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Dear AALOA supporters,<br>
<br>
I have received some emails asking for the results of the workshop
on Tuesday. This is to try to answer this question.<br>
<br>
According to the list of people who signed the participants list on
site, 44 from the registered 52 registered people attended the
workshop. In my opinion, from a programmatic point of view the
workshop was a success: both the presentations and the discussions
were appreciated very much, the timing of the sessions was ok, and
especially the involvement of non-organizing participants in the
whole event, even in the discussions, was very obvious. I believe
that this real openness of the organization has once more attracted
more trust to AALOA.<br>
<br>
The workshop, however, couldn't define any funding scheme for
porting projects. Instead, the following can be enumerated as the
results:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>According to my understanding, awareness about the positive
role of widely accepted AAL platforms for the success on the
market was created and where already existing, it was increased.</li>
<li>I think that it was also understood that porting projects</li>
<ul>
<li>force the platforms to deliver the evidence of being
practically useful, and hence<br>
</li>
<li>can serve the process of consensus building so that the
number of candidate platforms can be reduced to only few very
promising that have the chance to be accepted and used very
widely.</li>
</ul>
<li>But the fear was that the owners of prototypes cannot be sure
if they are in the "right" porting project (in the sense of
being in a project that finally approves the used platform as a
promising one)</li>
<li>From the side of the commission, the role of the European
Innovation Partnership (in case of AAL, AHAIP standing for
Active and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership, also known as
EIP on AHA) in the definition of the new priorities was
highlighted. As far as i understood, the EIPs are supposed to
deliver their first results until the end of the year and any
idea about why and how to push the process of consensus building
on platforms should be communicated to them as soon as possible.</li>
<li>From the side of the AAL JP, it was emphasized that the
importance of a platform is now more clear for the CMU and that
the CMU is open towards any suggestion on the incorporation of
this topic in the AAL JP. However, there is no guarantee if and
how such suggestions can be considered; also, any decision in
this regard will take time because it must be ratified by the
AALA board.</li>
<li>The concrete suggestion about launching "horizontal" porting
projects in parallel to the projects of the AAL JP calls, where
the prototypes coming out of the running projects temporarily
join the porting projects was also classified as one of those
ideas that can be suggested to the CMU for further examination.</li>
<li>The participants agreed to create a protocol with a set of
recommendations that is then sent both to the AAL JP CMU and to
the EIP on AHA. For this purpose, they will use a mailing list
of AALOA. We will put the protocol on the two pages <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://aaloa.org/news/amb11">http://aaloa.org/news/amb11</a>.
Also, most of the presentations will be put on these pages in
the second half of June.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
I hope that I didn't miss any important point. Also, this is not any
official protocol but my personal view.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
-- Saied<br>
<br>
Mohammad-Reza Tazari wrote on 07-Jun-11 08:28:
<blockquote cite="mid:4DEDC51B.4000805@igd.fraunhofer.de"
type="cite">According to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/index_en.htm">http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/events/aal_market/index_en.htm</a><br>
<br>
you can follow the workshop live here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=0d7363894acdee742caf7fe4e97c4d49">http://scic.ec.europa.eu/str/index.php?sessionno=0d7363894acdee742caf7fe4e97c4d49</a><br>
<br>
kind regards,
<br>
<br>
-- Saied
<br>
<br>
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