issues:
• The need to understand and be able to predict the integration and interaction of effects with other innovation domains, e.g. the built environment in relation to social innovation, to changes in health service delivery models and practices, et cetera • The need more generally to further develop appropriate models for collection, assessment and interpretation of evidence, as traditional models (e.g. randomized controlled trials) are ill-suited to the innovation domain • The need to create appropriate interpretative frameworks to understand the effectiveness of physical environment interventions within their local context, with the aim of facilitating sharing and transfer of successful solutions • The need to understand and define the social and economic business case for innovation. This includes getting to grips with the dynamics of stakeholder motivations, interests and interactions, as well as a grasp of what is needed to marshal investments in the physical environments. • The need to define and help create appropriate framework conditions to facilitate scaling up and business uptake of solutions. • The need to understand how elderly people appropriate and react to age-friendly design changes, implement tools to evaluate it and create methods to implement these alterations with their involvement and opinion.
The objectives have been formulated with these challenges in mind. Stakeholders • Several types/levels of accommodation including housing, housing technology and construction industries • ICT and IoT-providers and developers • Local and regional authorities • Urban designers and architects • Universities, Research and Technology institutes • Older people and care organisations Steps/Actions A.4.1.: Share and disseminate information on research and innovative practice in age-friendly physical environments within the domain, AG and the EIP AHA more generally A.4.2: Map and structure research and methodology challenges and perform a gap analysis against the current state of the art. Stimulate collaboration on work to close the gap A.4.3.: Build up a network and exchange group for public and private stakeholders in the field, utilizing existing facilities (e.g. EIP AHA repository) A.4.4.: Bring together and facilitate a network of living lab settings and test sites in age-friendly physical environment; identify and pursue opportunities for collaborative participation A.4.5.: Identify possible test-sites for pilot implementations of physical environment solutions along lines of the quadruple helix model. Pilots could involve public sector and/or private sector actors and be built around “real” investment cases. A.4.6.: Pursue opportunities for collaborative participation in these pilots, and use analysis of progress and results to deepen understanding of socio-economic business case mechanisms and enabling frameworks. A.4.7.: Create and implement tools to evaluate how older persons appropriate and react to age-friendly design changes and create methods to implement these alterations with their involvement and opinion.
Expected outcomes:
• Network of involved partners on design and building environments
• Gap analysis
• Informal research and innovation “eco-systems”
• Network of living labs and test sites
• Innovation and business uptake roadmap
• Field studies involving designers and end-users Sprints connected to outcomes:
- …..
General domain 5: Inclusive Smart Cities
Lead partners: Netwell CASALA @ Dundalk Institute of Technology, Municipality of Porto and CITTA, Università Politecnica delle Marche, AGE Platform Europe Coordinators: Rodd Bond and Lara Mendes; stand-ins: Susanna Spinsante and Julia Wadoux Contributing partners: ……………….
Title: Linking with the Smart Cities initiative Objective for collaborative work: O.5.1. To connect with the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities and the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) to make sure that the principles of AFE are embedded in concepts, theory and practice. This involves e.g.: identifying and developing work plans to address synergies; alignment of objectives and work programmes; research and analysis into the (potential) added value and other advantages of cross-sectorial approaches; etc. The objective picks up on and promotes the need for an integrated “health in all policies approach” to underpin and steer questions of: governance; smart cities operations systems; services developments, user needs and acceptance; and integrated multi-sectorial cost-benefit assessment paradigms. Needs: The needs identified describe gaps in the current state of knowledge identified by the participants:
• A lack of integrated multi-sectorial Urban concepts that can inspire collaborative work in this area and form a basis for development or value assessment frameworks.
• Thought leadership pushing the “integrated smart cities” concept further
• Insight into smart resource management to inform collaborative work on / cross-sectorial approaches to smart cities development
• Participatory co-creative innovation process models are needed to handle the complex innovation and implementation challenges
• Research on, concepts and examples for safeguarding human scale and identity in often very large-scale, technology-intensive innovations
• Advanced descriptive and predictive models to make sense of the bewildering mass of heterogeneous data generated by the urban environment and support public authorities and of the stakeholders in shaping smart cities development
• The development of frameworks to help the emergence of common understandings and approaches across sectors and disciplines.
