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First Open Call ACTIVAGE Project
Deadline: Oct 31, 2018  
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1 Introduction

1.1 Overview of the ACTIVAGE project

European institutions face a new paradigm in the Welfare Society: to answer the increasing population’s demand to maintain the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA). Life expectancy increases progressively as well as the resources required for older people and age-related spending.

The last advances allow the developing of innovative solutions focused on improving and keeping older people’s quality of life an autonomy (home accommodation, transport, e- health...) in an efficient and sustainable way. This Silver Economy is offering a large number of opportunities for developing markets and economic growth.

The ACTIVAGE project is an EU-funded initiative under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. This project is being implemented by 49 partners from 10 European countries between 2017 and 2020.

In this context, ACTIVAGE is leading the digitalization of the AHA market:

  • ▪  Building the interoperable and open Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem providing

    interoperability across heterogeneous IoT platforms.

  • ▪  Providingtheevidenceofthesocio-economicimpactandbenefitsofAHAservices based on IoT, in terms of better prevention, health, quality of life and autonomy of older citizens.

  • ▪  Validating value-based business models for care delivery that empower AHA market based on IoT as main pillars of the sustainability of the Health and Care Systems.

The ACTIVAGE project is developing in 9 different deployment sites (DSs) across Europe: Finland, Galicia, Greece, Isère, Leeds, Madrid, Region Emilia Romagna, Valencia, Woquaz. More information about each DS is available at - Deployment site description.

ACTIVAGE Deployment Sites’ composition represents the European reality: a wide range of social models, different target elderly populations with the goal of extending independent life, informal and formal carers, different types of potential business models and mixed participation of public and private service providers; different IoT solutions mixed in different ways.

USERS in ACTIVAGE project are senior people ranked from level 1: “active” to level 6: “mild frailty” of the Clinical Frailty Scale1. USERS include as well senior people’s relatives, informal and formal caregivers, having an important role in the co-creation of AHA services. It is important to highlight that end users are directly involved in the piloting of several USE CASES (UCs). These UCs address specific end-users needs, improving their quality of life and autonomy. The figure 1 shows the UCs covered in each DS.

 

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Applications (hardware and software components) and services supporting such UCs are implemented and deployed in every DS on top of local IoT legacy infrastructures. Interoperability across DS and across the multiple applications and services is provided by ACTIVAGE through the called “ACTIVAGE IoT ecosystem suite” (AIOTES). AIOTES provides a layer of semantic interoperability, APIs and tools to facilitate the design, implementation and test of new AHA applications and services, as well as their deployment in the ACTIVAGE ecosystem, in every DS. More information about AIOTES and technical aspects of the ACTIVAGE project is available in the document “Open Call technical information”.

Important remarks: A) Proposals shall provide innovative solutions to the requested challenges of the call, and they will be implemented and integrated into the existing UCs in two or more DS. B) Proposed solutions will be integrated on each DS specific IoT ecosystem through AIOTES using their interfaces and tools.

1.2 Objective of the first Open Call

The main objective of the Open Call is to implement and deploy innovative and mature IoT enabled solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing, using the current deployment sites’ IoT infrastructures and AIOTES interoperability services and tools for evaluation and demonstration of the value of open IoT platforms and interoperability frameworks for the design, implementation and deployment of new services, features and use cases and for the scaling up of AHA-IoT enabled markets. In concrete terms, the proposals will help to validate different key aspects of the ACTIVAGE project:

▪ To enlarge and extend current AHA applications and services portfolios on the ACTIVAGE’s deployment sites, integrated into the respective UCs.

▪ ToimprovethevalueofthecurrentAHAservicesthankstoneworcomplementary functionalities, security pathways, and new features.

ACTIVAGE is funded by the European Commission and is subject to the regulations established in the Horizon 2020 Programme.

 

 

2 Application process

2.1 Who can apply?

The call is open to individual European SME, midcaps and start-ups registered in a member state of the European Union.

Only one entity per proposal will be admitted, so proposals involving multiple partners in co-operation will not be eligible.

Proposal solutions must provide mature IoT solutions (Technology Readiness Levels, TRL≥6) 2.

