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BRAID Vision
By 2020, European policy,
practice and R&D will
be directed towards the
promotion of healthy ageing
and empowering all citizens
(particularly those who fall
into vulnerable groups) to age
with dignity. This enabling
environment will be achieved
by the pursuit of smart,
sustainable and inclusive
growth in the area of ICT,
complemented and supported
by societal, organisational,
economic and regulatory
development.
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Foreword
Bridging Research in Ageing and Information
and Communication Technology Development
(BRAID) seeks to unleash the potential of
technology as a vehicle to enable people to
achieve their full capacity. To this end, BRAID
has engaged with key stakeholders to develop
a comprehensive Research and Technological
Development (RTD) Roadmap for Ageing.
BRAID characterises key research challenges,
and identifies strategic actions related to
Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) development and policy aimed at
supporting people to age well and with
dignity. The work was carried out in three
phases. In phase one, stakeholders and an
expert advisory group were identified and a
‘state of the art’ review of existing concepts
and technologies, including a comprehensive
taxonomy on ICT and Ageing technologies,
was carried out. Phase two focused on
stakeholder co-ordination and development
of the BRAID vision and roadmap, while the
final phase was devoted primarily to the
dissemination of results.
The BRAID vision and roadmap are focused
on four life settings that were developed in
consultation with key stakeholders, namely
independent living, health and care in life,
occupation in life, and recreation in life. Five
stakeholder engagement workshops involving
older people, policy makers and international
experts were held in Spain, Italy, Denmark,
Ireland and Hungary. The work was also
informed by participants at a BRAID workshop
in Melbourne and delegates at a conference in
São Paolo.
The members of the BRAID consortium are a rich
eclectic mix of people from different disciplines,
sectors and countries: Queen’s University Belfast;
Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship;
Trilateral Research & Consulting; Global Security
Intelligence Ltd; University of Tasmania; Instituto
de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias;
Universiteit van Amsterdam; Netwell Centre,
Dundalk Institute of Technology; and VDI/VDE
Innovation + Technik Gmbh.
This document reports on the operational
results of the project and includes details of the
BRAID taxonomy, stakeholder co-ordination
mechanism and engagement, the vision and the
roadmap and its implementation. The results are
synthesised into key recommendations to guide
future European Commission research on ICT for
active ageing.
Dr Karim Hadjri
BRAID Project Co-ordinator
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Introduction
The growth of research and development in
the area of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) and Ageing has highlighted
the potential of ICT to provide tools that can
enhance quality of life for older people. If
ICT is to achieve its full potential in enhancing
the capabilities of citizens across Europe to
age actively and with dignity, research and
technological development in the area must
be supported by a coherent and strategic
research plan.
The BRAID roadmap consolidates the various
existing perspectives, plans, roadmaps and
research and provides direction on the co-
ordination of the stakeholders in ICT and
Ageing. It draws on published research
and stakeholder networks to create a self-
sustaining, dynamic strategic mechanism for
overcoming the fragmentation that has plagued
e-inclusion and for improving co-ordination and
collaboration among stakeholders. BRAID builds
upon the experience and knowledge developed
in previous EU projects, while taking account
of e-inclusion efforts in the EU27 as well as
Australia, Canada, Japan and the US. The
BRAID consortium is made up of representatives
of the four FP7 ICT and Ageing roadmap
consortia (AALIANCE, CAPSIL, ePAL, SENIOR)
and gathers together EU excellence in the field
of ICT and Ageing.
BRAID objectives are:
1 To create a dynamic ICT and Ageing roadmap
that addresses older people’s needs not
otherwise well met.
2 To instantiate a strategic research agenda.
3 To expand the BRAID networks to build a self-
sustaining co-ordination mechanism.
Context
BRAID is informed by the work of the European
Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy
Ageing (EIP), key EU strategies including Europe
2020 and The European Commission’s Digital
Agenda for Europe (DAE). It complements
FUTURAGE by identifying how the contribution
of ICT to the ‘ageing well’ agenda can be
enhanced.
Braid Trends & Drivers
Technological: infrastructure and
network developments, ambient and
assistive technologies, supporting
tools and environments to cope with
technological advances
Societal: demography, new mechanisms
for social cohesion, ethics and protecting
societal values
Organisational: organized social
systems, training and professional activity
support and organised social associations
Economic: addressing care services, new
business aspects and models, business
value system and support service for
occupational involvement
Regulatory: policies and regulations
related to employment policies and
protection of individual rights, set by the
EU, national and regional organs.
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The BRAID roadmap has been developed within
the context of the opportunities and challenges
inherent in the demographic transition. The
roadmap seeks to use ICT to enable seniors
across the region to achieve their full potential,
by mobilising their legacy and supporting
them to age with dignity in an inclusive
society. Migratory patterns within Europe
have resulted in movement (of largely young
people) from rural to urban areas and to more
affluent member states. This movement has
resulted in a reduction of traditional extended
family structures and community cohesion,
and has been associated with a growth in the
perception of isolation and loneliness, especially
amongst older people. At the same time, birth
rates have been decreasing across the region
for many years. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
for EU27 is currently 1.59 and France is the
only country in the region with a TFR above 2.
The decrease in TFRs has been paralleled by an
increase in life expectancy and as a result the
proportion of people in the population aged
65 years and older is rapidly increasing. In the
past half-century, life expectancy at birth for
citizens in the EU27 has increased by 10 years.
This wonderful achievement is a product of
improvements in environment, reduction in
infant mortality and advances in health care.
It is not, however, a time to be complacent:
behind the crude indicators of life expectancy
there lies a picture of inequality and non-
random distribution of poor health amongst
socially excluded groups.
A significant step towards more equitable
health outcomes is found in the target recently
set for an increase in healthy life years (HLY).
HLY at birth for men and women in the region
are 61.7 years and 62.6 years respectively. In
February 2011, the first European Innovation
Partnership (EIP) on Active and Healthy Ageing
was launched with the goal of an increase of
two years of healthy life in the EU by 2020.
BRAID responds to this challenge by taking
cognisance of the broader determinants
of health and considering the impact and
contribution of ICT to active and healthy ageing
within four life settings: independent living,
healthy and care in life, occupation in life and
recreation in life.
The Digital Agenda Europe (DAE) is a ten-
year strategy that aims to maximise the social
and economic potential of ICT to create a
sustainable and inclusive Europe. The ultimate
goal is to use ICT to enhance quality of life for
citizens by supporting dignity and independent
living. Guided by the eight pillars underpinning
the DAE, BRAID is directed at supporting the
development of a dynamic culture of ICT-
related research and innovation within the EU.
