EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA)

What is a Reference Site?

Reference Sites represent an alliance or partnership of stakeholders within a region or major metropolitan area. Successful Reference Sites bring together a wide range of stakeholders (e.g. public bodies/care providers, industry, academia and civil society) into a coherent partnership to understand and address the challenges of delivering health and care services to an ageing population. These collaborations drive structural change far beyond the scope any one particular organisation could achieve on its own. They help to create an environment for other regions across Europe to learn, transfer and adapt knowledge to local realities, with regional, social and economic development as the long-term objective.

To be successful, applications should demonstrate:

• the involvement of government/health/care, research and academia, industry, civil society representatives (quadruple helix).
• the comprehensive strategies in place/under development supporting an active and healthy ageing population.
• a response to health, societal and economic challenges to deliver against the EIP on AHA triple win objectives.
• an alignment or a planned alignment with the EIP on AHA strategy and its three horizontal initiatives: th Blueprint, I2M and MAFEIP.
• The Blueprint aims to drive innovation in health and care in Europe and is the followup of the EIP on AHA Scaling Up Strategy.
• I2M targets the scale-up of digital health and care solutions in a cross-border
  context.
• MAFEIP is the Monitoring and Assessment Framework initially developed in response
  to the EIP on AHA specific monitoring needs.
• the development of partnerships with other regions for the transfer and exchange of good practices.

• a commitment to supporting the Digital Transformation of Health and Care.

• the impact of good practices and the degree that they have scaled up smart health and care solutions for active and healthy ageing.