Sergio Guillén and Giuseppe Fico were invited by Martyn Briskov, chairman of this event and coordinator of SINCRHONICITY, to co-chair special sessions and give presentations in several workshops. Also, a networking dinner with City Mayors and representatives took place the day before the conference. This event represented a nice opportunity to establish business collaborations between ACTIVAGE and SINCRHONICITY.

Presentation of the WoQuaZ approach to smart living

Giuseppe Fico, Maria Teresa Arredondo from UPM organized a special session on IoT Ecosystems and Smart Living Environments for Ageing Well. Sergio Guillén from MySphera presented the ACTIVAGE project, Giuseppe Fico the Madrid DS.

Presentation of WoQuaZ experience with  the related construction project

A national event where all the Spanish reference sites and Action Group coordinators of the EIPonAHA meet with the National Health Institute Carlos III to see the current status of the EIPonAHA and explore future direction. Miguel Gonzalez Sancho, Head of the Health and Wellbeing Unit from DG Connect, among others has been invited to provide different perspectives. was mentioned as a reference project that aims at establishing innovative and sustainable ecosystems in AHA and as a multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary initiative that can be linked with the activities of the EIP on AHA.

Both CareWell and BeyondSilos projects came to an end in January 2017 after three years of successful implementation of technology enabled integrated eCare services in 11 European regions. We were invited to participate at a side poster event where we presented ACTIVAGE via a poster

ACTIVAGE was presented via a PowerPoint presentation at the 15th Annual Meeting of Ιnter-Municipal Network of Healthy Cities

ACTIVAGE was presented to the 5th Smartcities conference. The workshops main agenda was: 1. Urban Environment Today: Strategy, Challenges & Methods of Implementation, 2. Technological Solutions and Innovations for Sustainable Urban Development and Good Practices and Projects where good practices of smart cities were presented, highlighting the strategy, design and the ways they have been implemented. Mayors and project leaders shared with the public their valuable knowledge and vision for the future.

Helmi Ben Hmida attended the action lines: - Action Line Digital Wellbeing and Action Line Digital Cities where several discussions and future cooperation’s theme based on ACTIVAGE project have been discussed

Saied Tazari presented ACTIVAGE at the booth of the Federal State of Hesse

IRT Nanoelec host a booth during the event. ACTIVAGE Rollup was presented on the booth Participation :CEA-IRT Nanoelec Mathieu Gallissot

Helmi Ben Hmida attended the following discussion pannels: Urban IoT – the future of Smart Cities in Europe, New business models for the evolving IoT ecosystem, and IoT and the future of work

Finnish ministry delegation, with the lead of the Minister of Social Affairs and Health Mrs Pirkko Mattila attended the Ageing Asia event in Singapore. As part of Finpro delegation, TUAS and SeniorSome were invited to take part. The participants at the event were heterogeneous but mainly leaders of various global companies, interested in the issues of rapid ageing. TUAS and SeniorSome held a lecture/speech and described ACTIVAGE project and its objectives in the field of ageing and its challenges to the societies. There were ministry representatives present.

Silvia Urra Uriarte (TECNALIA)made a presentation of ACTIVAGE as she is working in the is involved the “initiative” about “neighbourhoods of the future” where ACTIVAGE is visible

Presentation of WoQuaZ experience with  the related construction project

Andreas Braun (FRAUNHOFER) and Reiner Wichert (SAGELIVING) acted as program chairs; Reiner did the closing keynote. Helmi Ben Hmida (Fraunhofer) presented his paper with the title: "New Approach for Optimizing the Usage of Situation Recognition Algorithms Within IoT Domains". In the Closing Keynote Reiner Wichert explained the privacy concept of the WoQuaZ DS.

Finnish DS participated in May 2017 to a Super Senior Week opening day, in Turku. The participants included elderly, City of Turku healthcare professionals, caregivers, informal caregivers, local associations working with elderly. ACTIVAGE had a stand where the project was introduced, and the test practicalities and ecosystem’s possibilities elaborated.

