[aaloa supporters] News about the Lecce Declaration

[Mohammad-Reza Tazari]

Dear AALOA Supporters,

Despite the vacation time allover in the Europe, 23 projects have 
already announced their support for the Lecce Declaration 
<http://www.aalforum.eu/group/leccedeclaration>, which has reached its 
pre-final version 
<http://www.aalforum.eu/group/leccedeclaration/page/v5-from-1-sep-2011>. 
There is still one week time for extending the list before printing the 
declaration for distribution in Lecce. Obviously, the more projects 
announce their support, the larger the impact of the declaration will be!

All of the supporters are requested to do their best to clarify with the 
AAL projects, in which they are involved, if the project will support 
the declaration. In my opinion, each one of us must make sure that if 
our projects are not supporting the LD then not because of insufficient 
awareness or attention but only because there has been a decision not to 
do so.

FYI: the Declaration will be made official during the AAL forum in Lecce 
(26 Sept - 28 Sept):

  * the current version of the declaration will be distributed to all
    participants of the AAL Forum
  * a side-event will take place on Monday 26/09/11 from 10.30 to 12.00
    in the AAL Forum for ratifying the declaration (see the programme
    under http://www.aalforum.eu/page/side-events)
  * a presentation about the Declaration will be made by Antonio Kung in
    Session E2 <http://www.aalforum.eu/page/session-e2> (European ageing
    related policies)
  * the final version after ratification will be published in the
    proceedings of AAL Forum and sent to the addressees (the high-level
    steering group
    <http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing&pg=steering-group>
    that prepares for a pilot EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing
    <http://ec.europa.eu/active-healthy-ageing>, the JPI /More Years,
    Better Lives/ <http://www.jp-demographic.eu/>, the CMU of the AAL JP
    <http://www.aal-europe.eu/aal-ncp>, and the DG INFSO of the EC
    <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/>).


In order to support the Declaration as an AAL community initiative, 
projects should consider to send an e-mail similar to the following 
until Sep 19th:

    *To:* antonio.kung at trialog.com, francesco.furfari at isti.cnr.it,
    saied.tazari at igd.fraunhofer.de
    *Subject:* We support the Lecce Declaration

        On behalf of the <PROJECT NAME> consortium (<funding programme>,
        <URL>), we would like to express our support for the Lecce
        Declaration.


Note that there is no formal act nor legal obligations in supporting the 
Lecce Declaration. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need 
clarifications.Kind regards,

-- Saied

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