It supports this agenda by providing a holistic
vision and robust roadmap that address issues
related to enhanced care and promotion of
autonomy for seniors. BRAID seeks to strengthen
research and technological development capacity
through recommendations which deal with the
barriers to innovation within ICT and Ageing.
Economic issues loom large across the EU as
all member states seek to respond to the cost
implications of housing, care and pension
provision within an ageing society and a
Pillars underpinning the Digital
Agenda for Europe
i Vibrant digital single market
ii Interoperability and standards
iii Trust and security
iv Fast and ultra-fast internet access
v Research and innovation
vi Digital literacy skills and inclusion
vii ICT-enabled benefits for EU society
viii International aspects
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globalised economy. BRAID recognises that
some seniors will require additional support
and care, and makes recommendations as to
how ICT can be used to support innovation
and effective service development in this area.
BRAID also seeks to temper the ‘tsunami’
discourse on ageing by challenging stereotypical
notions of seniors as a homogenous group of
vulnerable people. Reinforcing the work of the
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme,
BRAID is aimed at enabling all citizens to live
independently and be active in society, increasing
efficiency of care systems and promoting a
dynamic and flourishing ‘ICT and Ageing’
industry in Europe. BRAID recognises seniors as a
diverse group with much to contribute to society,
and addresses the role of ICT in value creation,
extending the working life and user-generated
knowledge. Sustainability of research and
technological development to support innovation
in Europe is crucial to this agenda and BRAID
makes recommendations to reinforce the co-
ordination and pooling of resources across the
member states and different sectors to support
user involvement.
A submission from Age Platform Europe (AGE)
to the first Annual Convention of the European
Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion
(October 2011) emphasised the responsibilities of
the Commission, national governments and key
stakeholders to ensure that the rights of seniors
are protected within this rapidly changing society.
The submission calls for inter alia development
of measures to address the shrinking access to
basic services such as health and long-term care
or decent housing, national targets to combat
poverty among the most vulnerable groups,
national budget standards for an adequate old-
age income and measures to ensure adequacy
of pensions.
If ICT is to achieve its full potential as a vehicle
to support the ageing well agenda, and enable
citizens to age with dignity, it needs to be
underpinned and governed by supportive
organisational structures and robust regulatory
frameworks. The ‘virtuous cycle’ of activity
identified in the DAE guided the BRAID roadmap
development, in which key issues including
interoperability, broadband speeds, capacity
development and protection of human rights
are addressed.
Demography, economics and technology,
individually and collectively, are spawning rapid
changes in service delivery and care provision
across a range of sectors including health,
employment and welfare. Increases in the age of
retirement and changes in employment policies
will result in increasing numbers of seniors
remaining in the workforce. Inclusive design is
increasingly recognised as being a major factor in
supporting autonomy and as being at the heart
of ageing well and age-friendly communities. In
the area of disease management, personalised
medicine is rapidly gaining momentum and health
care innovations such as eHealth and telemedicine
services are recognised as being crucial to the
long-term sustainability of health care systems.
BRAID provides a strong foundation on which
to build a coherent and co-ordinated approach
from the EU and other key stakeholders in the
commissioning and funding of research and
development in ICT and active ageing.
“
“
A major effort will be needed
to combat poverty and social exclusion
and reduce health inequalities to
ensure that everybody can benefit
from growth. Equally important will
be our ability to meet the challenge of
promoting a healthy and active ageing
population to allow for social cohesion
and higher productivity.
(EU Commission, 2010:18)
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The Braid Process
Feeder Projects
BRAID built upon and synthesised the work of
four feeder projects as well as other initiatives
in active ageing (Figure 1).
CAPSIL (International Support of a Common
Awareness & Knowledge Platform for
Studying & Enabling Independent Living)
developed a roadmap for EU research to
achieve effective and sustainable solutions
to independent living based on an in-depth
analysis of clinical requirements and the ICT
scenarios developed or under development in
the EU, the US and Japan.
ePAL (extending Professional Active Life)
developed a strategic research roadmap
focused on inducing new ways towards a
balanced active life for retiring and retired
professionals, while promoting a new
notion of the silver economy with a wide
societal impact.
SENIOR (Social, Ethical and Privacy Needs in
ICT for Older People: a Dialogue Roadmap)
provided a systematic assessment of the
social, ethical and privacy issues involved in
ICT and Ageing, in order to plan strategies for
governing technology trends according to EU
legal and ethical standards.
AALIANCE (The European Ambient Assisted
Living Alliance) provided a framework for
stakeholders, led by industry, to define
research and development priorities,
timeframes and action plans on strategically
important issues in the field of ambient
assisted living (AAL).
BRAID responds to the prevailing fragmented
approach to the issue of ICT and Ageing
in Europe. BRAID provides a holistic view
that goes beyond merely integrating these
fragmented perspectives to providing a ‘full-
picture’ view of Ageing and ICT applications in
Ageing (Figure 2).
SENIORAALIANCE
Figure 2 BRAID concept
Figure 1 The four feeder projects
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BRAID Research Stages
The research work undertaken in BRAID is split into three distinct phases.
Phase 1 Data gathering and state
of the art review
The first phase produced a ‘state of the art’ review
of existing concepts and technologies in ICT
and Ageing as well as technology trends (work
package one). The final work package report
contained a glossary of ICT and Ageing terms
and concepts, a taxonomy of ICT and Ageing
technologies that attended to the different BRAID
‘life settings’, and a technology and market
trends analysis.
This phase also included an identification of ICT
and Ageing stakeholders and their needs in work
package two. The resulting deliverable identifies
and characterises the main stakeholder groups,
their needs and interests in the EU27 countries as
well as Australia, Canada, Japan and the
United States.
Phase 2 Analysis
Phase two began by identifying various
organisations that seek to integrate different types
of stakeholders, analyse their relative success in
doing so and outline recommendations for an
optimal stakeholder co-ordination mechanism
(work package three).
Work package four analysed drivers, trends,
stakeholder needs and current roadmap visions to
arrive at a consolidated vision for EU leadership
in supporting ICT and Ageing. This vision was
validated in stakeholder engagement workshops in
work package five and resulted in the publication
of the BRAID vision in deliverable 4.2.
The culmination of this work was the production
of the BRAID research in ICT and Ageing roadmap
(work package six). This consisted of elaborating a
strategic research agenda that built upon existing,
emerging and disruptive technologies and devising
an approach to implementing the
research roadmap.
Phase 3 Stakeholders, dissemination
and impact creation
The third stage was focused on engaging
stakeholders (work package five), as mentioned
above, and disseminating the project’s deliverables,
reports and findings (work package seven). These
stakeholder engagement strategies are expected to
assist in successfully achieving BRAID’s envisaged
impacts in the ICT and ageing sector, including
launching a stakeholder co-ordination mechanism,
implementing the research roadmap and achieving
the vision.