Reiner Wichert (SAGELIVING) participated in the meeting. Reiner Wichert explained the DS WoQuaZ use cases, the security and privacy aspects in the DS and the risks for such large IoT infrastructures. The goal is of the Economy Initiative Smart Living by the BMWi to support the market entrance of Smart Living products. Here German companies and SMEs are discussing with the ministry the missing steps to roll out of Smart Living products.

ACTIVAGE was present at the Large-Scale Pilots booth.

Axel Albrecht did the presentation: "Interoperability within & among Distinct Knowledge Spaces: Key to The Neighbourhoods of the Future"* Saied Tazari attended the panel "Open for Innovation".Slides: https://dms-prext.fraunhofer.de/livelink/livelink.exe/Open/14176752

Sergio Guillén (MYSPHERA) and Giuseppe Fico (UPM) were representing the consortium at the ACTIVAGE booth in the EU Project Pavilion. Sergio Guillén participates in the speakers corner presenting ACTIVAGE vision and goals.

Guests and participants had the opportunity to visit the Municipality Pilea-Hortiatis booth and to be informed about municipality’s smart applications and Projects, among them the ACTIVAGE project. People could watch a short slide presentation about ACTIVAGE (in Greek) and get more information in person.

ACTIVAGE was present there and represented by CERTH/ ITI

Presentation by DCCG of ACTIVAGE at the Master Program of the University of Thessaly, Central Greece

Conference given by Tasda AC Marmilloud : “Technological innovation for home support: the search for a combination of services” Innovation meeting: “smart home for ageing population” animated by Veronique Chirié Tasda , Mathieu Gallissot CEA was invited at the round table Both Tasda and IRT Nanoelec hold a booth on the expo with the ACTIVAGE rollup Isabelle Chartier was present on the booth Very interesting contact with landlords : person charge of ageing population, could be involved in ACTIVAGE experiment.

Mª Satur Torre, Innovation Manager at Vodafone Spain Foundation, presented ACTIVAGE project at Round Table “I’m accessible”

Teresa Gallelli presented ACTIVAGE project during the meeting to give visibility to the project in this important European network related with AAL and AHA.

DCCG could present ACTIVAGE IoT services in the demo room that is located to the city of Trikala to the Greek Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Information

• IoT in Medical Science and Healthcare SPEAKER: Sergio Guillen Barrionuevo (MYSPHERA) • IoT & Good Health and Well-being - SDG 3 SPEAKER: Giuseppe Fico (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) • GIoTS - "3rd Workshop on Internet of Things for Active and Assisted Living (IoTAAL)" ATTENDEE: Giuseppe Fico (UPM) • IoT, Smart Living & Ageing Well SPEAKERS: Carlos Palau (UPV) Sergio Guillen Barrionuevo (MYSPHERA) Mustapha Bouraoui (STM) John Farserotu (CSEM) Helmi Ben Hmida (FRAUNHOFER) Several parallel sessions organized by LSP working group was attended by ACTIVAGE members.

8th June: Open session on European policies related to Active and Healthy Ageing during the morning, and in the afternoon, meetings of EIP on AHA Groups and References Sites. Objective: To generate awareness about the project at international and local level. Leaflets distributed among attendees to provide overview of the project. 9th June: Slot for presentation of ACTIVAGE at 16.00 to 16.30 (by Elena Rocher) at Midterm Event of APPCARE project. Objective: To raise knowledge and awareness about ACTIVAGE and VLC deployment site at international level.

Municipality of Trikala has a stand during this 3 days’ exhibition. One of the posters presented was about ACTIVAGE. Additionally, a small presentation of the project took place as well as a summary in the newsletter

LAS NAVES. Elena Rocher. Informative stand and short presentation of ACTIVAGE. To provide information about the project and the pilot to deploy in Valencia in order to recruit voluntary participants.

Pierre Barralon presented the article "Online Physical Activity Monitoring from Head Kinematics" paper

Cristiano Paggetti (MEDEA) as organizer and Olivier Horbowy made a presentation about the project: they were focusing on the research and development of technology based connected health solutions. The participation of members of Public and private Organisations, interested in the Connect Health domain, was an important strategic opportunity to disseminate the ACTIVAGE concepts.

