"Europe is currently facing a significant aging of its population, and in the various countries this situation will be a real challenge by 2040. This demographic position poses real challenges to the population in general and more specifically to providers of support solutions for the older people, of which we are a part. The current ""weight"" represented by the challenges linked to aging must be converted into opportunities for improvement in social, medical / care, technological and economic terms. We must adapt our various support offers, either it is accommodation and care or either home care support, with also alternative solutions. The tendency to support more and more at home (even for very dependent older people) has started in many European countries and will accelerate in the coming years, with the challenge of responding to the challenge of supporting carers. Our organizations in Europe are working more and more to find the best possible balance, from the accommodation solution with care to home support according to the needs and expectations of the older people. Despite this tendency towards home support, we now know that this solution, although favored, cannot be the only solution, and that society will have to offer a range of services corresponding to the needs and expectations of the older population and their families.This is why we wish to set up exchanges of professional practices to allow our professionals to open up to new, innovative practices and methods, which can be a source of inspiration to improve or strengthen support models existing in our countries.The objectives of this project are therefore to support professionals in the evolution of their professional practices by exchanging practices, to promote the evolution of our organizations for the production of innovative solutions, and to structure transnational interactions and initiate cooperation with other European countries.This project brings together 5 organizations from 5 European countries (France, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia), and 15 professionals brought to exchange their practices during training events planned in France in February 2021 and in Italy in October 2021.This project is therefore structured around 2 training events, which will be the key moments of the project, including the presentation of support systems in the different partner countries, innovative or specific actions or methods developed more particularly in France and Italy , the 2 host countries for training events. The other partners will also have to present the specific projects or methods, current or in development in their country. Visits of organisations will also be planned.To carry out these training events, the referents (who will be present at transnational meetings) will have online meetings with the coordinator every month in order to define the programme of training events and monitor project actions.The results of the project are mainly the exchange of practices during training events, which will be formalized by a guide of professional practices in Europe concerning support for the older people.This project will be the subject of an important communication within the local networks but also more widely on a European scale, in particular thanks to the EAN network which is partner of the project. This project is a great opportunity to take the necessary time to discuss our professional practices, and initiate the development of new support offers based on European best practices."

The lack of ICT platforms based on open standards is regarded as one of the most significant market barriers to the creation of new care & assistance paradigms with global interconnection and interworking. UNCAP delivers an interoperable platform based on open industrial standards that leverages on existing technologies for biosensing, indoor/outdoor localisation and home-automation. The result is an open source, scalable and privacy-savvy ecosystem compatible with existing Personal Health Record systems, that can deliver novel services that can help aging people (incl. those with cognitive impairments) live independently and with dignity. To do so, UNCAP uses state-of-art physical/cognitive assessment tools together with technologies to locate objects, devices and users within indoor/outdoor spaces, to continuously monitor–in a non-invasive way- users and to assist them in case alert conditions are detected. In practice, UNCAP develops a product suite for formal and informal care environments made of: 1) the UNCAP BOX (an Android consumer device connected to TVs); 2) the UNCAP App for both users and caregivers; 3) the UNCAP CLOUD, delivering scalable care services; 4) the UNCAP certification suite, to help software and hardware manufacturers assess compliancy with standards. UNCAP will be assessed for 12 months in 14 pilots within real operational scenarios. Pilots will be located in rehabilitation centres, daily nursing facilities etc. and will involve 750+ users and 220 caregivers. Users’ physical & cognitive assessment will be carried on before and after the introduction of UNCAP to extract quantifiable metrics to assess its impact in terms of quality of care services and improved quality of life of users and caregivers. Lastly, UNCA will carry on a RoI analysis (both financial & social), an analysis of best practices of innovative organisational/business models as well as financing/procurement models for health & care service delivery at EU level.