Time

Wednesday the 15th of September

Track D
Track Chairs: Gerhard Finking, Dr., Regionaal e.V./ Reinhard Goebl, AAL Forum 2010 Programme Committee Co-Chair, Ambient Assisted Living Association, Central Management Unit

Track rationale

The complexity of challenges of demographic change ranging from public mobility to new social services can only be addressed by respective comprehensive policies on national and regional level. Before and especially since the start of the AAL Joint Programme more and more member states have developed or are developing national programmes. The session provides the possibility to exchange information about national AAL related programmes and discuss with the national representatives.

Regions in Europe are even more directly than central governments affected by demographic change. Some regions with fast growing senior population and decreasing population in general have to develop new policy approaches and intensify the deployment of AAL solutions. Exchange of information, a joint assessment of solutionsand formulation of best practice approaches for AAL deployment are main topics for regions. A new initiative of regions develops a new basis for a closer cooperation.

Theme

AAL in National & Regional politics

16.30-18.00

D1: Comprehensive policies in AAL

Session Rationale

Member states with some years of experience in AAL related programmes and member states with relatively new programmes meet in a round table discussion with an introductory presentation of each programme of around 5 minutes. The audience could and should be included into the discussion. Programmes and member states are United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Denmark..

Speakers

Chair: Reinhard Goebl, Co-Chair AAL FORUM Committee

Nanna Skovgaard.pdf, Head of Division, The Danish Agency for Governmental Management: Investments in Public Welfare Technology in Denmark in a National Framework. Key Learnings and New Opportunities

Sigrid Dahlerup.pdf, Senior Adviser & Frederikke Saabye, Head of section, Danish En­terprise and Construction Authority, Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Af­farirs: The Business Innovation Fund

Barbara van den Linden.pdf, Dr., ZonMW: Cost-saving in the Netherlands: the KiKK initiative

Time

Thursday the 16th of September

09.00-10.30

D2: Regional AAL policies

Session Rationale

The session comprised comprehensive policy approaches and also specific new and innovative policies especially on regional level.
(1) Implementation of a Multichannel Service Centre in the

Basque Country: Part of the Solution for Chronic Patients
(2) Hungarian Initiatives Promoting AAL Innovation
(3) Paradigm shift in care

(4) AAL for all

Speakers

Jesus Maria Fernandez Diaz, Regional Deputy Minister of Health of the Basque Country: The Basque Country Multichannel Healthcare Center: Vision and Implementation Strategies

Anett Molnar.pdf, GMM EUROPE/Hungarian Mobility and Multimedia Cluster: Hungarian Initiatives Promoting AAL Innovation

Mariëlle Swinkels, Expert eHealth/ Expert Smart Care Project Provincie Noord-Brabant, ZorgtechnoService: Paradigm shift in Care

Filipe Sousa.pdf & Dirk Elias, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS: AAL4ALL Project

13.00-14.30

D3: The AAL group of regions initiative

Session Rationale

The Community of Regions for Assisted Living is the result of several workshops and shall allow regional and local stakeholders to:

• Exchange views, experiences and best practices on policy, service redesign, fi­nance and market stimulation through a dedicated web platform and the conven­ing of a series of topic-focussed virtual and face-to-face discussions and confer­ences

• Refine concepts of end-user involvement in programme development to avoid technology push but instead use service and policy redesign to stimulate the market in the right way

• Provide the AAL Joint Programme with a rich source of real-life case studies and areas for pilot projects to enhance future call preparation and encourage the emergence of new consortia

Members of the initiative group of regions will give short presentations about the ob­jectives, organisation, first activities and working groups. The initiative group invites all interested regions, cities and experts too join the network. Further information is provided at the networks platform (regionaal-europa.eu)

Speakers

Peter Raeymaekers, Advisor Flanders’ Care,

Edwin Mermans, Province Noord-Brabant,

Dafydd Pugh, Kent County Council:

The AAL group of regions initiative

Heiner Dippel, Hesse-North Retail and Trade Association:

The online platform for the AAL Community of Regions

15.00-16.30

D4: AAL For regions workshop

Session Rationale

The session addresses more specific problems, objectives and innovative solutions of regions.

SENIORLAB-Project: Ageing Research and Development in Rural Areas

Deployment of AAL solutions in rural regions

An integrative approach for ageing

Speakers

Maria Joao Machado_D4.pdf, CETIEX-Industrial Technological Center of Extremadura: SENIORLAB Project-Ageing Research and Development in Rural Areas

Heiner Dippel, Hesse-North Retail and Trade Association: Deployment of AAL - Solutions in rural regions

Paolo Ciampolini, Prof., Centro TAU - Università degli Studi di Parma: An integrated approach for ageing at home: deploying AAL services in rural areas