Program Ambient Assisted Living

Ambient Assisted Living
Joint Programme
Anna Ostapczuk
National Centre for Research and Development
http://www.aal-europe.eu/
Ambient Assisted Living
Joint Programme
• New funding programme for Europe
– 2008 – 2013,
total volume ~ 600 M€
of which 50% public funding, 50% private funding
– Member state driven programme
– EC participation based on article 169 of the EC treaty
• Status and outlook
– Launch of first call for proposals in April 2008
– Formal adoption by Council and Parliament in June 2008
– Presentation of AAL WP 2009 at ICT2008 event in November in Lyon
– Launch of first projects – end of 2008 / early 2009
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Programme implementation
• Implementation by AAL Association (Brussels) and the
participating national programmes
– 1-2 calls for proposals per year
– Central evaluation process, national funding contract
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Website
www.aal-europe.eu
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Objectives
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Enhance quality of life of elderly people
Use of ICT-Products, -services and -systems
At home, in the community, at work
Strengthening the industrial base in Europe
– Improve SME participation
– Improve industrial exploitation
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Boost R&D&I activities at EU level
Ensure compatibility with different European regions,
cultures and regulatory framework
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AAL Partner States today
20 EU states
3 non EU states
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COUNTRY
Yearly indicative funding
amount in Mio. €
Austria
2.5
Belgium
1.0
Cyprus
0.5
Denmark
0.5
Finland
2.5
France
3.0
Germany
5.0
Greece
1.5
Hungary
2.5
Ireland
0.5
Israel
1.0
Italy
2.5
Luxembourg
0.6
Norway
0.2
Netherlands
1.9
Poland
0.5
Portugal
0.5
Romania
0.2
Slovenia
0.2
Spain
4.4
Sweden
0.5
Switzerland
2.0
United Kingdom
1.1
23 countries
35.6 Mio. €
Status of Commitments
Total volume of ~ 700 Mio. €
including industrial co-funding
For the intended
6 years duration: ~ 360 Mio. € public funds
Total “public” budget
~ 60 Mio. € per year
Co-funding of EC on
the legal basis of article
169 (max. 25 Mio. €
per year)
AAL thematic areas
… are the basis for the AAL Calls for Proposals
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General participation rules
• Centralized electronic submission of proposals, evaluation
and project selection
– Complete electronic submission in time, in English
– Eligibility of an individual partner for funding depends on the
national eligibility rules – published with the call
– Evaluation by independent European experts
– Evaluation criteria are published in the Work Programme
• Collaborative projects
– At least 3 independent legal entities, from at least three different
AAL Partner States involved in a the specific call for proposals.
– The partners form a project consortium, one partner acts as the
coordinator
– Selected projects will need to conclude a consortium agreement
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Funding decisions for the
selected AAL projects
• Partners in successful project proposals will have the grant agreement
with their national Programme Management Agency
(IN POLAND – Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju/NCBiR)
– Funding levels, conditions, reporting, eligible costs, audit etc.
according to the national rules
– > http://www.aal-europe.eu/aal-2008-1-contacts
– Required complementary information to be submitted to the national
agency (e.g. financial information)
– Financial viability check by the national agency
– No evaluation of the contents of the proposal at the national agency
– Streamlined process ensuring a common start date
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AAL Calls for proposals
2008
2009
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1st AAL call for proposals
Implementation of AAL Call: AAL-2008-1
• Date of publication: 25 April 2008
• Closure date: 21 August 2008, at 17:00:00, (Brussels local time)
• Proposal selection: November 2008
• Indicative total funding: 57.7 M€
• Collaborative projects only
• Call topic: ICT based solutions for prevention and
management of chronic conditions of elderly people
http://www.aal-europe.eu/aal-2008-1
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Call topic
ICT based solutions for prevention and management of chronic
conditions of elderly people
• Solutions for elderly persons with identified risk factors and/or
chronic conditions
• Aiming at solutions centred on the elderly person (not the
professional or an organisation), including citizen empowerment and
peer support
• Focused but not restricted to home environment, also solutions
within the community and when travelling can be proposed
• Focusing on solutions that keep the individual out of the long-term
care and hospitals.
• Objective is to enhance the individual’s autonomy, independence
and quality of life
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Challenges to address
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Prevention – how to efficiently turn detecting individual risk factors into active
prevention?
– Motivation of the individual to reducing lifestyle related risks
– Changing payer – provider relationships during course of life (work – pension –
very old age)
– Evidence on the effectiveness to public health and productivity of healthcare
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Management – how to optimally define and execute management of the individual’s
chronic condition?
