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For Business

Life 2.0 is a platform for social communication between senior people, but it is also an opportunity for small business to be more visible to seniors living in their local area and to offer them their services What can Life 2.0 offer…. …to small local business Senior people are often the most trusty clients for [...]

Organise events

Life 2.0 includes an application to organise events, form groups for cinema, bowling, theatre or just bushwalking. You can post a proposal and check who is coming. the proposal will show up in your personal calendar on Life 2.0

What is Life 2.0?

The Life 2.0 project aims at generating innovative services to support elderly people’s independent living. The services will use location technologies and social networking to enhance elderly people’s access to information about what happens in their neighborhood.  The project will be based on the hypothesis that technological infrastructure, such as Web applications (e.g. google maps, [...]

Need help?

Do you need help with your everyday little tasks (gardening, cooking, changing a lamp, shopping)? You can use Life 2.0 maps to find who is available in your neighborhood and contact them for an appointment. Life 2.0 support senior people’s independent life by giving them an overview of what is going on in their area, [...]

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From the Blog

Feb
10

The first version of the Application for Life 2.0 is starting: users will start testing it in March. On 1. March Danish senior people will have the first test meeting. On 6. March Italian seniors will test the life 2.0 application. The first version includes the functionalities related to the  mutual help scenario, including: Register to [...]

Oct
18
Posted by nicola on October 18th, 2011 at 8:07 am

Today the Life 2.0 consortium visited  Agora. A vocational school that will host the main activities for the Life 2.0 pilot and living lab in Barcelona. Agora is a member of the Life 2.0 consortium. The school is based on voluntary work of hundred of teachers and on bottom up initiatives of citizens in the [...]

Sep
24
Posted by nicola on September 24th, 2011 at 10:05 am

On the 17 and 18 October 2011 the partners of the Life 2.0 consortium will meet in Barcelona for a workshop on the future development of the pilot phase. The workshop will be at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and in the new i2HEALTH SANT PAU knowledge centre. We will be working on how to plan a [...]

Sep
13
Posted by nicola on September 13th, 2011 at 5:38 pm

New rerports are now online in the Deliverable page. For those who want to have an update about scenarios for Life 2.0 the deliverable D.2.1 provides a detailed description of which scenarios we are going to test in the project.  Also a Use case and requirement list report is available (D.2.2). The scenarios will be [...]

Jul
05

On July 1, 2011 Susan Ferreira, from the research group of Pompeu Fabra University, presented a poster, titled Online ITV use by older people: preliminary findings of a rapid ethnographical study, in the EuroITV2011 conference in Lisbon. The paper presents preliminary results of the activities conducted in Agora association (Barcelona, Spain) during the ethnographical phase [...]

Jun
28
Posted by nicola on June 28th, 2011 at 2:57 pm

The first Life 2.0 workshop took place in Milano on the 21 and 22 June 2011. The workshop was framed in the DPPI Conference, In Milano. The workshop was aimed at developing a platform to support 4 main scenarios, concerning Food Mutual Help Activity Organisation Location and Positioning. The analysis of the four scenarios demonstrated [...]

Jun
09
Posted by nicola on June 9th, 2011 at 11:36 pm

On March 29th 2011, the research group within the project “Life 2.0″hosted  the project’s 3rd workshop, a geo catching at the activity centre Kastanjegaarden in Aalborg. The aim of the workshops was to present elderly people of Kastanjegaarden to various technologies and to discuss how these technologies might be implemented and integrated in their daily [...]

Jun
09

Media on the move is an annual conference on innovative solutions in media technology.The conference is an event that attracts business and experts from all over Danmark and beyond. This year the conference included presentations on turism, online advertising, experience, and healthcare (see the program here, most presentations are in Danish) The Life 2.0 project [...]

“How can North Denmark Region secure its place in a fierce global competition?” This was the theme of a big dissemination event hold at Aalborg Airport on 09 March 2011. The event, visited by 300 participants, was organized by Aalborg Municipality in collaboration with local business council on the 9th of March 2011 at the [...]