Web Content Article NESTORE advisors stress key principles to facilitate the adoption of the virtual coach The third and last official meeting of the Forum of Advisory Stakeholders (FAS) in October 2019 was the occasion for a round of feedback from our knowledgeable members, who appreciated the efforts and progresses done so far by the project. |
Web Content Article COVID19: Keeping you healthy is our NESTORE priority! NESTORE is a project aiming to develop a virtual coach that will help us stay healthy and independent as we age. The outbreak of COVID-19, a new form of coronavirus, and its rapid spread around the world has obviously required the project partners to make rapid decisions to keep everyone safe and healthy. |
Web Content Article NESTORE on CORDIS, the EU projects database CORDIS provides information on all EU-supported R&D activities. Quite naturally, it has a page about NESTORE. |
Web Content Article Integration System Integration System The integration activities aim to offer to the end-users a compact NESTORE system, composed by wearable devices with biosensors, environmental sensors, food monitoring solution, a software for decisional support and a virtual coach. The whole system will guide the NESTORE users towards a healthy lifestyle. While leveraging state of the art technologies, the innovation in NESTORE’s architecture relies on its capacity to: provide a set of basic services by different apps, potentially offered by different stakeholders; to offer personal and personalized support according to the user needs and interest; to ease communication with family and friends as well as with careers; to propose external services based on “group” of interests. In designing these systems, two major directions are addressed: system architecture and e-coaching mechanisms. The architecture of the system is the basis of the entire system and determines the potential of the future coaching mechanism and its possibilities of intervention. The design of the presented architecture is done in a way that allows its use for various e-coaching solutions. It also addresses aspects that are found within the coaching system such as: personality characterization (such as gender, age, attitude, coaching goal, progress, and past experiences). Architecture integrates three interconnected and complementary components essential for the e-Coaching activity, which are the Monitoring System, the Decision support system (DSS) and the Virtual Coach . These components must work together and integrate each other, allowing also other applications to be easily added, while all components must comply with the cloud’s infrastructure requirements. Shared modules comprise: Identity Manager, Security Manager, User Profile, and Log Service that are used by Nestore. A wide range of data is used by the system, e.g. user data, sensor data, actuator access, and service membership, which are subject to security and privacy. Each of these areas offer a proper security level which is audited for compliance with existing rules. For more information on the system integration, please contact ROPARDO and FLEX. |
Web Content Article Meet the experts: Noemi Boqué Terré talks nutrition PhD. Noemi Boqué is nutritionist and a researcher at the Eurecat’s Nutrition and Health Unit. She is the expert appointed by NESTORE partners to provide technologists with advices related to the development of coaching pathways in relation to foods, nutrition and health. She answers our questions. |
Web Content Article How NESTORE became an integrated system At the end of January 2020, technical partners of the NESTORE project gathered in Milan, Italy for a very final integration meeting. The aim of the encounter was to test the last updates of the NESTORE components, exchange the experiences during the tests and discussed the next steps. We are glad to announce that this meeting was productive and successful! |
Web Content Article Meet the experts: Dr. Christina Röcke talks Cognition, Social Relations, and Emotional Well-Being Dr. Christina Röcke is Deputy Director and Head Research Group of the Program “Dynamics of Healthy Ageing” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In NESTORE, she was appointed as the expert for cognition, social relations, subjective (emotional) well-being, behaviour change, and quantitative empirical ageing studies. She answers our questions. |
Web Content Article Recording: Webinar on data sharing in digital healthy ageing projects You were 70 to attend our webinar on data sharing in digital healthy ageing projects. We hope you find it interesting and that we will keep the conversation going! You could not attend? You want to share what you learnt? You have additional questions? Find your response below! |
Web Content Article Merry Christmas and happy 2020! We've had a wonderful year with you! The whole NESTORE team wishes you restful and happy holidays and a great start into the new year! We look forward to advancing healthy ageing with you in 2020! |
Web Content Article The NESTORE advisor, Eurocarers, promotes our survey to end users The European network representing informal carers and their organisations - Eurocarers, that is a member of the advisory board of NESTORE, helped us disseminate our survey to end users with a short article on their website. |
Web Content Article NESTORE closes its testing phase! We are happy to announce that the testing phase of NESTORE concludes today! During the last weeks, users have been involved in many tests to ensure the smooth operation of our system with our technical partners. |
Web Content Article NESTORE announced as a nominee of the Silver Economy and Ageing Well International Awards The SilverEco® and Ageing Well International Awards aim to bring together all Silver Economy international stakeholders on the occasion of a gala event, on 13th of June, 2019 in Tokyo. NESTORE was among the 45 nominees coming from all around the world. |
Web Content Article Sibiu Innovation Days NESTORE will be pitching in Sibiu on November 26th and 27th, with the aim to strengthen the collaboration among stakeholders and to present its solution to a local audience interested in understanding and using innovative services. |
Web Content Article NESTORE partner invited for a lecture on Exercise Prescription for older adults The 11th European Congress of Sports Medicine represents a very important moment for Europe, both at scientific and at cultural level, being a unique occasion to exchange and share knowledge and experiences among physicians and stakeholders. Next 3-5 October 2019, Simone Porcelli, MD PhD at the National Research Council of Italy was invited to give a lecture about Exercise Prescription for older adults. |
Web Content Article Collecting health-related data: Will older adults share these with researchers interested in understanding late life health? Not only young, but more and more older adults track activity information. A recent study exploring the use of health-related tracking devices among the 50+ is providing an important context for NESTORE. |
Web Content Article Bringing innovation in the e-health industry based on technological research and development Last December 11, 2018 Gabriela Candea, Manager of the Research & Innovation Department at Ropardo gave a presentation on “Technological Research and Development and Industrial Innovation” at the Romanian Central Region Development Agency. |
Web Content Article Support the coronavirus global response effort On 4 May the European Union joined forces with global partners to kick-start the Coronavirus Global Response, a worldwide pledging effort to raise €7.5 billion of funding to rapidly develop and deploy universally available and affordable diagnostics, treatments and vaccines against the coronavirus. |
Web Content Article The gender approach in NESTORE: cognitive coaching Research has shown sex differences in relation to cognitive capacities between men and women. How does that inform the way NESTORE will support older people in remaining cognitively fit? The University of Zurich explains. |
Web Content Article Webinar on data sharing in digital healthy ageing projects Next Tuesday 18 February 2020 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CET), NESTORE along with two other European projects in virtual coaching are organising a webinar on how to handle data sharing in research projects on healthy ageing. |
Web Content Article A COACH Workshop at the next PETRA Conference in June 2019 NESTORE will be in Rhodes, Greece next June 2019 for a joint workshop on virtual coaching with other Horizon2020 projects! Don't miss it! |
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