Track C – AAL and the economy

AAL and the economy – economic aspects of AAL solutions – economic growth through new ideas, a new branch and new solutions.

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The AAL Joint Programme has been initiated by the EU and 23 European countries 6 years ago and has financed so far 131 R&D&I projects with a supporting sum of approximately Euro 250 Mio. At the time when the AAL JP was launched the AAL market was hardly recognizable in Europe. Has this changed since then? Has the AAL JP made a measureable impact on the European market and if what factors promoted this? These and other questions will lead the track “AAL and the economy”.

C1: What does the AAL market offer today – an issue for SMEs
The AAL JP wants to involve as many European SMEs as possible in its programme. Is there a European AAL Market for SMEs? Could an AAL market emerge in Europe without an AAL JP programme? All these questions and more, we like to discuss during this session.
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C2: Successful AAL businesses
The session will offer a new and hopefully inspiring perspective for AAL projects, businesses and application oriented researchers and enable them to conquer this immature but growing market.
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C3: Financing AAL solutions – sources and success stories
The AAL JP finances 141 R&D projects so far. Have SMEs which are partners in the consortia the financial power to establish an AAL solution on the market? Are there private and/or public funds available to support the industrialisation? These questions and more will be discussed during this session.
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C4: AAL2Business
In this session, the AAL JP presents the scope of the 2013-2016 AAL2Business support action and the opportunities and services available to AAL JP projects. You will learn about the AAL2Business consortium and support available to AAL JP projects.
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C5: AAL Robotics Forum
The forum will address issues of Ambient Assistive Robotics mainstreaming
and integration and particularly how the European Community could best motivate support for such mainstreaming and the establishment of a thriving Assistive Robotics sector through Innovation Management policies.
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C6: Large-scale roll-out
This session will be organised as an AAL Large scale pilot forum by exchanging experience on running a large scale pilot. The main goal is to discuss the obstacles and problems and to generalize the needs large scale pilots have at the moment.
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