1. CASA
Regions for Smart Living
Expert lunch meeting Fabian Dominguez
Lead Partner CASA
8th May 2014, Brussel

2. CASA
• CASA (Consortium for Assistive Solutions Adoption) is funded under the 4th
call of the INTERREG IVC programme, approved in Jan. 2012 (end Dec. 2014)
• Overall objective of the INTERREG IVC Programme is to improve the
effectiveness of regional policies and instruments financing interregional
projects to build on the exchange of experiences among partners
• Regional initiative project under Priority 1: “Innovation and the knowledge
economy”, sub-theme: “the information society”

3. CASA
• The CASA partners are working under the umbrella of the Coral forum (Community of
regions for ambient assisted living):
 currently an informal community group with the aim to feed back good practices
from the study visits
 exchange of experiences to influence future Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
policies at European level
 www.casa-europe.eu

4. CASA
1. Context
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a complex field across Europe
- More structured approach to accelerate the uptake and roll-out new
technologies
- In parallel to development and review of policies
• 14 participating regions joined forces to find solutions and allow best
practices sharing in the field of AAL

5. CASA
2. Partners
14 partners from 13 regions (9 EU countries):
•Government of Flanders – Lead Partner (BE)
•Province of Noord-Brabant (NL)
•Kent County Council (UK)
•South East Technologies Alliance (UK)
•Veneto Region (IT)
•Friuli-Venezia Giulia (IT)
•Scotland (UK)
•Southern Denmark (DK)
•Region Wielkopolska (PL)
•Catalonia (ES)
•Timis County (RO)
•Andalucia (ES)
•East-Sweden (SE)
•Region Halland (West SE)

6. CASA
3. CASA: what?
• Respond to increasing pressure on health and social care resulting from
demographic change and an ageing population
• Use of new technologies:
- Improve the comfort of citizens in managing their conditions
- Reduce the economic and social burden on governmental care budget
• Attempt for implementation policies moving away from traditional mono-
domain policy to work horizontally along the supply chain and across
different departments and ministries

7. CASA
4. CASA: deliverables
• Events and seminars to provide opportunities for demonstrating and sharing
good practices amongst the partnership:
10 study
visits
speaker @ conferences
(e.g. Open Days 2012)
Transfer Task Force
regional SWOT analysis
Best Practice Guide
2 Knowledge Transfer
Conferences
13 local dissemination
events
regional
implementation plans
final conference in
Brussels
28 staff
secondments

8. CASA
a. Study visits (2 days):
• Noord-Brabant: 'Social interaction‘ – 26th
-28th
September (following AAL forum in
Eindhoven)Cataluñia: 'Healthy lifestyle and rehabilitation ICT‘ – 12th
-14th
November
• Kent: 'Monitoring, safety and self management'– 10th
-12th
December
• Wielkopolska: 'Informal care‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCN3MT_qT0)
• South Denmark: 'Telemedecine evaluation model’
• Andalucia: 'Large scale deployment‘
• Veneto: 'Chronic diseases' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOv2V91xm5M)
• Flanders: 'Mobility and liveability/integrated regional policy business and knowledge
development‘ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7aD_jynLQ)

9. CASA
•Scotland: ‘Telehealth and Telecare’ (http://www.zorganderstv.be/reportages/e-health-in-
schotland-casa-studiebezoek)
•East Sweden + West Sweden (region of Halland): 'User driven innovation through
public/private partnership‘

10. b. Communication
• 1 joint web site
• 1 policy forum
• Brochure
• DVD
• E-newsletters
• Press releases
• Speaking opportunities and CASA stand at 15 conferences related to Ambient Assisted
Living: AAL forum (Eindhoven); EIP AHA: opportunity for regions (minister
Vandeurzen, Flanders – Open Days);…
• 1 final conference in Brussels – October 2014
CASA

11. c. Secondments
• “mini study visits” – tailor-made to specific requests of experts
Planned:
• 7th
– 9th
May 2014 – 9 experts elderly care (KCC/NHS)
• 12th
– 14th
May 2014 – 2 experts from Digital Health Institute (Scotland)
Past:
• Polish secondees: 24th
– 27th
March 2014 – 4 experts
• Topic: “design and innovation/creative solutions in health care”
Some impressions…
CASA

18. d. Final conference
• 7th
October 2014 – Brussels (location to be confirmed) > week of Open Days 2014
• Joint final event of 2 INTERREG IVC-projects: CASA and INNOVAge
• Working title of final conference:
“Creating unity out of diversity: sustaining lessons learnt in Active Ageing”
CASA

19. Thank you
Fabian Dominguez
Social Affairs and Public Health attaché
Permanent Representation of Belgium to the European Union
P.A.: Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family Affairs
Staff of the Secretary-General
Koning Albert II-laan 35, bus 30
BE-1030 Brussels
Fabian.dominguez@wvg.vlaanderen.be