ACTIVAGE partners are not eligible for funding and cannot be part of a funded project. We are obligated to avoid conflict of interests, and therefore we reserve the right, at our full discretion, to reject proposal on the basis hereof.

Successful applicants who have been awarded funding will be required to sign the ACTIVAGE Third Parties agreement with Fraunhofer-IGD, on behalf of the ACTIVAGE Consortium in order to be able to receive the funds and become third party of the project

2.2 What are the eligibility criteria?

The submitted proposals must meet the next criteria:

  1. Application submitted on time (Deadline: October 31st, 2018, 17:00 CET)

  2. Application made by only one entity (European SME, midcaps or start-ups) registered in a member state of the European Union; activities in co-operation will not be considered eligible.

  3. Proposed IoT solution must provide mature IoT technology (TRL≥6)2.

  4. Completeness of the proposals, respecting the page limit.

  5. Within the scope of the call, answering only one of the proposed challenges of the open call.

  6. Existence of an Exploitation Plan that expands beyond the temporal limits of the project

  7. The language of the applications must be in English.

  8. ACTIVAGE partners are not eligible for Open Call.

  9. Compliance with ACTIVAGE Ethics & Privacy guidelines.

 

2.3 Why should I apply?

It is a great opportunity for:

  • ▪  Testing your technology with a mature IoT ecosystem at European level.

  • ▪  Access and share knowledge and evidence of benefits of AHA services based on IoT.

  • ▪  Better understanding of current needs and gaps of AHA services.

  • ▪  Access to companies of the key industry to IoT and AHA domains.

2.4 Scope and Challenges

The proposals may address one of the challenges listed below and demonstrate how they will implement the solutions in at least 2 deployment sites. The description of each challenge is available at - Open Call Challenges.

The Open Call challenges address real needs within the AHA market, defining an open framework of application. In this way, the candidates are free to present innovative IoT solutions abled to respond these challenges and the specific context of the DSs where the solution may be deployed. We consider that each challenge could be cover successfully in many different ways, so we avoided restricted requirements of each challenge. However, the candidates may justify in the proposal how the proposed solution is responding the challenge and the expected impact for the ACTIVAGE project using the proposed solution.

Additionally, the proposed solution will be integrated inside the technological ecosystem (AIOTES), assuring the privacy and security framework requirements.

# Challenge Name

DS interested

1 Energy consumption monitoring, supporting consumption control and behaviour monitoring

GREECE, ISÈRE (FRANCE LEEDS (UK), WOQUAZ (GERMANY)

 

2 Monitoring and self-management of chronic disease

GREECE, FINLAND, LEEDS (UK) GALICIA (SPAIN) RER (ITALY)

 

3 IoT enabled heart arrhythmias monitoring

GALICIA (SPAIN)

 

4 Cognitive stimulation

GALICIA (SPAIN) ISÈRE (FRANCE) FINLAND, RER (ITALY)

 

5 Physical activity coaching/motivation

ISÈRE (FRANCE) GREECE, FINLAND, RER (ITALY) VALENCIA (SPAIN)

 

6 AHA Mobility services

GREECE, VALENCIA (SPAIN) WOQUAZ (FRANCE)

 

7 Intelligent environmental monitoring and sensing

GREECE

 

8 Daily activity monitoring of senior people in multioccupancy scenarios

GREECE, VALENCIA (SPAIN) MADRID (SPAIN) RER (ITALY)
ISÈRE (FRANCE) GALICIA (SPAIN)

 

9 Analytics intelligence

ALL DS

 

10 User authentication solution

ALL DS

 

11 Novel user interaction to mitigate the barriers of accessibility

ALL DS

 

12 Open Challenge *

ALL DS

 

* Note of Open Challenge: This is for innovative solutions that doesn’t fit to any of the previous challenges but might be relevant for the use cases available in the DSs. The candidates for this challenge must explain how and why the IoT solution will increase the value of the current AHA services available in the DSs and which DS can benefit from it.

2.5 Information requested in your proposal

Proposals are submitted in a one-stage process that means that applicants submit a full proposal prior to the deadline. The proposal language is English. Proposals submitted in other language will not be eligible.

