Reference Site Collaborative Network
Budget
€100 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
9
2.55 FTE
EU Grants
€214,744
Mission & Goals
The Reference Site Collaborative Network (RSCN) brings together all accredited 65 active and healthy living Reference Site regions in Europe into a single network to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and expertise; create opportunities for collaboration to address common health and care challenges; advocate on their behalf with the European Commission on health and care, including active and healthy ageing, policies; and facilitate them in their development and with regional health and care reform programmes. It is comprised of References Sites recognised by the European Commission as well as Regions intending applying for Reference Site status (candidate Reference Sites).
EU Legislative Interests
European Partnership under Horizon Europe Transforming health and care systems, Horizon Europe, Demographic change, EU4Health, Public Health and ICT in the field of health files, Cohesion policies, Regional policy, Data Governance Act, European Health Union, Strategy for Europe's digital future and strategy for data, European Health Data Space, innovation in health and care
Communication Activities
Relevant EU meetings on integrated care, eHealth Publications: Reference Sites: https://ec.europa.eu/eip/ageing/reference-sites_en; https://www.rscn.eu/ahl-reference-sites Reference Sites EIP on AHA, European Guide in Excellent innovation for ageing. (https://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/pdf/active-healthy-ageing/rs_catalogue.pdf) Reference Sites EIP on AHA. Excellent innovation for ageing. How to Guide (https://ec.europa.eu/eip/ageing/library/european-innovation-partnership-active-and-healthy-ageing-reference-sites-excellent-0_en) Carriazo AM, Alonso-Trujillo F, Vázquez-Granado FJ, Túnez I and Del Moral-Leal ML. Innovation ecosystems in health and care: the Andalusian Reference Site as an example. Frontiers in medicine. December 2024. DOI:10.3389/fmed.2024.1482830 Bousquet J, Illario M, Farrell J, Batey N, Carriazo AM, The Reference Site Collaborative Network of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. Transl Med UniSa. 2019 Jan 6;19:66-81. eCollection 2019 Jan-Jun. Carriazo A.M, Rodríguez-Acuña R., Batey N., Colgan E., Perrudin M., …. Report on “Care Continuum”. Prepared for adoption by a SubGroup of the eHealth Stakeholder Group. February 2019. [https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/new-members-ehealth-stakeholder-group-have-been-selected] Bousquet J, Anto JM, Haahtela T, Jousilahti P et al (2020). Digital transformation of health and care to sustain Planetary Health: The MASK proof-of-concept for airway diseases-POLLAR symposium under the auspices of Finland's Presidency of the EU, 2019 and MACVIA-France, Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD, WHO) demonstration project, Reference Site Collaborative Network of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32577216/) Bousquet, J., Malva, J., Nogues, M., Rodriguez, L., Vellas, B., Farrell, J., & MACVIA Research Group. (2015). Operational Definition of Active and Healthy Aging (AHA): The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on AHA Reference Site Questionnaire: Montpellier October 20–21, 2014, Lisbon July 2, 2015. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 16, 1020–1026. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.09.004 Bousquet, J., Bourquin, C., Augé P, Domya, P., Bringerd, P., Aoustine, P.,... Mercier, J. (2014). MACVIA-LR, Reference site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) in Languedoc Roussillon. European Geriatric Medicine, 5, (6), 406–415. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurger.2014.07.013 Cano A, Dargent G, Carriazo A, López-Samaniego L, Apostolo J, Tackling frailty and functional decline: Background of the action group A3 of the European innovation partnership for active and healthy ageing. Maturitas. 2018 Sep;115:69-73. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.06.009. Epub 2018 Jun 20. Review. Bousquet, J., Bewick, M., Cano, A., Eklund, P., Fico, N., Goswami, N de Oliveira-Alves, B., (2017). Building bridges for innovation in ageing: Synergies between Action Groups of the EIP on AHA. Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging 21. 92-104. DOI:10.1007/s12603-016-0803-1 Bousquet, J., Michel, J., Standberg, T., Crooks, G., Iakovidis, I., & Iglesia, M. (2014). The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing: the European geriatric medicine introduces the EIP on AHA column, European Geriatric Medicine 5 (6) 361–362. DOI: 10.1016/j.eurger.2014.09.010 Malva, J., & Bousquet, J. (2015). Operational definition of active and healthy ageing: Roadmap from concept to change of management. Maturitas, 84, 3-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.11.004
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
http://www.scale-aha.eu/rs2016-results.html https://www.rscn.eu/ahl-reference-sites http://www.scale-aha.eu/fileadmin/scaleaha/documents/eiponaha_2016_referencesites_list_announcement.pdf
Organisation Members
Reference Sites are regions, cities, integrated hospitals or care organisations and their quadruple helix partners from industry, civil society, academia and government authorities that focus on a comprehensive, innovation-based approach to active and healthy ageing. They offer concrete examples of their positive impact in this field. In the 2022 Call for Reference Sites, 65 regional and local organisations were awarded Reference Site status. https://www.rscn.eu/ahl-reference-sites
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.