The AAL Joint Programme will launch the third Call for Proposals with the topic “ICT based solutions for Advancement of Older Persons’ Independence and Participation in the “Self-Serve Society.”

 The core of the AAL Joint Programme is to provide innovative ICT based solutions to elderly persons, which means innovative products, systems or services addressing identified wishes and needs of the end-users. Projects funded under the AAL Joint Programme will be multinational, collaborative and cost-shared. Funding contracts of individual project partners will be concluded with the relevant national funding authority.

The AAL JP is a demand-driven R&D funding programme for innovative ICT-based solutions (products, services, and systems) for ageing well. Improving the quality of life, autonomy, participation in social life, skills, and employability of older people is the main goal of the AAL program, while improving service delivery and reducing care costs are secondary targets.

AAL projects should address major issues associated with a market introduction of 2-3 years after finalization of the project.

This call will fund proposals for innovative ICT-solutions that enable older people to:

• Preserve and enhance independence and dignity in all aspects of daily life
• Take active part in the self-serve society
• Stimulate and support the capacities required for such participation (e.g. mobility, physical, and cognitive)

Relevant application areas are:

• Home environment and related activities of daily living – at home, on holiday, in visits (“mobile enabled solutions”).
• Transportation and travel activities

In any application area, innovation of ICT-based solutions must take into account the following challenges:

• Improvement of older people‟s access to, acceptance, trust, and use of services provided through ICT-based solutions.
• Improvement of user interfaces and the usability of devices and solutions for older people, based on design for all-principles as far as possible.
• Enabling customization to individual needs and wishes of elderly people of the total service chain involving different providers, channels, methods, and market segments.
• Integration of new ICT-based solutions to be provided by existing (or new) service providers, channels or market segments, and adapted for seniors.

For more information, consult the Ambiant Assisted Living Forum website:

Download the call description