As life expectancy continues to increase in most EU Member States, smart technologies can help enable older people to continue living at home, despite the challenges accompanying the ageing process. The Innovation Action (IA) SHAPES 'Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems' funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement number 857159) attends to these topics to support active and healthy ageing and the wellbeing of older adults. This protocol article outlines the SHAPES project's objectives and aims, methods, structure, and expected outcomes. SHAPES seeks to build, pilot, and deploy a large-scale, EU-standardised interoperable, and scalable open platform. The platform will facilitate the integration of a broad range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational, and social solutions. SHAPES emphasises that the home is much more than a house-space; it entails a sense of belonging, a place and a purpose in the community. SHAPES creates an ecosystem - a network of relevant users and stakeholders - who will work together to scale-up smart solutions. Furthermore, SHAPES will create a marketplace seeking to connect demand and supply across the home, health and care services. Finally, SHAPES will produce a set of recommendations to support key stakeholders seeking to integrate smart technologies in their care systems to mediate care delivery. Throughout, SHAPES adopts a multidisciplinary research approach to establish an empirical basis to guide the development of the platform. This includes long-term ethnographic research and a large-scale pan-European campaign to pilot the platform and its digital solutions within the context of seven distinct pilot themes. The project will thereby address the challenges of ageing societies in Europe and facilitate the integration of community-based health and social care. SHAPES will thus be a key driver for the transformation of healthcare and social care services across Europe.

AGE Platform Europe Brussels 1150 Belgium

Carus Consilium Sachsen GmbH Dresden Saxony 01309 Germany

Department of Anthropology ALL Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

Department of Psychology ALL Institute Human Health Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

Department of Psychology ALL Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

Department of Research and Development Laurea University of Applied Sciences Vantaa 01300 Finland

Department of Research and Development Treelogic Tree Technology SA Madrid 28020 Spain

EDGE Edgeneering LDA Lisbon 2500 218 Portugal

Edward M Kennedy Institute Department of Psychology ALL Institute Social Sciences Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung E 5 Munich Bavaria Germany

ICOM Intracom SA Telecom Solutions PEANIA 19002 Greece

Palacký University Olomouc Olomoucký University Social Health Institute Olomouc 771 11 Czech Republic

School of Law and Criminology ALL Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

School of Law and Criminology Centre for European and Eurasian Studies ALL Institute National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth Co Kildare Ireland

World Federation of the Deafblind Las Palmas Gran Canaria Spain

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