First Panel: Why are IoT platforms important for interconnection and providing personalized services to older people? ACTIVAGE participants: Mrs. Pilar Sala EU Projects Manager, MySphera & “ACTIVAGE” Large-Scale Pilot Manager Dr. Martin Serrano National University of Ireland Galway, Insight Centre for Data Analytics Second Panel: How the EU's ageing population can generate IoT business opportunities in the housing sector and especially for innovative European SMEs? ACTIVAGE participants: Angeles Mata Shareholder and Manager, TERCERA EDAD ACTIVA S.L., Madrid - Spain Isabelle Chartier Silver Economy & Handicap program manager at CEA-LETI and IRT Nanoelec (Public Private Partnership for Micro and Nanoelectronic innovation) – Grenoble, France Mustapha Bouraui from ST participates in the AIOTI - Working group 5 on Ageing population & IoT as chairman

Municipality of Metamorfosis presented ACTIVAGE via a PowerPoint at related stakeholders on 7th of July.

A power point presentation with the title "The integration of Municipal Social Policy services in the era of IoT: ACTIVAGE"

TTSH is an innovative rehabilitation hospital in Singapore, focusing on neurological and robotically assisted rehabilitation solutions. The TTSH is now most focused in digital rehabilitation solutions, therefore visiting Finnish ACTIVAGE DS. TUAS and SeniorSome were hosting a visit of 4 persons from TTSH in July 2017 and presented ACTIVAGE project as part of the visit.

Speaker: Pilar Sala (MYSPHERA), Short presentation of ACTIVAGE, DS VLC pilot and how these technologies contribute to detect early cognitive impairment.

The following ACTIVAGE members gave a lecture mentioning ACTIVAGE during the “Big Data to Improve Outcomes, Process, and Services in Health” session: Big Data for Active and Assisted Living (Sergio Guillén from MYSPHERA) Big Data to Support Active and Healthy Ageing Solution (María Teresa Arredondo from UPM).

Presentation of ACTIVAGE

Participation : D Marsollier FFD organized exposition Area dedicated to Building and innovation. Exhibitor : TASDA, Technosens ,CEA- IRT Nanoelec and FFD. Conference speakers : V Chirié TASDA : IsèreAdom « le projet du Département de l'Isère pour bien vieillir à domicile » Isabelle Chartier CEA-IRT : ACTIVAGE project D Marsollier FFD- Domea conseil Home automation and connected object for autonomy : T Chevallier Technosens : eLio A service platform a senior ready concept

ACTIVAGE Project was presented on the 19th of September 2017 at the conference “Caring for Carers”.

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ACTIVAGE and its potential have been presented by the partner IBM and Aurora Domus during the section: IBM Watson: Sistemi Cognitivi per la Sanità". Title of the presentatio: Dati e Informazioni a supporto dell'Ageing Well: Progetto Europeo Activage

Didier Marsollier FFD Animation: Home automation coaching workshop: the true fake of home automation for autonomy. Conference: ACTIVAGE project aims to extend and support the independent living of older people in their living environment and to meet the real needs of caregivers, service providers and public authorities through the deployment of innovative and pilot pilots on a large scale in nine deployment sites.

They expected 300.000 visitors in 3 days, visitors from Japan, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Malaysia. SENIORSOME and TUAS had a joint stand with Sendai FWBC, where SeniorSOME ecosystem (used in ACTIVAGE) was demonstrated. Most sophisticated home care professionals and technologies were present at the fair.

ACTIVAGE was presented during the European researchers night at the NTUA old builidng on the 29th of September

Presentation of the WoQuaZ approach to smart living

Saied Tazari made a key note on the WoQuaZ experience and then was part of a panel discussion on Smart Living; Related news item: https://www.darmstadt.de/presseservice/einzelansicht/news/wissenschaftsstadt-darmstadt-als-digitalstadt-auf-der-expo-real-2017-gefragt/?cHash=b4dc4879ae7d09586629a0ee69066961

Round table organized by Mathieu Gallissot CEA IRT “Will Cybersecurity of connected building become a major concern of occupants and operators?” ACTIVAGE as en exemple of end to end security

FFD boot with ACTIVAGE Rollup.

