Brussels, 15 December 2011 - The preparation of AAL call 5 is in full swing. The AAL partner states gave priority to the topic “Home care”. Background information on this topic is provided in the following document: Info…

Brussels, 21 November 2011 - The Ambient Assisted Living Association (AALA) has launched a vacancy notice for the position of Director of the Central Management Unit (CMU) of the Ambient Assisted Living.

The CMU is the body that carries out the operational management tasks of the AALA, and manages the AALA Joint Programme in close cooperation with the AALA Member organisations. The director is the head of CMU which is staffed with a further six people (2 programme…

Brussels, 7 November 2011 - A Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) for the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) was launched today by the European Commission together with the organizations involved in the high level Steering Committee group appointed last May 2011. With this Strategic Implementation Plan, the Steering Group delivers its rationale, its vision and its suggestions for addressing the challenge of innovation for active and…

The Dutch city of Eindhoven has been chosen by the General Assembly of the AAL Joint Programme to host the next edition of the AAL Forum. The yearly conference of the Ambient Assisted Living Join Programme will take place in The Netherlands between 24 and 27 September 2012.  The new dedicated website will be shortly released, and all information on how to register, along with the programme will be also accessible.

The AAL Joint Programme's very first Project award was a popular competition attracting a large number of projects and a large audience to the plenary session on Monday 26 September during the AAL Forum in Lecce.

ExCITE was awarded as the most promising project of the AAL JP thanks to its product Giraffe, a robotic telepresence operated by the carer enabling social interaction with the older person through a low cost audio visual device.

The…

AAL FORUM 2011 – Lecce, Italy 26-28 September

New keynote speakers confirmed: Lambert Van Nistelrooij, Olga Rivera, Rafael Bengoa

Brussels, 26 August 2011

The AAL Forum is getting more confirmations for its…

AAL FORUM 2011 – Lecce, Italy 26-28 September

New keynote speakers confirmed: Misha Pavel, Alain Franco and Alex Kalache

Brussels, 16 August 2011 – New keynote speakers confirmed their attendance in Lecce for the third edition of the AAL Forum. Mr Misha Pavel, (first to…

Since last year we provide information about about AAL for a management's and user's level. Now the 3rd volume is available. The second volume also was translated into english by my colleagues of DKE (standardization comitee in VDE). Please feel free to read and use them!

Download: http://partner.vde.com/bmbf-aal/Publikationen/aalmagazin/Pages/AALmagazin.aspx

Kind…

Registration for the 3^rd annual AAL Forum, to be held in Lecce, Italy from 26^th to 28^th September 2011 is now open at this link: http://www.aalforum.eu/page/registration-form

This year’s title is “Partnerships for social innovation in Europe”. Outstanding keynote speakers will bring a remarkable contribution to the programme, which is featured of five…

The Ambient Assisted Living Open Association (AALOA), together with the European Commission -e inclusion, and with the support of the AALA, organized a workshop on 7 June 2011 to support those companies whose activity is concerned with the development of software components or complete solutions for AAL.

The participation of SMEs is particularly welcome.

For more information please visit the…

Brussels, 3 May 2011 - The new proposal submission system for the call 4 of the Ambient Assisted Living joint Programme has been released in a new graphic style, and it is now on line and available for consultation. Through this platform it will be possible to send proposals to participate to the…

Brussels, 8 April 2011 - The Ambient Assisted Living Joint programme (AAL JP) hosted the Info Day on Call 4 yesterday, 7 April 2011 in Brussels. Some 200 participants from various sectors attended the meeting: end users representatives, researchers and academics, and the industry sector joined the information day. The event represented a remarkable chance to examine the recently launched call 4, and to network with colleagues from all over Europe.

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EvAAL (Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking)

is an initiative organised by universAAL project (FP7 ICT) and supported by the AALOA association

Special…

On 9 march 2011 the Council Competitiveness adopted conclusions on preparatory work for the pilot European Innovation Partnership "Active and Healthy Ageing".

CODATA, is the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, is an interdisciplinary Scientific Committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU). The Israel National committee decided today to organize on behalf of its parent organization a workshop on AAL interest data activities. The workshop is planned for 2012, but its organization will start soon.

It will be an International workshop where world recognized experts will be invited to deliver plenary lectures and all…