This track comprises the following four sessions (3x90 minutes + 1x180 minutes):

• F.1 Technical standards for AAL: achievements and obstacles (15-Sep-10, 16:15 - 17:45)

  In the spirit of the main question in Track F, the presentations in this session introduce different standardization efforts related to AAL by providing an overview of their specific field of activity and the important achievements to date while addressing any obstacles encountered on the way of their wider adoption in RTD.

  Session chair: Michael Strübin, Continua Alliance

• F.2a & F.2b: Major AAL platform projects: achievements and obstacles (16-Sep-10, 11:00 - 12:30 and 13:30 - 15:00)

  The presentations deal with the question, how the AAL Joint programme can use and transfer experience from the major FP platform projects. Hence, they not only give an overview of the exploitable results from those projects but also talk about how it could work and which obstacles the projects see on the way of exploiting the results. After a short opening talk, each of the invited EU-IST-FP projects (HYDRA, I2Home, MPOWER, NetCarity, OASIS, PERSONA, SOPRANO) will have a total time of 25 minutes: 3 minutes intro, 12 minutes summary of reusable results, 5 minutes reuse in AAL-JP and its obstacles, 5 minutes Q/A.

  Session chair: Sergio Guillén, ITACA @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

• F.3 universAAL: Consolidation, Open Source, and Community Building (16-Sep-10, 15:30 - 17:00)

  As shown in session F.2, the production of software infrastructures supporting AAL has been the core topic of a number of EU projects. The legacy of these projects should not be allowed to die after the end of the projects; rather, their further maturation should be promoted and supported. With the goal to achieve this, the universAAL project started recently is employing different processes and tools: a consolidation process of existing architectural designs in order to converge to a common reference architecture, an open source reference implementation of a consolidated platform based on such reference architecture, and a consensus building process to be kicked by a large community composed by representatives of AAL stakeholders. In this session, these tools and processes will be introduced briefly.

  Session chair: Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany

• F.4 Concluding Discussions (17-Sep-10, 09:00 - 10:30)

  The idea is to use this session for further discussing the issues addressed in the previous three sessions: Discuss to which extent the universAAL approach could be promising for coping with the challenges addressed in F.1 & F.2; which advices can be given to universAAL on its way towards its goals; which complementary arrangements could be added to the agenda of EU-IST-FP and AAL-JP?

  Moderators: Ad van Berlo, Smart Homes, The Netherlands             and   Joe Gorman, SINTEF, Norway