The ACTIVAGE consortium has prepared an application toolkit that the interested entities must use (download in this link). This toolkit includes the proposal template (word document) and budget project (excel file).

The information needed in your proposal are the next:

Organization background and details:

  • ▪  Title of your contribution, identification of organization, contact person and declare you are non-affiliated with ACTIVAGE partners.

  • ▪  How are you organised? What skills and resources do you have? What experience do the team members bring to the ACTIVAGE project? The organization profile and key members CV.

Proposed solution:

  • ▪  Description of the contribution and the objectives, relating to the ACTIVAGE approach, and how the proposed collaboration may fit in ACTIVAGE enlargement and sustainability.

  • ▪  In what use cases and/or deployment sites your contribution/idea can be developed and deployed?

  • ▪  Outline your planned activities and your time-plan, aligned with the project period. Ensure you allow enough contingency time in your plan.

o Activity will be from January 2019 to December 2020.

o Please explicitly list what you consider to be the key milestones and outcomes within this plan, considering also the alignment with the internal evaluation periods.

▪ What is the planned output of the project?

Sustainability and Business model:

  • ▪  How do you intend to use the results of the project after the funding period?

  • ▪  The ways the entity plan to achieve impact at any level e.g. sustainability of the AHA services, impact to use cases, and so on.

Compliance check:

  • ▪  Assuring that you will follow the technical and Ethics & Privacy guidelines.

  • ▪  Consent to the processing of your personal data as specified in our open call privacy policy.

Budget plan (budget excel file):

  • ▪  What is the total budget requested?

  • ▪  Upload your budget for the project using the template provided by the ACTIVAGE Consortium (available in the “Application toolkit”).

 

2.6 Timeline and key steps for application

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The funded projects will start in January 2019, and they will have a total duration of 12 months.

This timetable could be amended as required at the ACTIVAGE team discretion. The most updated version will be available on ACTIVAGE website.

The main steps of the submissions are the next:

1. Registration at the ACTIVAGE web page.

Register your interest and download all the required information and Open Call templates:

www.activageproject.eu/open-call

2. Submit application by 17:00 h (CET) on 31st October 2018.

Prepare your applications material and submit them to the Open Call web portal.

activage.submittable.com/submit

3. Sign legal documents.

All applicants will receive a notification by December 2018.

Successful applicants will receive final notification and a request for signing the Third Parties Agreement.

In the Appendix C, there is a guide about how to submit the proposal in the Open Call portal web.

 

3 Evaluation process

3.1 Who will evaluate my proposal?

Every proposal will be checked to ensure that it meets requirements before it is sent for evaluation to the Open Call Review Board (OCRB). This board consists of an external and independent group of experts, who will be monitoring the whole process to ensure tracking of every action.

The experts will be individuals with experience in the fields of innovation linked to this Open Call and also with the highest level of knowledge. They will sign a declaration of confidentiality concerning the evaluation process and the content of the proposals they evaluate. They will also declare their absence of any conflict of interest for the assigned tasks.

Each proposal will be evaluated anonymously by 3 reviewers. Each evaluator will record his/her individual opinion on each proposal using the web portal. A ranking list will be assembled with all proposals that score above the thresholds (6 out of 10 in each individual category).

The final list of the funded projects will be created according the ranking list of the proposals and assuring at least one funded projects (winner) per challenge.

Notifications on funding or rejections will together with any feedback be sent out by the beginning of December 2018.

3.2 What does evaluation measure?

These are the aspects evaluators will consider under each of these aspects:

1. EXCELLENCE: relevant to the topics addressed by ACTIVAGE project (Max. 10 points):
o Does your solution fulfil the technical and functional requirements of the project?

o Does your idea provide an improvement/solution to ACTIVAGE challenges?

o What is the value of your solution for ACTIVAGE?

 

2. IMPLEMENTATION: quality and efficiency of the implementation and the management (Max. 10 points):
o Qualifications of the institutions performing the work. o Quality of the implementation plan.
o Feasibility with the proposed budget
o Inclusion of ethical standards...

