It is widely recognized that adapted regular physical exercise improves drastically both the physical and emotional well-being and allows older adults to stay healthy longer, with a better quality of life, while being more independent and far less costly to society. Current solutions for the physical coaching of seniors suffer from major practical and economic limitations: either a highly expensive home coaching service or the obligation to be at or join a special place (e.g. a retirement home or a gym club).
The mission of MOTION is to increase the life expectancy, independence and quality of life of older adults through a novel holistic ICT-based service for remote multi-user physical training of older adults at home by specialised coaches, thereby enabling a totally new level of physical training effectiveness.
The innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform and tools developed in tight collaboration with end-users (older adults, formal and informal carers) will enable the simultaneous training of at least 4 older adults with similar needs. The MOTION environment will feature specific ergonomic interfaces and tools both for the coach, to allow simultaneous and safe management of users and for the end-user, to facilitate the usage and minimise ICT maintenance needs. The MOTION solution will cut by at least a factor 4 the cost of physical coaching of older adults at home and hence dramatically increase the number of older adults that can benefit from physical training. Thereby MOTION will directly contribute to the aim of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA) to increase by 2 the average number of healthy life years in the EU by 2020.
The MOTION consortium gathers all the required competences to develop and test the service proposed. In particular, the inclusion of specialists in physical training for older adults and of end-users both as consortium partners in the definition of user requirements and through a large pilot assessment in three different countries will ensure that the service is completely adapted to the end-users’ logic and ensure its acceptance. Moreover, one large user representative will be only dedicated to provide user knowledge and control the effectiveness and the acceptance of the service developed in the project. MOTION also involves leading technology SMEs with specific expertise in ICT needed for developing the MOTION service. Academic partners will provide important input for the assessment of the solution as well as some exploratory developments which may enhance the service in the future.
A quick and effective exploitation start of the service is expected within maximum 9 months after the project end. The elaboration of a business plan and the creation of partnerships with the relevant stakeholders during the project will support this goal.
Coordinator Sport Initiative Et Loisir Bleu Association (France)
Other participants:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
- Dipartimento di Psicologia
- Resp. scientifico: Prof. Rabih Chattat
Arx It Consulting (Switzerland)
Centre De Recherche Public Henri Tudor (Luxembourg)
Cup2000 S.P.A. (Italy)
M3-Connect Gmbh (Germany)
Neolinks S.A.R.L. (France)
Université De Caen Basse-Normandie (France)
Wilhelm Schulthess Stiftung (Switzerland)
Start date 01/09/2013
End date 31/08/2016
Duration 36 months
Project Reference AAL-2012-5-031
Project cost 4.343.372 EURO
Project Funding 2.468.700 EURO
Area FP7- JP-AAL
Subprogramme Area Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme
Contract type AAL Joint Undertaking