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  • 2022
    2024

    Older Adults Co-Creating a Sustainable Age-friendly City

    COFUND-ENUTC-City&Co
    Coordinating institution: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE
    Affiliation: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE (RO)

    Abstract: Populations of cities are ageing.To facilitate this shift, over 1100 cities joined the Global Network for Age Friendly Cities and Communities of the World Health Organization, which follow a 5-year cycle of planning, implementation and evaluation. Outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation and social environments are domains of the holistic age-friendly agenda. To improve the quality of these domains, cities in The Netherlands, Poland and Romania want to be capable to plan and implement adequate age-friendly strategies and to involve the views and experiences of their citizens. Hence, there is a need for participatory approaches for older people and policymakers, which combine quantitative, sustainable and community-based elements. City&Co aims to co-create an innovative spatial tool for a community-based assessment of the age-friendliness of cities, that can be used in multiple countries. This geoportal supports cities in the 5-year cycle of age-friendliness using direct input from participating older citizens. The tool and input for decision making and implementation will be developed with the direct engagement of older people and city workers. The creation and maintenance of local ecosystems of relevant stakeholders further supports the sustainability of age-friendly strategies and implementation and provides capacity building at city- and neighborhood level.

  • 2017
    2020

    Accelerating Low carboN Industrial Growth through CCUS

    COFUND-ACT ERANET -ALIGN (3)
    Coordinating institution: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE
    Affiliation: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE (RO)

    Abstract: The ALIGN-CCUS (ALIGN) project is a joint industry-led research initiative to accelerate the demonstration and implementation of the next-phase of European CCUS (Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage) projects by addressing specific R&D gaps across the CCUS chain. The mission of ALIGN is to overcome hurdles for initial projects and to prepare for large scale, cost effective, implementation of CCUS. The proposal is structured to meet the immediate R&D needs of industry, combined with foresight to overcome challenges linked to the wider commercialization of the technology through capture at integrated industrial and power clusters. The ALIGN consortium offers pilot plants
 and other state of the art test facilities such as the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM, Norway), RWE (Niederaussem, Germany), UNIPER (Wilhelmshaven, Germany) and the CO2 Corrosion Test Facility offered by IFE Venture (Norway) to test key components of the process with underpinning modelling and analysis. In addition to testing at existing pilot plants, a pilot installation for the conversion of CO2 to transport fuels (DME/Methanol) will be installed and tested. In addition to the other five work packages which cover the main phases in the CCUS chain, the Work Package 6 has as main objective to find the most effective strategies and messages to communicate the technical and economic feasibility. Presenting evidence-based information on the environmental impact assessment to decision-makers and to the wider society is crucial for the acceptance of CCUS, and an important element of ALIGN.

  • 2015
    2017

    Ageing and technology: understanding computer anxiety later in life

    PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0429
    Affiliation: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE (RO)

    Abstract: This project goal is to reveal particularities of using technologies later in life, by assessing the role of computer anxiety, employing an integrative methodology. