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On March 3^rd, representatives of the Pharaon, OPEN DEI and PlatformUptake.eu projects met to explore concertation activities between the three Horizon 2020 funded projects. This event promoted the leverage and exploitation of open platforms in the active and healthy ageing domain (AHA).

The PlatformUptake.eu project aims to deliver a state-of-the-art inventory and analysis of open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing domain, covering both open platforms and partly open/proprietary platforms developed by industry, all the while addressing the interactions between these platforms. To measure the impacts of such platforms and enhance their uptake, the project is developing a methodology for monitoring open platform development, adoption and spread across Europe, by listing key factors that determine success or hindrance in their uptake by the end-user groups, and also the evolution of their ecosystems and stakeholder networks. In the PlatformUptake.eu project, Caritas Coimbra is the coordinator of the tasks “Observe common and differentiating features and characteristics of existing platforms that can act as success or hinderance factors in their uptake” and “Create an effective methodology for monitoring and evaluating the uptake and other success indicators of existing platforms”.

On the other hand, Pharaon’s overall project objective is to make a smart and active living for Europe’s ageing population a reality by creating a set of integrated, highly customizable and interoperable open platforms with advanced services, devices, and tools including IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, cloud/edge computing, smart wearables, big data, and intelligent analytics. Pharaon’s integrated platforms will be validated in large-scale pilots (LSPs), in six different pilot sites: Murcia and Andalusia (Spain), Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia and Italy. A team of partners in each pilot will ensure its right development.

The OPEN DEI project focuses on identifying, documenting and promoting the building blocks which can contribute to an acceleration of the Digital Transformation across domains. It organizes transfer knowledge transfer between Large Scale Pilots and consolidates best practice in reference documents written collaboratively. The project hopes to provide a significant contribution to the emergence of European (health) Data Spaces. 

The three projects’ representatives tried to understand how synergies could be created between the three H2020 funded projects. In this online meeting organised by Caritas Coimbra, the representatives agreed to look at the PlatformUptake.eu tools for monitoring and evaluation of open platforms and assess their use in the Pharaon ecosystem (open service platforms and 6 large scale pilot sites). Furthermore, they will work together on concertation activities, such as scientific papers and workshops.

PlatformUptake.eu is a Coordination and Support Action for the European Commission, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union. PlatformUptake.eu aims to analyse and describe the ecosystem of these platforms, promoting synergies between the respective networks and related projects in the AHA – Active and Healthy Ageing domain and IoT – Internet of Things. It is a partnership of 12 entities: Caritas Coimbra (Portugal), Italian National Research Council (Italy), Fraunhofer (Germany), Technical University of Madrid (Spain), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece), Jožef Stefan Institute ( Slovenia), AFEdemy (Netherlands), Linköping University (Sweden), University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), Stichting Smart Homes (Netherlands), Etablissements A. Lievens Lanckman (Belgium) and the Project’s coordinator, SYNYO GmbH (Austria).

More information about the project is available at https://www.platformuptake.eu/