We have been ask to apply for a  ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP).
Our initiative will be a Type B Pilot project, 4.5 MEuro.
This programme aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness  through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The approach is based on leveraging innovation in response to growing societal demands.

As we are currently developing an innovative medical triage support solution, we like to apply a project based on the Objective 1.3: Making Emergency Services Accessible to all.

We will develop a pilot service focusing on the validation of total  conversation access to emergency services, including SMS, Web, Mobile, Landline, accessible for all across Europe.  We will have plug-ins like relay services, SMS, Speech-to-text, animation, video, etc.

For more information about the call, please visit:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/about/index_e...

For more information of our triage decision support solution, please
visit:
http://www.semlab.nl/pages/p.view?id=73

We already have a project plan available and are registered already.

As you are a high respected organization and you are in the ICT PSP Database, we kindly ask you to join our consortium. Our consortium included Microsoft, Red Cross, Telcom internationals, hospitals, GP organizations, emergency providers and many other stake holders.
Please consider your participation, if you need further information
please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,
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Bram Stalknecht
Project Manager
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SemLab
Zuidpoolsingel 14-A
2408 ZE Alphen aan den Rijn

AAL Policy Workshop in Brussels on 25-26 September 2008
The Joint AAL Association / AALIANCE Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living Policy in
Europe (co-organised with the European Commission) will be held in
Brussels on 25-26 September 2008.

The goal of this workshop is to create a comprehensive vision of the R&D and policy needs for ambient assisted living technologies and to suggest strategies that may serve as a roadmap for industry, service providers, academia and policy makers. An intensive exchange of ideas
shall support the building of a AAL community that may gather as project consortia in the future.
The workshop will consist of keynote speeches and four consecutive round table discussions, each opened by dedicated impulse speakers:
- Older people at home
- Aging in Society
- Aging at Work
- AAL Community building

Experts are asked to prepare short statements on different aspects of ambient assisted living technology trends in the different user domains, social-institutional aspects and R&D support and AAL community building.
In order to ensure a high intensity of discussion, participation in this workshop will be limited to a total of about 80 persons.
Interested experts are asked to apply for participation (including a description of their proposed contribution) on the AALIANCE website.
Experts will be carefully selected based on the relevance of their announced contribution to the discussion on the workshop topic and taking into account the importance of their attendance for the workshop goal.

The ICT BIO 2008 Conference (Oct. 23-24, 2008) will provide an insight into existing and future prospects on integrative research for complex human diseases at European and international levels.

The objective of this 2 day conference is to:

• Communicate the opportunities and challenges of the Virtual Physiological Human and Integrative System Biology and other topics that lie at the crossroads of ICT, Biology and Medicine
• Provide the possibility for discussions on progress beyond the current state of the art and to promote international cooperation and networking
• Provide an overview about the current activities in these domains not only in EU but also in US and other countries, and to examine opportunities for closer cooperation between EU and US funding agencies

Expected results of this conference:

Procuring for benefits: Implementing innovative eHealth systems
6 November 2008  Copenhagen, Denmark This workshop (held at the WoHIT2008) will focus on experiences, challenges and suggestions of procurers of eHealth systems, clinical managers and health professionals. Among the issues to be discussed are
-Why and when physicians and nurses support investment in eHealth?
-Which benefits do they expect and which they experience?
-How does this translate into the investment decision making and procurement process of their organisations?  
The conclusions of this by invitation only workshop will be made public by the European Commission.

4 - 6 November 2008

Good eHealth cases at WoHIT2008

Copenhagen, Denmark

2 call for papers were selected for the WoHIT Conference, meaning that
4 good eHealth cases will be presented during two educational sessions:
Nationwide wide PACS - giving instant access to radiological images
regardless of location, Digital Health Record: an internet based
Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in Estonia, The Oxford clinical
Intranet, ICT - hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) -
Finland. More information to be found in due time on
http://www.worldofhealthit.org/education/education.aspx.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu

http://www.worldofhealthit.org/

Procuring for benefits: Implementing innovative eHealth systems
6 November 2008  Copenhagen, Denmark This workshop (held at the WoHIT2008) will focus on experiences, challenges and suggestions of procurers of eHealth systems, clinical managers and health professionals. Among the issues to be discussed are
-Why and when physicians and nurses support investment in eHealth?
-Which benefits do they expect and which they experience?
-How does this translate into the investment decision making and procurement process of their organisations?  
The conclusions of this by invitation only workshop will be made public by the European Commission.