• Activate urban communities to facilitate the role of the social and health services in dealing with mild cognitive impairments and frailty in older people population;
• Prevent physical and mental decline improving the early detection of risks based on the active interaction with public and private smart environments.
Insights:
• There are funding opportunities in the European Smart Cities and Internet of Things arena that may provide seed money to kick-start innovation
• There is potentially a big interest from industry in integrated smart city solutions: Internet of Things and other ICT-based industries; but also health and care; construction; transport; energy…..
• The Older people-friendly City services for active and healthy ageing (City4Age) is a H2020 funded project (start in December 2015) that aim at integrate innovative technologies in different living environments to reduce frailty and Mild Cognitive Impairments.
• Given the involvement of industry and the large commercial gains potentially on the horizon, there will be a constant need to handle considerable tension between collaborative and competitive approaches. E.g. in the EIP Smart Cities and Communities (and beyond) we are already seeing Intellectual Property Rights’ issues presenting a hurdle to collaboration and free exchange of information.
Stakeholders:
• Urbact
• EIP SCC
• JPI Urban Europe
• EU IoT community
• Energy Covenant and the European Covenant on Demographic Change
• AIOTI WG8 Steps/Actions: A.5.1. To connect with the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities to make sure that the principles of AFE are embedded in concepts, theory and practice.
• Pilots A.5.2. To investigate strategies to apply principles that work for cities to rural areas as well (smart rural areas).
• Feed innovation agenda in the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
Expected outcomes:
• Framework
• Roadmap
• Evidence
• Implementation agenda and businesses agendas Sprint connected to Actions
• Review / paper on evidence and methods (to put in the agenda of the Ministerial Amsterdam Conference (May 2016)
Lead partners: Netwell CASALA @ Dundalk Institute of Technology, Municipality of Porto and CITTA, Università Politecnica delle Marche, AGE Platform Europe Coordinators: Rodd Bond and Lara Mendes; stand-ins: Susanna Spinsante and Julia Wadoux Contributing partners: ……………….
Title: Smart Rural Areas – Rurban dimensions Objective for collaborative work: O.5.1. To connect with the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities and the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) to make sure that the principles of AFE are embedded in concepts, theory and practice.
• To extend the smart cities principles for older citizens’ participation to rural areas.
• To get connected with EIP on Smart Cities and Communities in order to include the “rural” dimension.
• To provide information of proven services and principles to WHO Guide on age-friendly cities.
Needs:
• To identify services with an ICT dimension that work – good practices
• To identify channels to facilitate communication
• Raise awareness Insights: Issue of definition: what is a rural area?
• Shops and schools and other local provisions closing down
• Public transportation at decline
• Population decline
• High levels of ageing Stakeholders:
• LRAs
• Citizens, social care givers, older persons
• Service providers, local SMEs
• EU network of LRAs, WHO Steps/Actions: A.5.3. To set up a group of local/regional authorities with similar challenges –work on WHO Guidelines A.5.4. To advocate extending the EIP on Smart Cities and Communities to rural areas A.5.5. To identify good practices on provision of public services, social services (…) to support older citizens’ autonomy (ageing in place). Expected outcomes:
• Proven services, economic sustainable at local level Sprints connected to Actions
• Part of EIP SCC
• Repository of proven solutions
• Group of LRA’s established
General domain 6: Dementia-friendly environments
Lead partners: Municipality of Porto and Citta and Università Politecnica delle Marche Coordinators: Lara Mendes, stand-in: Susanna Spinsante Contributing partners: ……………..
