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CASARegions for Smart Living
Expert lunch meetingFabian Dominguez
Lead Partner CASA
8th May 2014, Brussel
CASA
• CASA (Consortium for Assistive Solutions Adoption) is funded under the 4th
call of the INTERREG IVC programme, approved in Jan. 2012 (end Dec. 2014)
• Overall objective of the INTERREG IVC Programme is to improve the
effectiveness of regional policies and instruments financing interregional
projects to build on the exchange of experiences among partners
• Regional initiative project under Priority 1: “Innovation and the knowledge
economy”, sub-theme: “the information society”
CASA
• The CASA partners are working under the umbrella of the Coral forum (Community of
regions for ambient assisted living):
currently an informal community group with the aim to feed back good practices
from the study visits
exchange of experiences to influence future Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
policies at European level
www.casa-europe.eu
CASA
1. Context
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a complex field across Europe
- More structured approach to accelerate the uptake and roll-out new
technologies
- In parallel to development and review of policies
• 14 participating regions joined forces to find solutions and allow best
practices sharing in the field of AAL
CASA
2. Partners
14 partners from 13 regions (9 EU countries):
•Government of Flanders – Lead Partner (BE)
•Province of Noord-Brabant (NL)
•Kent County Council (UK)
•South East Technologies Alliance (UK)
•Veneto Region (IT)
•Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT)
•Scotland (UK)
•Southern Denmark (DK)
•Region Wielkopolska (PL)
•Catalonia (ES)
•Timis County (RO)
•Andalucia (ES)
•East-Sweden (SE)
•Region Halland (West SE)
CASA
3. CASA: what?
• Respond to increasing pressure on health and social care resulting from
demographic change and an ageing population
• Use of new technologies:
- Improve the comfort of citizens in managing their conditions
- Reduce the economic and social burden on governmental care budget
• Attempt for implementation policies moving away from traditional mono-
domain policy to work horizontally along the supply chain and across
different departments and ministries
CASA
4. CASA: deliverables
• Events and seminars to provide opportunities for demonstrating and sharing
good practices amongst the partnership:
10 study visits
speaker @ conferences (e.g. Open Days 2012)
Transfer Task Force
regional SWOT analysis
Best Practice Guide
2 Knowledge Transfer Conferences
13 local dissemination events
regional implementation plans
final conference in Brussels
28 staff secondments
CASA
a. Study visits (2 days):
• Noord-Brabant: 'Social interaction‘ – 26th-28th September (following AAL forum in
Eindhoven)Cataluñia: 'Healthy lifestyle and rehabilitation ICT‘ – 12th-14th November
• Kent: 'Monitoring, safety and self management'– 10th-12th December
• Wielkopolska: 'Informal care‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCN3MT_qT0)
• South Denmark: 'Telemedecine evaluation model’
• Andalucia: 'Large scale deployment‘
• Veneto: 'Chronic diseases' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOv2V91xm5M)
• Flanders: 'Mobility and liveability/integrated regional policy business and knowledge
development‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7aD_jynLQ)
CASA
•Scotland: ‘Telehealth and Telecare’ (http://www.zorganderstv.be/reportages/e-health-in-
schotland-casa-studiebezoek)
•East Sweden + West Sweden (region of Halland): 'User driven innovation through
public/private partnership‘
b. Communication
• 1 joint web site
• 1 policy forum
• Brochure
• DVD
• E-newsletters
• Press releases
• Speaking opportunities and CASA stand at 15 conferences related to Ambient Assisted
Living: AAL forum (Eindhoven); EIP AHA: opportunity for regions (minister
Vandeurzen, Flanders – Open Days);…
• 1 final conference in Brussels – October 2014
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c. Secondments
• “mini study visits” – tailor-made to specific requests of experts
Planned:
• 7th – 9th May 2014 – 9 experts elderly care (KCC/NHS)
• 12th – 14th May 2014 – 2 experts from Digital Health Institute (Scotland)
Past:
• Polish secondees: 24th – 27th March 2014 – 4 experts
• Topic: “design and innovation/creative solutions in health care”
Some impressions…
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d. Final conference
• 7th October 2014 – Brussels (location to be confirmed) > week of Open Days 2014
• Joint final event of 2 INTERREG IVC-projects: CASA and INNOVAge
• Working title of final conference:
“Creating unity out of diversity: sustaining lessons learnt in Active Ageing”
CASA
Thank youFabian Dominguez
Social Affairs and Public Health attaché
Permanent Representation of Belgium to the European Union
P.A.: Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family Affairs
Staff of the Secretary-General
Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 30
BE-1030 Brussels