Research Project Description:
The Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action intends to build, pilot and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeks to facilitate long-term healthy and active ageing and the maintenance of a high-quality standard of life. Mediated by technology, in-home and local community environments interact with health and care (H&C) networks contributing to the reduction of H&C costs, hospitalisations and institutional care. SHAPES aim to create the first European open Ecosystem enabling the large- scale deployment of a broad range of digital solutions for supporting and extending healthy and independent living for older individuals who are facing permanently or temporarily reduced functionality and capabilities. There are thirty-six (36) organisations from 19 countries participating in the project.
Objectives:
- To create the SHAPES Pilot Campaign Plan, knowledge model and evaluation methodology;
- To define the SHAPES, Use Cases;
- To conduct the SHAPES Pan-European Pilot Campaign, including small-scale pilots and demonstrations and large- scale pilots to validate the SHAPES Platform capabilities and benefits to care recipients, caregivers and care service providers;
- To validate the SHAPES Platform at the European scale, across different regions, cultures and health and care organizational models;
- To assess the impact of the SHAPES Platform in supporting healthy ageing and independent living and the definition of improved integrated care policies and measures.
Principal Investigator(s) and Coordinating Institution(s):
- National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
Researchers at University of Nicosia
- Prof Constantinos Mavromoustakis (Coordinator)
- Dr Costas Constantinou
UNIC Participating Institution:
- University of Nicosia Research Foundation (UNRF)
Other Participating Institution(s):
- Ireland (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
- Ireland (Access Earth Limited Access Earth)
- Belgium (Age Platform Europe Age Belgium)
- Italy (Associazione Italiana Per L Assistenza Agli Spastici Provincia Di Bologna)
- Greece (Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis)
- Germany (Carus Consilium Sachsen GmbH)
- Spain (Clinica De Kay Sl Clinica Humana)
- Portugal (Edgeneering Lda Edge)
- Belgium (European Union of The Deaf)
- Czechia (Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc)
- Germany (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V. Fraunhofer)
- Cyprus (Fint Future Intelligence Limited)
- Greece (Gnomon Informatics Sa Gnomon)
- Germany (Institut Fur Gesundheitswirtschaft E.V.)
- Greece (Intracom Sa Telecom Solutions Icom)
- France (Kompai Robotics Kompai Robotics)
- Finland (Laurea-Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy Laurea)
- Germany (MedicalSyn GmbH)
- United Kingdom (Northern Health and Social Services Trust)
- Sweden (Omnitor AB)
- Czechia (Univerzita Palackeho V Olomouci)
- Spain (Pal Robotics Sl Pal Robotics)
- Greece (5 Ygionomiki Periferia Thessalias & Stereas Elladas)
- Spain (Sociacion Benefico-Social El Salvador)
- United Kingdom (Rock Couture Productions Ltd)
- Greece (Epistimi Gia Sena Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Etairia)
- Greece (Hellenic Mediterranean University)
- Spain (Tree Technology)
- Spain (Universidad De Castilla – La Mancha)
- Portugal (Universidade De Aveiro)
- Ireland (University College Cork – National University of Ireland)
- Portugal (Universidade Do Porto)
- United Kingdom (University of Ulster)
- Spain (Fundacion Centro De Tecnologias De Interaccion Visual Y Comunicaciones)
- Norway (The World Federation of The Deafblind)
Research Project Acronym: SHAPES
Funding Agency: H2020
Funding Programme: Active ageing, independent and assisted living
Total Research Project Budget: €18,732,468
Research Project Status: Ongoing
Start and End Dates: 01 November 2019 – 31 October 2023
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Related Links: https://shapes2020.eu/about-shapes/