Title: Dementia-friendly environments
Objectives: O.6.1.: To support inclusive environments for people living with dementia and their carers. O.6.2.: To create learning and partnership opportunities and sharing good practices O.6.3.: To promote research and development of systems, tools, and applications to support behavioural monitoring for early detection of cognitive decline O.6.4.: To promote healthy habits (about nutrition, physical and cognitive training, sleep quality…) through virtual coaching in adult population at risk of developing dementia O.6.5: To promote educational and learning activities towards caregivers, for the adoption of ICT tools in dementia management Needs:
• Continue the thematic activity dementia across the D4 Action Group
• Thematic approach in the repository of EIP on AHA Stakeholders:
• People with dementia and their carers
• Formal caregivers of people with dementia
• Public authorities (national, regional, local)
• Local service providers
• Health care institutions
• Retail, industries and SMEs Steps/Actions A.6.1.: To identify and set up the subgroup of commitments with attention to dementia. A.6.2.: To promote other organisations that work with dementia to become a member of D4. A.6.3.: To set up peering and learning activities Expected outcomes:
• Peering and exchange programme
• More involved commitments and partners Sprints connected to actions
• Map partners and initiatives
Ideas for synergies In this section the proposed Synergies involving D4 are summarised. These have been
approved by a cross-Action Groups task force devoted to select the best ideas collected
through the process of renovation of the Action Plans.
Synergies are thematic working groups which interests are cross-cutting to at least two or
more Action Groups under the EIP and are established in a collaborative approach. The
synergies include collaborative work and sprints agreed among representatives of the
different AG involved.
Ref. Title General objectives Interested AGs
SYN_02 Masters of AHA’ – educating seniors, health and social carers and entrepreneurs
To contribute to the development of dynamic and sustainable care systems of tomorrow by development of a distinctive Master of Gerontology and Geriatrics that will encompass education, stakeholders’ empowerment and inter-disciplinary, inter-professional research according to different backgrounds and competencies.
A1, A2, A3, B3, C2, D4
SYN_03 Patient and citizen Empowerment across the EIP Action
To develop a consensus view of what patient empowerment is, sharing progress plans regarding the evolution of the respective patient/user empowerment objectives within the different Action Groups. On the basis of a common understanding, both of the content of the topic and of what the different groups are doing, look across the EIP as to how this more holistic perspective can contribute to scaling up of good and effective practices via transverse as well as vertical processes and can support the overall objectives of the EIP.
A1, A2, A3, B3, C2, D4
SYN_05 Active and Healthy Ageing in the framework of Responsible Research and Innovation
To create an ecosystem around RRI for AHA by identifying the current state of the actions and initiatives, fostering policy dialogue among the relevant stakeholders in AHA, proposing a new roadmap trying to involve in place as much local and regional stakeholders as possible and providing and monitoring indicators of progress.
A1, A2, A3, B3, C2, D4
SYN_06 Falls and fall injuries - A Grand Societal Challenge involving prevention and healthy ageing of seniors
To enable macro, meso, and micro-level analysis including, on the one hand, governance and policy-making based screening, prevention, rehabilitation and monitoring, and, on the other hand, an integration with Silver Economy, and related to WHO's consultation on Global Strategy and Action Plan on Ageing and Health To support regional and municipal levels to act and become deeply engaged in fall prevention campaigns, thereby enabling and promoting early frailty and fall risk assessment, and identifying frail and faller profiles To Raise awareness and promote behavioural change among citizens in prevention of frailty and fall injuries.
A1, A2, A3, B3, C2, D4
Introduction and rationale for the SYN_05 The SYN_05 was proposed in November 2015 by Polibienestar Research Institute and TNO with the support of the coordinators of the D4 Action Group. This synergy on Active and Healthy Ageing in the framework of Responsible Research and Innovation was based on the lessons learned by the partners/coordinators of the D4 EIP AHA AG during the period 2012-2015 and the identified key aspects of cooperation with other EIP AHA AG for the next period 2016-2018 to support the achievement of common objectives on active and healthy ageing. The synergy proposed integrated the key concerns by the D4 partners/coordinators which were mainly related with three relevant demands:
1. The engagement of higher number and more diverse stakeholders involved in the chain supply of active and healthy ageing products and services.
2. The inclusion of new transversal and innovative issues that favor a common framework for the promotion of research and innovation in relation to active and healthy ageing from a more holistic perspective, integrating cross-cutting demands related with public engagement and science education and analyzing the evidence of innovative solutions to promote active and healthy ageing as age-friendly tourism.
3. The exchange of knowledge and outputs generated so far by the AG to push common objectives i.e. integrating the A3 screenings for frailty on D4 activities involving municipalities to foster scaling up.
