Periodic Reporting for period 3 - PHArA-ON (Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing)
Reporting period: 2022-09-01 to 2023-12-31
In Europe’s rapidly ageing society, Pharaon provides personalized and optimized healthcare and quality of life improvements, standardized platforms, and platforms from application domains like energy, transport, or smart cities. It is built upon mature existing state-of-the-art open platforms and technologies/tools that are customized to fulfil the specific needs and requirements coming from its users, then implemented using the latest cloud technologies. The platforms, of which interoperability and openness will be key design principles, incorporate AI techniques and traditional algorithms to implement customized intelligent analytics and pattern detection for big data.
Pharaon will follow a user-centric approach for maximum usability and acceptance of all users and stakeholders. User feedback will be monitored and used to shape the customization and evolution of the system. A specific evaluation framework will be used to assess impact. Consortium experts will provide guidelines and requirements regarding data privacy legislation, ethical and legal issues, as well as cybersecurity and privacy designs, which will become key objectives to pursue.
Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be deployed and validated in three stages, (1) in-lab, (2) pre-validation for early-stage debugging, and (3) large-scale pilots (LSPs). Pre-validation and LSPs will take place in six different sites: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy.
Through the 6 planned pilots and the activities addressing ecosystem expansion, the Pharaon project will demonstrate the suitability of the platforms to integrate digital technologies and the capacity of these technologies to keep people at their homes longer, while using institutional care facilities only when intensive care is needed.
Pharaon will follow a user-centric approach for maximum usability and acceptance of all users and stakeholders. User feedback will be monitored and used to shape the customization and evolution of the system. A specific evaluation framework will be used to assess impact. Consortium experts will provide guidelines and requirements regarding data privacy legislation, ethical and legal issues, as well as cybersecurity and privacy designs, which will become key objectives to pursue.
Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be deployed and validated in three stages, (1) in-lab, (2) pre-validation for early-stage debugging, and (3) large-scale pilots (LSPs). Pre-validation and LSPs will take place in six different sites: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy.
Through the 6 planned pilots and the activities addressing ecosystem expansion, the Pharaon project will demonstrate the suitability of the platforms to integrate digital technologies and the capacity of these technologies to keep people at their homes longer, while using institutional care facilities only when intensive care is needed.
During the third reporting period (RP3 – M34-M49), the activities of Pharaon continued in 9 out of the 10 WPs to achieve the main developmental and deployment objectives under the coordination of WP1. During RP3, the technical work was initially focused on the definition of a new Interoperability Plan, aimed to address and rectify the weaknesses highlighted by the reviewers in RP2, through the cooperation of WP3, WP4 and WP5 and technical manager. During the period, all pilots were in the full deployment phase applying the Action Research methodology, involving users and testing scenarios as planned (WP7) supported by training activities (WP9). The evaluation framework was applied both at local (i.e. according to the pilots’ peculiarities) and global level (i.e. for the impact assessment analysis) (WP7). Sustainable service business models from the pilots were investigated and a cost-effectiveness analysis was started (WP1-WP8). The exploitation and innovation activities were focused on analysing potential exploitation pathways, aiming to assist pilots to leverage their technologies (WP8). The Pharaon ecosystem evolution was promoted with the integration into the existing pilots of the technologies coming from the 1st Open Call (including their pre-validation as in WP7) and the launch of the 2nd Open Call (WP6) to create new pilots that can be integrated into the Pharoan ecosystem through the Pharaon ecosystem Hub (WP5). Dissemination and standardization activities (WP9) continued to promote the Pharaon project in the local regions as well as in the European community.
The impact of the Pharaon project is assured from an iterative approach that aims to guarantee an evaluation reference from each pilot with active involvement of relevant stakeholders from different perspectives (patients, decision makers, social and healthcare service providers, clinicians, researchers, and businesses) for customization, refinement, validation, integration and update of the KPIs identified to be used in assessment. According to this, the main objective of the impact assurance activity (T1.4) is to drive the project, since the very beginning, in the definition of a strategy on how to scale up from pilot to adoption in daily life to have real impact on society beyond the project lifespan. Necessary steps for this activity are:
• to define a strategy for the market uptake and sustainability after the project’s end;
• to identify and involve the relevant needed actors for the service introduction into the daily practice;
• to share best practice both inside and outside the consortium in order to address all the key points that are necessary in the pathway towards the market.
Thus, this task strictly worked with other WPs and wanted to provide a holistic approach and vision towards impact.
