IKT 2020 – Research for innovations
Germany
Call "Mobile until old age – seamless mobility chains for the elimination, evasion, and overcoming of barriers“
2011 – 2014
5 – 7 Mio. Euro
www.aal-deutschland.de
German Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) – Ref. 524
Project management organization: VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
The focus of the research lies on the at present recognisable and in the medium term solvable challenges for the active participation of the elderly in the society. It is an essential goal to achieve through research in the social sciences and technology a compensation of dwindling physical and cognitive abilities and to enable persons despite restrictions to the greatest possible extent of autonomous mobility. In this context an evaluation of the results is demanded from both the users’ perspectives as well as the economic and regionally specific perspective.
The following aspects must be part of application-oriented joint projects in terms of a holistic approach:
- research on seamless mobility concepts
- transfer of research and development results into the market
- the focus lies on the elderly.
Expected are contributions to seamless mobility chains based on technical assistance systems and services that allow for navigation and mobility on barrier-free routes. It is essential that new mobility concepts also function in existing surroundings and infrastructures, which means also in already existing constructural frameworks of cities resp. rural areas. With this more free space for the elderly is created, in as much as they can reach their destinations uninterrupted and secure, despite dwindling capacities in vision, hearing, walking, and orientation.
Constituents of seamless mobility chains could be:
- local and interurban public transport, individual traffic, everyday mobility (amongst others transport to go shopping, to authorities or to the doctor) and
- mobility for leisure (amongst others visits of events and exhibitions, local recreation, and long-distance travel).
While developing seamless mobility chains, research partners from the social sciences should be involved right from the beginning in order to guarantee at an early stage the consideration of the users’ perspective and the experience of the elderly as experts in their daily life. The projects should have a recognisable technological basis, non-technical aspects might play an important role as well. This approach should allow for that the projects will be regarded both with natural-technical as well as organisational-societal point of views, in order to do justice to the manifold specifications of a practical integrated solution for mobility.
Housing, Urban-Rural Development & Mobility
Aims of the collaborative projects are products and services that are marketable, financially feasible and usable for broad population groups. They are to be tested and evaluated under realistic conditions. Essential components of the project are sustainable business models including the aspects of funding and refinancing. Accordingly, as a rule the nominated coordinator for the joint project should be a commercial supplier of the product or service with verifiable market access. Specific regional characteristics, e. g. of urban or rural environment, have to be addressed by interdisciplinary projects. For a sustained implementation of the mobility chains interoperability as well as the clarification of legal questions, e.g. product liability, are very important elements. Works on standardization are explicitly requested and eligible for funding.
The focus of the seamless mobility chains is on elderly people and their needs. This implies that cross-generational innovation approaches should be taken as a basis and that the basic principles of the Universal Design should be maintained. Here, the user acceptance in general plays a decisive role. User reluctance and the products complexity have to be reduced. The aim is to make the assistance systems comprehensible, easy to handle, safe and reliable. The main focus has to be put on the natural interaction between human, technology and service. The use of age appropriate systems shall open new possibilities for elderly people as well as their mobility and participation in public life, but the technology must not limit their personal freedom. This is also related, among other things, to the right of autonomous decisions and privacy (data protection). The business models that are based on the mobility chains have to take into account the often limited financial possibilities of elderly people. If the proposed developments are high priced premium offers, the applicant has to outline how the interaction of decreasing prices and increasing demand can generate a mass product after some time.
- Applied Research / application-oriented research projects
- Accompanying research
- Scientific projects
- Studies
- Public local and long-distance transport
- Individual transport
- Urban and quarters development
- Industry
- Touristic
- Research Institutes
- Grant funding via national call
- Double-step procedure
- Integrated projects (economy-science)
- International mobility chains (Touristic, Long-distance journeys)
- Cross border urban-rural regions based on a joint mobility concept
VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
Bereich Mikrosystemtechnik
Christine
Weiss
Senior Manager
Steinplatz 1, 10623 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 310078-184/-223
christine.weiss@vdivde-it.de
www.aal-deutschland.de
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