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Operational Results
The Taxonomy
The ICT and Ageing taxonomy maps current
ICT solutions against the needs of older people
in Europe. The purpose of the taxonomy is
• to provide a picture of how well
current technology solutions and future
developments in ICT and Ageing are
addressing or will address seniors’
needs and
• guide future research in ICT and
Ageing applications.
The taxonomy (Figure 3) is three dimensional
and is organised by an older people’s needs
dimension, a ‘thematic setting’ dimension and
an ICT and Ageing solution dimension.
Thematic Settings
Older people’s needs are comprised of:
• Ensure Personal Safety - protecting personal injury from external physical threats or
falls and cuts, and providing information on security and safety.
• Improve Access to Healthcare - remote monitoring and feeding of vital information
to care-givers and health care providers which does not undermine or displace face
to face care.
• Support Daily Activities - ergonomics, health and safety training, increasing
awareness of the ways in which ICT can benefit people with impairments and
assisting mobility.
• Make Technology Easy to Use - ensuring that technologies incorporate ease-of-
use features while remaining aware that older people’s capabilities are diverse and
change over time.
• Stay Connected with People - fighting social isolation by encouraging physical, social
and mental stimulation and contact with carers, colleagues, friends and family.
• Make Tools Suitable for Me - maintaining awareness that older people’s capabilities
are diverse and change over time, which requires adaptable and adaptive solutions.
Figure 3 Synthesising the taxonomy structure
NEEDSDimension
ICT
in
Ageing
Older people’s
NEEDS
Dimensions
X
Older people’s
THEMATIC
Settings
X
ICT in
Ageing
Solutions
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People often balance three distinct aspects of their lives, specifically ones that characterise
their life at home (personal), work (professional) and as a member of a community (public). Given
our user-centred focus, the taxonomy examines these thematic settings (at home, at work and
in the community) as independent dimensions.
The taxonomy organises ‘ICT and Ageing’ solutions into the following families in order to
assess their ability to meet older people’s needs in different thematic settings.
• Tele-medicine: is comprised of technologies/solutions that combine elements of health-
monitors with the ability to provide information to care-givers/health professionals. It
also includes tele-care and tele-health.
• Collaborative Networks / Collaboration Software: these solutions allow people to work
collaboratively and involve aspects of social and affective computing.
• Broadband Access: includes solutions and services that provide and utilise high-speed
networking to the home.
• Internet: includes solutions and services that provide secure access to and utilise
resources from the world-wide web.
• Smart Homes: includes solutions that allow for non-invasive sensors located at different
points inside the home to sense the environment and activities of people living in it, and
enable enhanced interaction of people with their environment.
• Assistive Communication Technologies: solutions that provide ICT-based enhancements
to standard assistive technologies (e.g. hearing aids) to improve communications.
• Design for All: a major area that aims to design ICTs in order to enable all users,
regardless of their limitations, to use technology with comparable intensity and
maximum value.
• Social Computing/Social Networking: a powerful means of fostering social
connectedness amongst people and creating new forms of civic and political
participation, improving access to medical information, and enhancing lifelong
learning processes.
The taxonomy acts as a single point of reference that enables experts and policy makers to
understand user needs, and use contexts, available solutions and technology gaps to foster the
achievement of breakthroughs in new systems. The following excerpt serves as an example.
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Family Specific Need At Home At work In the
community
Personal
Safety
Monitor for
personal injury
from external
physical threats
Current Social alarms
«
Social alarms
«
Social alarms
«
Future Smart Homes
««««
X X
Monitor for online
information
security
Current Web-based
tools «««
Web-based
tools «««
Web-based
tools «««
Future Beyond Web
2.0 ««««
Beyond Web
2.0 ««««
Beyond Web
2.0 ««««
Prevent falls Current X X X
Future X X X
Table 1: Sample Taxonomy analysis
Keys X = solution not available « = large gap in meeting needs
««««« = ideal solution – little or no gap in meeting needs
This excerpt illustrates how the taxonomy
enables diverse stakeholders to understand
gaps in technologies and products in specific
relation to meeting the needs of older people
in their own environments. For example,
social alarms exist as a solution to monitor
whether older people have experienced an
injury from an external threat; however, these
solutions are not well developed and there
is a significant gap in meeting older people’s
needs. In the future, this gap could be closed
by smart homes in domestic settings, but
more research is needed to meet this need
at work or in the community. In contrast,
Web-based tools and tools beyond Web 2.0
already promise relatively strong solutions for
ensuring online information security for older
people. Thus, further research in this area
should focus on small improvements, rather
than new solutions. Finally, the taxonomy
found that there is no current technology
available for preventing falls, nor are there
any solutions envisaged in the near future.
The taxonomy illustrates that this ought
to be an immediate area of concern for
researchers, funders, industry and other
stakeholders.
The taxonomy contributes to the development
of a roadmap to support research into new
systems that could address these technology
gaps and thus significantly prolong personal
autonomy in the home and on the move, and
prolong active participation in society.
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BRAID Stakeholders
BRAID work package two identified and analysed the stakeholders that the BRAID project should
engage with in order to meet its objective of providing a holistic perspective on ICT and Ageing.
This deliverable identifies and analyses the needs of different groups that are interested in or
affected by ICT and Ageing in Europe, the US and Japan as well as other locations.
The BRAID document divides these stakeholders into four categories:
Primary Stakeholders
Private users of ICT for ageing solutions:
• Older people and impaired citizens
• Private care-givers - usually family members
or relatives
Secondary Stakeholders
Professional users of ICT for ageing solutions
with a business to consumer relationship
with primary stakeholders and a business
to business relationship with tertiary
stakeholders:
• Medical professionals, professional care
providers, care homes
• Other service providers (e.g. housing
associations)
• “Mobility” providers (e.g. tourism, public
transport, etc.)
Tertiary Stakeholders
Suppliers of ICT for ageing solutions
Research organisations: public and private
enterprises
• (Large) Enterprises with a business in tele-
medicine or tele-care
• Providers of the IT infrastructure: networks
and databases
• Small and medium-sized enterprises:
hardware and software and/or service
provision
Quaternary Stakeholders
Supporters of ICT for ageing solutions
Policy makers
Social (and private) insurance companies
Employers
Public administrations
Standardisation organisations
Civil society organisations
Media
Each of these stakeholder categories has specific needs and motivations which must be accounted
for in order to provide a holistic perspective that integrates their unique positionings.
