9-10th December the 4th EIP AHA (European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing) conference of partners took place in Belgium, Brussels.

The conference gave participants insight to current actions of Regional and Local Authorities in order to accelerate the provision of benefits to people and economy.

Further aim was to show how European organisations united to support Scaling Up of innovation for active and healthy ageing and seizing the Silver Economy opportunity.

The second day of the conference focused on the partnership’s achievements, visions and next steps. The good news is that the role of Living Labs and the importance of user engagement was stressed in each action group’s session.

A separate regional workshop was dedicated to the Helsinki Uusimaa region, where Tuija Hirvikoski – EnoLL president and Director of Laurea Applied Sciences University – taught participants the rule of ‘taalkot’: joint effort – let’s collaborate and cocreate!

Further information will be posted soon for the health expert group, some of the conference presentations are available on the event’s website.

If you are interested join and learn more about the partnership, visit the EIP AHA page.