Announcing Institution:

National Center for Research and Development and the National Science Center 

Call topic:

ADVANCING INCLUSIVE HEALTH & CARE SOLUTIONS FOR AGEING WELL IN THE NEW DECADE

Scope of the competition:

The aim of the Call is to support innovative, transnational and multi-disciplinary collaborative projects.

While keeping an open call approach (i.e. open to all 8 AAL application areas – see section 1.4), the call 2021 would like to stress three elements, namely an inclusive health & care approach (health prevention, preservation of physical & mental health, social participation), the stimulation and upscaling of innovation in active & healthy ageing through health & care eco-systems and the accessibility of digital solutions to end users, e.g. through education for greater e-literacy.

NCBR will fund only collaborative projects.

Collaborative Projects aim to:

• Develop, test, validate, scale up and integrate into service delivery models ICT solutions for ageing well;
• Develop innovative ICT solutions to support holistic approaches to healthy ageing;
• Contribute to the creation/strengthening/connection of ecosystems , limited to a task in the dissemination-related activities of the proposal.

Collaborative projects

Collaborative projects (carried out by consortia composed of at least 3 organizations from 3 different countries including an end user organization and a business partner) will remain the main funding tool for this call. This type of projects has a duration of 12 to 30 months with a maximum funding of €2.500.000.

Participating countries/partners:

• Austria
• Belgium (Innoviris-Brussels & Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship Agency)
• Canada
• Cyprus
• Hungary
• Italy (MoH, MIUR, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region)
• Luxembourg (LuxInnovation, FNR)
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland (NCRD)
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Spain (ISCIII)
• Switzerland
• Taiwan

Application Deadline:

21 May 2021 at 17:00 hours Central European Time (CET).

Method of submission:

The call for international applications is made through an electronic system.

More information:

NCBiR

Competition website