CAPSIL Meeting US
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From the 18th to the 20th of March the CAPSIL consortium came together in Washington DC for our 4th General Assembly, 4th working session along with a large program of events with US based funding and decision makers. These 3 days of events were hosted at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville Maryland.
The CAPSIL consortium held our 4th general assembly during this time along with further time devoted to roadmap development. Over the course of three days CAPSIL hosted bilateral meetings between representatives from the EU with representatives from the US. Those from the EU included, members of CAPSIL, representatives of the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC, representatives of the European Commission, Information Society & Media D-G and representatives of the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme. Those from the US for example included, representatives of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), specifically the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Further meetings with the NSF and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering happened during this three day period.
The goal for these bilateral meetings is to further understand the activities underway in each area focussed on independent living supported by technology and to strengthen the opportunities for EU and US researchers to collaborate. There are many funded and unfunded research and development programs in the EU, US and Japan and if the agencies can aid, rely and build on each others efforts then the collective efforts of not just one region but all can be brought to bear on the challenges in independent living.
CAPSIL Contract Objectives
- Presentations of US aging and independent living research agenda by US CAPSIL partners.
- Presentations of EU research and policy on aging and independent living research agenda by CAPSIL EU partner.
- Presentation and open discussion of research support roadmap
- Presentation of international clinically-driven ICT solutions to aging – results from CAPSIL work packages
- Internal Workshop on CAPSIL Roadmap
- Open Workshop on CAPSIL Roadmap
- Internal Workshop on CAPSIL modules
- External Workshop on CAPSIL modules including discussions of contributors and moderators
