Laurence Pearce

Take Home message

Interactive Discussion AAL 2012

How to scale to cost-effectiviness. ‘Not by subsidies or support forever. No, by good businessmodels. Tools adopted to the variety in Europe. Jobs in the AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) cannot be outsourced. We are too modest in Europe’. These were some remarks during the AAL Plenary Session on Tuesday september 25th in the Evoluon building (Eindhoven). The morning session started with a lecture by Marja van Bijsterveld, Minister for Education, Culture and Sciences of the Netherlands. Laurence Pearce was one of the members of the panel.There was also video message also from Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission.

Laurence Pearce ‘Innovate like Hell’

Target AAL JP

The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programm (since 2008) has been funding projects to develop AAL solutions through 5 distinct calls for proposal. The overarching goal; Increase the number of healthy life years in Europe by two years in the year 2020. This is all about the European Innovation partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.  Innovation is the key element.

Evoluon (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)