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Project
Acronym: eWALL 
Name: eWall for Active Long Living 
Project status: From: 2013-11-01 To: 2016-10-31 (Completed)
Contract number: 610658 
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Type (Programme): FP7 
Funding scheme: STREP 
Project cost: 8.803.942,00 EUR
Project funding: 5.980.000,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: UNIVERSITY OF AALBORG 
Organisation adress: Fredrik Bajers Vej 5, 9100 Aalborg 
Organisation country: Denmark 
Contact person name: prof. dr. sc. Ramjee Prasad 
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Croatian partner
Organisation name: Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva 
Organisation address: Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska 
Contact person name: prof. dr. sc. Dina Šimunić
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Partners
Organisation nameCountry
HEWLETT PACKARD ITALIANA SRL   
ERICSSON NIKOLA TESLA D.D.   
ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BV  
SAN RAFFAELE S.p.A.  
CURE CENTRUM FUR DIE UNTERSUCHUNG UND REALISIERUNG ENDBENUTZERORIENTIERTER INTERAKTIVER SYSTEME   
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABORATORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES   
UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI   
Ss. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE   
JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA   
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   
STELAR SECURITY TECHNOLOGY LAW RESEARCH UG   
Short description of project
Independent living of senior citizens is one of the main challenges linked to the ageing population, due to the impact on: (a) the life of the elderly people, (b) the national health systems, (c) the insurance companies, (d) the relatives and (e) the care-givers. Senior citizens may suffer from a number of diseases, including the decline in cardiopulmonary conditions, weaker muscle functions and a declined neuromuscular control of the movements, which result in a higher risk of fall and a higher vulnerability for cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. With respect to cognitive functions, senior citizens may suffer from a decline of memory function, less ability to orientate and a declined ability to cope with complex situations. Mild dementia is another disease affecting this population, which requires either the institutionalization or the constant support from care-givers. eWALL will be an affordable, easy-to-install prefabricated wall that can be mounted on an existing wall and includes, into the background, all the ICT technology needed to enable a number of services for the senior citizen to cover the major ontologies of Active and Healthy Ageing. The project will carry out high-risk and multi-disciplinary research and will have a large-scale demonstrator exercise for validating the concept with solid clinical evidence. This will include both technical-, user- and legal-evaluation, to measure with advanced tools and methodologies the impact on the QoL. The eWALL system will extend the state-of-the-art of Assistive Platforms and will significantly increase the independent living of seniors. The project will also perform socio-economic studies to deliver recommendations for the health sector that will result in mid- and long-term benefits for the sustainability of national health systems.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
     


   

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