CASARegions for Smart Living

Expert lunch meetingFabian Dominguez

Lead Partner CASA

8th May 2014, Brussel

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• CASA (Consortium for Assistive Solutions Adoption) is funded under the 4th

call of the INTERREG IVC programme, approved in Jan. 2012 (end Dec. 2014)

• Overall objective of the INTERREG IVC Programme is to improve the

effectiveness of regional policies and instruments financing interregional

projects to build on the exchange of experiences among partners

• Regional initiative project under Priority 1: “Innovation and the knowledge

economy”, sub-theme: “the information society”

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• The CASA partners are working under the umbrella of the Coral forum (Community of

regions for ambient assisted living):

currently an informal community group with the aim to feed back good practices

from the study visits

exchange of experiences to influence future Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

policies at European level

www.casa-europe.eu

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1. Context

• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a complex field across Europe

- More structured approach to accelerate the uptake and roll-out new

technologies

- In parallel to development and review of policies

• 14 participating regions joined forces to find solutions and allow best

practices sharing in the field of AAL

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2. Partners

14 partners from 13 regions (9 EU countries):

•Government of Flanders – Lead Partner (BE)

•Province of Noord-Brabant (NL)

•Kent County Council (UK)

•South East Technologies Alliance (UK)

•Veneto Region (IT)

•Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT)

•Scotland (UK)

•Southern Denmark (DK)

•Region Wielkopolska (PL)

•Catalonia (ES)

•Timis County (RO)

•Andalucia (ES)

•East-Sweden (SE)

•Region Halland (West SE)

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3. CASA: what?

• Respond to increasing pressure on health and social care resulting from

demographic change and an ageing population

• Use of new technologies:

- Improve the comfort of citizens in managing their conditions

- Reduce the economic and social burden on governmental care budget

• Attempt for implementation policies moving away from traditional mono-

domain policy to work horizontally along the supply chain and across

different departments and ministries

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4. CASA: deliverables

• Events and seminars to provide opportunities for demonstrating and sharing

good practices amongst the partnership:

10 study visits

speaker @ conferences (e.g. Open Days 2012)

Transfer Task Force

regional SWOT analysis

Best Practice Guide

2 Knowledge Transfer Conferences

13 local dissemination events

regional implementation plans

final conference in Brussels

28 staff secondments

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a. Study visits (2 days):

• Noord-Brabant: 'Social interaction‘ – 26th-28th September (following AAL forum in

Eindhoven)Cataluñia: 'Healthy lifestyle and rehabilitation ICT‘ – 12th-14th November

• Kent: 'Monitoring, safety and self management'– 10th-12th December

• Wielkopolska: 'Informal care‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCN3MT_qT0)

• South Denmark: 'Telemedecine evaluation model’

• Andalucia: 'Large scale deployment‘

• Veneto: 'Chronic diseases' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOv2V91xm5M)

• Flanders: 'Mobility and liveability/integrated regional policy business and knowledge

development‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7aD_jynLQ)

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•Scotland: ‘Telehealth and Telecare’ (http://www.zorganderstv.be/reportages/e-health-in-

schotland-casa-studiebezoek)

•East Sweden + West Sweden (region of Halland): 'User driven innovation through

public/private partnership‘

b. Communication

• 1 joint web site

• 1 policy forum

• Brochure

• DVD

• E-newsletters

• Press releases

• Speaking opportunities and CASA stand at 15 conferences related to Ambient Assisted

Living: AAL forum (Eindhoven); EIP AHA: opportunity for regions (minister

Vandeurzen, Flanders – Open Days);…

• 1 final conference in Brussels – October 2014

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c. Secondments

• “mini study visits” – tailor-made to specific requests of experts

Planned:

• 7th – 9th May 2014 – 9 experts elderly care (KCC/NHS)

• 12th – 14th May 2014 – 2 experts from Digital Health Institute (Scotland)

Past:

• Polish secondees: 24th – 27th March 2014 – 4 experts

• Topic: “design and innovation/creative solutions in health care”

Some impressions…

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d. Final conference

• 7th October 2014 – Brussels (location to be confirmed) > week of Open Days 2014

• Joint final event of 2 INTERREG IVC-projects: CASA and INNOVAge

• Working title of final conference:

“Creating unity out of diversity: sustaining lessons learnt in Active Ageing”

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Thank youFabian Dominguez

Social Affairs and Public Health attaché

Permanent Representation of Belgium to the European Union

P.A.: Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family Affairs

Staff of the Secretary-General

Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 30

BE-1030 Brussels

Fabian.dominguez@wvg.vlaanderen.be