Under the Challenges 5 (Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare) and 7 (ICT for Indendent Living, Inclusion and Governance) the call involves several opportunities for researchers in the area of Ambient Assisted Living.

Identifier: FP7-ICT-2009-4

Publication Date: 19 November 2008

Budget: € 801 000 000

Deadline: 01 April 2009 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

Challenge 5 Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare

Objective ICT-2009.5.1: Personal Health Systems

• a) Minimally invasive systems and ICT-enabled artificial organs: Solutions to enable diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases remotely, i.e. outside hospitals and care centres. Proposals are expected to develop technological innovations both at component level where required and at system level.

• b) Mental Health: ICT based solutions for persons suffering from stress, depression or bipolar disorders (other mental disorders are not in scope).
• c) Support Action
  c1) Prevention of diseases
  c2) Interoperability of Personal Health Systems

Indicative budget distribution
a-b): IP/STREP – EUR 62 million with the objective to support at least 2 IPs under a) and at least one IP under b), in addition to STREPs.
c): CSA EUR 1 million. For each topic, up to one SA will be selected with maximum duration of 12 months and maximum EC funding of EUR 600 000 for c1) and EUR 400 000 for c2).

Challenge 7: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance

Objective ICT-2009.7.1 ICT & Ageing

• a) Service robotics for ageing well: Integration and adaptation of modular robotic solutions that are seamlessly integrated in intelligent home environments and adaptable to specific user requirements for support to elderly people and their carers.

• b) Open Systems Reference Architectures, Standards and ICT Platforms for Ageing Well: this should facilitate, interoperability, systems integration and easy personalisation to provide seamless and cost-effective end-to-end care support and services for independent living, smart workplaces and mobility of elderly people and for their carers.

• c) RTD roadmaps and stakeholder coordination: One support action is to be launched to continue development of RTD roadmaps and stakeholder coordination already started under FP7. One CSA is expected to be funded under c).

Indicative budget distribution
- IP/STREP: EUR 23 million; the objective is to select one IP only to be funded under b) in addition to STREPs funded under a)
- CSA: EUR 1 million

Objective ICT-2009.7.2 Accessible and Assistive ICT

• a) Embedded Accessibility of Future ICT: Solutions for supporting developers in deeply embedding generalised accessibility support within future mainstream ICT-based products and services.

• b) ICT restoring and augmenting human capabilities compensating for people with reduced motor functions or disabilities: Radically new ICT-enabled approaches to restore and augment the ability of people in their daily life with a focus on reduced motor functions. Research should aim for breakthroughs in the way humans interact with computers.

• c) RTD research agendas & coordination of constituencies. In areas a) and b), coordination actions to further align constituencies and prepare future joint agendas and roadmaps. One CA for each RTD area is expected to be funded.
  

Indicative budget distribution
- IP/STREP: EUR 33 million; the objective is to support one IP only to be funded under a) in addition to STREPs funded under a) and b)
- CA: EUR 1 million