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KICK-OFF of the #FITT-NESS project in Porto📣 These last two days were rich and engaging while we kicked-off this new project: FITT-NESS – Fostering Innovation and the Twin Transition for Inclusive Environments and Smart Homes FITT-NESS started this month and was now officially launched at a partner meeting nicely hosted by the Universidade do Porto, on 28-29 November, which included a networking event, the FITT-NESS Community Workshop, where I shared outputs and insights from SIRENE, NET4Age-Friendly and the #DESIRE projects. SHINE 2Europe is leading WP2 on Capacity Building and Training in this new project coordinated by Universidade do Porto - Elísio Costa, with partners APIMA - Associação Portuguesa das Indústrias de Mobiliário e Afins (Portugal), CETEM - Centro Tecnológico del Mueble y la Madera and AMUEBLA (Spain), FederlegnoArredo and CEIPES ETS (Italy) and F6S (Ireland). This multidisciplinary team provides the essential knowledge and expertise to ensure FITT-NESS successfully impacts the furniture sector with cutting-edge practices and technologies - and having good working friends involved always help!! Over the next two years, the project aims to create new business opportunities and equip furniture for companies for a digital and green transition, focusing on promoting smart homes, age-friendly environments, and sustainable/eco-housing. Key activities include mapping and analysing capabilities, market trends, challenges, opportunities, and barriers in the furniture sector across the consortium’s four regions; upskilling the workforce; providing comprehensive advisory and business support services; and strengthening connections within regional innovation ecosystems. FITT-NESS is financed by the Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument. Juliana Louceiro Natália Machado Inês Saavedra luis dias Joana Carrilho Francisco José Melero Muñoz María Sánchez Melero Alessia Di Francesca Vittorio Riponi Robert Carroll Ana Sofia Rodrigues Sofia Esteves Gualter Morgado Chiara Terraneo

Our SIRENE project just ended this October. Such a great consortium, an engaged group of experts and really nice outcomes 😊 Proud and happy, a bit sad it is over...!! Miriam Cabrita, this was a great journey, ah? 🏋♂️ To everyone involved, a huge and deep THANK YOU, it was a privilege to work and collaborate with you all!! Willeke Van Staalduinen Patricia Lucha Farina Oscar Zanutto Francesca Masiero Adele de Stefani Tajana Medaković Dautović Vukasin Orsic Silvia Urra Uriarte Olatz Nicolas Buxens Karolina Mackiewicz Federica Porcu Dimitris Georgoulis AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy ISRAA F6S TECNALIA Research & Innovation ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector Natália Machado luis dias Bruna Catarino Catarina Carvalho And here I leave a taste of our memories and outcomes - a great work from our Joana Vieira and José Henrique Câmara and photography of Simone Bresolin.

📢 SIRENE Project Wrap-Up: Final Newsletter is Out Now! 🎉 ✨After an incredible journey, the SIRENE project is coming to an end. We're thrilled to share our final newsletter, capturing key highlights from our journey and the inspiring SIRENE Final Event held in Brussels! Explore the outcomes, stories, and lasting impact of our work promoting Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) across Europe. A huge thank you to our partners, supporters, and community who made this project a success! 💚 📰 Read the last newsletter here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dSEtpyPZ #SIRENEProject #SHAFE #HealthyAgeing #SocialInnovation #InclusiveCommunities

✨ SIRENE at Gerontology Days 2024 ✨ On October 11, Juliana Louceiro represented SHINE 2Europe at Gerontology Days 2024, presenting the SIRENE project during the session "Promoting active and healthy living through cooperation: Stakeholder involvement in innovative projects." She highlighted the importance of Social Innovation and how the project actively engages citizens and organizations through collaboration, including initiatives like the Experts' Hub, science cafés, and training schools. We’re proud to be part of this valuable platform co-organised byUniversity of Debrecen and nd the Faculty of Social Wellbeing of the University of Malta, pushing forward active and healthy aging! #SIRENEproject #GerontologyDays2024 #ActiveAging #HealthyLiving #SocialInnovation #SHAFE #Net4AgeFriendly

