SENIOR FINAL CONFERENCE

The final conference of the SENIOR Project was held in Brussels on the 27th November 2009.

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Social Ethical and Privacy Needs in ICT for Older People: A DIALOGUE ROADMAP

Funded under 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme) - Research area: ICT-2007.7.1 ICT and ageing

Grant agreement no.: 216820

Vision Statement

We join in a vision of a society in which technologies serve to ensure that elderly and ageing persons are connected with family and community, living healthy, productive, and satisfying lives in a supportive environment. We envision technologies that not only are designed in a manner to meet the unique physical requirements of the ageing body, but which move beyond this to address the broader emotional and social needs for inclusion, and simultaneously preserve the individual s liberty, privacy, and autonomy.

Mission Statement

The Social Ethical and Privacy Needs in ICT for Older People: A Dialogue for Roadmap (SENIOR) is a 2 year support action which aims to provide a systematic assessment using dialogue as the key instrument to evaluate the social, ethical and privacy issues involved in ICT and Ageing.
As a result, SENIOR will provide an understanding of how technological trends are responding to the goals of inclusion for the ageing and using lessons learned from those trends, plan strategies for the future to closely link these issues to technology at the design level.

Partners

• Center for Science, Society and Citizenship - Italy
• European Business Associates Srl - Italy
• Global Security Intelligence Limited - United Kingdom
• Inclusion Alliance for Europe GEIE - Romania
• In-JeT Aps - Denmark
• International Forum for Biophilosophy - Belgium
• Trilateral Research and Consulting LLP - United Kingdom
• Vrije Universiteit Brussels - Belgium

Expert Meetings

The main objective of the five SENIOR Expert meetings is to hold an active discussion among expert people about what ethical and privacy perspectives are currently applied to ICT for elderly inclusion. Each expert group will analyse technology trends, and the discussion should enlighten possible tradeoffs between privacy, ethics and technological innovation. The meetings will be attended by internal and external experts selected by SENIOR Consortium, and by other interested experts.

• Expert meeting on Ubiquitous Computing - Brussels, 8 September 2008 (GSI)
• Expert meeting on Ubiquitous Communication - Brussels, 22 September 2008 (In-JeT)
• Expert meeting on Intelligent User Interface - Brussels, 6 October 2008 (VUB)
• Expert meeting on Assistive Technology and Robotics - Brussels, 20 October 2008 (IAE)
• Expert meeting on Adaptive Software - Brussels, 8 December 2008 (GSI):

Due to limited seating, please note that we reserve the right to limit the number of people attending SENIOR events. There is no fee for attending workshops/expert meetings/conferences but all who would like to attend any SENIOR events need to contact Valeria Balestrieri (valeria.balestrieri@cssc.eu) at least two weeks in advance by sending a short motivation letter specifying which meeting they wish to attend and a brief CV (max 1 page). Late applications are generally not accepted. EC officers need no pre-registration, but are asked to submit their request to the same email address.