Interim report on visioning. BRAID, EC FP7 Coordinated action project 248485, deliverable D4.1

The ageing population of Europe is growing very fast. The Bridging Research in Ageing and
ICT Development (BRAID) project aims at approaching this phenomenon and many of its
arisen challenges. BRAID develops a comprehensive RTD roadmap for "ageing well" which
identifies advanced ICT-based approaches and mechanisms to support the ageing European
citizens. At its base, the BRAID roadmap consolidates the results from four previous
roadmapping projects, the so-called feeder projects, namely the AALIANCE, CAPSIL, ePAL,
and SENIOR, which have each focused on different specific aspects of ageing and technology.
As such, BRAID creates one holistic roadmap for ageing challenges in European society.
The first part of the work done in WP4 of BRAID is presented in this deliverable. Encompassing
the analysis of both the input from the four feeder projects and the results produced by WP1 of
BRAID, in WP4 so far a 1st general vision statement for BRAID is produced and it is
instantiated into the four introduced "life settings" for ageing population, i.e. the
independent living, healthy living, profession in life, and occupation in life. These life
settings represent the main areas of life which are identified in BRAID as candidates for specific
support when ageing.
To develop the BRAID vision, a systematic approach is applied addressing: (i) the life settings
and a large set of scenarios defined in relation to each life setting, as well as (ii) introducing
five main driving forces which influence the achievement of the BRAID vision, namely the
technological, societal, organizational, economic, and regulatory driving forces, and
identification of a large set of trends in relation to each driving force.
This document first introduces the systematic approach which is applied to building a
consolidated well-conceived vision for BRAID from the four feeder projects. Following this
approach, a first vision for BRAID is step by step developed through: setting the analysis
framework of "life settings", building representative scenarios for the life settings, analysis of
influencing drivers and trends, and then consolidation of these inputs into the 1st general vision
and its four instantiations. Finally the developed vision went through its preliminary validation
stage, through the involvement of the BRAID project consortium