– Co-morbidity and dynamics of the individual condition
– Medical and non-medical (practical, social, economic, ethical, motivation) aspects
– Empowered patient with professional and peer support
– Minimally intrusive, practical and integrated solutions when applying technology
– Integration of supporting services – both “front office” and “back office”
capabilities
– Socio-economic environment – evidence of increased productivity of healthcare
systems
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Eligibility criteria –
collaborative projects
1.Timely submission as specified in this specific Call for Proposals
2. Submission of a complete proposal through the AAL electronic
submission system (proposal template available:
http://www.aal-europe.eu/aal-2008-1)
3. English as the language for the proposal
4. Consortium composition of at least 3 independent organizations
(legal entities) from at least 3 different AAL Partner States
participating in this specific Call for Proposals
- including at least one market oriented business partner
- including at least one SME partner (this can be the market
oriented business partner)
- including at least one end user partner organization (see below for
definition of end users in AAL Joint Programme)
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Eligibility criteria –
collaborative projects
The last but very important:
5. Compliance of the consortium members to the specific national
eligibility rules found at www.aal-europe.eu/AAL-2008-1
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National eligibility rules
applied in POLAND
Do konkursu mogą przystąpić jednostki naukowe, czyli prowadzące w
sposób ciągły badania naukowe lub prace rozwojowe oraz
posiadające osobowość prawną i siedzibę w Polsce:
- podstawowe jednostki organizacyjne uczelni w rozumieniu
statutów tych uczelni,
- placówki naukowe Polskiej Akademii Nauk;
- jednostki badawczo-rozwojowe;
- międzynarodowe instytuty naukowe utworzone na podstawie
odrębnych przepisów (w szczególności na podstawie ustawy
o PAN);
- jednostki organizacyjne posiadające status jednostki badawczorozwojowej,
- Polska Akademia Umiejętności;
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National eligibility rules
applied in POLAND
- inne jednostki organizacyjne, posiadające osobowość prawną i
siedzibę w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, w tym przedsiębiorcy
posiadający status centrum badawczo - rozwojowego nadawany na
podstawie ustawy z dnia 29 lipca 2005 r. o niektórych formach
wspierania działalności innowacyjnej (Dz. U. Nr 179, poz. 1484).
Jednostka taka moŜe w dowolny sposób udowodnić, Ŝe prowadzi w sposób
ciągły badania naukowe lub prace rozwojowe:
wymóg ciągłości prowadzenia badań naukowych lub prac rozwojowych
będzie uznany za spełniony jeśliwy kazane zostanie, Ŝe w ciągu ostatniego
roku obrotowego
- minimum 10% przychodów przedsiębiorcy zostało przeznaczone na
prace B+R i/lub
- 10% ekwiwalentu pełnego czasu pracy było przeznaczone na
prowadzenie prac B+R.
Przy spełnionym powyŜszym kryterium do konkursu mogą przystąpić małe i
średnie (MSP) oraz duŜe przedsiębiorstwa.
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National eligibility rules
applied in POLAND
Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju dofinansowuje projekty polskich
podmiotów w ramach Programu AAL na podstawie ustawy z dnia 8
października 2004 r. o zasadach finansowania nauki (Dz. U. Nr 238, poz. 2390, z późn.
zm.)), ustawy z dnia 15 czerwca 2007 r. o NCBiR (Dz. U. Nr 115, poz. 789) oraz zlecenia
MNiSW z dnia 31 października 2007 r.
Koszty kwalifikowane:
Personel (wynagrodzenia)
Materiały
Amortyzacja aparatury
PodróŜe słuŜbowe
Podwykonawstwo (uzasadnione)
Koszty pośrednie (narzuty) – 20% ww. kosztów bezpośrednich
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National eligibility rules
applied in POLAND
Dofinansowanie zaleŜne od rodzaju wykonawcy oraz charakteru
realizowanych zadań.
Szkoły wyŜsze, instytuty badawcze (PAN, JBR, etc…)
- do 100 % kosztów kwalifikowanych niezaleŜnie od rodzaju zadań(badania
podstawowe, stosowane, prace rozwojowe).
Inne jednostki organizacyjne prowadzące w sposób ciągły badania (w tym
MŚP i duŜe przedsiębiorstwa prowadzące badania)
- badania podstawowe - do 100 % kosztów kwalifikowanych
- badania stosowane – do 75% kosztów kwalifikowanych
- prace rozwojowe – do 50% kosztów kwalifikowanych
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National eligibility rules
applied in POLAND
Jednym z kryteriów konkursu jest uczestnictwo instytucji (stowarzyszeń
lub organizacji) reprezentujących uŜytkowników końcowych („end
users”)
Uczestnictwo tych organizacji w projektach AAL będzie finansowane
przez NCBiR w wysokości do 50% kosztów kwalifikowanych pod
warunkiem adekwatnego udziału w prawach własności do wyników
badań (nad proponowanym w projekcie rozwiązaniem – nową
technologią /usługą)
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What makes a good AAL
project?
• Close to market approach – activities with a “centre of gravity” on
development
• Integrates users and user needs in the development
• Includes value chain and business analysis
• Results in products, solutions or service concepts that can be
applied widely in Europe
• Uses ICT to solve real life challenges and to enable new and
innovative applications or service concepts
• Indicative upper limit for funding / project in the range of 3 M€ in
collaborative projects
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Evaluation criteria
1. Relevance (3/4)
– Addressing objectives and scope of the call
2. Scientific and technical quality (3/4)
– novelty of expected results beyond state of the art
– technology flexibility allowing for easily adapting common solutions to
meet differing social and organisational needs across Europe
3. Consortium quality (3/4) (weight 2)
– Quality of partners; complementarity; project management
– Work plan organisation; appropriateness of budget; resources to
achieve the goals
– user accpetance studies; realistic prototype
4. Impact (3/4) (weight 2)
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accessability, usability, social relevance
legal and ethical compliance
economic relevance; time-to-market
contribution to open interfaces and interoperability, reference to
standards, norms and regulation within EU
– dissemination plan and targets
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Partner search facility
• An offer of the AAL Association
• New partnering tool at http://ps.aal-europe.eu/
• The tool covers two objectives:
– The upload of an activity profile of the own organisation.
The profile shall describe the capabilities of an organisation to
contribute to the scope of the launched call for proposals.
– The submission of a short project idea in order to find
additional project partners. The uploaded information should
specify the rough project idea, as well as the (current and)
missing expertise required to form a convincing consortium.
• Feedback welcome under http://ps.aal-europe.eu/contact-info
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Thank you ...
and
regularly visit the AAL website for any changes
keep contact with your AAL national contact persons
NCBiR: Anna Ostapczuk
[email protected]
tel: + 48 515 061 542
www.aal-europe.eu