Stakeholders Co-ordination Mechanisms
As part of its analytical work, the BRAID project undertook a comprehensive analysis of whether
stakeholder needs are being met by existing organisations aiming to support stakeholder co-
ordination. This responded to the European Commission’s concern about the lack of adequate
collaboration and co-operation among stakeholders in meeting the active ageing and e-inclusion
needs of older people.
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In order to improve stakeholder co-operation
in the ICT and Ageing sector, BRAID partners
identified, described, assessed and compared
the adequacy of 27 different multi-stakeholder
organisations such as an association,
forum, platform, network and international
conference.
The analysis found that an optimal stakeholder
co-ordination mechanism should have the
following six objectives:
1 Acting as a focal point
A focal point (Figure 4) is needed to foster
collaboration among stakeholders by
sharing information and good practices,
and promoting e-inclusion policies. A true
focal point must integrate a broad range of
stakeholder types on an international scale.
2 Supporting research
and development
An optimal stakeholder co-ordination
mechanism would need to successfully
support research and development and
the standardisation and interoperability of
devices.
3 Being inclusive, open and democratic
An optimal multi-stakeholder organisation
must be open to all stakeholders, including
interested individuals, and all should
have the opportunity to participate in
the decision-making practices of the
organisation.
4 Supporting development of the market
for assistive technologies and services
ICT solutions are not viable in the long term
unless a stable market platform is identified
and supported by a new stakeholder co-
ordination mechanism.
5 Aiming to be self-sustaining
A mechanism dependent on external
funding will represent another short-term
solution to the problem of fragmentation
across the ICT and Ageing sector.
6 Making use of the media
An optimal multi-stakeholder mechanism
must find innovative ways to grab
media attention in order to ensure the
organisation achieves maximum impacts.
This analysis concluded that the strengths
and weaknesses of the stakeholder co-
ordination mechanisms demonstrate
that some organisational types are
better for performing certain tasks
and for integrating different types of
stakeholders. Finally, a federated, multi-
dimensional organisation offers one
possibility for addressing the needs of all
different types of stakeholders.
Figure 4 Acting as a focal point
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Stakeholder Engagement
As described in the BRAID process, one of
the key objectives of BRAID is to address
stakeholder fragmentation and consolidate
ICT and Ageing research findings to provide
a holistic view of support for older people. To
do so, BRAID utilised a number of strategies
to engage with stakeholders in the ICT and
Ageing sector in order to solicit stakeholder
feedback about research activities and interim
findings and to communicate research results.
Dissemination strategies range from ‘passive’
to ‘active’. Passive strategies do not require
stakeholders to actively engage, and they can
remain passive recipients of BRAID information.
Active strategies require stakeholders to
commit their own time to actively engage
with BRAID information products or the BRAID
partners or other stakeholders.
BRAID has sought to engage stakeholders
as actively as possible through workshops,
conference participation and wiki contribution.
However, the project has also recognised that
some stakeholders find passive engagement
with projects such as BRAID more suited to
their needs. Thus, BRAID utilised the following
more passive dissemination strategies:
Website & Wiki
The BRAID website is the public face of the
BRAID project. It provides open access to all
project publications. The BRAID Wiki allows
stakeholders to access, update and contribute
information relevant to ICT and Ageing.
http://wiki.braidproject.org
The Wiki will serve as a lasting source of
information for stakeholders interested in or
affected by ICT and Ageing.
Social media
BRAID stakeholders could also follow the
project via Twitter and LinkedIn, access
the BRAID virtual forum on the website or
subscribe to the project newsletter also via
the website. However, these methods proved
to be a less effective method to generate
stakeholder interest.
Nonetheless, BRAID has also devised a number
of communication activities designed to
encourage the active participation of a wide
range of stakeholders. These communication
activities comprised:
Workshops
The BRAID project has organised five different
workshops in various cities across Europe to
solicit stakeholder feedback on specific BRAID
research findings. The workshops provided an
opportunity to engage with experts from the
BRAID advisory board and local stakeholders
in each of the European regions where events
took place. In all, 262 stakeholders from 23
countries participated in these workshops.
BRAID conferences
BRAID hosted an international conference
in Melbourne, Australia in October 2011,
and a BRAID final dissemination event
with stakeholders as part of the IFA 2012
conference in Prague, Czech Republic. BRAID
was also discussed at a special session on
Collaborative Networks and Ageing in the
PRO-VE’11 conference in São Paulo, Brazil.
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The Vision
The BRAID vision was developed through five systematic and incremental steps:
1 Consolidating and discussing visionary ideas for the BRAID environment
2 Developing the first vision for BRAID
3 Testing and validating the elaborated vision
4 Building consensus through consultation and workshops
5 Documenting and finalising the BRAID vision.
The vision and the methodology used to develop it are comprehensively described in BRAID
deliverables D4.1 and D4.2.
Phase 1- D4.1 Phase 2 - D4.2
Figure 5 Generic steps in the vision-building process
The BRAID Vision
By 2020, European policy, practice and R&D will be directed towards the promotion of
healthy ageing and empowering all citizens (particularly those who fall into vulnerable
groups) to age with dignity. This enabling environment will be achieved by the pursuit
of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the area of ICT, complemented and
supported by societal, organisational, economic and regulatory development.
The vision is underpinned by a core ideology of ‘Building a strong, cohesive and inclusive European
platform that: embraces older people’s yearning to age well; values the broad range of capacities
and resources among older people; supports and enables older Europeans to age actively and live
independently; anticipates and responds flexibly to ageing-related needs and preferences; respects
older people’s decisions and lifestyle choices; protects those who are most vulnerable; promotes
older people’s inclusion in, and contribution to, different areas of community life.’
To ensure a strong and clear direction for the roadmap, the BRAID core vision has been instantiated
in each of the four life settings: independent living, health and care in life, occupation in life and
recreation in life.
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Independent Living
Independent living encompasses the day-to-
day activities of life including housekeeping,
shopping, cooking, personal care, mobility,
social interaction and human contact.
Independent living is characterised as
being dependent on a safe, secure and
suitable environment. A wide range of
assistive technologies has been identified
in this area including: assistive home-based
technologies, living status monitoring, agenda
manager, mobility aids (including driving),
companion robots and well-designed human-
machine interfaces that facilitate the use of
technologies in general.
The BRAID vision for
independent living
Older persons will be empowered to
live fulfilling and independent lives by
ensuring that mechanisms are in place
to facilitating access to relatives, carers
and the community, and to assist with
daily life activities. Developments will be
underpinned with supports for mobility,
transport, security and safety.
