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Mobile Age Final Conference "Co-creating open digital services for age-friendly cities and communities", 10 October 2018, Brussels, Belgium
- Created: 02 July 2018
Local governments are more and more using open data to provide public services to their citizens. However, they lack tools on how to involve citizens, especially older citizens, in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of these initiatives in order to make them address citizens’ needs and expectations in their daily life.
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ULANC partners comment how to address Loneliness and Social Isolation Through Technology at WHIS magazine
- Created: 27 June 2018
As the older adult population in Europe is growing steadily, especially those living in rural areas, the issue of loneliness and social isolation has become of significant concern.
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Co-creation event at the 12th Open Care Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, 24 April 2018
- Created: 27 June 2018
On April 24th, 2018 another co-creation event took place at the 12th Open Care Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. The aim of the two-hour event was to demonstrate the results from adjusting the mobile application interface according to the technical decisions that were taken from the last KAPI co-creation event.
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Co-creation event at the 12th Open Care Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki , 2 March 2018
- Created: 27 June 2018
A co-creation event took place at the 12th Open Care Centre of the Municipality of Thessaloniki on March 2nd, 2018.
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Mobile Age presented at the Réseau Wallon de Développement Rural, 17-18 May 2018, Tourinnes-La-Grosse, Belgium
- Created: 24 May 2018
The Réseau Wallon de Développement Rural dedicated 2 intensive days (17-18 May 2018) to innovative approaches and methodologies, during which two European projects were presented by AGE Platform Europe. Tourinnes-La-Grosse, a village in the middle of the countryside of Wallonia (Belgium) has been at the center of vivid exchanges of perspectives around innovation and how to stimulate innovation in rural areas.
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ifib partner participated at the international workshop "Unsettling technogenarians: Interferences and synergies at the crossroads of Gerontology and Science and Technology Studies", 21-22 June 2018
- Created: 26 June 2018
After its 2017 inaugural meeting in Vienna, this was the second workshop of the Socio-gerontechnology network that explored themes at the intersection of STS and Age Studies. The aims of the meeting were to bring together scholars working in this and related areas, discuss recent developments in the field, and further build the network.
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ifib partner shares knowledge and experience from Mobile Age at "Citizen participation in science" panel
- Created: 24 June 2018
On Wednesday 20th of June 2018, Juliane Jarke from ifib had the opportunity to share knowledge and experience acquired through her work within Mobile Age project with about 300 people attending the Annual Meeting of the “European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations”.
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Against the digital divide: Park benches instead of party tips - how a Bremen project wants to attract more seniors to use the Internet
- Created: 19 June 2018
An article written by Jonas Mielke
Bremen. A Sunday in Zaragoza, Spain. The sun is burning, it's hot in the north-East of Spain. For seniors, the heat can become a hurdle: Should we go outside? Should we wait for the bus, if there were no tree that provide shade? When do we need to leave to get home before nightfall?