Our Europe Department

A European approach.

Today, the European level is essential when it comes to policy and societal change. Active and healthy ageing is a major European issue and is highlighted in European funding programmes. By being involved at European level, the GérontopôleNouvelle-Aquitaine is promoting knowledge and the sharing of European best practices and innovations. It also promotes regional initiatives and policies at European level, in collaboration with committed European regions.

Our priorities

• Act as the European interface for active and healthy ageing stakeholders involved in research, innovation and training in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
• Take part in innovation at European level for the well-being of older people
• Disseminate and promote best practices and results of European projects to stakeholders in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and vice-versa

Our actions

• We take part in European networks.
• We are involved in collaborative European projects.
• We identify and share with active and healthy ageing stakeholders European calls for projects, the latest news from our sector and best practices.

Key figures

4

ongoing European projects

• HENKO NET (Interreg Sudoe)
• CARES (Interreg Europe)
• DIGIT-PRE (Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument)
• PHARAON (Horizon 2020)

9

European projects

since 2016

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for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, which is Reference Site for Active and Healthy Ageing

Our activities in European projects

We are using our Living Lab expertise and role of network coordination to design and share with our European partners solutions to improve the quality of life of older adults.

HENKO NET: Innovation and Digital Technologies for Social and Health Palliative Care at Home

Interreg Sudoe – 2024-2026

coordinate the development of capacity-building programmes for professionals related to innovative solutions and technologies in palliative care
coordinate the piloting phase of the HENKO platform that will be tested with 100 patients by care partners

CARES: Remote Healthcare for Silver Europe

Interreg Europe – 2023-2027

facilitate the exchange of experience on e-health initiatives and policies for older people between stakeholders in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and our European partners, via the identification of good practices and study visits in partner regions
support the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, associated partner in CARES, to get inspiration for the 2023-2028 Health Roadmap

DIGIT-PRE: DIGITal tools delivering PREvention, prediction and remote care

I3 – 2022-2025

coordinate the project’s open call for SMEs to select interregional partnerships developing digital health solutions for prevention, prediction and remote care
support selected SMEs via a personalised innovation support programme to help them bring their solution to international markets

PHARAON: Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing

Horizon 2020 – 2019-2024

coordinate the prevalidation or small-scale user tests of technologies in 6 pilot sites in order to improve the tested tools before a larger deployment in large scale pilots (Murcia and Andalucia in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy)

ITHACA: InnovaTion in Health And Care for All

Interreg Europe – 2017-2022

facilitate exchange of knowledge in the field of smart health and care ecosystems via the sharing of European good practices
support the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region in developing action plans for innovating and scaling up smart health and care solutions

VASADIN: Value-based healthcare models for older people

Eurorégion (Euskadi, Navarra, Nouvelle-Aquitaine) – 2021-2022

organise focus groups with older people and health professionals to identify the difficulties encountered in the patient health and care pathway
identify regional technologies to overcome these barriers

PROCURA: Promoting innovative public procurement in health sector

Interreg Sudoe – 2018-2021

prepare a green paper on public procurement of innovation in social and health care
provide the digital platform to create direct contact between public purchasers and solution providers
coordinate the project’s communication

ICT4SILVER: Promoting adapted responses in terms of Health and home Care for the older people in rural regions of SUDOE territories

Interreg Sudoe – 2016-2019

coordinate 10 pilots in real life situation in 3 countries: test of digital solutions for the silver economy
provide the methodology for the pilots: 21 usage studies and protocols

Contact us!

We will be pleased to discuss with you European projects opportunities, to share inspiring practices for active and healthy ageing, to identify possible partners for future projects.
Let’s get in touch!

Laura GUÉRIN

Head of Europe & International Department