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Improve your chances for successful commercialisation through business model experimentation and validation. The interactive AAL2Business workshop will take place before the start of the AAL Forum 2018 on Monday 24th September. This hugely valuable workshop will focus on how AAL projects can apply new business development principles to design and test business models and value propositions quickly, to find out if those are viable for future AAL markets. New business development principles such as business model design, lean startup and customer development, are radically changing how R&D is transformed into commercial success. The AAL2Business workshop provides an excellent opportunity for you to learn about these new, interesting and important techniques on business modelling to give your product a real chance in...Read More

Through a combination of interactive group participation sessions and one-on-one mentoring, AAL is offering an intensive, one-day academy to help AAL start-ups get their foot through the investment door. Don’t miss out – sign up now. A handful of the most promising AAL projects are to get an excellent opportunity to take-part in the AAL2Business Venture Academy, designed to help them prepare for future investment opportunities. This special Academy will take place on Tuesday, 25th September 2018, and run alongside the official AAL Forum 2018. The intense training day will provide the selected would-be entrepreneurs valuable guidance on commercialisation of services and products, business modelling, investment readiness, how to seek funding, the investment cycle and the different types of investment...Read More

On September 22 and 23, the University of Deusto organizes this international event in Biscay, at the Euskalduna Conference Center (Bilbao) The weekend before the AAL Forum 2018 starts, a Hackathon Hack4Elder advantAGE, organized by the University of Deusto, will take place. This event is aimed at both national and international participants. The AAL hackathon invites you to bring your team or to register alone to be conformed into a participating group in need of your expertise to step up to the challenge. Come to work on developing technological and/or non-technological solutions, services, new economic models, and/or new pathways that may help the elderly release their full potential and added value in society in a creative, interdisciplinary and intergenerational environment....Read More

The call for workshops for the AAL FORUM this year is over. Thanks so much to all of you for your contributions that will allow us to bring the most interesting  sessions to configure an outstanding event. The AAL Forum 2018 will be showcasing some amazing technology, addressing this year’s main topic – “AGEING WELL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A growing community of change makers”. The thematic areas are: Theme 1: DEMAND-DRIVEN TRACK: REGULATED MARKETS Theme 2: LIFE AFTER AAL – ENSURING AAL SOLUTIONS GETTING TO THE MARKET Theme 3: BUSINESS TO CONSUMER MARKET: THE SILVER ECONOMY DIMENSION Theme 4: AAL-RELATED ECO-SYSTEMS Theme 5: OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS We have received more than 50 proposals. This high number reflects the great interest...Read More

The final call for workshops has been extended for one more week so don’t worry, you have until the 20th April to submit your proposal for a workshop – and what a fantastic opportunity to present at this year’s AAL Forum it is.  The AAL Forum will be showcasing some amazing technology, addressing this year’s main topic – “AGEING WELL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A growing community of change makers”  The thematic areas are: Theme 1: DEMAND-DRIVEN TRACK: REGULATED MARKETS Theme 2: LIFE AFTER AAL – ENSURING AAL SOLUTIONS GETTING TO THE MARKET Theme 3: BUSINESS TO CONSUMER MARKET: THE SILVER ECONOMY DIMENSION Theme 4: AAL-RELATED ECO-SYSTEMS Theme 5: OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS Please read carefully all the information about the call...Read More

Once again, the AAL Forum will be showcasing some amazing technology, addressing this year’s main topic – “AGEING WELL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A growing community of change makers” During the forum we will be exploring how AAL technology and solutions in Europe acknowledge and overcome the obstacles between progressive everyday technology and vital human connections and social interactions. You are encouraged to actively take part in workshops and sessions divided across five thematic tracks that act as the pillars of the 2017 Forum. Theme 1: DEMAND-DRIVEN TRACK: REGULATED MARKETS This theme aims to engage the demand side of Active Assisted Living regulated markets in health, care, wellbeing, housing etc., presenting complementary perspectives influencing the AAL solutions roll-out. Among them,...Read More

This AAL Forum 2017 will feature a matchmaking event which helps organise informal meetings between participants. The event brings together potential business and cooperation partners to talk about their work and strike up real collaborations across borders.

Take a stand at the AAL Forum The AAL Forum offers companies and projects the perfect opportunity to make a huge impact in the world of active ageing – and this year more than ever. Spaces at the 2017 Forum, which takes place in Coimbra, Portugal, from October 2-4, are still available from €840 for AAL projects and €1,250 for others. That’s tremendous value for money, giving you: Prime exhibition space Access to all networking opportunities that take place over three days Access to up to 30 interactive workshops, where you will be able to get involved and highlight relevant work you are doing across a number of important sectors to relevant people The chance to enter the Exhibitor Prize –...Read More

Defining a new stage of life Sacha Nauta, The Economist’s finance editor, is delivering the opening keynote address at the AAL Forum 2017, which will provide a fascinating insight into the economics of ageing, and the opportunities that exist if we begin to shift expectations of life as an older person. The following is an extract from a special interview we conducted with Sacha, in which she outlines some of the topics she will be covering in her gripping talk in Coimbra. “Defining a new stage of life,” says Sacha Nauta “might sound arbitrary but it can genuinely help create a shift in expectations of life as an older person. “If you look up ‘old’ in the dictionary, you will...Read More

This year, the AAL Forum is offering exhibitors the chance to win the prestigious AAL Exhibition Award 2017 by promoting and reinforcing the commitment of involving and engaging end-users in the AAL community with their exhibitor stand.   This fun event is open to all registered exhibitors and will see them be put through their paces as they conduct a presentation, no longer than seven minutes in length, to four different groups of end-user organisations on how they are targeting the goal of end-user interest with their developments and products.  Presentations are going to be evaluated and marked by the end-users visiting the forum using an on-site questionnaire that will gather their thoughts on each exhibition stand, however, the complete evaluation method is yet to be released. How this will run is that over the two days of the forum, end-user organisations will be divided into...Read More