Dear AALOA supporters,
I have received some emails asking for the results of the workshop on
Tuesday. This is to try to answer this question.
According to the list of people who signed the participants list on
site, 44 from the registered 52 registered people attended the workshop.
In my opinion, from a programmatic point of view the workshop was a
success: both the presentations and the discussions were appreciated
very much, the timing of the sessions was ok, and especially the
involvement of non-organizing participants in the whole event, even in
the discussions, was very obvious. I believe that this real openness of
the organization has once more attracted more trust to AALOA.
The workshop, however, couldn't define any funding scheme for porting
projects. Instead, the following can be enumerated as the results:
* According to my understanding, awareness about the positive role
of widely accepted AAL platforms for the success on the market was
created and where already existing, it was increased.
* I think that it was also understood that porting projects
o force the platforms to deliver the evidence of being
practically useful, and hence
o can serve the process of consensus building so that the
number of candidate platforms can be reduced to only few
very promising that have the chance to be accepted and used
very widely.
* But the fear was that the owners of prototypes cannot be sure if
they are in the "right" porting project (in the sense of being in
a project that finally approves the used platform as a promising one)
* From the side of the commission, the role of the European
Innovation Partnership (in case of AAL, AHAIP standing for Active
and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership, also known as EIP on
AHA) in the definition of the new priorities was highlighted. As
far as i understood, the EIPs are supposed to deliver their first
results until the end of the year and any idea about why and how
to push the process of consensus building on platforms should be
communicated to them as soon as possible.
* From the side of the AAL JP, it was emphasized that the
importance of a platform is now more clear for the CMU and that
the CMU is open towards any suggestion on the incorporation of
this topic in the AAL JP. However, there is no guarantee if and
how such suggestions can be considered; also, any decision in this
regard will take time because it must be ratified by the AALA board.
* The concrete suggestion about launching "horizontal" porting
projects in parallel to the projects of the AAL JP calls, where
the prototypes coming out of the running projects temporarily join
the porting projects was also classified as one of those ideas
that can be suggested to the CMU for further examination.
* The participants agreed to create a protocol with a set of
recommendations that is then sent both to the AAL JP CMU and to
the EIP on AHA. For this purpose, they will use a mailing list of
AALOA. We will put the protocol on the two pages
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/
and http://aaloa.org/news/amb11. Also, most of the presentations
will be put on these pages in the second half of June.
I hope that I didn't miss any important point. Also, this is not any
official protocol but my personal view.
Kind regards,
-- Saied
Mohammad-Reza Tazari wrote on 07-Jun-11 08:28:
According to
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/index_en.htm
you can follow the workshop live here:
http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=0d7363894acdee742caf7fe4e97c4d49
kind regards,
-- Saied
_______________________________________________
Supporters mailing list
Supporters@aaloa.org
http://aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/supporters