The BRAID vision for
health and care in life
As a part of the ‘ageing well’ paradigm,
health and care will become a high
priority strategy across Europe. The
emerging health care technologies and
services will be sensitive to the ethical
consequences and governed to ensure
protection of individual rights. Decision-
making systems at national and local
level, within public, commercial and not-
for-profit organisations, will consider the
needs of key stakeholders.
Health and Care in Life
Health and Care in life addresses how
technology can support and assist in health
promotion and care-related activities. In the
early versions of the vision this setting was
described as ‘healthy living’ (D4.1); the name
was changed following the stakeholder
engagement workshops. Feedback from
stakeholders was that the title should reflect
reality of people’s lives and the important
contribution of treatment and care in
physical and mental wellbeing. Consequently
the activities in this area encompass care
and cure-related interventions, in addition
to preventive interventions and health-
promoting behaviours. Examples include: self-
management and/or neglect (e.g. exercise and
nutrition), remote monitoring, engagement
with primary care workers (e.g. carers,
pharmacist), exercise assistant, prescription
reminder, and emergency assistance.
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The BRAID vision for
occupation in life
Due to the ageing population in Europe,
an opportunity and need will arise for
a new framework which will enable
and support those seniors who wish
to continue to participate in paid or
voluntary employment. This will require
cross-sectorial support. The result will
capitalise on the talents and expertise
of senior workers and facilitate value
creation through the use of ICT for the
benefit of the individual, the economy
and EU as a whole.
Occupation in Life
Occupation in life addresses how
technology can be used to capitalise on
and mobilise the expertise and experience
of older people. It highlights the role
technology can play in supporting and
enabling them to participate in professional
activities on a paid or voluntary basis.
Similar to the other life settings, occupation
in life reflects the diversity of older people
and will look very different for people
from different groups, depending on
the background work structure, sector,
individual goals, capabilities, flexibility,
opportunities, and functional ability.
Examples of activities and issues to be
considered in this area include: adaptation
of working conditions, mentoring, team
working, intergenerational collaboration
and leaving a legacy in terms of the transfer
of knowledge, experience and skills.
Recreation in Life
Recreation in life addresses how technology
can facilitate socialisation and participation of
older people in leisure activities. A wide range of
activities that can be supported by technology
are identified including: crafts and hobbies,
sports and physical activity, entertainment,
participation in cultural activities and playing
games, family interaction and socialising, travel
and leisure, political engagement, spiritual and
faith groups, lifelong learning and passing on
personal wisdom.
The BRAID vision for
recreation in life
Recreational activities across a wide
range of settings, including arts and
culture, physical activity, spiritual and
faith groups, travel and lifelong learning,
have been shown to enhance health and
wellbeing across the lifespan. Seniors will
be supported to become actively involved
in a range of recreational activities. The
development and use of new technology
solutions will be supported to improve
communication and reduce isolation and
loneliness experienced by older people.
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Future Proofing the Vision
To ensure that the BRAID vision is sensitive to
changes in environmental context, it has been
subjected to a rigorous analysis with respect
to the potential impact of the five drivers
for BRAID. The analysis considered whether
a driver could inhibit or support the vision.
The strength of the impact is depicted on a
spectrum that ranges from high to none (see
deliverable D.4.2, pp 27-30 ). For example,
with regards to technological drivers, increased
availability and speed of broadband access are
identified as likely to have high impact in terms
of supporting the BRAID vision across all four
life settings. By comparison, a societal driver
‘promoting lifelong learning’ is identified as
likely to have a high positive impact within the
occupation and recreation settings and lesser
impact in the other two areas.
Figure 6 BRAID key drivers
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The Roadmap
Towards a Strategic Research Agenda
The BRAID roadmap details a co-ordinated
plan of research actions focused on delivering
the BRAID vision.
From Fragmentation to Shared Roadmap
It is widely recognised that the conglomeration
of projects addressing e-inclusion in the EU,
particularly those funded under the FP6 and
FP7 programmes, has resulted in a fragmented
approach to the issue of ICT and Ageing.
Furthermore, this fragmentation is delaying
the achievement of greater social inclusion for
older people in Europe, as set out in the Riga
Declaration. The BRAID roadmap responds to
these deficits by providing a comprehensive
strategic research agenda for ICT and Ageing.
It is a vision-directed plan of action, grounded
and validated by stakeholders, and built on the
foundational work in BRAID’s baseline, trends
and drivers analyses. The roadmap is directed
towards the creation of an inclusive society
that supports and enables active ageing and
ageing well.
The BRAID Roadmap Approach
Traditional approaches to roadmap
development are based on on-going rounds
of consultation. What makes the BRAID
roadmap different from others is that it uses a
multi-step, systematic approach closely aligned
with the standard scientific method, making it
robust and sensitive to current and emerging
needs and trends:
• Characterise and consolidate the baseline
• Perceive trends and design scenarios
• Elaborate first vision statement
• Gap analysis
• Propose a plan of actions
• Verify the plan of actions
• Perform consultation and refinement
Research Actions
Centred on the core vision of harnessing and
fostering ageing well, the proposed BRAID
research actions are directed at enabling
and empowering independence, fostering
trans-sectorial support for personal health/
wellness, activating inclusive economic
participation, and animating active enjoyment
of life. The actions are divided into those that
directly drive ICT research and technology
development, and those which prompt
national and European policy responses.
The BRAID roadmap is described
in three reports
D6.21 provides a detail description of the
roadmap and the methodology used
to develop it,
D6.22 proposes a plan of strategic research
actions designed to achieve the
BRAID vision,
D6.3 describes a comprehensive guideline
for the roadmap implementation.
