While ageing is a biological process, the condition of old age is a social fact that reflects the multifaceted nature of the older-person role, rather than an “objective” category.
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"VALUE AGEING’s Online Consultation Open for WP5 Final Report":
"On May 1st, the online consultation for the VALUE AGEING WP5 Final Scenario Exercise will open for a time period of one month. The purpose of this consultation process is to collect valuable feedback from various stakeholders relevant to the ICT for Ageing sector."Value Ageing workshop on Smart Home Technology in Donostia-San Sebastian":
"On April 9th TECNALIA will host the Value Ageing workshop on Smart Home Technology in Donostia-San Sebastian. This workshop aims to present some of the most promising ICT based solutions to the challenge of ageing in place and to contribute to our understanding of [...]A 48 MONTH MARIE CURIE INDUSTRY ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIPS AND PATHWAYS ACTION INCORPORATING EUROPEAN FUNDAMENTAL VALUES INTO ICT FOR AGEING: A VITAL POLITICAL, ETHICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE (VALUE-AGEING) is a 48 month Marie Curie Industry‐AcademiaPartnerships and Pathways Action funded within the scope of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. VALUE AGEING aims to foster cooperation between non‐commercial and commercial entities on a joint research project about the incorporation of Fundamental Values of the EU in Info‐Communication Technology (ICT) for Ageing.
Good technology is not just about making something better; it is about doing something different and consequently making people think differently.
We need to understand both the way in which existing values are driving technology innovation, and how technology in its turn is changing people’s standards. Social scientists and ethicists should learn from technologists, and in their turn technologists should learn from scholars working on human values.
This makes a project like VALUE‐AGEING a vital instrument to incorporate fundamental EU principles in industrial strategies and technological awareness in policy setting.
Value Ageing builds upon the key principles of the SENIOR project
The VALUE‐AGEING partnership represents a unique multidisciplinary combination which will contribute towards educating a new generation of researchers in the field of ICT for ageing.
