Businesses of the future should harness the skills and assets of all generations to enable people to work together and thrive through enterprise. This year's Smart Ageing Prize will reward solutions that support, empower and inspire older adults to engage in entrepreneurship, for example through the creation of intergenerational teams and skills-sharing, or digital solutions to help bring to life the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the 60+ age group.
This Erasmus+ call will support projects that either:
These projects should help build up the capacity of Adult Education providers to implement European policy on adult learning at national and regional levels.
Proposals should foster European cooperation between different providers (and relevant stakeholders) on either:
a) Specific themes in adult learning, or
b) Specific innovative pedagogical approaches in adult learning, or
c) Specific adult education learner groups, or
d) Specific organisational management themes, or
e) Specific models of Adult Education, or
f) Adult education generally.
An online information session is planned for 15 November.
More details available on the page of the call
Proposals under that call should develop and validate new solutions leading to smart living environments for ageing people, supporting independent active and healthy lifestyles. The proposed research and innovation action should be in collaboration with parties from Japan or Canada.
This Programme Guide is a tool for anybody who would like to have a thorough knowledge of what the Erasmus+ Programme is about. Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.
The Access City Award is an annual EU contest aimed to recognize and support the effort of cities to be more accessible to people with disability and older persons. European cities of more 50,000 inhabitants can submit their activities and projects until 11 September 2019.
More details on the European Commission's website
As part of the European Partnership on Active and Halthy Ageing (EIP AHA), the European Commission has launched its 3rd Call for Reference Sites. The Call aims to provide regions and areas across Europe with the opportunity to identify and explore proven examples of innovation and become exemplars of good policy and practice related to active and healthy ageing.
For more information about the Call and on how to apply, please visit this page
Launch of the 2019 European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA) Call for Twinnings Support Scheme. The objective is to facilitate the deployment of large-scale innovative digitally-enabled solutions for health and care delivery for older adults. The scheme targets regional organisations that actively participate in the EIP on AHA that have made Individual Commitments or Collaborative Commitments to the EIP on AHA. They should also hold Reference Site status.
More information onthis call on EIP AHA website
The objective of this call is to enlarge the ACTIVAGE ecosystem with mature deployment sites from cities / regions, providing Internet of Things - based services to their citizens.
The aim of the call is to support innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects for active living, such as in work & training, for vitality & abilities, in leisure & culture, for information & communication, as well as for Assisted Living, such as in health & care, living & building, mobility & transport, safety & security.
The Access City Award is a European award recognising cities that have worked to become more accessible for their citizens.The Access City Award is open to
For the Access City Award 2019, cities with fewer than 50 000 inhabitants may participate in one category of the special cultural heritage awards.
The objective of ACTIVAGE open call is to implement and deploy mature Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using the current European deployment sites’ IoT ecosystem for testing, demonstration and initial market take-up.
The call targets European SMEs, Mid-Caps and Start-ups legally registered in a member state of the European Union or in a Horizon 2020 associated country.
Budget: 600.000€, with a maximum of 10 projects funded.
The WHO Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities, in collaboration with Grantmakers In Aging, have launched Innovation@Home, a competition and a call for age-friendly housing practices that foster healthy and active ageing and can inspire action around the world.
Visit this page for more details
This call for projects is launched by the Croatian Foundation Zajednički put, a non-profit organization - and a member of AGE - dedicated to developing, advocating for and implementing a decent, quality, safe and active life, adapted to the needs and abilities of each individual senior citizen. It aims to support the best sustainable model that will connect individuals with older persons in need of companionship and support for daily practical activities (shopping, medical appointments, bill payment) as well as emotional support. Preference will be given to solutions that include mentoring of the caring process and a preselection process for both parts ('helpers' and senior citizens).
A EU-funded grant of €30,000 will be offered to implement the selected innovative solution.
You will find more information on this call on the Foundation's website and on the Socialchallenges.eu innovation platform.
For further questions you can also contact Lea Banović at lea@zajednickiput.hr
The foundation's Challenge will be presented on 22nd February 2018 at 10:00 at the Educational and Research Center of the Foundation Zajednički put in Zvonimirova 17, 2nd floor.
This can be followed live webstreamed following this click (operational at the time of the event).
This new social innovation call for proposals aims at supporting governmental and non-governmental actors as well as social partners in delivering on the rights and principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights with regard to reconciling work and private life. It aims also at funding projects to develop, test, and implement innovative work-life balance strategies in the workplace. The purpose of these strategies is to facilitate the reconciliation of work and private life through supporting a more equal share of care responsibilities between working women and men, thereby encouraging a higher participation of women in the labour market.