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Independence
Establish collaborative environments
• Plan, organise and support management of formal care networks
• Plan, organise and support informal care networks
• Design and develop tools for composition of collaborative care
services
Extend capabilities
• Development of intelligent tools and services for personal
assistance in daily activities
• Development of automation systems and assistive robots
• Investigate, develop and integrate intelligent tools and services to
compensate diminishing cognitive capacities
Assist mobility
• Integrate and customize methods, tools and services for trip
planning, navigation and localization
• Develop and customize driving and parking assistance
• Integrate and customize methods, tools and services for
orientation in “complex environments”
Monitor well-being
• Design, develop and integrate home-centred intelligent sensor
network environments
• Design, develop and integrate human-centred intelligent sensor
network systems development
Build supportive environments
• Design and development of prevention and companionship tools
and services
• Design and development of intervention services
• Align independent and sustainable living
Assess impacts
Elicit needs of focus groups
Health and Care
Establish healthcare ecosystem
• Plan, organize and support management of the healthcare
ecosystem
• Develop functionalities for healthcare assets management and
emergence of novel services
• Develop auditing and regulatory support functionalities
Develop health monitoring systems
• Develop and integrate home-based health condition monitoring
systems
• Develop wearable, portable and implantable multi-sensor systems
• Design and develop context aware intelligent diagnosis
functionalities
Establish safe infrastructure
• Design and develop safe and adaptable technological
communication infrastructures
• Design and develop identification, authentication and auditing
functionalities
Design integrated assistive services
• Develop integrated services for the health caring and intervention
• Dynamic configuration of multi-stakeholders based services in
response to emergency conditions
Develop intervention tools
• Develop intelligent tools and systems for healthcare and assistance
• Develop intelligent tools and systems for rehabilitation and
disability compensation
• Introduce ICT based innovative therapeutic approaches
Raise ICT awareness and skills in health and care
Develop regulatory framework
Establish organizational and business models
Occupation
Build collaboration platforms and systems
• Develop advanced functionalities and systems for management of
networks of senior professionals
• Develop marketing and brokerage support tools for communities
of senior professionals
• Develop trust building and risk management systems for
communities of senior professionals
• Develop affections / emotions management systems for
communities of senior professionals
Leverage legacy
• Define conceptual models of talents and develop user-centred
knowledge acquisition tools
• Create reward mechanisms (system of incentives) to attract user-
generated knowledge
• Mechanisms to promote inter-generational inheritance
Create adaptive solutions and services
• Develop self-adaptive interface systems
• Develop self-customizable collaboration environments and services
Create a model framework
• Develop a conceptual base for behavioural and value system
modelling
• Develop data-mining / machine learning approaches for
behavioural patterns discovery
Create trusted knowledge networks
• Develop effective knowledge network management systems
• Develop collective problem solving methods and tools
Weave online and offline collaboration
• Develop conceptual models for online and offline collaboration
• Develop tools to support seamlessly weaved online/offline
collaboration
Guide career transition
Improve working practices
Enhance policy and legislation
Recreation
Build participatory communities
• Plan, organize and support management of recreational
participatory communities
• Develop tools and services supporting community participation
• Develop methods and tools to foster inter-generational
interactions on a community basis
Build novel interfaces
• Explore augmented reality and remote presence interfaces
• Develop affective computing interfaces
• Develop methods to promote pervasiveness and integration of
multi-modal interfaces
Build recreational platforms, solutions and services
• Design and develop an open recreational platform
• Customize and integrate recreational services focused on the
specific need of seniors
Find new recreational channels
• Design and develop new recreational forms exploring remote
and immersive participation
• Novel technology assisted recreation services in outdoor and
intelligent urban environments
Create and promote gaming
• Design and develop self-adaptive novel “serious” games
• Design and develop community-oriented games
Train for digital lifestyle
Assess recreation impact
Promote studies in recreation
General
Identify and promote standards
Develop theoretical foundation for ICT and Ageing
Influence cross-thematic synergies
Promote participatory and inclusive design
Figure 7 Summary of roadmap actions
Training and awareness for new environments
Study and promote ethical issues
Develop and promote sustainable business models
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Scenarios
In relation to BRAID’s vision for the future,
selected scenarios have been used to
provide insight into how ageing in different
future life-setting possibilities might be
supported by innovative ICT applications. A
range of operational scenarios tell ‘stories’
illustrating aspects of these possible futures.
These narratives are set in a ‘continuum’
of possibilities, taking into consideration
trends and capabilities. In parallel with
these organically conceived futures, BRAID
has explored a set of strategic, disruptive
scenarios, which examined a set of major
‘discontinuities’ or adverse events. With the
probability and impact of such disruptions
being very difficult to predict, the team have
proposed a ‘monitoring and update’ approach
so that the roadmap can adapt its fitness for
purpose, in response to unforeseen events.
Implementation and the Physical
Environment
The BRAID roadmap also recognises that the
physical environment in the places that we
live, work, play, learn and socialise are major
determinants of healthy and active ageing,
and that our understanding of the interactions
between environment, ICT and Ageing is
currently very under-developed.
From an environmental perspective, BRAID
offers a ‘zone of interest’ model to examine
the impact of the roadmap across the
continuum dimensions of ‘active to passive
design’, ‘adaptation to new build’, and
environmental structure from ‘housing to
urban transport’. However, BRAID suggests
that ICT support in the context of emergency
responses to severe climatic events requires
separate investigation.
Collaborative Environments:
The creation and support of collaborative
networks and environments have emerged
as the primary technology and policy
development priority area identified by BRAID
stakeholders to foster ageing-well with ICT
support. Collaboration across sectors and
disciplines is seen as crucial in overcoming the
fragmented approach that has dominated
previous research and development initiatives
in ICT and Ageing.
As an example, the policy action Raise ICT
awareness and skills in health and care relates
to the health and care life setting. It advocates
that policy makers launch actions and develop
mechanisms to increase the potential of ICT
support for ‘healthy living environments’. It
also calls for a consensus on values, ethical
principles, rights, safety and privacy issues,
as well as a better understanding of the
consequences of a shift towards home-based
health services.
Furthermore, there is a need to move from
a situation characterised by fragmented or
decoupled services provided by single or
loosely coupled organisations, to integrated
care services that are the result of
collaboration among various stakeholders. The
development of high quality and sustainable
support services to ageing well requires a
stronger engagement and collaborative effort
among all relevant stakeholders, including
local communities, leading to the concept
of care ecosystems. These notions are well
represented in the actions proposed for all life-
settings:
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In Independent Living
The action Establish collaborative
environments calls for design and
development of novel and effective
collaborative environments, according to a
design-for-all perspective, combining social
networking and collaborative networks of care
provision to stakeholders to facilitate support,
companionship and community participation
with trust establishment. Collaborative
networks concepts are implicit in all other
actions, namely for the provision of integrated
care services.
In Health and Care in Life
The action Establish healthcare ecosystem aims
at defining new organisational and business
models, driven by affordability concerns, and
developing support tools for the establishment
of collaborative healthcare ecosystems
involving families, healthcare providers, social
security and regulatory authorities, forming
the backbone for the emergence of new
services for healthy living support, integrating
formal and informal care. Similarly, all the
other actions embed the need for collaborative
approaches in integrated service provision.
In Occupation in Life
The action Build collaboration platforms
and systems is focused on designing and
developing open ICT collaboration platforms,
support tools and systems aimed at facilitating
value creation. The action addresses the
specific needs of communities of senior
professionals, and promotes intergenerational
interaction and socialisation, which are
enhanced by affective computing, context
awareness, and trust establishment. A variety
of collaborative networks forms are implicit in
all other actions for this setting.
