Throughout the WE4AHA project, the work carried out by the partners can be summarised as the following:
- Advancing the effective, large-scale uptake and impact of Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing through the design, development and implementation of a comprehensive set of support, engagement and promotion activities tailored to the needs of the EIP on AHA partners;
- Delivering continuous administrative, coordination and external communication support to relevant EIP on AHA stakeholders in order to secure their effective mobilisation and participation in the Action Groups (AG) and Reference Sites (RS) ;
- Supporting the implementation of the I2M Plan, with a wide range of activities to foster better collaboration and communication between the demand and supply side;
- Further developing the Blueprint to drive the policy vision on digital innovation for health and care;
- Broadening the adoption of the MAFEIP tool, its practical implementation and evolution and creating new cases ;
- Consolidating the work of the six AG and 103 RS;
- Continue strategic synergies with relevant R&I initiatives in the European landscape, more particularly with the Active Assisted Living Programme and the More Years Better Lives Joint Programming Initiative;
- Designing and expanding widely online and offline wide communication and dissemination activities targeting relevant EIP on AHA relevant stakeholders.
- Focusing on promoting the RS twinning and the associated set of 13 workshops.
The project results achieved by the WE4AHA project can be summarised as follows:
- EIP on AHA stakeholders’ engagement mechanisms reinforced by and tailored to the needs expressed by the Partnership;
- Set of administrative, coordination and support services supporting AG, RS and cross-horizontal initiatives, designed and deployed by the Administrative Support team to assist the EIP on AHA members in their daily activities;
- Relevant stakeholders – mainly innovative SMEs and start-ups – mapped, recruited and mobilised to drive forward the implementation of the I2M Plan;
- Mapping of investments in the Active and Healthy Ageing sector and analysis of the gaps between demand and supply side in the European AHA market carried out;
- I2M Plan (updated version) delivered including annexes illustrating the concrete actions developed in collaboration with the key relevant stakeholders;
- Blueprint contributors increased beyond the original “champions” to secure the wide participation of demand side representatives to the evolution of the policy vision on the digital transformation of health and care;
- Blueprint document updated to support investments in innovation for digital transformation of health and care, and to identify the key relevant use cases and scenarios to be targeted for large-scale deployment;
- MAFEIP 2.0 delivered and IT infrastructure fully integrated and made available through the EIP on AHA portal;
- MAFEIP community enlarged through the EIP on AHA and case studies identified;
- Action Groups continuously supported to secure their governance, evolution and activities deployment;
- Renovation of the Action Plans for the Action Groups finalised;
- Execution of the renovated Action Plans during the 2018-29020 period;
- Reflections and discussions regarding the future sustainability of the AGs;
- Reference Sites community animated and supported; thirteen thematic workshops and five twinnings organised in 2020;
- Action Plan on synergies with R&I initiatives updated and joint cooperation with AAL, JPI MYBL continued;
- Organisation of the European Week of Active and Healthy Ageing co-organised with the AAL and the Joint Programming Initiative of More Years Better Lives (JPI MYBL) in November 2020;
- Dissemination and communication activities widely deployed for the benefit of the EIP on AHA community;
- Compilation of attractive, simple, information for infographics to illustrate the achievements (“assets”) of the EIP on AHA over the CSA timeline;
- EIP on AHA portal re-structured, regularly updated; and handover achieved;
- New microsite on the EIP on AHA initiative developed under the Digital Single Market website.
- WE4AHA project management guidelines maintained;