According to the overall Impact Assurance approach, the key phase entails 3 main steps:
• Definition of methodology to support pilot sites in the definition of a sustainable PHArA-ON Service Business Model
• Test the methodology with the Italian pilot site
• Apply the methodology with all the PHArA-ON pilot sites
The methodology, which results will be included into D1.5 “Report on project impact” (M60) has been applied to all the Pharaon’s pilot sites in occasion of the in presence meeting with this order:
• Italy - March 2022
• Slovenia - July 2022
• Portugal (Amadora and Coimbra) – September 2022
• Murcia – January 2023
• Andalusia– May 2023
• Netherlands – February 2024
The impact assurance activity is strictly assisted and supported by the impact assessment action as implemented in T7.4 “Impact Assessment”. The analysis of the impact generated by Pharaon on users’ wellbeing, on their technology acceptance and cost effectiveness analysis is still ongoing (complete results will be included in D7.5 “Impact Assessment Results” (M60). Some key preliminary results are included in T7.4 activity description and will be further explored over the final phase of the project taking into consideration the heterogeneity of Pharaon’s ecosystem in terms of geographical application areas, deployed technologies, different types of users with different backgrounds etc. The impact assessment analysis will concentrate also on the analysis of the association between different variables and to the understanding of the relationships among them.
Furthermore, PHArA-ON contributes to the sustainability and scale-up of existing and future business models and thus reduces the risk of their obsolescence by supporting technological and market scalability and thereby enhancing the competitive supply of good quality services. Further achievements on impact maximisation are:
● In-depth analysis and identification of five different exploitation pathways for pilots to leverage their solutions effectively.
● Preparation of solution brochures to showcase technologies, enabling potential clients to explore various options and select the most suitable ones for their needs.
● Continual optimisation of the CATAALOG database and ongoing implementation of the admin panels to provide stakeholders and technology partners the opportunity to market their products, services and innovations in a curated marketplace environment.
Classification of solutions according to the TAALXONOMY framework in order to enhance the potential and findability within the CATAALOG platform.
• to define a strategy for the market uptake and sustainability after the project’s end;
• to identify and involve the relevant needed actors for the service introduction into the daily practice;
• to share best practice both inside and outside the consortium in order to address all the key points that are necessary in the pathway towards the market.
Thus, this task strictly worked with other WPs and wanted to provide a holistic approach and vision towards impact.
According to the overall Impact Assurance approach, the key phase entails 3 main steps:
• Definition of methodology to support pilot sites in the definition of a sustainable PHArA-ON Service Business Model
• Test the methodology with the Italian pilot site
• Apply the methodology with all the PHArA-ON pilot sites
The methodology, which results will be included into D1.5 “Report on project impact” (M60) has been applied to all the Pharaon’s pilot sites in occasion of the in presence meeting with this order:
• Italy - March 2022
• Slovenia - July 2022
• Portugal (Amadora and Coimbra) – September 2022
• Murcia – January 2023
• Andalusia– May 2023
• Netherlands – February 2024
The impact assurance activity is strictly assisted and supported by the impact assessment action as implemented in T7.4 “Impact Assessment”. The analysis of the impact generated by Pharaon on users’ wellbeing, on their technology acceptance and cost effectiveness analysis is still ongoing (complete results will be included in D7.5 “Impact Assessment Results” (M60). Some key preliminary results are included in T7.4 activity description and will be further explored over the final phase of the project taking into consideration the heterogeneity of Pharaon’s ecosystem in terms of geographical application areas, deployed technologies, different types of users with different backgrounds etc. The impact assessment analysis will concentrate also on the analysis of the association between different variables and to the understanding of the relationships among them.
Furthermore, PHArA-ON contributes to the sustainability and scale-up of existing and future business models and thus reduces the risk of their obsolescence by supporting technological and market scalability and thereby enhancing the competitive supply of good quality services. Further achievements on impact maximisation are:
● In-depth analysis and identification of five different exploitation pathways for pilots to leverage their solutions effectively.
● Preparation of solution brochures to showcase technologies, enabling potential clients to explore various options and select the most suitable ones for their needs.
● Continual optimisation of the CATAALOG database and ongoing implementation of the admin panels to provide stakeholders and technology partners the opportunity to market their products, services and innovations in a curated marketplace environment.
Classification of solutions according to the TAALXONOMY framework in order to enhance the potential and findability within the CATAALOG platform.