In Recreation in Life
The action Build participatory communities
is aimed at designing, developing and
implementing local and regional participatory
communities that combine online and offline
participation through social networking,
intergenerational interaction, volunteering,
and local government involvement, focusing
on participatory recreational life and
wellbeing. Similarly, the effective development
of sustainable solutions, as suggested in
the other actions for this setting, requires a
collaborative networks approach.
In the General Group
The action Promote participatory design is
focused on identifying suitable approaches
and promoting pilot experiments on the
involvement of older people in the processes
of co-designing systems for ICT and Ageing.
All other actions proposed in this group
can benefit from a collaborative networks
approach for their implementation.
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Synthesis:
Weaving Braid’s Future
From alignment to convergence
BRAID’s journey started with a goal of aligning
four existing roadmaps which had their
own origins, domains, stakeholder interests,
rationales and methodological frameworks.
Drawing them together into a single and
cohesive picture has involved framing a
taxonomy, applying a rigorous vision-directed
roadmapping methodology from baseline to
action plan, filtering it through a life-settings
organisational structure, and consolidating
it by alignment with trends, drivers and
insightful scenarios. However, BRAID is
more than the sum of the parts, and it must
be more than a lovely picture in a gallery.
It is illuminated and animated by the active
participation and contribution of the wisdom
of the stakeholders who have kept the process
grounded in the values, dignity, aspirations
and practical challenges of diverse older
people living in different local and regional
contexts throughout Europe. It is the quality
of stakeholder inputs and reflections through
the seminars and workshops that underpins
the legitimacy of the BRAID results, and that
can energise BRAID’s sustainable impact out to
2020 and beyond.
While much has happened since BRAID began,
the effects of current austerity highlights the
imperative for Europe to strengthen inclusivity
through smart and sustainable growth. The
Innovation Union, and its pilot Innovation
Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
(EIP-AHA), is now in process, and BRAID has
a significant opportunity to contribute to its
development and success. To ease assimilation
into future projects and programmes, it is
worthwhile to:
• extract key underlying themes from
the breadth and complexity of BRAID’s
roadmap
• highlight how these themes might
interrelate through their operating
dynamics
• outline some considerations on the
implications for ICT and Ageing research
going forward.
Thematic Convergence
Through a process of correlation, discussion
and extraction, seven key thematic areas
are identified that span and underpin the
independence, health and care, occupational
and recreational life-settings that provide
structure to the BRAID roadmap. Figure 8
illustrates the relationships between the ICT
and policy research actions, the core recurring
themes, and characterising aspects of the
themes. The themes align well with building
the capacity and capability to deliver the EU
2020 vision.
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Sustainability
Economic and business models
The development of sustainable business models
is at the heart of ensuring active ageing ‘for
all’. BRAID recognises the challenges inherent
in the turbulent combination of harsh austerity
measures and a rapidly ageing population, but
argues that innovation is needed now more than
ever. BRAID advocates the development of novel
business models that integrate services based on
multi-stakeholder collaboration (care ecosystem).
Integral to these new business models must
be a focus on accountability, quality of service,
standards interoperability and sustainability of
the collaborative ecosystems, which include
robust stakeholder engagement mechanisms.
Regulation & Rights
Ethical and other social impacts
Privacy, ethical and data protection issues
emerged as a major priority for governance
within the arena of ICT and Ageing. Issues such
as safety, security, trust, dignity, discrimination,
dehumanisation and privacy were raised
repeatedly by the BRAID stakeholders at the
engagement workshops. In these discussions
the need to mitigate ethical, data protection and
privacy infringements was emphasised, as was
the need to harmonise privacy, ethical and data
protection issues with other goals.
Ict-Based Services
Extending capabilities
Given BRAID’s purpose and the potential of
ICT to compensate for changes in cognitive
abilities and to enable/support lifelong learning,
it is not surprising that capacity development
has emerged as a key recommendation.
Throughout the process, stakeholders at BRAID
meetings have emphasised that seniors are
complex social actors with specific capabilities,
who need to be contextualised in their local
settings.
Collaboration
Occupational participation
Not surprisingly, given BRAID’s focus on active
ageing, the BRAID stakeholders emphasised the
need for supports that would enable people
to remain in employment as they get older. It
should be noted that this recommendation is
not focused on ‘forcing’ people to remain in
paid employment. The recommendation relates
both to paid employment and volunteering,
and recognises the importance of employment
as a vehicle for social inclusion of older people
and building intergenerational solidarity. The
focus on support for occupational participation
reflects the fact that some older people are
withdrawing from employment because the
work environment is not supportive of their
changing capacity.
Figure 8 Aligning themes with EU 2020 strategy
Some of the aspects of the themes include:
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Strategic Convergence:
connecting and collaborating
Researching, designing, developing, delivering,
maintaining, adapting and sustaining ICT-
based services to meet the needs of diverse
older people in differing local, national and
regional contexts throughout Europe requires
a strategic view of the interrelationships
between these themes and the operating
dynamics through which they interact.
The vertical axis of growth is animated by
the shared desirability and attraction of
an attainable vision of an inclusive Europe
providing the freedoms to all Europeans to
age well within a framework of active and
positive ageing. This forward axis needs to be
set on a firm foundation of economic security
and stability, social innovation and sustainable
business modelling.
Figure 9 Underpinning Themes and Aspects
Figure 11 Strategic Conversions
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Framing this axis are transformative personal,
social and environmental developments,
be they in greater awareness, increased
skills acquisition, or greater readiness for
organisational and/or cultural change.
Underpinning these horizontal forces is
a greater sense of the ethical and moral
principles guiding our own personal and
collective stakeholder values and attitudes to
the rights, dignity and respect of older people
and those who care for them. This requires
personal commitments and policy enactments
at both social and technical levels.
Between sustainability and inclusivity is the
central need for innovation, greater resource
efficiencies, convenience and smartness. ICT is
both out-folding in terms of reach, accessibility
and coverage, and in-folding in terms of
‘context awareness’, internal organisational
complexity and user attachment. Knowledge-
based services, based on awareness of
both situational and emotional context,
will empower autonomy, augment human
function and capabilities, and foster and
nourish our social and spiritual connectedness.
When considering the interconnectedness
of these themes, research endeavours going
forward must recognise that in bridging the
fragmentation of earlier approaches to ICT
and Ageing research, efforts must now be
directed at taking more unified, synthetic,
‘whole system’ and ‘person-centred’
approaches to studies and RTD developments.
‘Collaborative networks and environments’
are at the heart of the learning from the
BRAID investigation and it calls for new types
of consortia in new types of arrangements to
meet these re-framed challenges.
