Profile of ISMB-Istituto Superiore Mario Boella: Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) was established in July 2000 by the founding members "Compagnia di San Paolo" and "Politecnico di Torino". During year 2001 new industrial partners, Cerved, Motorola, STMicroelectronics and TILab, joined ISMB. The mission of the Institute is to: . Build a national/international area of excellence in the ICT sector . Promote integration between subjects that operate on innovative projects in ICT . Activate research and further education programs . Help synergy between Academia and Industry . Boost new businesses and entrepreneurial activities in the ICT sector The sectors in which ISMB is involved are: research, higher education training and ICT business strategy, with a special focus on wireless technologies and e-security. Several other research activities are currently undertaken in collaboration with the industrial partners and with Politecnico di Torino in areas such as automotive and ITS. ISMB is very active in postgraduate training and education programs in research sectors, with a focus on e-Learning. Particularly successful was the e-Business Master initiative. Cooperations were established with the University of Illinois and Sophia Antipolis, enriched by cooperation with Latin America on the Alpip Technological Master programs. Particularly important is the role that the Institute plays in the Torino Wireless Foundation(where ISMB is the research branch). Torino Wireless, promoted by relevant Public Institutions (Research Ministry, Piedmont Region, Turin Province, Turin City Council, Commerce Chamber of Turin), by important Private Enterprises (Alenia, FIAT, Motorola, STMicroelectronics, Telecom Italia), by Banks and Banks Foundation (SanPaoloIMI, Unicredito, Compagnia di SanPaolo, Fondazione CRT) and by the Industrial Union, the Polytechnic of Turin and the University of Turin, aims to build a Technological District in the wireless sector with an emphasis on boosting new entrepreneurship starting from the technological excellence available locally. Project profile: Name: COMMUNITY and HOME teleCARE SERVICES Scenario: It is well known that demographic change is resulting in an ageing society. The European Commission has predict that in a few years about 30% of the population will be over 65, with serious issues in terms of financing the growth of healthcare costs. Technologies could play an increasingly relevant role in the future providing the possibility of given people more choices in terms of quality of life and independence with significant reduction of costs Project guidelines: To develop and test assistive services based on non invasive technologies and sensors positioned both on the user or in the home /residence. Some levels of intelligence within the technical solution (intelligent, usable watch) can detect alert situations and activate a call if the user is unable to do it. There are several technologies able to cope with these issues but only few service field trials have been carried out; the projects wants to cope with pre-commercial services based on technical solutions already available. The pre-commercial set up and on the ground trials will be carried out taking into account two concrete scenarios such as: . Community people scenario . People at home Both service-trials / market assessments will be based on 20-25 users for each scenario Partner Profile , considering that our proposal wants to cope with pre-commercial trials, should have the following profiles: . Partners with skills in assistive technologies, tele-care and remote monitoring . Partners with expertises in services (social and health) and processes related to elderly care and interested in developing pre-commercial trials . Partners with expertises in market assessment and business models Pour plus d'information contacter : sciarappa@ismb.it Ce message vous est diffusé par Patrick SCHOULLER Point de Contact National du programme ETEN Pour plus d'information www.telecom.gouv.fr/eten 25bbaf.jpg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick SCHOULLER Ministère de l'Economie des Finances et de l'Industrie DIGITIP - STSI Représentant national aux comités des programmes IST, E-TEN, E-CONTENT, SIAP Point de contact national E-TEN et SIAP