GATEKEEPER Open Call to support development of solutions that help ensure healthier independent lives for older adults

GATEKEEPER, a European Multi Centric Large-Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments, has launched an open call to support the development of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data applications, tools or components to help ensure healthier independent lives for older adults.

The main objective of GATEKEEPER is enabling the creation of a platform that connects healthcare providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, and elderly citizens and the communities they live in, in order to originate an open, trust-based arena for matching ideas, technologies, user needs and processes, aimed at ensuring healthier independent lives for the ageing populations.

The scope of GATEKEEPER is the application of advanced ICTs to tackle the challenge of improving the quality of life of citizens while demonstrating its significant efficiency gains in health and care delivery across Europe

The aim of the open call is to actively engage new technology members in the GATEKEEPER Ecosystem, supplying new AI and Big Data applications, tools or components which will be incorporated in the technology offering portfolio of GATEKEEPER to Pilots and Platform designers and developers.

The Open Call targets mid-caps, SMEs, start-ups, universities, research and technological centres and European industry. It offers up to 600,000 EUR to fund 10 projects focusing on Artificial Intelligence & Big Data applications, tools or components to help ensure healthier independent lives for older adults.

The proposals may address one of the following 6 challenges:

Dynamic API injection
Risks detection and timely response
Informal care coordination system
Increasing insights from HER’s unstructured data (risks prevention)
Robot companions against social isolation
Embedded ML in Smart Devices

Deadline for proposal submissions is 28/02/2021. Project duration will be 12 months.

For more information, see https://www.gatekeeper-project.eu/open-call.