The partners/coordinators of the D4 AG proposed to set up a synergy based on the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) applied to Active and Healthy Ageing. The European Commission includes in the RRI framework the following key areas: Governance, Public Engagement, Gender Equality, Science Education, Open Science/Open access and Ethics. Current status of the SYN_05 Initially the synergy RRI & AHA was planned to be developed during the years 2016 and 2017 to be able to implement a participatory method to propose a roadmap for future development of the concept after 2018. Later on, it was decided that the implementation of the synergies were conclude at the end of 2016 and for this reason the activities to be developed were adjusted to try to provide relevant output and to be manageable during that shorter period. In the call for commitments of the EIP on AHA launched by the European Commission at the beginning of 2016, 135 organizations expressed that their commitment was somehow related with the RRI & AHA synergy. During the months of June and July 2016 an online questionnaire was sent to those organizations to gather information about practices undertaken by them which could be considered relevant in the field of RRI. A total of 39 practices were submitted via the online questionnaire by 35 organizations. Proposal of next steps for SYN_05 The information gathered via the online questionnaire mentioned above provides a unique opportunity to identify what are the partners of the EIP on AHA implementing in relation to the concept of RRI and to present and disseminate a list of promising practices that could encourage other partners to implement processes and initiatives related with RRI. The proposal for the next steps consist on creating a group of people with knowledge on the basics of RRI to peer review the practices submitted via the online questionnaire and to identify which of them might be considered promising practices and why. To achieve this goal, the promoters of the idea propose:
1. To identify a group of 5-10 people (representing partners of the EIP on AHA) aiming to
work in the implementation of the synergy, mainly by discussing the possible ways to
review the quality of the best practices and participating in the evaluation process.
2. To review the instruments available1 to evaluate the best practices and agree in a
consistent methodology to evaluate them.
1 Mainly those developed by the project RRI Tools – Fostering Responsible Research and Innovation (funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the EC – no 612393) or the methodology proposed in Wickson, F. and Carew, A. (2014) Quality criteria and indicators for responsible research and innovation : learning from transdisciplinarity. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 1 (3).
3. To evaluate the best practices (including asking for further input in the cases where
evaluation cannot be undertaken due to the lack of information) and analyse the
strenghts and wikenesses of the universe of practices received.
Based on the voluntary basis of the work to be performed we foresee that to be able to develop this work following the minimum standard of quality, it will be necessary to extend the deadline of end of the synergy until June 2017.
Governance and coordination D4
Governance principles Action Groups establish their own working methods and governance, with the EC acting as a
facilitator. There are different actors to governance structure: the partners, the action group
coordinators, the European Commission and the PROEIPAHA Coordination and Support
action. The governance structure will ensure timely development of an Action and/or
Innovation and Cooperation Plan and the incorporation of newly interested partners. Overall,
the rules of engagement between the parties are based on the following principles:
• Openness and partnership – common willingness of all partners to cooperate with
each other.
• Coordination – participation of a representative(s) in the coordination meetings of the
Action Group
• Reporting – regular reporting from the Action Group's meetings, progress of actions
and deliverables to be made public
• Evaluation – outcome of actions to be evaluated, and results made public
Action Group D4 has identified the following inspiring aspects for the action group
governance:
Coordination and commitment, increasing impact on policy making
Repository of best practices and mechanisms for scaling up
External and internal communication, including language barriers
Mainstreaming of citizen centeredness
Roadmaps for scaling up and funding
These aspects have been brought together in two coordination domains:
7. Increased impact on policy making, communication and scaling up
8. Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments
In order to fulfil these aspects a number of actions have been identified to be carried out.
Their implementation could ensure that Action Plan goals will be achieved in an effective
governance environment enabling to spread impacts extensively.
General domain 7: Increased impact on policy making, communication and scaling up
Lead partners: Polibienestar – UVEG and AGE Platform Europe Coordinators: Elisa Varlía Cotanda and Anne-Sophie Parent Contributing partners: …………………….