The conference has mainly discussed the following issues: How to replicate smart city solutions? Are standards the right tools for cities? Can the European Standardization Organizations be part of the cities’ journey towards a smart and sustainable future?

Municipality Pilea-Hortiatis mayor Ignatios Kaitezidis attended the event and gave a speech on “smart health cities”. The mayor outlined in his speech the e-health innovation methods ACTIVAGE project is proposing. Many guests and participants attended and had the opportunity to get firsthand information on our municipality’s e-health projects. Votis Konstantinos from CERTH/ITI was invited as speaker for presenting ACTIVAGE and more specifically: Internet of things (IoT) technologies to support senior citizens’ independent living

ACTIVAGE and specifically DCCG will participate at MAST Health Technology Assessment workshop, in the framework of evaluation of the medical digital technology used in various e-health /e-care projects. Cities Net will also participate in a both there.

CERTH/ITI participated in the workshop, chaired the panel entitled “Semantic Web, IoT Platforms and Internet of Everything Secured and Connected” and presented also a paper about the Greek ACTIVAGE DS.

Brochure at welcome pack and presence of MYSPHERA and MEDTRONIC

CERTH/ITI participated in the session organised by EC (project officer of ACTIVAGE) regarding Digital platforms for Homes

Brochures dissemination at FIWARE booth

Helmi Ben Hmida was an invited keynote speaker

UPM together with Hospital Clinico San Carlos (from the Madrid Regional Health Service) and MIT organized the first Datathon on Intensive Care in Madrid. The aim is to stimulate the generation and adoption of open repositories for improving research outcomes in health and health services. Giuseppe Fico was one of the organizer and gave a speech about privacy, security. ACTIVAGE was mentioned as the spotlight project in Europe defining reference specifications on how creating new market opportunities based on data sharing while keeping and preserving privacy and safety of European citizens

Presentation of the WoQuaZ approach to smart living

Presentation of ACTIVAGE by DCCG at the ECHAlliance Annual Gathering

Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis (CERTH-HIT) participated in the conference and presented ACTIVAGE research results related to mobility needs of the elderey.

Saied Tazari presented the WoQuaZ piloting technology

Several presentations in various ministeries, hospitals and universities (Rauno Saarnio and prof. Mika Luimula)

Several presentations of Activageproject (Rauno Saarnio and prof. Mika Luimula)

Several presentations of Activageproject (Rauno Saarnio)

Reiner Wichert was a keynote speaker, attended the following panel discussion and contributed to the forum on "Work & Living" Saied Tazari presented ACTIVAGE approach using open platforms in the forum on "Interoperability & Security" Thilo Albrecht presented the economic aspects of WoQuaZ from the perspective of an investor, operator and provider of assistance systems in forum on "Business Models"

ICCS presented, amongst others, the ACTIVAGE project and its scope, focusing on the technologies used as well as their application in solving everyday problems and improving the lives of elderly citizens, raising the students’ awareness on these issues and their interest in helping with the project.

Christina Karaberi from DCCG participated at the conference and presented Activage via a powerpoint presentation. The event was further disseminated via press releases

Brochures dissemination among interested cities

Several presentations of Activageproject (Rauno Saarnio)

In order to make the project and the pilot knonw to the rest of Municipalities of Central Greece there have been a number of daily events in different Municipalites.

Brochures dissemination among interested cities

Brochures dissemination among companies representants and city councils

Dr. Evangelos Mitsakis (CERTH-HIT) participated in the conference and presented the use cases of FIWARE in the connected and cooperative mobility domain of ACTIVAGE Project.

paper from S. Kleisarchaki CEA: “Indoor Occupancy Estimation via Location-Aware HMM: An IoT Approach.” M. Yoshida, S. Kleisarchaki, L. Gurgen, H. Nishi.

