Purpose: The project will create synergies between the furniture industry and innovative ICT solutions through a process of cross sector specialisation. The goal is to:

• Create functioning methods for product design
• Make furniture with focus on safety, reliability and special requirements and preferences for elderly living at home.

Contacts: Prof. Arthur Serrano (PI), Prof. Beatrix Vereijken, Trine A. Magne

Finansiering: The European Union's Regional Development Fund

This project will create four sense gardens (SENSE-GARDEN) in Norway, Belgium, Romania and Portugal. Pictures, videos, music and smells will be used to stimulate the different senses of elderly with dementia. Through personalisation of stimuli, SENSE-GARDEN will stimulate memory, communication and physical activity for the individual with dementia. The goal of SENSE-GARDEN is to reconnect the individual with its sense of self, improve quality of life for people with dementia and their next of kin. You can read more about the project on its homepage.

Contacts: Jon Sørgaard, Trine Magne

Early Warning Accompanies Robotics Excellence

The purpose is to improve the way of life of people with dementia and their next of kin.

Lifestyle monitoring can reduce the strain on next of kin and therefore extend the period where the informal caregiver can maintain the care and support for the person with dementia with emotional benefits in relation to the patients quality of life and social cost.

Contact: Jon Sørgaard

The Netherlands – Vilans; Sensara; ZZG Zorggroep; Italy - Universita Politecnica della Marche; JEF; Norway - Stjørdal kommune; NTNU; the Swiss Confederation - TERZ Stiftung; Multinational – Ascom.