Title: Increased impact on policy making, communication and scaling up Objectives: O.7.1.: To ensure that the EIP on AHA remains a high priority at EU level O.7.2.: To mobilize LRAs and local networks to work on age-friendly environments O.7.3.: To improve the internal and external communication of D4
O.7.4.: To improve the accessibility of D4 for LRAs and local organisations that face problems with English language O.7.5.: To better recognize priorities in communication Needs:
• To identify the right profiles in each Action Group and to identify the right messages to elaborate
• Request DG Connect & other DGs to set up political Steering Group
• Action Groups to nominate their representatives in Steering Group
• Steering Group to use roadmap to influence EU funding
• Use of language/concept: propose positive language around ageing
• Further develop the synergies with the Covenant on Demographic Change
• Assess the use of Yammer and propose ways to improve its use, or alternative platforms.
• Better communication on D4 AG outcomes towards local authorities.
• Use of other languages, beside English. The language barrier exists. Assess automatic translation tools. Connect Digital Communication with translation –money for open translations
Stakeholders:
• All partners of D4
• Covenant on Demographic Change
• WHO-Europe to link up with European Cities member of the Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
• European Commission
• Local and regional authorities
• Research Centres
• Civil society organisations
• Industry/SMEs Steps/Actions: A.7.1. Organise consensus with other Action Groups to formally request a steering group to be set up; to identify and nominate the right people. A.7.2. Define of a roadmap to influence EU. A.7.3. Funding: analysis and insights in funding models. Identify and describe opportunities / mechanisms for engaging seed money, catalyst investments, venture capital etc. A.7.4. To develop a more structured communication strategy for the Action Group external communication, delivering content in an accessible format: A.7.5. To work adopt strategies and tools for multi lingual communication. Expected outcomes:
• Translations of key information
• Better Internal Communication Platforms
• More partners involved Sprints connected to Actions:
• Define the group. Create a nomination procedure
• Meeting with Commissioner Oettinger responsible for Technology and Society-Digital society.
• Help LRA and local organisations to access funding-Guide EU funding
General domain 8: Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments
Lead partners: AGE Platform Europe, Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, Municipality of Porto and CITTA Coordinators: Julia Wadoux, Carina Dantas, Lara Mendes; stand-in: Ana Luísa Jegundo Contributing partners: …………………….
Title: Connect and leverage local and regional age-friendly environments Objectives: O.8.1.: To mobilize LRAs and local networks (e.g. reference sites) to work on age-friendly environments O.8.2.: To promote the sharing of good practices of local and regional authorities and organisations 0.8.3: To help local initiatives to leverage their experiences, providing them european visibility and facilitating their dissemination and scaling up O.8.4.: To support the networking, peer exchange, transfer of experience and twinning by using the framework offered by the European Covenant on Demographic Change. Needs:
• Engagement with and exploitation of the opportunities offered by existing urban networks like URBACT and LEADER+
• Creation of a practical tool in the repository EIP on AHA (“Peer finder”) for local stakeholders looking for inspiration, mutual learning opportunities, coaching and support.
• Explore connections with EU dissemination tools (newsletters, journals and events) that will help disseminate good practice.
• Explore the tools of the European Covenant on Demographic Change for networking and matchmaking.
Stakeholders:
• All partners of D4
• Covenant on Demographic Change
• WHO-Europe to link up with European Cities member of the Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
• Local and regional authorities
• Civil society organisations
• Industry/SMEs Steps/Actions: A.8.1. To map and align existing activities of local and regional authorities / organisations. A.8.2. To develop and implement match making instruments that facilitate the emergence of practical learning groups as well as the one-on-one capacity building relationships billed as “Town twinning or peering”. A.8.3.To create or facilitate access to existing dissemination tools (like newsletters and events) that will help scaling up of good practice. A.8.3. To develop a network of cities and regions with some practical experience in AFE that support transfer and local adaptation of successful solutions
Expected outcomes:
• Creation of peer finder tool
• Twinning/peer support
• Pilot on scaling 5 local initiatives at national and EU level (departing from D4 commitments)
• Document with success stories
• Expansion of D4 and Covenant partners network Sprints connected to Actions:
• Development of a peer finder instrument
• Identification of 5 candidates for peering and sharing good practices pilot
• Document with success stories
• Work with Committee of Regions for concrete actions
Role & responsibilities of Partners
