Launch of the HAPPI Platform
Healthy Ageing Public Procurement of Innovations (HAPPI), a project supported by the European Commission, aims at linking European health public procurers to work cooperatively to detect and purchase innovative and sustainable solutions for prolonging quality of life. The project allows suppliers and procurers to upload details of their solutions so that knowledge of new technologies and products is spread, and the contributing factors to better quality of life are improved.
As European populations are increasingly living longer, more attention must be paid to making sure that the rights and needs of elderly people with regard to autonomy, dignity, mobility, and health and well-being. Part of the HAPPI project’s work will be to consult with medical and technical experts to identify the innovation requirements of hospitals and residential care homes need in order to fulfill its ultimate goals.
Included in these are creating working conditions that foster the benevolent care of the elderly, promoting a culture of gerontological innovation, and responding to the political priority to push for more innovative purchasing in the pursuit of prolonging quality of life in Europe.
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