Pilar Sala and Elena Rocher explained ACTIVAGE project, open calls and launched an exercise about possible business models for our DS at Degree in Biomedical engineering at UPV

Javier Quiles (SERGAS) – Round table workshop

Dr. Nikolaos Kaklanis Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Research & Technololgy Hellas – Information Technologies Institute participated in the City Challenge crowdhackathon smartcity 2 event by presenting ''Internet of things (IoT) technologies to support Senior citizens’ independent living''

Active and Healthy Ageing IoT (I) (AIOTI – ACTIVAGE) (Wednesday Jun 06   12:00 PM to 01:00 PM). In this session, key industrial leaders representing medical technology, consumer, electronics and communication industries debated on the potential of AHA-IoT, and how AIOTI and ACTIVAGE together can take the lead to boost growth of the AHA-IoT market, attracting the collaboration of the many European organisations that deals with IoT technology and with the ageing population issues in Europe. About 40 people attended the session. The session was chaired by AIOTI representative. Active and Healthy Ageing IoT (I) (AIOTI – ACTIVAGE) (Wednesday Jun 06   12:00 PM to 01:00 PM). In this session, key industrial leaders representing medical technology, consumer, electronics and communication industries debated on the potential of AHA-IoT, and how AIOTI and ACTIVAGE together can take the lead to boost growth of the AHA-IoT market, attracting the collaboration of the many European organisations that deals with IoT technology and with the ageing population issues in Europe. About 40 people attended the session. The session was chaired by AIOTI representative. Active and Healthy Ageing IoT (II) (AIOTI – ACTIVAGE) (Wednesday Jun 06   02:00 PM to 03:00 PM). In this third session dedicated to AHA-IoT, key persons representing relevant organisations from the demand side, i.e. the regional public administration in the social care area, a deployment site of ACTIVAGE LSP, and a representant of users associations discussed, from different perspectives, on the opportunities and best strategies, to found and growth the European AHA-IoT ecosystem. The session was chaired by ACTIVAGE Business Manager. PM15 Projects meeting. AHA-IoT ecosystem. ACTIVAGE (Thursday Jun 07   09:00 AM to 10:45 AM). This was a technical session oriented to provide HORIZON 2020 projects in the area of ICT for Active Ageing, Smart homes and smart living environments, and SMEs and Start-ups actives in these fields and IoT, with information on the ioT technologies addressed by ACTIVAGE and possible framework of collaboration with the project. ACTIVAGE exhibition area Booth. All days. The ACTIVAGE project deploy a 2 size booth in the LSPs and EU projects area. The 9 pilots were showcased in the stand. At least 8 persons, representatives of the project technical and management along with pilot’s representatives were always present in the booth. More than 500 people attending the conference visited the projects exhibition. Joint Workshop on IoT for Smart Cities & Communities Platform Convergence: Session 3 - Implementation: Large Scale Pilots and Open Calls (Thursday Jun 07   11:15 AM to 12:30 PM). In this session ACTIVAGE participated as speaker presenting the pre-announcement of the Open Call for proposals, along with other LSP projects. Dr. Nikolaos Kaklanis (CERTH/ITI) was chair/speaker in the sessions quoted below: 1) IoT Marketplaces from EU Projects, 2) Smart Living Environments: ACTIVAGE (LSP) and 3) eHealth & Smart Home Data Protection. Moreover, he presented the Greek DS smart home technical solution (demo) in the ACTIVAGE booth. Brochure dissemination in a booth

Patrick Gottschämmer & Julia Künzel provided for the WoQuaZ demo at the ACTIVAGE booth Saied Tazari attended panel on "Smart Living Environments: ACTIVAGE (LSP)" Helmi Ben Hmida attended the AIoTI  meetings & sessions

Christina Karaberi from DCCG participated at the conference and presented Activage via a powerpoint presentation. The event was further disseminated via press releases.

Technical Session 2: IoT & Healthcare organized by Armand Castillejo STMicroelectronics. presnetation "ACTIVAGE Secure Internet of Things Services for Ageing well: first deployment in Korian rehabilitation clinic" Thomas Loubier, CEA/ IRT Nanoelec

Dr George E. Dafoulas presention of ACTIVAGE project