 

3. IMPACT: potential impact through the development, dissemination and use of projects results. (Max. 10 points)

o Who will benefit from the implementation of your idea or development of your service, technology, solution, and how?

o Do you plan to implement your idea in more than one deployment site or use cases?

 

4. SUSTAINABILITY: commitment to long term vision and sustainability of the ACTIVAGE project (Max. 10 points):

o In which ways can your solution contribute to further maturing ACTIVAGE?

o What will be the expected market for your solutions?

What is the scalability of the solution inside the ACTIVAGE project and with other ecosystem (smart cities, smart automobile, and so on)? category will be scored on a scale from 0 to 10. Thus, the overall maximum score is 40. For a proposal to be considered for being selected for funding, the score must pass a threshold of 6 out of 10 in each individual category.

The individual scores have the following interpretation:

  • -  0 – Fail: the proposal fails to address the criterion under examination or cannot be judged due to missing or incomplete information

  • -  2 - Poor: the criterion is addressed in an inadequate manner, or there is serious inherent weakness.

  • -  4 – Fair: while the proposal broadly addresses the criterion, there are significant weaknesses.

  • -  6 – Good: the proposal addresses the criterion well, although improvements would be necessary.

  • -  8 – Very good: the proposal addresses the criterion very well, although certain improvements are still possible.

  • -  10 – Excellent: the proposal successfully addresses all relevant aspects of the criterion in question. Any shortcomings are minors.

 

4 Funding conditions

4.1 Budget available

The first open call will give 600.000 € in funding, with a maximum of 60.000€ for each project. ACTIVAGE project may fund a maximum of 10 third party projects.

Each project will include an implementation plan including milestones and deliverables, and a cost estimate justifying the costs and resources in relation to the implementation plan. The estimated costs of the third party should be reasonable, and comply with the principle of sound financial management in particular regarding economy and efficiency.

Other important information that you need to know:

  • The industrial third parties will be funded 70% of their respective cost. Non-profit research institute and public authorities can receive funding of up to 100% of their cost.

  • The distribution of funding over time will be: up to 20% of pre-financing at the start; an interim payment of 50% and a final payment up to 100% of the total funding. Each funding stage will be paid upon approval of the Project Agreement (which includes the project plan), and the approval of interim and final reports respectively. Each payment is released 30 days after the approval of each report.

  • Indirect cost (e.g. overheads) will be covered if they are declared as flat-rate of 25% of the eligible costs.

  • The third party cannot request any funding for activities that are already funded by other grants (the principle of no double funding).

  • The reports require the candidates to provide ACTIVAGE with honest feedback on their project and their experience of the technical environment.

4.2 Which costs are you allowed to include in your budget?

You are eligible for funding for all activities mentioned below, under the condition that these activities take place after the approval of the Third Parties Agreement and contribute to maturing, sustaining, and further developing ACTIVAGE and follow the guidelines below:

  • ▪  Small technology development for adaptation to specific DS needs and requirements.

  • ▪  Technological development for integration in the AIOTES framework and use of tools

  • ▪  New sensors and devices integration in the smart home or user environment, i.e. gateways and networks

  • ▪  Adaptations for privacy and data security compliance.

  • ▪  Procurement and provisioning of sensors and devices installed in user’s premises

  • ▪  Support for installations in user’s premises.

  • ▪  Support to DS in the running of the pilot till the end of the GROW phase of the project (M36).

 

Planning and preparations of the projects. For example, exploring AIOTES features and organising initial stakeholders from one DS.

Technical integration and adaptation, and project deployment on the ACTIVAGE technical environment. Some specific activities are:

  • ▪  Small technology development for adaptation to specific DS needs and requirements.

  • ▪  Technological development for integration in the AIOTES framework and use of tools

  • ▪  New sensors and devices integration in the smart home or user environment, i.e. gateways and networks

  • ▪  Adaptations for privacy and data security compliance.

  • ▪  Procurement and provisioning of sensors and devices installed in user’s premises

  • ▪  Support for installations in user’s premises.

  • ▪  Support to DS in the running of the pilot till the end of the GROW phase of the project (M36).

Generation of reports and publications related to the projects, including preparation of a showcase about the project that can be used for dissemination purposes.

