R&D Projects

 “INDEPENDENT”. ICT Enabled  Service Integration for Independent Living.

INDEPENDENT project will define, deliver and pilot a multiplatform digital infrastructure, supporting coordinated tele-healthcare cross-sector delivery of sufficient and timely support, thereby effectively preventing or at least slowing the way many older people today inexorably slip towards the edges of safe independent living.
This digital support infrastructure and related services will be set up using appropriate existing technology to provide as many older people as possible with digital access to the support services they need and enabling them to be reached appropriately by digital techniques and augmenting and opening sectorial platforms to enable coordinates cross-sector support delivery. The innovative new services will be piloted at six sites across the Europe. Users are to be older people living independently with light to severe care or support needs, care professionals, informal carers and voluntary helpers /charity workers.

Role: Architecture and Prototype implementation for personal health management.

Funding entity and program: Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)