The presentations held at the European AAL Day are available as pdf-files through a click on the titles of the presentations!

08.00 Opening of the registration - morning coffee is served!

09.00 Welcome and introduction
Dr. Gerhard Finking, Head of Department at the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and President of the AAL Association

09.15 Welcome address by the European Commission (1 MB)
Paul Timmers, Head of Unit ICT for Inclusion, European Commission
Directorate-General Information Society & Media

09.30 Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (300 KB): Objectives and Participation Rules; Pekka Kahri, TEKES, Vice-President of the AAL Association

10.00 Questions / Coffee Break

Additional Activities around Ambient Assisted Living

10.30 AALIANCE – European Support Action of Research and Industry representative towards Ambient Assisted Living (460 KB)
Wolfgang Gessner, Head of Department Innovation Europe, VDI/VDE-IT

10.40 ICT enabled Independent Living for Elderly (830 KB)– a fact finding mission funded by the EC; Christian Wehrmann, Project Manager, VDI/VDE-IT

10.50 Questions

European Good Practise Session in Ambient Assisted Living
Moderated by Michael Huch, VDI/VDE-IT

11.00 1^st round of presentations

Projects in the domain of Ambient Assisted Living or ICT enabled independent living for elderly

Presentations of Netcarity (3.5 MB), Cogknow (1.9 MB), Saliwell (4 MB)

12.00 Lunch break

13.00 2^nd set of presentations 

Mobile AAL (820 kb), TRAIL (600 kb), eHealth Living Lab (1.2 MB), Unattended autonomous Surveillance (1.6 MB)

14.00 Panel discussion “Crucial issues for successful AAL projects”

• Which methods were proofed “good practice” concerning the integration of users?
• What are key requirements concerning validation of the results, i.e. test methods for procedures or pilot applications?
• Which business concepts are envisaged – and why these and not others?

Panelists: Gerhard Finking (moderator), Paul Timmers, Pietro Siciliano, Maurice Mulvenna, Andy Wolff and Luis Pablo del Arbol Pérez

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 5 minutes-presentations of project ideas under the 1^st AAL call

01 Caring TV – Safe Home Service Design (270 kb); Katariina Raij, Director of Well Life Center, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Espoo, Finland

02 eVIA: Spanish Technology Platform for the eAccessibility & Independent Living (1.1 MB); Sofia Moreno Pérez, AETIC

03 Alone at home (20 kb); Christian Peter, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock

04 IntelligentWalker (4.6 MB); Prof. Dr. Bernd Krieg-Brueckner, Director, Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems DFKI-Lab Bremen

05 Mobility support to carry on an independent life in preferred environment (2.0 MB); Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus-Peter Hoffmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology

06 IBBT - Interdisciplinary Institute for Broad Band Technology (200 kb); Dr. Ann Ackaert, IBBT - UGent - INTEC / IBCN

07 Ingema - Robotiker (320 kb); Carmen Pastor and collegue, ROBOTIKER INNOVA

08 Internet based Portal supports Weight Reduction of Elderly Suffering from Adiposity (440 kb); Dr. Ing. Hans Günter Despang, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems

09 Open Mobile Platform for Elderly Citizen's Services (800 kb); Jean Hennebert, Institut Informatique de gestion, Sierre, Switzerland

10 Fraunhofer Alliance (1.4 MB); Dr. Reiner Wichert, IGD

16.30 Time for bilateral meetings and discussions

~17.00 End of meeting