In 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020-2030 the decade of Healthy Ageing. By the end of this decade - in 2030 - the number of people 60 years and older will grow by 56 per cent, from 962 million (2017) to 1.4 billion (2030). By 2050, the global population of older people will be more than double to 2.1 billion.
On 21 July, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI), European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Science Gallery Dublin (SDG) and Thess-AHALL hosted the third two-hour online workshop of the CoRRI Network - First Cycle of Workshops.
SHAPES H2020 project has just circulated the first issue of its newsletter, regarding the latest news of the consortium, activities, events and some very first outcomes of the 1st Dialogue Workshop, held online, last May. Within the pages of this issue, you can also find a short presentation of the technology that will be exploited in the framework of SHAPES, including the AUTH Medical Physics Lab ICT platform for physical and mental excericise for older adults, the LLM Care.
Over the past 2 years, the EU-funded project SISCODE has been exploring the application of co-creation methodologies in policy design to bridge the gap between science, society and innovation. The project has two differentiated lines of research. On the one hand, through a pan-European wide study, cocreation ecosystems have been compared and contrasted to gain a better understanding of the dynamics within them and the outcomes they generate. On the other hand, 10 co-creation labs, are studying co-creation in real-life contexts.
On 14 July, Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI), European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), TU Dortmund University (TUDO), Science Gallery Dublin (SDG) and Thess-AHALL (AUTH partner) hosted the second two-hour online workshop of the CoRRI Network - First Cycle of Workshops.
Στο πλαίσιο του εορτασμού της «Παγκόσμιας Ημέρας κατά του καπνίσματος», η οποία με απόφαση που έλαβε ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας το 1988, γιορτάζεται κάθε χρόνο στις 31 Μαΐου, το Εργαστήριο Ιατρικής Φυσικής του Τμήματος Ιατρικής του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ) στέλνει το δικό του μήνυμα για τη διακοπή του καπνίσματος, έχοντας τον ρόλο του Συντονιστή του Ευρωπαϊκού Προγράμματος “SmokeFreeBrain” (Horizon2020) που ολοκληρώθηκε με επιτυχία πριν ένα περίπου χρόνο.
A new book on Neurotechnology: Methods, advances and applications (ISBN: 978-1-78561-813-0), co-edited by Dr. Alkinoos Athanasiou, who is post-doctoral researcher at the Medical Physics Laboratory, will be published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and will be available this summer.
In order to limit the spread of Covid-19 it is essential that certain measures are needed to alleviate the burden from public health structures, including reference hospitals. The most significant one is to reduce Emergency Department overcrowding, minimizing waiting time of suspicious incidents and increase in-hospital safety of healthcare staff.
We are pleased to announce that the official website of SHAPES project is now Live at http://shapes2020.eu !!! Find out more information about our actions on active and health ageing.
SHAPES (Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems) is a project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme and involves 36 partners from 14 countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
