During the first and the second Reporting Periods all the objectives have been achieved: 1) the development of an inspirational and realistic long-term vision and working taxonomy of the needs and requirements for the development of age-friendly living environments and 2) the development of a functional brief for the deployment of Homes4Life vision. 3) To develop and validate the Homes4Life certification scheme . 4) To deliver proof of increased future investment into age-friendly living environments. 5) To ensure a wide-spread dissemination and exploitation of Homes4Life results.
To develop and validate the Homes4Life certification scheme on the basis of the functional brief, an approach to the development of the certification scheme was made in the first period, that has been fully developed in the second period of the project. The CS validation phase has been performed through a series of test in 12 buildings distributed over 10 pilot sites in different European countries and has been completed and contrasted through a Call for Comments on the previous versions of the CS.
For the fourth objective of the project, there have been gathered 26 letters from a wide range of organisations to support the development of age-friendly environments based on Homes4Life vision and taxonomy, and especially the post-project exploitation of the Certification Scheme.
For the last objective, during all the project, a big effort has been made to disseminate and communicate the project and its activities participating in several conferences and events and promoting the project in different media and social media and has been created the Homes4Life Community of Interest with a wide range of stakeholders from public authorities to construction and industrial experts, technologists, providers of personal household services and representatives of inhabitants and older adults.
The main exploitable results resulting for the project have been:
• The Homes4Life vision document (WP2): to increase awareness about age-friendly environments for funded research, business opportunities, and policy making.
• The Homes4Life Taxonomy and KPI definition methodology (WP3): will be exploited in the domains of research and policy. In the research arena, the Homes4Life tools can have value as carrier instruments and structuring principles for organization, interpretation and presentation of research and innovation in integrated urban and rural development
• The Homes4Life newly developed and validated European certification scheme (WP4): There are contractual relations foreseen between the organisations which will undertake the different roles in the post-project exploitation. In particular:
o Those who market and sell the certification scheme will pay royalties to the Managing Entity.
o Service contracts will be established between on the one hand the entities performing training and assessments, and on the other hand the ones ensuring marketing & sales.
