The desired impact of SIRENE is to improve the wellbeing and housing conditions of the European population, by empowering social and private entrepreneurs. In particular, we focus on the improvement of lives of people with fewer opportunities due to poor health conditions, frailty or finances, as the main aim is to promote and support a more active and healthier life. By delivering the Social Innovation framework and tools for creation and nurturing ecosystems in the area of Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments, we are strongly convinced that we are creating first successful steps for a more inclusive society.
In what concerns societal impacts, SIRENE will lead to better opportunities to age in place and to continue independent living with the support of user-friendly responsive smart living environments. In this way, the perceived quality of life of European citizens will improve.
On the economic side, the SIRENE social innovation framework will lead to more sustainable systems, that focus on prevention, and adaptation to citizens’ needs instead of leading to high costs related to medication and institutional care. The improved and sustainable SIRENE framework also aims to lead to fewer investments on the ever-repeating number of IT pilots’ costs.
As for knowledge impacts, the SIRENE social innovation framework and other deliveries laid the grounds for an even better understanding of user needs, costs and benefits of responsive smart living environments, and led to new developments in housing and ICT scenarios.
Besides the Social Innovation Framework with its components and the Expert and Digital Hub, the SIRENE project delivered a set of tools and resources, including all of the co-creation and informative sessions hosted during the project – including expert-hub meetings, capacity-building webinars, science cafés, video pills, as well as dedicated sessions on the topic of financing and sustainability.
Additionally, the Sustainability Strategy provides knowledge and tools for innovation and business actors to support the development of sustainability plans for SHAFE initiatives and projects. This document provides step-by-step guides on how to perform stakeholder analysis and market studies, as well as examples of business modelling tools.
The SHAFE Foundation will now sustain the results of the SIRENE project and expand them in future projects, funding opportunities and networks.