The budget earmarked is estimated at € 10.000.000 and the European Commission expects to fund 5-7 proposals.
Further details and the submission form can be found here
Socialchallenges.eu Innovation Platform (SCHIP) is an EU funded initiative aimed to encourage interactions between the different stakeholders for the co-development of social innovation solutions addressing current societal challenges.
Coordinated by META Group (Italy), together with the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) and Impact Hub, this platform tests a novel approach in the selection of solutions that are demand driven and user centered. It supports the commitment of public authorities, private companies and third sector organisations in defining, prioritising social and environmental challenges, and uploading them onto the platform. It will next encourage the participation of social innovators, startups and SMEs to identify, fund, co-develop and test concrete solutions to these needs.
27 challenges will be chosen and, for each challenge, 3 ‘semi-finalists’ will be selected.
The 2018 calls will be launched as of 15 January 2018.
Rea more on the Platform website
The Smart Ageing Prize is a competition that aims to identify the most promising solutions in Europe using information and communication technologies for active ageing and its main theme. This year's topic is ‘products and services that use innovative digital technologies to support older people to participate fully in social life’.
More information on the AAL website
This call aims at supporting the management of health and wellbeing while empowering the participation of citizens and facilitating the transformation of health and care services to more digitised, person-centred and community-based care models, thereby enabling better access to healthcare and the sustainability of health and care systems.
It includes two calls - with 14 November 2018 as a deadline - on related to:
With a budget of approximately 2 billion EUR, the Work Programme Societal Challenge 1 'Health, Demographic Change & Wellbeing'(2018-2020) will invest in seven strategic research priorities, including topics such as personalised medicine, digital transformation in health and care and cybersecurity in health and care.
List of topics of the different calls with 24 April 2018 as a deadline:
Visit this page for more details
The Smart Ageing Prize, focused on Digital inclusion in social life, will award the best idea making use of innovative digital technologies to engage older adults in social and stimulating activities, promoting an active and connected ageing.
After a first selection, 15 finalists will be invited for an Academy event in Brussels in May where they will pitch their idea in front of a pool of judges and experts. The event will be an occasion for these finalists to develop/improve the business idea behind, as well as the marketing and end users involvement strategy, through the support provided by external experts. The 15 finalists will have to submit a full application form after this event.
5 top finalists will be then selected by the judging pool and invited to participate in the 2018 AAL Forum, where the winners will be communicated.
More information at: http://aal.challenges.org
The purpose of the contest is to develop innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for older people (65+). The prize will be awarded to the entry that demonstrates the best solution (which is at least a prototype solution demonstrated in an operational environment during an implementation period of at least 5 months) to the challenge while meeting the award criteria: Measurability, Social impact, Economic impact, Community engagement, Scalability and replicability, Sustainability, Originality and creativity.
Click here for more details on this prize
The overall objective of the Silver Economy Awards is to highlight the potential that a growing older population can generate for entrepreneurs, investors, public authorities and civil society through the development of innovative solutions responding to these opportunities.
Therefore the awards will reward products and services which use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of life of Europeans aged over 50 in three categories:
All applicants will benefit from online publication on the Silver Economy website and winners and finalists will be invited to showcase their product or service at a high-level Award Ceremony in May 2018. The winning solutions will be further promoted by the European Covenant on Demographic Change, the European Commission and the SEED partners in the media, on websites, in newsletters and through other promotional material.
SocialChallenges.eu is calling for scalable solutions able to meet social and environmental challenges. A grant and a mentoring programme is offered.
A project funded by Horizon 2020 Social Challenges Innovation Platform is a European online ecosystem encouraging the interaction between social innovators and SMEs for the co-development and take up of sustainable and marketable innovations with a clear social impact. Do not confuse "social challenges" with the "societal challenges adressed by the programme Horizon 2020.
The specific challenge addressed by this topic is to enable SMEs in traditional and new sectors, collaborative economy and creative sectors, cultural heritage and the social economy as well as collaborative public service creation to innovate and grow across traditional boundaries, through new business models and organisational change.
The proposed action is expected to enable diversification of constellations of actors and stakeholders in Research and Innovation processes, a spread of good practices among them, and a transformation in their governance framework. Constellations of actors are already visible in public-private partnerships and open science and open innovation, but now becoming broader and more heterogeneous. This is both about new constellations of existing actors (as in public-private interactions) and new or modified constellations because of new actors joining in.