4 - 6 November 2008

Good eHealth cases at WoHIT2008

Copenhagen, Denmark

2 call for papers were selected for the WoHIT Conference, meaning that
4 good eHealth cases will be presented during two educational sessions:
Nationwide wide PACS - giving instant access to radiological images
regardless of location, Digital Health Record: an internet based
Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in Estonia, The Oxford clinical
Intranet, ICT - hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) -
Finland. More information to be found in due time on
http://www.worldofhealthit.org/education/education.aspx.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu

http://www.worldofhealthit.org/

Citizen Services for Borderless Healthcare in the European Union: Current Situation - Vision – Solutions
9 September 2008, Kiel, Germany

This workshop is dedicated to all those involved in the health sector, from hospitals to consumer organisations. Practical possibilities and solutions will be demonstrated at the workshop with examples from the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic states. The workshop will be opened by a representative from the European Commission and Dr. Milan Cabrnoch, Member of the European Parliament.

Workshop eHealth Workshop at the "eHealth Conference 2008":

"Citizen Services for Borderless Healthcare in the European Union:
Current Situation - Vision – Solutions"

9th September 2008, 9:00 – 12:00 h

Objective
• To understand and create a class of information technologies that would enable a scientifically
demonstrable enhancement of the quality of life for the aged in the home of the future.
• Context-Aware Computing: The research will identify multimodal technology that robustly locates a person,
and tracks activity in the short and long term, with state of the art facilities for broadband access and
computing. Tracking technologies include arrays of smart cameras and microphones and other sensors,
all leading to an environment that is aware of its occupants (elderly) and their activities.

Aim
How do we increase the opportunities for Aging in Place?
• Recognizing and advertising crisis
• Assisting daily routines
• Supporting peace of mind for adult children

Research Problem
• To develop intelligent machines, interfaces, and environments that can perceive, recognize, anticipate
and interact with humans.
• Sensors such as eyes (cameras), ears (microphones) and touch (contact sensors) are used. Analysis and
interpretation of the signals from these sensors gives the system certain context awareness.
• To this end, we will be developing signal understanding and pattern recognition techniques for
analysing sensory signals from scenes and environments.
• We will be exploring methods for perceiving where people are, recognizing them, understanding their
actions, and interpreting the communication stream.
Technological Requirements
Designing interfaces that are unobtrusive and not complex. Some examples include:

Brokerage Session of SEREN at the SRC'08 on 29Sep08 in Paris

In the framework of the 2008 call for proposals on Security research, SEREN and the European Commission organise a brokerage session. This event is host on Monday 29th of September by the 2008 edition of the Security Research Conference, SRC'08.

The brokerage session is organised to enable an efficient exchange of information between organisations presenting proposal ideas and interested participants. Each presenter of a proposal idea has a maximum of two minutes to explain the objectives, topic addressed, the consortium, the type of partner sought for his proposal and give his contact details using a two slides maximum presentation (in PDF format).

A maximum of 40 proposal ideas will be accepted and the selection will be made on a first come, first serve basis.

In order to ease retrieving of presentations by interested participants, potential presenters are invited to fill the brokerage session form and send it, together with the presentation, by email by 12.09.08 to pcn_securite AT cea.fr This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . The retained presenters will receive a confirmation by 19.09.08. Presentations not retained will been shown in the exhibition area throughout SCR'08 (unless specified otherwise by email) All presentations (retained or not retained for the brokerage session) will be posted on this website according to the topic SEC-2009-x.y addressed.
The SEREN network reserves its rights to publish presentations on its website and/or to invite potential presenters in case a potential presentation was deemed as out of scope.