The Lecce Declaration

The European Council endorsed the European Commission's proposal for an Innovation Union in February 2011 [1], in particular the launch of a pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing [2] as well as the new Joint Programming Initiative of European States "addressing a global megatrend" called More Years, Better Lives [3]. As a contribution from the side of the AAL community, we, the signatories of this declaration, would like to provide these initiatives with recommendations that are directed at achieving an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) market breakthrough based on an analysis of market barriers investigated in [4].