Mobile Age is a project that combines mobile technology and opened data to help the population of older persons of the whole Europe to design mobile applications focused on its needs and adapted to its characteristics. Diverse studies tell that this population will be 28% of the whole continent in 2020, therefore its active participation in the everyday life will be more and more necessary.

To obtain it, the project Mobile Age will create a system of participation that will allow senior citizens benefit from the production and the use of open data in its cities, following two clear targets: to explore and to implement models of access and use of the public services for old people across technologies of open data, and to develop a methodology for the creation of services for this sector of the population.

To do so, Mobile Age will develop four pilots in collaboration with public authorities across Europe: South Lakeland (UK); Bremen (Germany); Region of Central Macedonia (Greece); and Zaragoza (Spain). There, older persons themselves will decide which services they want to access, which kind of applications they would like to use, and which requirements in terms of accessibility and mobility they opt for. Each pilot site will work on a specific theme: social inclusion in Bremen; extending independent living in South Lakeland; a safe and accessible city for seniors in Zaragoza, and personal health information in Central Macedonia. Based on such decisions, the Mobile Age team will develop the requested applications and ask older persons to test them in real-life settings.

The coordinator of the project is the Lancaster University (ULANC), complemented by Tingtun AS (TT), Age Platforma Europe AISBL (AGE), Evangelische Stiftung Volmarstein (FTB), Government to You (GOV2U), Institut fur Informations Management Bremen GMBH (ifib), Aristotelio Panapistimio Thessalonikis (AUTH), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid through the Ontology Engineering Group (UPM), Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza (ZGZ) and Region of Central Macedonia (RCM).

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