🎉 SIRENE Final Event: The Future is SHAFE! 🎉 From October 1-3, 2024, the final event of the SIRENE project took place during the EU Week for Sustainable and Inclusive Communities in Brussels. 🌍💼 Experts, policymakers, and stakeholders gathered to discuss sustainable, inclusive, and age-friendly environments, focusing on health, housing, digital solutions, and business opportunities in the SHAFE framework. Catch the full recap of this impactful event, its highlights, and the legacy we're building for inclusive, age-friendly communities across Europe. 👉 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dBTehpqp  #SIRENEproject #SHAFE #SocialInnovation #AgeFriendly #SustainableCommunities #InclusiveFuture

Today I was presenting my lump sum experience in the SIRENE and INTEGER - Interconnecting 4 Helix Innovation Ecosystems in European Regions projects at the webinar on Legal and Financial Aspects of #HorizonEurope, promoted by AICIB - Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica. Around 500 participants asked really several questions to the panel of moderators and speakers that included Alexandre Manuel Ferreira Marques, Ana Li and Maria Joao Fernandes. Many relevant points to understand better how to work with lump sums and unit costs in projects, also available in Youtube, if you missed it: https://lnkd.in/d3-wE-nH SHINE 2Europe

NET4Age-Friendly and SIRENE group 🙂 Brussels 1 October 2024 SHINE 2Europe Miriam Cabrita Natália Machado Inês Saavedra AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy Jonas Bernitt Patricia Lucha Farina Javier Ganzarain F6S Tajana Medaković Dautović Vukasin Orsic Oscar Zanutto Francesca Masiero Adele De Stefani TECNALIA Research & Innovation Silvia Urra Uriarte ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector Karolina Mackiewicz Federica Porcu Mara Diaconu Ivan Chorbev Maddalena Illario Milica Solarevic Tatjana Loncar Turukalo Luiza Spiru Kenneth Bone Pedro Roseiro Aurelija Blazeviciene Giuseppe Lugano Lenka Lhotská Toñi Caro Elena Curtopassi Rodd Bond Maria Jose Santofimia Romero Mireia Ferri Sanz M.D.E Scipio Almudena Muñoz martin kampel and many more!

DAY 3 of the EU Week on SHAFE - going to the afternoon 😊 with a session organised by the #ENSA network under the great leadership of Elena Curtopassi We started with the warm welcome and setting the scene by Annalisa Bisson, maria jose rico llorca and Miltos Sakellariou The Plenary followed with a panel on the impact of Demographic Change - holistic and integrated solutions, where Inês Saavedra presented the #YoungCare project, followed with interventions from Lisa Leonardini, Michele Calabro', Oscar Zanutto and Miltos Sakellariou. After the Q&A the session followed with the panel Well-being for all – Disability, culture and accessibility, including visual impairments, with interventions from maria jose rico llorca and Anna Maria Foskolou. A rich session that reinforced the connections between our netorks and promises further collaborative work! The wrap-up of the day was also the wrap-up of the full Conference where Willeke Van Staalduinen and I got a bit emotional and definitely laughing a bit too much 😂 😂.

📢Join us TODAY ay 13.30 CET for the last Capacity Building webinar of the SIRENE project! A panel webinar, focusing on the growth of social innovation actors in eco-friendly and sustainable community-based services for SHAFE implementation in Europe. 🔎We will dive into SHAFE implementation in Europe, the future of eco-friendly and sustainable community-based services and the growth of social innovation actors in this context. Participation link: https://lnkd.in/deByyBhG #SIRENEProject #SocialInnovation #HorizonEurope

Congratulations to NET4Age-Friendly for a great conference as part of the SHAFE Week at the European Committee of the Regions. Over three days, 200 participants from researchers to policymakers and innovators came together, ready to explore new frontiers in creating smart, healthy, and inclusive environments. A collaboration between NET4Age and it's sister Horizon Europe project SIRENE, the Action showcased a journey that started four years ago, its success in raising awareness on this important topic, and bridging academia and practitioners by launching a follow-up initiative SHAFE Foundation to benefit future generations. “Innovation can be the grass to improve people’s lives that fit their needs. The challenge researchers meet is to build a business model to translate the evidence-based into innovative solutions, that is why strategic partnerships are important to move forward.” Carina Dantas, NET4Age Chair #COSTactions #HorizonEurope #ScienceWithoutBorders #SHAFE