Research & Development Request

United Kingdom

A UK Midlands based University is seeking 2 replacement partners to join their consortium for the following project:
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 - Designing for People with Dementia: designing for mindful self empowerment. The client is open to expressions of interest from academic and non academic partners from anywhere in the EU in the areas of healthcare, environmental design, ICT but also build solution models and prototypes.

This project has already started and aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and empathising with other people.

Design can offer novel ways of complementing existing care approaches to empower people with dementia in everyday social situations. Utilising the concept of mindful design, they will investigate innovative design solutions to enable self-empowerment and confidence building of people living with dementia. They will specifically focus on two areas: personal difficulties with social interaction and environmental influences on social engagement. In these two contexts, they will study how personal, wearable designs can help mediate perceptions of identity and emotion management; and how environmental aspects can reduce feelings of information overload and in still feelings of self-empowerment and control.

They are looking for 2 partners to replace the organisations who have left the project to cover the following areas:

1. A new non-academic design partner. This partner could be anywhere in the EU, should have an interest in their project and should offer design expertise in one of the areas of the project (healthcare design, environment design, personalising/wearables, or ICT)

2. A new academic partner: Development of mindful design ideas / solutions / models / prototypes.

EOI Deadline: 20th December 2016
Deadline for call: Already started

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