Assistive technology and accessible housing VISION A collaboration platform for research-, development- and innovation that promotes currently accessible housing and assistive technology services so that all people, regardless disabilities or age, can live independent and safe lives.

Why we need AllAgeHub We need innovative thinking in order to meet the future needs in health- and social care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Products and services do not always correspond to the users’ needs. The municipalities need support in implementing assistive technology. Companies wish to develop products and services together with the target group. We should take advantage of the existing knowledge, as well as develop new knowledge regarding assistive technology and accessible housing.

Before AllAgeHub The show room Vision Bo Äldre was inaugurated in The City of Gothenburg during 2009. The municipalities and other social actors needs of cooperation regarding assistive technology and accessible housing are identified. Preliminary study done by GR resulted in a document describing a common vision and applications for project funding. The construction of AllAgeHub started in 2017.

The concept Interactive environment Physical and virtual environment with the possibility to test products and services, as well as discuss how they are to be implemented. Learning A learning environment with for example courses, seminars, conferences, web education and networks. Innovation Where industry, academia and society meet to create development projects with access to reality labs in the municipality’s operations and activities. Research Arena for interdisciplinary research collaborations.

Interactive environment Physical environment with the possibility to test products and services, as well as discuss how they are to be implemented. Scheduled visits, max 15 persons. Companies can participate in the environment to show their products. More information on www.allagehub.se

Innovation Where industry, academia and society meet to create projects for development and implementation. AllAgeHub will identify, collect and specify needs, challenges, solutions and areas needing improvement in assisitive technology and accessible housing. Challenge-driven innovation. Activities for identifying the challenges and needs. Such as workshops and focus groups. Activities for identifying the solutions for the identified challenges and needs. Such as open arenas and hackatons. Assessment committee for process and expertise support. AllAgeHub-representatives in all the twelve municipalities.

Research Knowledge in assistive technology and accessible housing needs to increase, while existing knowledge needs to be more widely distributed. AllAgeHub can: Be a part in research applications. Distribute existing knowledge. An arena for connecting academia and public sector for collaborations around keen research questions. Student collaborations Ongoing: Transnational Living Lab for Active Aging

Learning A learning environment with for example courses, seminars, conferences, web education and networks. Ideas for the learning environment can be sent via www.allagehub.se

Participation actors A initiative by the twelve municipalities Ale, Alingsås, Gothenburg, Härryda, Kungälv, Lerum, Lilla Edet, Mölndal, Partille, Stenungsund, Tjörn och Öckerö with The Göteborg Region Association of Local Authorities, GR, as project owner. Cooperation partners The research environments AgeCap and GPCC at the University of Gothenburg, CVA and building futures at Chalmers University of Technology, as well as CVS at the University of Borås. The pensioner organisations PRO and SPF Seniorerna The real estate group Framtiden AB Johanneberg Science Park and Sahlgrenska Science Park. Business region Göteborg Region of Västra Götaland (Group staff for Healthcare, department of Digitalization of Healthcare and DART) Financiers 12 GR municipalities: Ale, Alingsås, Göteborg, Härryda, Kungälv, Lerum, Lilla Edet, Mölndal, Partille, Stenungsund, Tjörn och Öckerö. Vinnova Region of Västra Götaland, (Regionutvecklingsnämnden) Civilsamhälle Akademi Offentlig sektor Näringsliv

Construction phase 2017-2019 There are today funding corresponding 4,15 full time people during the three year of construction phase of AllAgeHub, 2017-2019. The municipalities and cooperation partners contributes with work time corresponding 1,9 millon sek a year. The operation is temporary located on The Science Park Conference center in Gothenburg. AllAgeHub-representatives in all the twelve municipalities. Steering committee (municipalities). Assessment committee. Development group. Future Models and solutions for funding are examinated. Development group >> Strategy group.

AllAgeHub-representative The AllAgeHub-representatives are the link between AllAgeHub and the municipalities, and will for instance communicate the municipalities’ needs to AllAgeHub and provide information regarding AllAgeHub’s activities to the municipalities. The AllAgeHub-representatives have a key-role when it comes to organizing reality labs throughout the municipalities where tests and development projects regarding assistive technology and accessible housing environments are to be run. The AllAgeHub-representatives should also initiate communication with the municipalities, their employees and various departments with the intention to make them submit ideas on improvements, challenges and solutions to AllAgeHub’s coming idea development environment. Contact information for all the representatives can be found on www.allagehub.se

Assessment committee The assessment committee consists of representatives from the public sector, industry, academia and society, and congregate ten times every year. Assessment committee constitutes process and expertise support for matching ideas and solutions with the identified challenges and needs. The representatives can be found on www.allagehub.se

Steering committee (municpalities) AllAgeHub is primarily financed by Vinnova, Region of Västra Götaland and twelve municipalities within the Göteborg Region Association of Local Authorities, project owner. The steering committee manages the operations made possible by the finances provided. The Göteborg Region Association of Local Authorities is the project owner. The City of Gothenburg has appointed two representatives and another two representatives have been selected by the network of social welfare directors in the Göteborg Region Association of Local Authorities. The representatives are listen on www.allagehub.se

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