How to support holistically the independent living and mobility of the elderly across Europe? How to connect services for the elderly in an one-stop-shop fashion and interrelate/ integrate them? What are the elderly and their families/ carers primary needs, concerns and expectations from the technologies and services arising? These, and much more, are to be presented in Florence, in the  OASIS 1^st International Conference.

OASIS is a Large Scale Integrating Project – partially funded by the European Commission (FP7-ICT 215754) - with the aim to develop an open and innovative reference architecture, based upon ontologies and semantic services, that will allow plug and play and cost-effective interconnection of existing and newly developed services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of older people and their enhanced Quality of Life.

The aim of the OASIS 1^st International Conference is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange ideas in the field of Independent Living and Autonomous Mobility of the elderly.

Call for papers – Important dates

The conference welcomes high quality contributions from a variety of stakeholders from across Europe and beyond for all sessions. Contributed papers could be for oral and poster presentations.

Deadline for Abstracts:  Friday July 17, 2009

Abstracts Acceptance:  August 30, 2009

Deadline for full paper:  October 2,  2009