Ageing Population Kick-Start
Funds space-enabled service ideas for Europe's ageing population.
Ageing Population Kick-Start is a European Space Agency programme that funds space-enabled service ideas for an ageing Europe — health and care, independent living, safety, and social connection — for technology and service providers, local authorities, carers, and health and social care systems. Kick-start proposals for this theme needed to link a specific space asset to one of four service areas…
This ESA thematic call backs new services for an ageing Europe -- health and care, independent living, safety, and social connection -- built using satellite communications, navigation, or Earth observation. It targets technology and service providers, local authorities, carers, and health and social care systems.
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