What’s happening Independence matters
work with older adults and third sector organisations to develop human-centric service solutions that help ensure the independence of people in older age, and which are ready to be scaled up and rolled out to the commercial market.
The launch of the challenge follows extensive research by the Design Council, to identify the key areas in which innovations could make the most difference in helping older people to live independently.
Technology Strategy Board and Design Council launch competition to find innovative solutions to help older adults live independently for longer.
January saw the launch of a £600,000 programme to support designers and SMEs in developing innovative ways to help older people live independently for longer. The ‘Home and Away’ programme will fund designers, industry, service providers to work with charities and foundations, older adults their families and carers to develop and test new systems and services which tackle two key issues – mobility and nutrition.
The Technology Strategy Board is offering up to ten Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) feasibility contracts in the first stage of the project, each worth up to £20,000, and is inviting designers, industry and commercial service providers to apply.
The four best proposals may then receive development contracts valued at up to £100,000 each. The funding will enable teams of designers and businesses to
JCB recruitment drive
JCB has launched a recruitment drive for up to 80 engineers in the UK. The vacancies are across all the company’s sites in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wales and arise as JCB takes advantage of a return to growth in global markets.
Vacancies include mechanical, electronic and electrical design engineers, development engineers, research and development engineers, engine design
and development engineers, technicians, apprentice engineers, undergraduate engineers and graduate engineers.
www.jcb.com/careers/engvacancies.asp
Left-to-right: JCB CEO Alan Blake, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon. George Osborne MP and HE Services
Chairman Hugh Edeleanu, whose company has placed a large order for JCBs. Plans
to recruit an additional 80 engineers was announced during Mr Osborne’s visit.
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The competition is being run through the Technology Strategy Board’s Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP), which is responding to the challenge of the demographic shift – in essence promoting independence by making technology better, cheaper and more desirable. The ALIP aims to significantly advance the technology to meet the demand for independent living from the expected increase in the numbers of people suffering from long term conditions and age- related disability.
The Home and Away competition is part of a larger programme called Independence Matters, which was developed by the Technology Strategy Board and the Design Council to tackle the issues arising from the global demographic shift and develop and promote new approaches, attitudes and business opportunities to ageing. To find out more, visit
www.designcouncil.org.uk/ independencematters.
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