• to implement the agreed Innovation and Cooperation Plan to the agreed standards and
deadlines
• to contribute to the effective preparation and delivery of all Action Group outputs
• to evaluate Action Group performance and reporting on progress
Role & responsibilities of Coordinators
• to Implement the agreed Innovation and Cooperation Plan to the agreed standards and
deadlines
• to lead the Action Group team and coordinating all matters of the commitment contents
• to establish regular liaison with the EC and facilitator on all Action Group related matters
• to ensure the effective preparation and delivery of all Action Group products
• to represent the AG trough the Participation at meetings and in discussions
• to take responsibility for the effective flow of information between Action Groups
• to support the evaluation of the AG performance and reporting on progress
• to submit of the final results of the Innovation and Cooperation Plan based on data provided
by all Action Groups
Role & responsibilities of the European Commission
• to represent the Action Group at institutional level
• to handle external communication
• to establish the Monitoring framework
• to ensure regular communication among partners
• to take responsibility for the effective flow of information and interactions between
Action Groups
• to seek opportunities to consolidate the EIP on AHA
Background and history D4
Start of the European Innovation Partnership The European Commission launched the pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active
and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) in 2010 under the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative
Innovation Union2. The partnership brings together public and private stakeholders across
boards and sectors to accelerate the uptake of innovation, with the goal to increase by two
years the average healthy life years of EU citizens by 2020, by securing a triple win for
Europe:
• Improving the health status and quality of life of European citizens, with a particular focus
on older people;
• Supporting the long-term sustainability and efficiency of health and social care systems;
and
• Enhancing the competitiveness of EU industry through an improved business
environment providing the foundations for growth and expansion of new markets.
With this Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP; the Plan) delivered on 17 November 20113, the
Steering Group (SG) of the EIP on AHA (the Partnership) has delivered its rationale, its
vision and its suggestions for addressing the challenge of innovation for active and healthy
ageing. It has identified a limited number of actions which have started in 2012 and delivered
measurable outcomes within the 2012-2015 timeframe4. The SIP has set outs more detailed
explanations on the work of the SG and its suggestions for the way ahead. The Plan consists
of two documents, notably a political Strategic Plan complemented by an Operational Plan5.
In response to the SIP, the European Commission published the Communication "Taking
forward the Strategic Implementation Plan"6, and launched two "Invitations for Commitments”
in 2012 and 20137. Six of the priority actions have been launched in 2012, namely:
• A1 Action Group on “Prescription and adherence to treatment”
• A2 Action Group on “Personalized health management, starting with a Falls Prevention
Initiative’
• A3 Action Group on “Prevention and early diagnosis of frailty and functional decline, both
physical and cognitive, in older people”
• B3 Action Group on “Replicating and tutoring integrated care for chronic diseases,
including remote monitoring at regional levels
• C2 Action Group on “Development of interoperable independent living solutions, including
guidelines for business models’ and
• D4 Action Group on “Innovation for Age-friendly buildings, cities & environments”
2 Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative Innovation Union COM(2010) 546 Final 3 http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/active-healthy-ageing/steering-group/implementation_plan.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none 4 For a complete overview of the outcomes achieved by the EIP on AHA, please refer to the “State of Play” reports delivered by each Action Group. 5 http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/active-healthy-ageing/steering-group/operational_plan.pdf#view=fit&pagemode=none 6 Taking forward the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, COM(2012) 83 Final. 7 A commitment is a measurable and concrete engagement in support of a specific action.
D4 Age-Friendly Environments 2012-2015 The D4 Action Group, active since July 2012, has brought together regional and local
authorities from across the EU, European NGOs, technology providers, research centres,
and SMEs.
In this framework the Action Group D4 pursued two main objectives:
• to contribute to achieve two additional healthy life years for older people in the EU by
accelerating the promotion, take-up and implementation of supportive physical and social
environments to support active and healthy ageing throughout the EU, and
• to achieve this by fostering greater participation of older citizens, greater pan-European
public and private stakeholder and cross-sectorial collaboration, and greater exploitation
of age-friendly innovation including the take-up of ICT solutions.
