CASARegions for Smart Living

Local Dissemination Event – Flanders

Fabian Dominguez

Lead Partner

17th June 2014, Brussels

EPSCO Council meeting

• EPSCO Council meeting on 19th June 2014 in Luxemburg

• Adoption of the Social Protection Committee (SPC) key messages:

• EU citizens of 65 year of age will have less than 50% of remaining life span free

of conditions that can impede normal day-to-day activities

• Risk of LTC increases as of the age of 80. Same goes for multimorbidity

Impact on quality of life ageing population and impact on government spendings

• LTC: 3 major challenges:

• Increasing demand. Next 50 years: +80y people that will require care will triple

• Decrease of number of working people > threat to LTC providers

• Increasing demand will affect the quality of care

EPSCO Council meeting

• Member states will have to evolve from a reactive to a proactive policy:

• Increase the autonomy of their citizens to decrease the demand for care

• Increase efficiency in home and residential care

This can be achieved by support via technical and technological systems:

• Use the full potential of these innovations to keep elderly people longer at

home in a comfortable and safe way

• Necessity of full integration of health and care

• Reponsability for this lies with member states (MS)

• EU can support MS in their policy via stimulating of testing of new solutions; research

and innovation support;… E.g. of EU-tool: EIP AHA

• MS – responsible for LTC – with support of the EU need to learn from each other

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)

• 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”

• Total budget = €2.635.999,32 and co-financed by a grant of €2.002.154,39 ERDF

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• The CASA partners are intending to work under the umbrella of the CORAL forum

(Community Of Regions for Ambient Assisted Living):

currently an informal community group with the aim to feed back good practices

from the study visits

exchange of experiences to influence future Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

policies at European level

www.casa-europe.eu

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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:

CASA partnership = to respond to regions and governmental pressure

faced with increasing pressure on health and social care- Demographic change

- Ageing population

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2. Partners

14 partners:

• Flemish Government – Lead Partner (BE)

• Province of Noord-Brabant (NL)

• Kent County Council (UK)

• South East Technologies Alliance (UK)

• Veneto Region (IT)

• Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT)

• Scotland (UK)

• Southern Denmark (DK)

• Region Wielkopolska (PL)

• Catalonia (ES)

• Timis County (RO)

• Andalucia (ES)

• East-Sweden (SE)

• Region Halland (SE)

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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

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4. CASA: deliverables• Events and seminars to provide opportunities for demonstrating and sharing good

practices amongst the partnership:

10 study visits

speaker @ conferences (e.g. Open Days 2012)

Transfer Task Force

regional SWOT analysis

Best Practice Guide

2 Knowledge Transfer Conferences

13 local dissemination events

regional implementation plans

final ministerial conference in Brussel

28 staff secondments

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• Intention: formalize and ‘legalise’ the inter-regional CASA network for long term

sustainability and open it to a wider European platform

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)

CASA• South Denmark: ‘Telemedecine evaluation model’

• Andalucia: ‘Large scale deployment’

• Veneto: ‘Chronic diseases' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOv2V91xm5M)

• 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’

b. Communication

• 1 joint web site

• 1 policy forum

• Brochure

• DVD

• E-newsletters

• Press releases

• Speaking opportunities and CASA stand at 15 conferences related to Ambient Assisted

Living: AAL forum (Eindhoven); EIP AHA: The Opportunity for regions (minister

Vandeurzen – Open Days);…

• 1 ministerial conference in Brussels (final conference) – October 2014

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c. Secondments

• “mini study visit” – tailor-made to specific requests of experts

• At least 28 secondments (2 per partner)

To Flanders

• Polish secondment: 24th – 27th March 2014 – 4 experts

• Kent County Council: 7th – 9th May 2014 – 9 experts

• Scotland: 12th – 14th May 2014 – 2 experts

Some impressions…

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d. Final conference

• 7th October 2014 – Brussels > week of Open Days 2014

• Joint final event of 2 INTERREG IVC-projects: CASA and INNOVAge (Improvement of the

effectiveness of regional development policies in eco-independent living for the elderly)

• Working title of final conference:

“Creating unity out of diversity: sustaining lessons learnt in Active Ageing”

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Thank youFabian Dominguez

Social Affairs and Public Health attaché

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