COGKNOW News

ACCESS-IT Award to COGKNOW

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:59:13 +0100

COGKNOW was awarded the ACCESS-IT Best Practice label in September 2009. See http://access-it-events.org/docs/Access-IT-2009-publication_v1.0.pdf.

ICT Results features COGKNOW

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:54:07 +0100

http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&BrowsingType=Features&ID=91139

COGKNOW presentation at IAHSA

Maurice — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:33:55 +0200

Two of the COGKNOW researchers presented at the leading IAHSA conference in London, on 21-23 July 2009.

European Business Opportunity Workshop

TID — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:54:15 +0100

A Business Opportunity Workshop will be held next June 26th in Malta.

COGKNOW SUMMARY

It is estimated that by 2050 one-third of Europe’s population will be over 60. Life expectancy has on average already risen by 2.5 years per decade and the number of old people aged 80+ is expected to grow by 180%.

Nowadays, there are 5.5 million cases of Alzheimer-afflicted people in Europe and more new cases being added every year. In fact, Alzheimer disease has been called the ‘plague of the 21^st century’. There is currently no cure for this disease; however, prevention and early diagnosis may play a huge role in delaying the onset of the worst effects of this severe disease.

The challenging aim of our three-year STREP project, which commenced in September 2006, is to breakthrough with research that addresses the needs of those with dementia, particularly those with mild dementia in Europe.

This entails cognitive reinforcement and may be expressed as the social objectives of our research for the needs of people with dementia, helping people to remember, maintain social contact, perform daily life activities and enhance their feelings of safety.

On the other hand, the aim of the project is to develop solutions that help ageing people with early dementia to experience greater autonomy and feelings of empowerment and to enjoy and enhanced quality of life.

We have published a video explaining the COGKNOW concept, and can be accessed, as other documents, in the Document section.

26^thJune 9:30-16:30 - European-level Business Opportunity Workshop at the Excelsior Hotel, Malta

The event in Malta will now focus on the commercialisation of the product and our aim is attracting several businesses and investors from Europe that are working in the same telecare and ehealth area. We want to establish a business opportunity together in order to move forward from demonstration to finished product that can be sold in several European countries. Around 50 people are expected at the event and the format will be similar to round table discussions and workshops. There will also be a demo area where we will prepare a home-like environment in order to show case COGKNOW in its full glory to the audience.

The event will be free of charge including lunch and networking dinner on one of the most beautiful shores of the Maltese islands. A parallel agenda for accompanying persons will be created and since the event is hosted on Friday, for those wishing to stay over the weekend, there will be also two days packed of adventure and cultural events.

Special rates have been obtained at the Excelsior Hotel which will be the venue of the event. For more information and booking please contact Ms Kerry Freeman on kerry@acrosslimits.com or book from AcrossLimits website by clicking here.

AGENDA:

08:30 Welcome Coffee and Registration

09:00 Introduction by Angele GIULIANO, AcrossLimits

09:15 Keynote speech by Maltese Ministry for Health

09:30 Opportunities for Connected Health in Europe - COGKNOW Representative

09:40 Public and private funding for eHealth solutions - Business Angels, Malta Enterprise

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Group discussion - Commonalities and Differences between the ICT health markets in the different countries

11:30 COGKNOW: The project, the consortium and its results - Johan E. BENGTSSON, CDH, and Ricardo CASTELLOT, Telefonica I+D

12:15 Demonstration session - Chris NUGENT, University of Ulster

12:45 Lunch

14:00 COGKNOW Business model, critical questions from business assessment workshops - Timber HAAKER, Novay

14:30 Conclusions from morning discussion - Rapporteurs

14:45 Group discussion - On the way forward in a commercial environment for COGKNOW

15:30 Coffee break

15:45 Continued discussion

16:15 Plenary with summary of discussions and moving forward - Angele GIULIANO

17:00 End of the seminar

20:30 Networking dinner at Westin Dragonara Resort, St. Julians, Malta

For more information, please contact Ms Angele Giuliano on angele@acrosslimits.com

COGKNOW reviewed as "Excellent" - again

TID — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:38:16 +0100

During the second annual review, the commission continued rating COGKNOW as excellent.

e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna demonstration

TID — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:19:10 +0100

COGKNOW was selected by the Commision to be part of the Smart Home showcase at the exhibition of the e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference in Vienna 30th Nov - 2nd Dec 2008.

The conference was attended by 1200 invited delegates, and included exhbition stands for many projects and organisations within e-Iinclusion. The COGKNOW demonstration was made to many VIPs including the CEO of Telefonica I+D.

Echallenges networking session by COGKNOW

TID — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:04:12 +0200

COGKNOW is going to host a networking session at Echallenges, that will be held in Stockholm in 22-24th October.

First Field Test completed

TID — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:45:01 +0100

The first field test was completed successfully, and a public deliverable has been uploaded to the website. This deliverable summarises the evaluation of the field test, with regards to user, technology, business and methodology perspectives.

Click the following link to access the Evaluation of Field Trial 1

COGKNOW reviewed as "Excellent"

TID — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:03:39 +0100

During the first annual review, the commision rated COGKNOW as excellent.

There were 7 journal publications in the first year.

Human Factors Impact Analysis #1 completed

TID — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:03:39 +0100

The field test completed sucessfuly. It was carried out in the homes of 16 people with dementia living in the region of Amsterdam, Belfast and Luleå.

Click here to access the Human Factors Impact Analysis of field test #1