Helping Europe's older adults to combat loneliness
Loneliness is a challenge to healthy, active ageing for many older Europeans. Healthy Loneliness offers the tools needed to tackle loneliness and to live well.
The Healthy Loneliness programme co-creates initiatives with older people to address the loneliness some may feel and prevent it becoming a challenge to healthy, active lives.
As Europe’s population ages and societal changes lead to greater isolation for the elderly, loneliness is responsible for a decrease in quality of life for a large part of European society. By taking into account the needs of older adults, this programme provides tools to tackle feelings of loneliness and build self-esteem, helping participants to understand that living alone does not mean living in loneliness.
The programme aims to:
- Achieve a better understanding of current loneliness among the elderly in urban environments, and to identify causes, consequences and solutions.
- Improve participants’ quality of life and self-esteem, and reinforce the positive points of living alone.
- Evaluate participants’ mental health and self-esteem before and after participation.
- Motivate permanent behaviour change towards healthy and active ageing.
Further information
https://www.healthy-loneliness.eu
External partners
Partners

CLC/InnoStars: Spain
Partner classification: Education, Research
Partner type: Linked/Affiliated Party
The Universitat Politècnica de València is an institution with the capacity to take a lead in these changes and the meeting of the demands which face us, characteristics which underline its great value but which also mean the adoption of specific organisational and functional processes, all of which justified the need to draw up a new Strategic Plan, as a tool for the management of the institution, the definition of lines of action, and to support decision-making.
Universitat Politècnica de València
Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera, 46022 València, Valencia, Spain
Key Activities in Business Creation
Incubation, Technology Transfer, Business coaching
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training, Technical faculties


CLC/InnoStars: France
Partner classification: Tech Transfer, Clusters, Other NGOs
Partner type: Associate Partner
E-Seniors is an NGO whose objective is to bridge the digital divide by providing seniors with training on ICT. In research projects the association represents the end-users and has the role to test innovative solutions for active and healthy ageing
Association E-Seniors
Association E-Seniors, 19 Cité de Phalsbourg, 75011 Paris, France
Key Activities in Business Creation
Business coaching, Testing & Validation
Key Activities in Education
Healthcare professional education/training


CLC/InnoStars: InnoStars
Partner classification: Education
Partner type: Core Partner
University of Coimbra (UC) is a reference in higher education and R&D in Portugal, due to the quality of the courses taught at its eight colleges and to the advances achieved in pure and applied research in various scientific domains and on technology related areas. The offer in technological research makes UC an undeniable reference in R&D in Portugal, which highlights the excellence of work developed by the R&D units of UC, namely in the fields of life sciences. UC offers advanced entrepreneurship education trainings programs in different areas that bind to technology, where it was considered by EC as one of the 20 most inspiring cases in Europe. UC stands out also on technology transfer being involved in the promotion of several successful initiatives, like IPN Incubator, TECBis- Business accelerator unit, Biocant, and in the creation of more than 200 technological spin-offs, the majority of them healthcare related businessess. UC U-Multirank scored “very good” (the maximum classification) on Research, Technology Transfer and Internationalisation.
Key Activities in Corporate Innovation
Pharma, Med Tech, ICT, Diagnostics, Imaging
Key Activities in Social Innovation
Healthcare provision
Key Activities in Business Creation
Incubation, Technology Transfer, Business coaching
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training


CLC/InnoStars: InnoStars
Partner classification: Education, Research
Partner type: Core Partner
MUL is among the largest state-owned medical Universities in Poland. It has reached a leading position in the following research areas: immunology, molecular biology, genetics of homeostasis disorders, oncology, hypertension and endocrinology. Within the last two years, young researchers from MUL were considered leaders in areas such as cardiology, oncology, immunology and dermatology.
Medical University of Łódź
Medical University of Łódź, Kościuszki 4, 90-419 Łódź, Poland
Key Activities in Corporate Innovation
Med Tech, Diagnostics
Key Activities in Social Innovation
Healthcare provision
Key Activities in Business Creation
Technology Transfer, Testing & Validation
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training, Medical faculties, Healthcare professional education/training