For that purpose, the D4 Action Group work is being approached through the following four
Action Areas with their specific objectives:
• (AA1) Implementing policies and practices for regions, cities and communities: to bring
together partners to pursue parallel implementation strategies for the creation of age-
friendly environments in partnership with older persons
• (AA2) Networks promoting an EU covenant on demographic change: to build and run a
campaign for the launch of an EU covenant on demographic change that seeks to create
the necessary political and technical framework to bring together local and regional
authorities – together with other stakeholders - across the EU
• (AA3) The spatial context (the physical environment): to bring together regional research
centres and programmes to undertake parallel research programmes into the links
between accessible spatial context, cost effectiveness and population health,
participation and wellbeing of older people; and
• (AA4) ICT and smart environments: to bring together stakeholders to undertake joint
initiatives that increase the effectiveness of innovative solutions based on ICT products,
applications and services in order to promote age-friendly environments
To achieve the specific objectives above, partners have been actively working to:
• implement innovative age-friendly policies and practices at the regional and local level, by
communities, local governments, advocacy groups and health services in order to raise
the voice of older people;
• promote integrated and evidence-informed policies and practices through a campaign for
a covenant for demographic change supported by the operation of a multi-level/multi-
sectoral network of stakeholders;
• encourage spatial context studies, practices and policies for bringing innovation in
physical environment and daily life for ageing population;
• develop, foster, promote and evaluate age-friendly physical /environmental innovation
and practice, including the use of ICT and innovative ways to promote an active and
healthy ageing (such as age-friendly tourism);
• disseminate and create awareness through individual, communities and stakeholders to
increase the potential impact of gathered best practices and cross-fertilise experiences.
During the mentioned period the D4 Action Group gathered around 100 partners (public
administration at international, national, regional and local level, private entities including
SMEs, research & training institutions, NGOs, advocacy groups and network of
organisations.
- Number of LRAs involved in age friendly environment programmes committed in D4
Action Group: 1.689.
- Number of individuals involved in LRAs’ age friendly programmes committed in D4 Action
Group addressing - training, empowerment and advocacy activities: 991.273 - physical
activity, quality of life and contrast to chronic diseases activities: 93.891
- Number of Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) committed in D4 Action Group: 28
- Number of surveyed organisations (LRSs, NGOs, academia, others) which contributed to
frame the proposed Covenant on demographic change: 255.
D4 Renovated Action Plan 2016-2018, issued February 2016
The first D4 Action Plan has been running for the period 2012-2015. New objectives and
activities had to be established, with a renovated vision of the group for the period 2016-
2018.
In terms of process, the renovation of the Action Plan has been driven by the ACTION
GROUP members under the coordination of the EC services (DG SANTE and DG Connect)
supported by the PROEIPAHA Coordination and Support Action (CSA). The process has
foreseen different activities that partially overlapped each other in time. On the one hand, the
Action Group was engaged in assessing the achievements obtained so far, which led to the
publication of a State of Play document, on the other hand, first steps have been taken to
collect new building stones for the renovated Action Plan. For example, an online survey
launched by the PROEIPAHA CSA has been sent to the Action Group (June 2015) to collect
their inputs. The renovated Action Plan will be majorly based on commitments to
collaborative works8 and sprints (collaborative work that is planned and delivered in a
relatively short time frame (six months)). Furthermore, additional ideas for the preparation of
the renovated Action Plan have been gathered by the PROEIPAHA CSA and made available
by the Action Group coordination team through continuous interactions intended to broaden
the possibility to other people to take part in the renovation process in a transparent and
open way.
With the intention to contribute significantly to the process of renovation of the Action Plan,
the 9th meeting of the D4 Action Group was held on the 17th of September 2015 in Brussels.
The meeting objectives were:
• To collectively determine the main achievements of D4 (this to inform the “State of play”
publication which conveys the main achievements of the D4 Action Group for the period
2012-2015)
• To build a common vision for the future of the D4 Action Group; focus the group and
develop a unified strategic vision going forward;
• To define the objectives and actions to be put in place to achieve the vision and to
elaborate the new Action Plan, both regarding thematic challenges to address and
governance aspects;
• To agree on a prioritization of the actions, to be validated by the whole group at a further
stage (i.e. on line survey).
8 A collaborative work is intended to be an agreed project carried out by several organisations; in some cases, a set of individual commitments can be grouped and create collaborative work.
