EDGE is one of the thirty-six partners that will be developing the European project SHAPES - Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems awarded a grant under the European Horizon 2020 programme. Throughout 48 months, the SHAPES project aims to create the first European open ecosystem for the deployment in large-scale of multiple digital solutions that support and extend the independent and autonomous living of older individuals that experience temporarily or permanently reduced functions and capabilities.
With an investment of more than 21 million euro, SHAPES will be an interoperable platform that gathers the needs of older individuals and a panoply of digital solutions that support autonomous and independent living, namely in home environments, contributing thus to improve the quality of older of older individuals, their families and their caregivers and, at the same time, promoting the sustainability of healthcare systems across Europe. A multidisciplinary approach will allow the validation of the SHAPES Platform through a large-scale pilot campaign involving more than two thousand older individuals in 15 pilot sites located in 10 EU Member States.
EDGE is one of SHAPES's technological partners and presents its experience with the eCare Ambient Assisted Living Platform to create the different intelligent ambiences fostered by SHAPES to promote independent living and higher quality of life standards for older individuals.
The SHAPES Consortium encompasses 36 organisations from 14 European countries, under the coordination of the National University of Ireland Maynooth and including as Portuguese partners EDGENEERING (EDGE), the Aveiro University and the Porto University. The other consortium entities are Access Earth, AGE Platform Europe, the Italian Assistance Association of Bologna, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Carus Consilium Sachsen, Clinica Humana, the Europan Union of the Deaf, the University Hospital of Olomouc, the Fraunhofer Institute, Future Intelligence, Gnomon Informatics, gewi - the Health Institute for the Health Region Cologne-Bonn, Intracom, Kompai Robotics, LAUREA University, MedicalSyn, the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Omnitor, the Social Institute of Health of the Olomouc University, PAL Robotics, the 5th Regional Health Authority of Central Greece, the Senior Residence El Salvador, the Agile Ageing Association, Science For You, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Tree Technology, the Univeristy Castilla La Mancha, Cork University, the Foundation of the Nicosia University, Ulster University, VICOMTech and the World Federation of the Deafblind.