<9Sep08 Objective 1.4: ICT for ageing well with cognitive problems, combining assistive and independent living technologie

Proposal: TEPECS Trans-European
Personal Ehealth Products and Services for ageing persons

Objective 1.4: ICT for ageing well with
cognitive problems, combining assistive and independent living
technologies
*Funding instrument:* Pilot B - it is intended to
support several pilot actions

The objective is to
significantly improve quality of life and social care for the ageing
population by combining assistive technologies to compensate for
cognitive problems or mild dementia with independent living
platforms, specifying and demonstrating the resulting innovative ICT
enabled products and services.

Solutions should provide
cognitive training, activation and reinforcement for the elderly as
well as support to their day-to-day activities and social
interactions. This should result in a substantial prolongation of the
time they can continue to be at home rather than in an institution

The pilots should be clearly demand driven and build
on public-private partnerships. It should
bring together a set of
regional actions addressing the above goals and involve relevant

stakeholders such as care service providers, housing corporations
and insurance organisations.
A strong involvement of users and
their representatives, their families and carers, is expected
to
ensure end-user acceptance and uptake.

Targeted outcomes and
characteristics
– Pilot solutions addressing the above goal.
These solutions should be based on a complete set of common
specifications for technology and end to end services involving the
whole value chain. This should cover daily activity support, self
activation, support for care service provision, and compensation for
cognitive and mild dementia problems related to ageing (e.g. related
to memory, orientation, daily routines, etc).
– The pilots
shall carry out validation for a wide integration of innovative ICT
solutions (not be limited to individual components of such support).

– The solutions shall be tested in real life and a consolidated
set of requirements and validated functional specifications should
emerge as a result.
– Pilot must associate public authorities
(at national, regional or local level) from each country
participating that have responsibilities and budget control in the
relevant area of care or supply of services. A precondition for
proposals will be evidence of the timely availability and own
financing of infrastructures required for the successful
implementation of the pilots.
– The work should wherever
possible build on and contribute to relevant standards to
ensure
interoperability and take into account best practices and
relevant standardisation efforts as well as provide appropriate
safeguards against relevant ethical and privacy issues.
– The
work will include a non confidential, comprehensive socio-economic
evidence base for ICT investments in the field (including
cost-benefit analysis and user satisfaction) to facilitate the
development of sustainable business models.
– Detailed plans
for larger-scale sustainable uptake and replication beyond the pilot.

Dissemination and communication
activities on the achieved results shall be provided.
Reference
material including guidelines, manuals, educational materials will be
produced in this view. The Pilot should provide a substantial and
high-profile contribution to the European e-Inclusion Initiative and
the i2010 flagship on ICT & ageing.

Expected impact
*–
Substantially prolonging the time that elderly people with cognitive
problems or mild
dementia can live independently at home and be
supported in their day-to-day activities in
a socially integrated
manner.
– Improve quality of life of older people and their
families and increase effectiveness of
care systems, and
facilitate wide implementation by the public authorities in
conjunction
with industrial players of sustainable innovative
services.
– World leading position for European industry and in
particular SMEs in new markets for
innovative ICT based products
and services for independent living and assistive
technology for
the ageing population.ഊICT PSP Work
Programme 2008
– Opening up an internal market for ICT based
solutions for the elderly (e.g. home and
portable systems).

Page Updated     29/05/2008
Call
opened     29 April 2008
Call closed    
09 September 2008, at 17:00 hours (Brussels local time)
Budget    
39 million Euro
OJ reference     OJ C108 of
the 29 April 2008 (2008/C 108/11)
<http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:108:SOM:EN:HTML>

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*Description*
09 September 2008, at 17:00 hours (Brussels local
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October 2008 to early
2009     Evaluation, negotiation
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2009     Projects start

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*4.1.2. Pilot (Type B) - stimulating uptake of innovative
ICT-based services and products*
*4.1.2.1. Instrument
description*
*Type B pilots aim at first implementation of an ICT
based innovative service addressing the needs of citizens,
governments and businesses.* Pilot B may address replication but only
where given objective in the Work Programme explicitly requests it or
allows for. The pilots
should be carried out under realistic
conditions. The emphasis is on fostering innovation in
services,
consequently the pilot may need to take-up completed R&D work,
may extend
already tested prototype services or may combine /
integrate several partial solutions to realise
a new innovative
approach. Whichever approach is taken, the outcome of the work shall
be an
operational pilot service demonstrating significant impact
potential. It is considered essential
from the outset that the
pilot will engage a complete value-chain of stakeholders in the work.

The pilot should demonstrate the technical, organisational and
legal feasibility of the service
and evaluate the impact of these
innovative ICT-based solutions in view of their wider
deployment
and use.
Type B pilot projects are expected to implement their
service in at least four Member States
or associated countries,
however, proposers should anticipate sustainability and scalability

beyond the pilot phase, when making their proposal.
The
duration of the pilot is expected to be 24 to 36 months within which
there should be a 12
month operational phase. An operational
phase is defined as the situation in which the
interoperable
services and technologies are functioning in a real-life setting.

*4.1.2.2. Consortium Composition*
The Consortium should
comprise all necessary stakeholders in the value-chain for deploying

the service (e.g. service and content providers, industries
including SME's, end-user
representatives, etc). In this context,
SME's are considered important contributors to
29 See section
4.4.3 Evaluation criteria 30 See section 4.2 and chapter 5 for more
details on budget availability for instruments and themesഊICT
PSP Work Programme 2008
innovation. It is also considered
important that the appropriate public authorities - operators or

sustainers of the service - are participating in the pilot.

4.1.2.3 Minimum participation requirements
The consortia must
be comprised by a minimum of four independent, legal entities from
four
different EU Member States or associated countries. This
requirement is considered an
eligibility criterion, hence
proposals not meeting this criterion will not be accepted for

evaluation 31 :
There is no upper legal limit for the number
of participants as long as the indicative budget
provisions are
respected 32 .

*4.3.2. Funding for Pilots type B*
Community
funding for Type B pilots will be up to* 50% of the costs of
implementing the
pilot service*. The Community contribution for
this type of pilot will typically range from 2 to
2.5 M€ per
pilot unless specified otherwise within the objectives of the Work
programme.
Eligible direct costs for pilot B will include
personnel, subcontracting, and other specific
direct costs of
implementing the pilot service. Indirect costs are eligible in
accordance with
the provisions in the model grant agreement.
Other specific direct costs and subcontracting
will be possible
when it is anticipated and clearly justified in the proposal. For
public entities
national public procurement rules and practices
are to be respected.