This finally resulted in the creation of the Renovated Action Plan D4, issued in February
2016. The Renovated Action Plan has been published on the EIP on AHA portal and on
Yammer.
It is also worth mentioning that from February 2014 to January 2016, the D4 action group has
been supported by the Thematic Network on Innovation for Age-Friendly Environments (AFE
INNOVNET), an EU funded project with a consortium very much linked to the D4 action
group. The thematic network has gathered more than 350 stakeholders (Local and Regional
authorities, Research Centres and Universities, Civil Society Organisations, Businesses)
having a keen interest for age-friendly environments. AFE INNOVNET organised workshops
and webinars to support the exchange of good practices, it developed initial tools on co-
creation of age-friendly environments and impact assessment as well as a website with a
wealth of resources. Last but not least, AFE INNOVNET has initiated the launch and
formalisation of the European Covenant on Demographic Change which is now taking over
the work developed for two years.
Appendix: Glossary of key terms used Commitments: commitment is defined as individual tasks regarding the declaration of intention on the work that one or several organisations will be doing in the context of an Action Group. Usually ‘commitments’ should refer only to individual tasks (for example, the ones that were committed to in the two invitations for commitments launched in 2012 and 2013). Nevertheless, following the processes to join existing commitments, Action Groups were in the situation of commitments managed by two or more organisations. In the context of Action Groups work, AG B3 did not follow the individual commitments approach and started developing collaborative works, AG A1 and AG A3 are working on tracking the progress of these individual commitments and D4 is using a mixed approach, tracking progress of individual commitments and some collaborative works planned under a specific action area. Collaborative work: A collaborative work is considered as an agreed project carried out by several organisations, in some cases, a set of individual commitments can be grouped and create collaborative work. In the period 2012-2015 some Action Groups collaborative work has been named as joint deliverables, common project or even other less used terms. Even if the result in practical terms is the same, the following different types of collaborative works can be identified: a. Being ‘born’ in the EIP on AHA as a new project idea b. An individual project that was presented to Action Group members and ‘recruited’ new members for the project from the pool of partners of a given AG c. Any other formal way used within Action Groups to conceptualise collaborative work. Sprints: This is a new concept introduced in the renovated Action Plan. A collaborative work that is managed as a project “sprint”, it means that it is carried out by a set of organisations in a short-time period (normally 6 months) and it has one or several associated deliverables. Sprint refer to the prioritisation of collaborative work. Synergies: Even in the first period (2012-2015) the synergy concept has been introduced for reinforcing the collaboration of the Action Groups on specific matters of common interest, reinvigorated engagement for this kind of cooperation is needed in the renovated Action Plan. Synergies are referenced as thematic working groups which interests are cross-cutting to one or several Action Groups under the EIP on AHA and are established in a collaborative approach. They may include collaborative works and sprints agreed among representatives of the different involved groups. Results: In the definition of the individual commitments, collaborative works, sprints or synergies, the renovated Action Plan should pay attention to ensure that expected results are specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-bound. Results could be divided in some cases in a set of actions; these actions could be also be time-related and may include “milestones”. In most of the Action Groups, these results were previously named as “Deliverables”. For the purpose of the renovated Action Plan it is suggested to use the term “Results” instead of “Deliverables”.
List of abbreviations AFE Age-friendly Environments AFE INNOVNET Thematic Network on Innovation for Age-Friendly Environments AG Action Group D4 One of the six Action Groups of the EIP on AHA, number D4 DG Connect Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and
Technology of the European Commission DG Growth Directorate General of the European Commission for Internal Market,
Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs EC European Commission EIP on AHA European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing EIP on SCC European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities EU European Union H2020 Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme
ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)
ICT Information and Communication Technology JPI Joint Programme Initiative LRA Local and Regional Authority NGO Non-governmental organisation PPP Public Private Partnership PROEIPAHA Consortium for the Coordination and Support Action of the EIP on AHA
(2015 and 2016) RAP Renovated Action Plan 2016-2018 SG Steering Group of EIP on AHA SIP Strategic Implementation Plan of EIP on AHA SME Small or Medium Enterprise SYN Synergies: cross Action Groups issues WHO World Health Organisation WHO ICF World Health Organisation International Classification of Functioning
