Technology assessment projects

2008-2012

CommonWell

CommonWell is a project funded under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Commission. The project aims to integrate and evaluate ICT-enabled health and social care services in order to improve the quality of life of older poeple and their families. The focus is on problem situations faced by many older people, particularly those which threaten their independence. It also examines the requirements  of cost-effective and user friendly management of chronic conditions. The implemented and tested services are to be deployed at four locations in Europe. A total of 400 users are to receive services in pilot trials lasting over 12 months. The website is www.commonwell.eu

2008

User satisfaction assessment

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2007-2011

The SOPRANO Project

The SOPRANO Project is an integrated project in the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. The project aim is to design an Ambient Assisted Living system to support older people living in their own homes. Research focuses on three main strands:

1. systems design taking into account the requirements of older people, family carers and service providers.

2. large scale demonstrations and field trials of the prototype system.

3. developemnet of state-of-the-art Experience and Applications Research (E&AR). 

This project is ongoing and will end in June, 2011. For more information, please consult the following website http://www.soprano-ip.org/

2005-present 

Technology and website assessment

WRC undertakes a range of assessments of websites on a commercial basis.  The largest of these is done for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

 

Health-related projects

2008-2010

Mental Health Promotion at Work

This current ENWHP project is developing a typology of mental health promotion initiatives at work as well as identifying models of good practice in the area.  It will report on these case studies in mid 2010.

2007-2010

Promenpol – Promoting Mental Health Policy

This DG research project is developing information resources and building toolkits in relation to the promotion of mental health in educational, workplace and residential homes for older people.  The project aims to act as a link between policy making and practice in the area of mental health promotion, providing useful information to policy makers on what works, while supporting practitioners to improve their practice.  The project has developed a database of more than 400 mental health promotion tools, a toolkit for each of the settings and is supporting the implementation of more than 50 field trials of mental health promotion throughout Europe.

2007-2009

Integrated Workplace Health Age Management

This Belgian led Leonardo project is developing training on how to deal with older workers in terms of integrated health management approaches.  The target group for the training is human resource managers, but it is also useful for any workplace actor involved in managing older workers.  The training is available both in face-to-face course (blended learning) and as an e-learning package.  

 

ELWHP

This Leonardo project is developing a training programme in Workplace Health Promotion for Occupational Health Physicians in Romania . The programme has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the target group and includes modules on both workplace health promotion and specialist subjects in occupational health.  The training programme is largely designed as a face to face training course bit it also includes e-learning elements.

Reintegrate

This Leonardo project is developing face to face and e-learning training courses for managers who have responsibility for ensuring return to work of people who are (longer term) absent from work due to illness or injury.  The project is based on a disability management approach to the issue, and provides a comprehensive approach both to establishing an effective return to work system and to what needs to be done when an employee goes absent.  The website for the project also provides assessment tools to measure individual and organisational training needs.

2006-2009

Move Europe - A Campaign for the Improvement of Lifestyle-Related Workplace Health Promotion in Europe

This ENWHP project, funded by DG-Sanco, has developed a campaign for promoting workplace health promotion across Europe .  It focuses on 4 areas – smoking prevention, stress prevention, physical activity and diet.  It has identified company practices which can act as models of good practice across all Member States in each of these areas.  These models of good practice will be presented at a conference in Perugia in April 2009.

2006-present

European Risk Observatory

The Work Research Centre acts as the Irish correspondent for the European Risk Observatory.  This is an initiative of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work which seeks to identify new and emerging threats to employee health.  It does so by writing reports based on available national and EU level data on specific issues.