Supporting the rest of technical activities in the project, by providing feedback about the use of the technical framework and identifying gaps of the development of appropriate standards.

Report the necessary effort and costs according to H2020 rules and management practices requested by the ACTIVAGE open call lead partner.

cost within your project to be eligible for funding it must:
Be incurred and paid between your project start and end dates, as specified in our

legal agreement.

Be directly related to the activities listed previously.

Be indicated in the estimated budget.

Be incurred in connection with the action as described in your project application and necessary for its implementation.

Be identifiable and verifiable, in particular recorded in your accounts and in accordance with the accounting standards applicable in your country and according to your organization’s usual cost accounting practices.

Comply with the applicable national law on taxes, labour and social security. You are allowed to include:

▪ Staff costs
▪ Subcontracting costs ▪ Material costs

▪ Travel costs ▪ Other costs.

“Ineligible costs” are:

  • ▪  Costs that do not comply with the conditions set out above and

  • ▪  Costs reimbursed under another EU or Euratom grant (including grants awarded by a Member State and financed by the EU or Euratom budget and grants awarded by bodies other than the European Commission for the purpose of implementing the EU and Euratom budget).

  • ▪  The form of financial support to be used will be a pre-defined lump sum. Funds will be provided to the third parties following the accomplishment of different milestones verified on the basis on the presentation of technical and financial reports.

Regarding staff costs, the eligible labour costs will be salary amounts actually incurred a paid (monthly/hourly). Note that the number of working days per year for the organisation is based on full time working days per year, less standard holiday allowance. Sick days, waiting time, training days and non-produce time are not eligible as part of the salary calculation.

For more information about personnel costs, see H2020 – AGA, Article 15 – Financial support to third parties.

Regarding subcontracting costs: if necessary to execute the project, you may subcontract part of the activities in the project. Subcontracting may cover only a limited part of the project. For more details about subcontracting costs, see H2020-AGA, Article 13.

The total amount of time and cost will be reviewed before approval for funding. The reviewers can decide to fund your proposal with a reduced amount.

 

5 Who keeps the IPR?

Successful applicants will become Third Party of the project. You and your project will be sole owner of the IoT enabled solution of your project. However, ACTIVAGE Consortium will be licensed the right to use (internally) and IPR you produce as part of the project, for three years after the project finishes.

ACTIVAGE project itself will no retain an equity stake in your company, not will it retain any IPR.

Additionally, ACTIVAGE or the European Commission may ask you to present your work as part of our public relations and networking events, in order to showcase the benefits of the ACTIVAGE project.

5.1 Who owns the data produced?

The type of data available for ACTIVAGE Open Call projects is manifold, representing the contextual diversity of smart environments which mirrors the complex reality of the active and healthy ageing market. The type of data that you may make use of could be open data and close data, with either open access or restricted access. Each DS has its own data policy and preferences on how data should be treated in their framework.

It will be the responsibility of the applicants to ensure that they understand the conditions on data in each DS they plan to pilot, as well as associated licences and costs, in order to provide a sound proposal that takes this diversity into account. It will be also the responsibility of applicants to propose data processing solutions compliant with the current GDPR.

If you are selected as one of the winning applicants, you will be required to sign a Data Sharing Agreement with each of the DSs where you plan to deploy your solution. A preliminary template of the Data Sharing Agreement can be found at the ACTIVAGE templates for winning applicants.

As a guideline, the IPR of the data collected previous to the ACTIVAGE Open Call will remain the property of the data provider or its licensors. The data produced during the pilot phase will be shared according to the contractual Data Sharing Agreements between the winning applicants and the DS.

 

 

 

6 Support options

The ACTIVAGE consortium maintain a frequently asked questions (FAQ) section available in www.activageproject.eu/open-call. It will be updated continuously. For especially technical details check first the available documentation in the website.

The answers that you cannot find in the FAQ section can be submitted by contacting opencall@activageproject.eu. Here you can get support regarding technical matters or the proposal.

There will be different events in which the open call will be presented, and support will be provided in preparing the applications. Follow the web site and the social networks accounts of the project to get information about the open call.



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