Implementation Convergence
BRAID’s future sphere of influence in terms of
domain and timeframe will be Horizon 2020,
the new EU flagship financial instrument
implementing the Innovation Union and
directed at enhancing the EU’s position in
science, strengthening industrial leadership
and competitiveness, and addressing major
concerns shared by all Europeans - including
the challenge of an ageing population. In
line with BRAID’s call for more federated
stakeholder engagement mechanisms, new
Innovation Partnerships represent Horizon
2020’s primary mechanism to tackle societal
challenges by helping to bridge the gap
between research and the market - creating
partnerships across sectors and stakeholders
at local, regional and member state levels -
to align the resources and energies towards
effective innovation networks.
The European Innovation Partnership for
Active and Healthy Ageing is now taking
shape with the headline goal of increasing by
two the average number of healthy life years
(HLYs) in the EU by 2020, through improving
health status and quality of life, supporting
sustainability and efficiency of health and
care systems, and enhancing competitiveness
of EU industry. Specific actions cross the
vertical pillars of care and cure, promotion and
prevention, and active and independent living,
with horizontal actions in the areas of age-
friendly buildings, cities and environments.
The themes and actions of BRAID’s ICT and
Ageing roadmap, particularly collaborative
networks and environments and business
modelling, align with, reinforce and accelerate
opportunities to build the new types of
stakeholder partnerships and ICT innovations
that can make a difference to the lives of older
people throughout Europe.
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The development of BRAID’s ICT and
Ageing roadmap has been enhanced
by the team’s opportunity to link
with researchers and stakeholders
undertaking the development of
the FuturAge Although focus and
methodology are different, there
is much alignment of vision and
principles. And while both have
differing implementation priorities,
BRAID acknowledges and reinforces
FuturAge’s call to strengthen European
ageing research infrastructure, build
research capacity, strengthen user
involvement and facilitate greater
knowledge exchange.
Sustainability
BRAID seeks to maintain and grow
the collaboration and engagement of
current and new stakeholders in ICT
and Ageing research in Europe and
internationally, as the research agenda
laid out in the roadmap evolves over
the timescale of Horizon 2020. The
BRAID website and Wiki, launched at
the BRAID conference in May 2012,
provide a low-cost mechanism to
maintain and update the roadmap
content; and a process to manage the
roadmap evolution is outlined in the
roadmap documentation.
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Acknowledgements
The BRAID partners wish to thank all those that directly or indirectly shaped the BRAID project.
Thank you to the European Commission for funding this project and to Project Officer Peter Wintlev-
Jensen for his support throughout this journey. Thanks also to the EC reviewers Cornel Klein, Rita
Puzmanova and Luíz Carriço for providing insightful comments and guidance.
BRAID could not have been possible without the positive engagement of various stakeholders and
experts from Europe and the rest of the world. It is impossible to acknowledge all here, but Professor
Alan Walker and his colleagues at FuturAge merit a mention.
We acknowledge David Wright and Kush Wadhwa for having the vision to conceive and lead the
development of the initial BRAID proposal. We thank Professor Ben Knapp at Virgina Tech, for
his leadership and contribution to BRAID during its first year, and for his continuous interest in
BRAID activities. We thank the international experts composing the Advisory Board for their tireless
commitment and wisdom: Aaron Quigley, Ad van Berlo, Andreas Kreiner, Antonio María del Cura, Ase
Kari Haugeto, Astrid Stuckelberger, Filippo Cavallo, Heidrun Mollenkopf, Ilenia Gheno, Janez Molvrh,
Jose Antonio Alvarez Bermejo, Lawrence Normie, Leandro Loss, Luca Odetti, Madeleine Starr, María
del Puerto Asensio, Misha Pavel, Monica Alexandru, Nan Bosler, Paolo Bonato, Pekka Ala-Siuru, Sergio
Sayago Barrantes, Shuji Hashimoto, Soledad Ballesteros and Vesna Dolnicar.
The BRAID project would not have been possible without the co-ordinated efforts of several institutions
and committed and tireless individuals; that is the nine partners:
• Hamideh Afsarmanesh and Miriam Ghijsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Filipa Ferada, Ana Inés Oliveira and João Rosas, Instituto de
Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias - UNINOVA
• Emilio Mordini, Dimitris Dimitriou, Valeria Balestrieri, Holly Ashton and Emma Garnett, Centre for
Science, Society and Citizenship Rome.
• David Wright and Rachel Finn, Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP.
• Kush Wadhwa, Nancy Baker and Paul McCarthy, Global Security Intelligence (GSI) Ltd
• Liz Cummings and Paddy Nixon, University of Tasmania.
• Rodd Bond and Joanne Finnegan, Netwell Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology
• Christian Wehrmann, Michael Huch and Maxie Lutze, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik Gmbh.
• Karim Hadjri, Ben Knapp and Una Lynch, Queen’s University Belfast.
Thank you all.
The BRAID Project Team
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BRAID Deliverables
No. Deliverable Name Lead Partner
D1.1 Taxonomy GSI
D1.2 Taxonomy and Trends – interim report GSI
D1.3 Trends analysis – final report GSI
D2 Stakeholders analysis VDI
D3 Stakeholder co-ordination mechanisms TRI
D4.1 Interim report on the visioning approach UvA
D4.2 Consolidated vision of ICT and Ageing UvA
D5.1 Report on establishment of Advisory Board CSSC
D5.2 Report on Stakeholder Engagement CSSC
D5.21 Workshop (1) Barcelona CSSC
D5.22 Workshop (2) Pordenone CSSC
D5.23 Workshop (3) Copenhagen CSSC
D5.24 Workshop (4) Dublin CSSC
D5.25 Workshop (5) Budapest CSSC
D6.1 Interim roadmap Uninova
D6.21 Consolidated roadmap Uninova
D6.22 Strategic Research Agenda Uninova
D6.3 Guidelines for roadmap implementation Uninova
D7.1 Dissemination plan UT
D7.2 Establishment of BRAID project website UT
D7.3 Establishment of BRAID community portal UT
D7.4 Interim report on dissemination activities UT
D7.5 Conference report and proceedings UT
D7.6 Final report on dissemination activities UT
D7.7 Report on recommendations for international cooperation UT
D8.1 Interim report QUB
D8.2 Executive summary of the project QUB
All published reports are available at: http://www.braidproject.org/?q=publications
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31. To my humble view, the BRAID’s
project is truly unique, a
breakthrough and very important
contribution to the world wide
emerging Aging Industry
Email to BRAID team from
Shoshan Shacham, 71 years old
32. BRAID Project
School of Planning, Architecture
and Civil Engineering
Queen’s University Belfast
Northern Ireland, BT9 5AG, UK
www.braidproject.eu
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