This document outlines opportunities for collaboration and funding related to aging and digital social platforms from the European Commission. It discusses several European programs and initiatives that focus on research and innovation in healthcare, aging, and information and communication technologies (ICT), including Horizon 2020, the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging, and the Joint Programming Initiative on Alzheimer's disease. It also describes specific funding opportunities for digital social platforms, early risk detection in aging, and advanced ICT systems and services for integrated care.

1. ICT for
Ageing &
Digital Social
Platforms
Opportunities for
Collaboration and Funding
Horst.kraemer@ec.europa.eu

2. New
Knowledge
JPIMoreYearsBetterLives
Alzheimer's
JPIs
n
Public Health Programme
(health & ageing)
Structural
Funds
EIB
ESF
EIT
Deployment support
ICT – Health - Ageing
European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
Evidence and
innovation
guidelines
Proven
Ideas
eHealth
ICT &
Ageing
Health
New solutions
ERA-Age
JTI
Innovative
Medicines
Horizon 2020: Societal Challenge No. 1
Health, Demographic Change & Wellbeing
Active Assisted
Living
Joint
Programme
KIC
Ageing
Research Innovation Deployment

3. Research &
Innovation
Horizon 2020 – LEIT-ICT
The idea of Digital Social Platforms
• The EIP as an example of an existing multi-
stakeholder network
• DSP – widening collective approach
ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing

4. • Identification of blockers for participation
• Finding (ICT supported) enabling factors
• Interdisciplinary research, particularly DSSH,
behavioural change
• Incentives, rewards, possibly business models
• Transferability and scalability
• Building on "existing ecosystems"
What makes a DSP approach?

5. Research &
Innovation
Horizon 2020 – LEIT-ICT
ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability
and Social Innovation
c. Digital Social Platforms (DSP)Scope
• Digital social platforms for multidisciplinary groups developing
innovative solutions to societal challenges
• Scaling up: transposition of existing or emerging solutions to larger
transnational scales
• Build on established open multi-stakeholder networks, e.g. European
Innovation Partnerships
• Provide a suitable ICT-enabled cooperative environment for expansion
and governance
• Transferable and scalable to other communities in different domains
and societal challenges.
Research and Innovation Actions

6. Research &
Innovation
Horizon 2020 – LEIT-ICT
ICT 10 – 2015: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability
and Social Innovation
c. Digital Social Platforms (DSP)Expected Impact
• Definition of new concepts and models for the development of digital
social platforms, deeper understanding of social innovation processes
• Transferability and scalability of the digital social platforms model, as
well as of the services developed, to enlarged communities across
borders
• Measurable improvement in cooperation among citizens, researchers,
public authorities, private companies, non-profit, non-governmental
and any other civil society organisation
Research and Innovation Actions
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Research and Innovation Action (100%)

7. Research &
Innovation
Horizon 2020 - societal challenge 1
PHC 21 - 2015) Early risk detection and intervention
Scope
• ICT based solutions enabling early detection and minimisation of risks
associated with ageing:
-> Including (but not limited to) cognitive impairment, frailty, depression and falls
-> Demonstrating causal links between changes in behaviour and key risks of ageing
by unobtrusive behavioural sensing, and large scale collection of data readily available in the
daily living environment of older individuals
-> Design ICT-based interventions to counter the identified risks and innovate in treatments and
therapy based on early detection
• Work will build on multi-disciplinary research involving behavioural, sociological, health and
other relevant disciplines, driven by relevant user needs to ensure end-user acceptance
• Full account will be taken of relevant data protection/ethical aspects
Other opportunities in H2020:
Advancing Active and Healthy Ageing
Research and innovation action (100%), € 21 M

8. Research &
Innovation
Horizon 2020 - societal challenge 1
PHC 25 - 2015) Advanced ICT systems and services for Integrated
Care
Scope
• Advance the state of art in telehealth and telecare systems
• Address technological, social and organisational issues
• Focus on
• services to support patient empowerment, self-care, adherence to care plans
• monitoring patient status, activity and compliance to therapy
• analysis and interpretation of data for improved decision making
• new patient pathways & personalisation of care programmes
• new knowledge for management of co-morbidities
• Proof-of-concept, with qualitative & quantitative success measures
Research and innovation action (100%), € 20 M
Other opportunities in H2020:
Integrated, sustainable,
citizen-centred care