CHAngeing’s objectives are listed as follows:
Objective 1 - To implement intra and inter Excellence Hubs strategic, coordination and operational capacity, reinforcing attractiveness and socio-economic impact of ecosystems in widening regions;
Objective 2 - To create the operational framework with a high-quality action and investment plan, ensuring project implementation efficiency and long-term sustainability by nurturing investment and access to private capital, national, regional and European funds, synergistically;
Objective 3 - To develop a joint scientific strategy to deliver science based innovation supporting the implementation of R&I pilot projects in line with regional and national R&I strategies, including RIS3 on health and ageing and Europen priorities on Green Deal and Digitial Transition;
Objective 4 - To leverage excellence in ageing-related research and innovation to transform both excellence hubs in poles of attraction of new talents and retain talents in both regions (avoiding brain drain, supporting brain gain, delivering brain circulation);
Objective 5 - To offer excellent and innovative educational programs to train researchers (including master's, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers), entrepreneurs and professionals, in international and cross-sector settings, providing new competencies in intensive ageing R&I domains. This will accelerate knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial skills in ageing-related areas by providing intellectual stimulating environments and entrepreuneurial culture in student's training;
Objective 6 - To create synergies and reinforce links between science and business, delivering new training opportunities, twinning projects and business development. This will facilitate market uptake of innovative technologies to support healthy living , cerebrovascular fitness and stroke rehabilitation practices, contributing to leverage new business opportunities for companies (specially SMEs) and job creation;
Objective 7 - To co-create a toolkit and a pilot, to be implemented in Center Region of Portugal and Crete, designed to assess lifestyles and provide health literacy, empowering the citizens to adopt healthy habits based on the Mediterranean diet culture, in order to prevent CVD;
Objective 8 - To build a coherent pipeline of stakeholders and innovative technology-assisted good practices in a demonstrator for efficent interventions to support post-stroke rehabilitation of cognitive and motor coordination capacities;
Objective 9 - To maximize outreach of CHAngeing excellence hubs focusing on new talents, citizen engagement, funding agencies and business, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders.
