CASA Regions for Smart Living
Fabian Dominguez CASA Lead Partner 7th October 2014
CASA • CASA (Consortium for Assistive Solutions Adoption) is funded under the 4th call of the INTERREG IVC programme, approved in January 2012 (end Dec. 2014): www.casa-europe.eu • INTERREG IVC Programme is part of the European Territorial Cooperation
Objective of the Structural Fund policies 2007-2013 • 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”
CASA • The CASA partners are intending to work under the umbrella of the CORAL forum (Community Of Regions for Ambient Assisted Living): ¾ currently an informal community group with the aim to feed back good practices from the study visits
¾ exchange of experiences to influence future Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) policies at European level ¾ www.coral-europe.eu
CASA 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
14 partners:
CASA 2. Partners
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Government of Flanders – Lead Partner (BE)
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Province of Noord-Brabant (NL)
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Kent County Council (UK)
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South East Technologies Alliance (UK)
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Veneto Region (IT)
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Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT)
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Scotland (UK)
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Southern Denmark (DK)
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Region Wielkopolska (PL)
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Catalonia (ES)
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Timis County (RO)
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Andalucia (ES)
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East-Sweden (SE)
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Region Halland (SE)
CASA 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
CASA 4. CASA: deliverables • Events and seminars to provide opportunities for demonstrating and sharing Best Practice Guide
good practices amongst the partnership: 10 study visits 13 local dissemination events
speaker @ conferences (e.g. Open Days) 2 Knowledge Transfer Conferences Transfer Task Force
28 staff secondments
regional SWOT analysis
regional implementation plans
final ministerial conference in Brussel
CASA a. Study visits (2 days): • Noord-Brabant: 'Social interaction’ – (following AAL forum in Eindhoven) • Cataluñia: ‘Healthy lifestyle and rehabilitation ICT’ • Kent: ‘Monitoring, safety and self management’
• 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)
CASA • Flanders: ‘Mobility and liveability/integrated regional policy business and knowledge development’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7aD_jynLQ) • Scotland: ‘Telehealth and Telecare’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQER0aW2UzU) • Sweden: ‘User driven innovation through public/private partnership’
CASA b. Communication • 1 joint web site • E-newsletters
• Press releases • Speaking opportunities nities and CASA stand and d at at 15 15 conferences confe ences related to Ambient Assisted Living: AAL forum (Eindhoven, Bucharest,…); (Eindh ven, Bucharest, …); EIP AHA; Open Days;
DAA final conference,… • 1 final conference in Brussels
CASA c. Local Dissemination Events • At least 1 per partner • Meant to inform local stakeholders in own region on CASA activities • Participants: quadruple helix
CASA d. Secondments • “mini study visit” – tailor-made to specific requests of experts from partner regions
¾ To Flanders • Wielkopolska: 24th – 27th March 2014 – 4 experts • Kent County Council: 7th – 9th May 2014 – 9 experts
• Scotland: 12th – 14th May 2014 – 2 experts • Cataluña: 28th – 29th October 2014 – 8 experts
Thank you Fabian Dominguez Social Affairs and Public Health attachĂŠ
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