INESC Porto promotes e-Inclusion for senior citizens

INESC Porto promotes e-Inclusion for senior citizens

INESC Porto signed last July a Collaboration Protocol with the Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira and with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the development and implementation of a collaboration platform, which will be developed by INESC Porto’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG). The aim is to support the Social Division of the Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira and the respective partners in the management of activities performed within several projects. Entitled “e-mili@”, this platform aims at increasing and improving access to ICTs by the senior population of Santa Maria da Feira.

02nd November 2010

This project is part of the Strategic Plan for Senior Citizens in this city, developed within the “Rede Social Concelhia”, a formal structure with 115 partners, among public and private entities. The project targets mainly adults above the age of 60 living in Santa Maria da Feira.

This project will be developed in the sequence of the partnership for the ADDME! project, a theme network focused on e-inclusion, set up by a consortium of 20 organizations from eight countries, where the aim is to promote e-inclusion and the development of technological capacities in societal groups that are excluded or facing exclusion  (immigrants, aged people, young people unemployed and/or with low incomes, ethnic groups, among others).

The project is supported financially by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and technically by the Social Division of the Municipality of Santa Maria da Feira. INESC Porto is responsible for the implementation of the collaborative systems. The team is set up by members of USIG and of the Business Informatics Service (SIG), including Rui Barros, Paulo Melo and Rúben Moreira.

BIP, October 2010