March 17, 2016

The AAL Award is one of the main highlights of the forum, in which three projects present their goals and business case in front of a panel of judges and the audience. The award is intended to recognise the most promising project of the AAL Programme. The winner must show that it demonstrates great promise in terms of innovation, a human-centric approach to development, and excellent market potential. The format of the award is conceived in an effort to enable the project’s coordinator and consortium to work with a more market-oriented attitude. The final contest is inspired to the style of the “Dragon’s Den” where each project pitches to convince the panel of evaluators and the audience. Each presenter has five...Read More

  The AAL Smart Ageing Prize webinar was held at 9am yesterday, 16th March, providing an introduction to the competition, an idea of how to enter and what the judges are looking for in the winning entry. The webinar featured presentations from Karina Marcus of AAL, Ovidiu Vermesan of the European IOT Research Cluster and Tris Dyson from Nesta’s Centre for Challenge Prizes. For all those that attended the webinar, we hope you enjoyed it but for anyone who missed it, you can catch up above and find out how you could win €50k with your smart ageing idea. More on the AAL Smart Ageing Prize Challenge Prize Centre website

Kick-starting innovation with a €50,000 challenge prize   It is estimated that by 2020 up to 100 billion devices will be connected to the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT). And that’s just a start as more and more sensors, actuators and microcontrollers are embedded into virtually everything on the planet. At the centre of the IoT, of course, are not things at all, but us – human beings, making use of the applications and services these connections enable. And that’s big business. If we look at the IoT in simple economic terms, research by Gartner predicts that it will generate an estimated $2 trillion in global economic value by 2020. There is little doubt, therefore, that the IoT is...Read More