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"Ambient Assisted Living" (AAL) is the name for a new European technology and innovation funding programme. The programme is intended to address the needs of the ageing population, to reduce innovation barriers of forthcoming promising markets, but also to lower future social security costs. AAL aims - by the use of intelligent products and the provision of remote services including care services – at extending the time older people can live in their home environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living.
The programme AAL is prepared as a so-called Article 169 initiative - refering to the respective article of the European treaty. This article allows the EC to participate in the AAL programme which, however, remains a member state driven initiative in the first place. Before this becomes true, a co-decision process is required to get both, the approval of the Council and the European Parliament. This procedure officially stared on 14 June 2007 - with the adoption of a European Action Plan for "Ageing Well in the Information Society" by the Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/einclusion/policy/ageing/launch/index_en.htm
NOTE: This website will not longer be updated from June 2007 on.
Please find the successor website at http://www.aal-europe.eu.
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