European project | Interreg North Sea Region
Accelerating the Home Care Innovation Ecosystem of the Future (ACE)
Home care of the future
The growing number of care users and long-term demand for high-quality (home) care is difficult to sustain in many European countries. Through targeted deployment of technology and/or adaptation of care processes, the ACE project responds both to the common challenges within several European countries and to the specific needs of home care stakeholders in different countries.
What is ACE?
One in five families in the European Union currently require professional home care. The current system cannot sustain the growing number of care users and demand for high-quality care in the long term. There is a shortage of qualified staff almost everywhere.
ACE examines how Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Belgium, respectively, are using innovation to (partly) respond to this. This includes the use of technology such as wearables, e-health, assistive technology, ... but also the adaptation of processes in home care. The project also addresses how we can learn from each other despite, or even because, of very different national care contexts.
Within ACE, we - together with care actors and companies - identify dozens of care solutions that can be tested and deployed across borders.
The role of LiCalab
LiCalab maps the needs and requirements of the Flemish care actors, citizens and other stakeholders. The other countries will do the same for their own region. Afterwards, the results from the different European countries will be brought together to analyse the European and country-specific needs. This valuable information will form the basis for linking healthcare needs to technologies later in the project.
Our project partners
- RISE (Sweden)
- Innovation Skane (Sweden)
- Höganäs Kommun (Sweden)
- BOM (NL)
- Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Oost Nederland (NL)
- HAN University of Applied Sciences (NL)
- Aarhus Kommune (DK)
- Vesthimmerlands Kommune (DK)
- ESN European Social Network (BE)
- Boone (BE)
- Biotech Sante Bretagne FR)
- CoWorkHit Innovation Centre (FR)
- TUHH Technische Universität Hamburg (GE)
With the financial support of Interreg North Sea Region.
