EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Directorate Sustainable and Secure Society
Digital Social Platforms unit
Brussels, DG CONNECT-H2
Notes from EIP- AHA C2 Action Group Meeting
5th May 2014, Berlin
Event passage (Auditorium II) (www.eventpassage.com)
Kantstraße 8, D-10623 Berlin
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
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Soo Hun, Dept. Health NI
Francesco Molinari, Apulia Region Expert
Emilie Nielsen, South Denmark Region
Marielle Swinkels, Province Noord-Brabant
Mariana Ling, SIAT
Antonio Kung, Trialog
Karina Marcus, AAL JP
Marisa Picornell, ST
Valerio Gower, IRCCS Don Gnocchi Foundation (Milan, Italy)
Michael Strübin, Continua – Antilope Project
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, ReAAL project, universAAL project
Samuel Beneveniste, CEN STIMCO
Eduardo Carrasco, Vicomtech
Florian Visser, Zorgportaal Rijnmond
Gottfried Zimmerman, Stuttgart University
Jochen Meyer, Offis
John van Meurs, RUG
Klaus Gritscheder, Future Camp Health
Shabs Rajeskharan, Smarter Futures
Charles Henderson, eGourmet
Peter Wintlev-Jensen, EC
Wijnand Weerdenburg, Rotterdam
1. Plenary Session Introduction:
Christine McClusky and several other members of the Action Group were
unable to attend at the last minute for a wide range of reasons from
cancelled flights to illness. For this reason the meeting was restructured to
make the best of the event for the attendants and the agenda amended
accordingly. The agenda was presented by a representative of the
Coordination Team (Shabs Rajasekharan). It was not possible to run the
parallel sessions as originally intended and thus the event was run as one
workshop without any breakout sessions.
In order to produce a good record of the meeting, the presenters were invited
to act as their own recorders and produce a summary which could be
incorporated into a full record of the meeting for the benefit of those unable
to attend.
This note is intended to provide an overview and highlight some of the key
points arising from the meeting.
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The Action Group was appraised of the Commission Roadmap for the EIP.
A key intention of this C2 meeting was to review progress towards the overall
targets set out in the EIP on AHA Strategic Implementation Plan and C2
Action Plan. If needed, Action plans can be adapted and possible additional
steps taken to meet the objectives.
It was discussed and agreed that the Action Group would focus on the
implementation of the C2 action plan and delivery of planned milestones in
order to show further concrete results
The Group was reminded of the current action plan deliverables:D1: Guidelines on how to implement innovative procurement
D2: A feasibility study for a cooperation platform to support inter-regional
innovative procurement (C2 participating in centrally led work)
D3: Recommendations for interoperability processes and standardisation for
EIP-AHA
D4: Set of good practice documents for the implementation of independent
living solutions (Draft circulated – consider in working groups)
D5: Toolkit & guidance for user empowerment
D6: Cooperation platform to incorporate continuous learning on procurement
and user empowerment, training and raising awareness (C2 participating in
centrally led work)
D7: Repository of information, good practice and evidence
D8: Report on Return on Investment (ROI)
These were discussed together with the cross action group synergies
meeting and metrics developments by various presenters together and group
leaders present and it emerged that good progress is being made to have
these in a presentable form either before the September meeting of the C2
Action Group and the outreach to industry meeting planned by the
Commission on 23rd September, or the next Conference of Partners
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currently scheduled for 2nd December. (nb: In discussion it emerged that this
date may yet shift to a later date.)
The way forward was discussed and it was agreed to widen the load beyond
the Coordination Group as much as possible and encourage active
engagement. We asked how to apportion the activity? Can we spread the
load? And, for example, can we agree a segmentation of the work on
deliverables into sub tasks or ‘topics’? Can we build editorial teams (say 1 to
5 persons) to manage each topic?
Some of the highlights of the meeting were the following:John van Meurs gave an overview of his recent work and contribution to C2
including a classification framework - a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder
approach with strong user involvement, whole innovation chain (knowledge
generation, enrichment and application), large scale deployment, integration
of services, RoI, ICT, QoS. He outlined recent studies into wireless risks and
highlighted key risk concerns around low care (home care and care homes)
where risks are higher than expected, because responsibilities among
stakeholders not well allocated and massive failures are difficult to
accommodate.
Franciso Molinari talked about developments in the procurement subgroup
which are now live. It was agreed that it would be good to promote this by
featuring it in the EIP newletter, but this did not exclude other contributions of
important highlights. In Christine’s absence she was nominated to lead on
this with assistance from the supporting team.
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Sam Beneviste gave a presentation on developments in User Empowerment
toolkit and made the following points concerning the way forward:• Encourage tool building in your projects=> Cross between research and
dissemination
• Collate and classify existing content and tools=> Stimco can discuss your
inputs=> Need 1 : place in classification=> Need 2 : synthesis of your
evidence on core questions
• Extract common core if possible=> Need for strong evidence or
acceptance
• Determine gaps=> See where efforts are most needed.
Mariana Ling gave an update on standards development activities around
the service chain for social alarms led by Sweden.
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Reiner Wicher advised the meeting of a forthcoming call for participation in
the REAAL project but unfortunately time ran out before this could be
presented in detail.
Godfried Zimmerman gave a presentation proposing that we need to build
the envisioned AAL Integration Platform as a modular architecture, with
loosely coupled components via HTTP(S) interfaces and REST. The
components should be as independent from each other as possible, and
should enable a mix-and-match approach.
The layers of such an architecture should be:
- Backend layer (Targets)
- Frontend layer (Controllers)
- Middleware layer (Gateways)
- Open Resource layer (Resource Server)
OpenURC and GPII (Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure) can provide the
following building blocks for the AAL Integration Platform:
- URC Resource Server - to facilitate the provision of specialized user
interfaces (and UI components) via third parties.
- User Interface Socket - a standardized API to devices and simple services.
- GPII Personal Preference Set - for persistent storage and availability of
cross-platform user interface preferences.
Proposed next steps:
- Consider the adoption of underlying guidelines for the envisioned
integration platform.
- Identify reusable components from existing projects and mainstream
technology.
- Develop the Integration Platform step-by-step through Integration Profiles.
A number of actions were placed upon attendees to encourage follow up
activities and to build on the rich knowledge base that is clearly emerging.
The Commission was thanked for stepping in to provide a venue for the
meeting. It was tentatively agreed that the next meeting could be in
September, arranged around the Outreach meeting in Brussels, towards the
end of the month.
Attendees were encouraged to become more actively involved in the ongoing
activities exposed and to provide feedback on the meeting to help the next
one to be planned.
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