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Symposium, 18-19 November 2019 Innsbruck

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The Symposium
18th and 19th November 2019 - Innsbruck, “Haus der Begegnung”

  

The symposium was divided into two days. One internal day for recapping the workpackages and results of the project as internal summary of the project that was explicitly for the consortium and special quests from other projects with a similar approach, and a second public day where My-AHA and other projects were presented to a broader audience.

For the 2nd day the symposium language was German. By this a wider audience from the region could attend the symposium and the impact in the area between Austria, Germany and Italy was increased. For the consortium members, who were not able to understand German, an interpreter was hired for simultaneous translation.

The program of the 2nd Day was focused on the presentation of different projects to the area of AHA.

Titles of speeches

  • Health promotion and prevention with technology assistance (Aumayr, Graumann)
  • Resilience and Ageing. Towards a New paradigm of assessment of intervention programs (Ciferri)
  • Smart City meets After WW2 Generation (Sauskojus)
  • Support for Supporters. When care reaches its limits (Haslinger-Baumann)
  • i-evAALution. Safety systems for staying at home (Kofler)
  • Use and interaction concepts with social robots for a healthier life and mental wellbeing (Schmoigl)
  • Technology as curse or blessing (panel discussion)

The speaker

Georg Aumayr, studied Communication, psychology, philosophie and history at the University Vienna. He is head of research at Johanniter in Austria and for Johanniter International. He is member of the My-AHA Consortium.

Gabriele Graumann is CEO of the largest senior organisation in Austria. The “Kuratorium der Wiener Pensionistenhäuser” has 23 retirement homes and about 17.000 people who life there. Additionally they run senior clubs with aprox. 8.000 people across Vienna.

Ludovico Ciferri is consultant for the My-AHA Project. He is working between Italy and Japan in the area of foresight and health engineering.

Julia Sauskojus is engineer for city planning and urban development. She was coordinator of the Viennese Ambient Assisted Living Test region (WAALTeR)

Prof.Dr. Elisabeth Haslinger-Baumann is Prof at the University of applied science in Vienna for health professions and development. She is expert in evidence based nursing and coordinator of the project 24hQuAALity for supporting informal caregiver to keep seniors under the best conditions in their apartments.

Manfred Kofler is working at the University Innsbruck at the School of Management. He is coordinator of the project i-evAALution, where the technical development of a smart home solution shall increase the quality of life of people.

Mathias Schmoigl is researcher at Salzburg Research, a extra university institution for applied science. He is expert for social robotics and works in the project RoboGen for the acceptance of social robotics by seniors.

 

Participating Projects

For the Symposium, it was envisaged to deliver the findings and experiences from My-AHA to the scientific community and to bring the topic of AHA closer to a broader audience.

A number of international projects that were related to the topic of AHA were invited. Criteria for the invitation were:

  • International trial set up
  • Randomized controlled trial
  • Target group of seniors
  • Use of technology for enhancing QoL

A project fulfilling at least two criteria have been invited to the Symposium. The fastest responses from addressed projects came from following projects, that participated as well:

WAALTeR – Viennese Testregion for Ambient Assisted Living. Funded by the Federal Ministery of Traffic, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Funding Agency under the benefit Program.

24hQuAALity –Support for Supporter. AAL Solutions for a home care staff to increase the quality of 24h support staff.
Funded by the Federal Ministery of Traffic, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Funding Agency under the benefit Program.

i-evAALution – smart home based system for preventing falls and increase technological inclusion for seniors.
Funded by the AAL Joint Program and the national funding agencies across EU.

RoboGen – Testing acceptance of social robots for seniors.
Funded by the Funded by the Federal Ministery of Traffic, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Funding Agency under the FemTECH Program.

CaruCares – Voiced based user interaction for care staff at the point of care.
Funded by the AAL Joint Program and the national funding agencies across EU.