OLDES - Quadruple-helix cooperation for ICT platform with entertainment and health service

The OLDES project offered new technological solutions to improve the quality of life of older people. OLDES aimed at developing a very low cost and easy to use entertainment and health care platform designed to ease the life of older people in their homes. Problem tackled by the project was in the effective ICT communication device which is affordable and easy to use. OLDES showed a brilliant project example of quadruple-helix cooperation between public authority (national agency for new technologies, energy and the environment), municipality, local health authority, businesses, universities and end-users (elderly people and family carers) to design, develop, test and validate new innovation and even build a follow up project enabling to progress in developing/using finalized product to a more specific target group of a specific additional diseases functionality. New project proposal (SPES) was initiated to transfer the approach and results achieved in the implementation of the OLDES platform into 4 new geographical areas focusing on new target diseases (respectively dementia, handicapped people, respiratory problems and social exclusion).
Project connected
- University/municipal hospitals – piloting sites, supply of patients for prototyping and usability testing
- SMEs – platform design, software, exploitation
- Research – sensors, devices, system requirements and architecture, graphical interface
- Public institutions – Pilot, evaluation
- others