alps4eu final conference presentation

1. Comfort in Living Innovation Express
Brussels 16th of January 2014
Lotten Svensson

2. MISSION
A more competitive region
“In the long term strenghten the competitiveness
and profit in the producing industry in Skaraborg”

3. Material
”Every Idea Has A Material Solution ™”
Material ConneXion® Skövde
Material ConneXion® Skövde, a division of IDC West Sweden AB

4. COMFORT
LIVING
IN
Comfort in Living, BRS Stardust
flagship into Innovation Express
Horizon 2020
The purpose of Comfort in Living is to focus on
product development for the comfort in living
among the growing population of elderly people in
the Baltic Sea Region. The project responds to the
growing societal challenge of an aging population
in Europe as well as in other parts of the world.
Aim to find new concepts of multifunctional
kitchens for elderly people 65 +

5. Partners
PARTICIPANTS
• IDC West Sweden
•The Art Academy of Latvia
•Business Cooperation Center of Southern
Lithuania
•The faculty of wood technology, Poznan
University of Life Science (Poland)
•Associated partners are The Development
Centre UMT in Denmark, Culminatum
•Innovation in Finland and the Estonian Academy
of Fine Arts, Tallin University.

6. CONCEPTS
Prototypes at Innovation Camp
Project ends with the big event Innovation Camp
with approximately 80 participants from seven
countries

7. INNOVATION
EXPRESS
Innovation Express
Positive: we could execute follow up study of
companies and students working together and
also produce a report that can work as a
handbook for a common event since it was a lot of
organizing, without Innovation Express we never
had the chance to sum up and prepare for the
future.
A great possibility to work during 2014 where
there are lack of calls and money to continue,
most of our partners must close down and people
loose their work – with this help we can continue
to work and meet not to loose time and the
consortium

8. INNOVATION
EXPRESS
Time to prepare for coming calls in COSME and
Horizon 2020 also for research, product
development, Comfort in Work, virtual age lab,
CleanTech and kitchen for elderly with first and
second step of dementia
Cooperation with other countries gave more
money with no need of co-financing
Difficulties:
Time from official decision until new decision in
Vinnova
Partner in Finland got blocked from applying and
therefor they have even more difficulties to work
together than before
Co-financing

9. CONCLUSION
Study and report strenghten the Comfort in Living
Consortium and new ideas can be developed
Writing for coming EU-program can be prepared
Flexible and easy to connect with national partner
Reporting in Vinnovaportalen, much easier than
the Comfort in Living project
I can recommend this tools since it is quick in
decision, easy to access and gives the opportunity
to prepare for other programmes
Lotten Svensson
lotten@lottencompany.se +46-705-331009