ALFRED project

Background
Name of your initiative: 
ALFRED project
Short name (acronym): 
ALFRED
Website title and address: 
ALFRED
Which organization is submitting this initiative?: 
E-Seniors
Please specify in which regions/provinces: 
FRANCE
City: 
Paris
Where is this organization located?: 
France
Please enter the name of the contact person for this initiative: 
Dr. Sven Abels (Project Coordinator)
Please enter the email of the contact for this initiative: 
abels@ascora.de
Part of larger strategy or programme: 
European
If you answered "other", please specify: 
Please provide us with more details of this programme or strategy: 
The ALFRED project is supported by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union under grant agreement 611218 (FP7-ICT-2013 5.1).
The status of the initiative: 
On-going
Please give a summary of your initiative (in English): 
ALFRED will realize a virtual mobile, personalized Butler for elderly people helping them to stay independent, to coordinate with carers and to foster the active participation in society. This assistant will be realized as a mobile device running on day-to-day Android smartphones allowing a wide impact of the project results. ALFRED will be fully voice-controlled and combine latest scientific research results from mobile development, data management, context aware services, speech recognition and personal data management, combined with activities from behavioural and social science. ALFRED is developed in cooperation among 5 European countries (Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, France and Spain) and involving SMEs, universities, research institute and end-user organisations. The project started in October 2013 and runs fro three years.
The geographical scope: 
European
Type of initiative: 
Environment or setting of the initiative: 
The economic environment or setting of the initiative: 
The most important source of funding for your initiative: 
Other
If other, please specify your source of funding: 
What triggered this initiative?: 
The demographic change leads to new challenges for Europe as a society and also to strong pressure for cost optimization and more effective care. As a result, efficient ways to improve care processes are needed as well as new approaches for empowering people with age related dependencies or disabilities to live independently for longer. In an optimal society, elderly people will be able to live at their own homes with the possibility to act independently and to actively participate in society. The ALFRED solution will contribute to this goal by providing a personal and interactive assistant for elderly people. ALFRED will foster independent living and active ageing, integrating interactive services for elderly people and for care-takers.
Objectives
What are the main objectives of your initiative? Choose a maximum of 3 objectives.: 
Social participation: increase the number of older people who are socially activeCommunication and information: increase in communication and information suitable for targeted at older peopleCommunity support and health services: increase in client-oriented and -centered made to measure health and social care and services
Please describe any subgoals of your initiative: 
Target group
Does your initiative target people with a specific impairment or disease?: 
No
How many people have you reached or do you expect to reach with your initiative?: 
1000 - 10.000
Does your initiative target a specific age group?: 
65 - 7980+
Does your initiative target men or women?: 
Irrelevant
Approach
Please indicate what best describes your initiative: 
Implementation›ICT›CommunicationImplementation›ICT›MonitoringImplementation›Physical adaptationsImplementation›TechnologyOtherResearch›Innovation/action/applied
What type of intervention strategy is used in your initiative?: 
Living lab/pilotUser-empowerment and participation
Please indicate the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of your initiative: 
Not applicable
Who executes the initiative: 
HospitalNon-governmental organisationPrivate company›Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)Provider of informal careResearch/educational setting
What is the relevant physical scale of your initiative?: 
City/municipalityEuropean levelRegional level
Please indicate how you think your initiative could be scaled up (made to reach more people): 
Our aim is to the acquuire users (older adults using mobilde devices) around the Europe. Purchasing ALFRED is made simple: an App in a App marketplace. With the iterative testing process throughout the system development we make sure that the service corresponds to the users' needs and is user-friendly.
Please indicate the type of stakeholders concerned with your initiative.: 
End-usersHospitalNon-governmental organisationPrimary health care providers›NursePrimary health care providers›PhysiotherapistPrivate company›Micro-enterprisePrivate company›Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Provider of informal careResearch/educational setting
Please describe how you think your initiative could be transferred to other regions or contexts: 
The ALFRED service can be easily localized in the different European regions: the App just needs to be translated and the relevant data mining (notably for social events) has to be done in the local context.
Is your initiative economically sustainable and does it contribute to economic development?: 
If you selected "other" neighbourhood, please specify:: 
Impact & outcome
Will you collect or have you collected outcome data for this initiative?: 
Yes
What do you consider the key success factors of your initiative? If your initiative has not yet started, please indicate what you expect the key success factors to be: 
- Good availability, does not require purchasing of lot of different devices - Price that is not too high - Services can be personalized for each user - The users can add other services (apps) to ALFRED trough a specific marketplace called AFREDO offering new Apps desinged for seniors and this way make it even more useful for them. - Simple user inter face
What do you consider the main barriers to overcome in your initiative? If your initiative has not yet started, please indicate what you expect the main barriers to be.: 
- Bringing ALFRED to the European market: finding the efficient marketing and commerzialitaton channels after the 3 year project
What instruments will you use/have used to collect data?: 
Other, namely
If you selected "other" instrument to collect data, please specify: 
If yes, how will you/have you collected those data?: 
Mixed-methods
Will you collect or have collected socio-economic impact data for this initiative?: 
No
Will or are the collected data in the initiative publicly available?: