INNOVAGE Stakeholder Forum 2

The Second European Forum on Social Innovations for Healthy and Active Life Expectancy took place in Riga, Latvia on Thursday 25 September 2014.

The INNOVAGE project is dedicated to developing and testing, as well as surveying and cataloguing social innovations, which will have a solid impact on improving the quality of life and wellbeing of older people.

Chaired by Prof Vappu Taipale, this was the second Forum in a series of three. Held approximately halfway through INNOVAGE this event allowed stakeholders to examine the progress and outputs from the project so far. Participants were also asked to provide expert advice on the maximisation of wellbeing in old age and Healthy Life Expectancy within INNOVAGE’s activities.

Attendees covered a range of backgrounds including policy makers, practitioners, older people and their representatives, companies and NGOs with experience or interest in social innovations for ageing.

For more information on the 2nd Forum or possible upcoming INNOVAGE events please contact innovage@sheffield.ac.uk

Media Reports and Forum Information

Report on the Forum (in Latvian)

Press release in Latvian (1)

Press release in Latvian (2)

Press release in Latvian (3)

Download the poster

Download the Forum programme

Download biographies of the speakers

Download the Forum report

INNOVAGE Forum Presentations

INNOVAGE: Measuring Social Innovation and HLE  Alan Walker, University of Sheffield, UK

Creating an ICT-based tool for linking housing to functional capacity Torbjorn Svensson, CASE, Lund University, Sweden

ICT-based social support for carers of older people Francesco Barbabella, INRCA, Italy

Improving Obesity Related Outcomes Stuart Parker, Newcastle University & Heath Reed, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Long-term Care in Motion  Klaus Hauer, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Photographs and Videos

Click here for Flickr album

Click here for YouTube playlist

Click here to see the story of the event in the format of tweets, through Storify.