SHAPES - support smart and healthy ‘Agile Ageing’ in the built environment
Organizations are invited to apply for a share of €500,000, to facilitate the creation of novel applications that support smart and healthy ‘Agile Ageing’ in the built environment. Individual grants of €50,000–€100,000 are available for scale-up of existing products or services, or development of new solutions.
SHAPES (Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems) 3rd Open Call launched on December 16th 2022 with a submission deadline of 17 March 2023. Organizations are invited to apply for a share of €500,000, to facilitate the creation of novel applications that support smart and healthy ‘Agile Ageing’ in the built environment.
Individual grants of between €50,000– and €100,000 are available for scale-up of existing products or services, or development of new solutions. The competition is open to micro, small or medium-sized enterprises, based in Europe – including the UK – proposing compelling social innovation concepts, encompassing equality, diversity and inclusion in the design and development of a product, process, or service which can be trialled and evaluated across participating living labs and pilot sites, including the SHAPES technological platform and the SHAPES Marketplace.
This initiative is funded through SHAPES (Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems) an EU Horizon 2020 Collaborative R&D “Pathfinder” project spanning 14 countries, exploring interactions between older adults, technology and the built environment.
The SHAPES Innovation Action (IA) intends to build, pilot and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised open platform. The integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal solutions seeks to facilitate long-term healthy and active ageing and the maintenance of a high-quality standard of life. The SHAPES project has 36 partners across 14 countries.
The SHAPES Digital Solutions cover a wide spectrum of areas including IoT and Big data platforms, online communication and accessibility tools, cognitive stimulation and rehabilitation, conversational assistants and chatbots, solutions based on robotics, health and wellbeing platforms, solutions to ensure security, COVID-19 responses tools as well as solutions in the area of data analytics, such as predictive systems and wellbeing assessment tools.
This is a rare opportunity for UK SMEs to participate in a large scale European demonstrator project. We are looking for potentially scalable solutions that empower end-users of differing abilities who have different requirements due to either ability, age or circumstance. Winning solutions will be trialled and evaluated across participating living labs and pilot sites, thereby constituting a valuable business development opportunity.
Ian Spero, Founder of SHAPES’ partner the Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA)
For further information and advice, or help with finding a collaboration partner, contact Innovate UK KTN’s Health team.