This is the video message of Mrs Brigite van Haaften, vice-governor of the Province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands with her statement for the talkshow about regional policy on Active and Healthy Ageing. Join us Tuesday 24th of September from 11.00 to 12.30 in Norrkoping, Sweden as part of the AAL Forum in Room 6 Check out: http://www.aalforum.eu/programme/side... For more information: Participation of regional politicians to side event about the role of regional governments in innovation on Active and Healthy Ageing at AAL Forum 2013, Sweden, September 24th Regional politicians about innovation in Active and Healthy Ageing The annual AAL Forum 2013 (Ambient Assisted Living Forum) takes place in Sweden, September 24-26th. The AAL Forum is the place to be for everyone in Europe playing a role in Ambient Assisted Living and innovation in the field of Active and Healthy Ageing. AAL is about smart ICT solutions and services for independent living and integrated care. During last years AAL Forum in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant more than 1300 participants exchanged experiences and ideas. The AAL Joint Programme is an important pillar in the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP AHA), initiated by the European Commission. Introduction European regions and regional governments play an essential role in the implementation and scaling of smart solutions for independent living and integrated care. All over Europe regional innovation clusters - and regional politicians supporting them - make a difference. A lot of those regional clusters are part of the EIP AHA and recently got awarded by the European Commission with one or more stars. Why you? That's why we are organising a side event short before the Grand Opening of the AAL Forum about the regional perspective and the role of politicians. We want to hear your story as a politician representing your region and your regional innovation cluster. In a programme of about 90 minutes we will have a lively debate in which about 10 to 15 regional politicians from all over Europe participate. The European Commission will speak about the importance of regional involvement. The three main topics are: • How are you working on innovation on Active and Healthy Ageing and Ambient Assisted Living in your region? Do you have a regional innovation cluster? Do you have an innovation strategy or policy? What barriers do you experience? What is to your opinion the added value of the regional level in Europe? • What are you doing - as a regional government - to connect your region and innovation cluster to the European level? Are you connected to other regional clusters in Europe? How is your involvement in networks and partnerships like the EIP AHA, Coral, Euregha or Interreg? • How can the European Commission support your innovation strategy and regional innovation cluster? Special role of politicians The event has a high level character with regional ministers, (vice) governors, (vice) mayors and other politicians from a wide diversity of European regions and larger cities. You are the ambassador of your region and your innovation cluster. Most of all you are the ambassador of those state of the art regions in Europe most active in the domain of innovation in Active and Healthy Ageing. The programme will be a showcase of European regional policy on Active and Healthy Ageing. The programme The program will be a talk show, meaning there are no speeches but a professional moderator interviews you. You can react to the other politicians around the table and there will be lively interaction. The moderator will make sure that everyone will have his or her say and there is interaction with the audience. The program will be in English language. A selection of short 2-minute video clips - made by you - will be used as part of the program. Organisers The side event is initiated and organised by Coral, the AER and Euregha. All of them European networks of regions contributing to a community of innovating partners on Active and Healthy Ageing. Coral, AER and Euregha join effort more often representing the regional perspective in Europe and are active in the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. • Euregha: European Regional and Local Health Authorities - www.euregha.net • AER: Assembly of European Regions - www.aer.eu • Coral: Community Of Regions for Assisted Living, regional policy for Active and Healthy Ageing - www.coral-europe.eu The side event is also part of the ENGAGED project, which is the Learning community for innovation in Active and Healthy Ageing. ENGAGED is a thematic network funded by ICT PSP CIP from the European Commission and part of the EIP AHA. - www.engaged-innovation.eu Kind regards The organisers on behalf of AER, Euregha, Coral and ENGAGED: Esther Davidsen Toni Dedeu Camille Bullot Edwin Mermans Mariëlle Swinkels

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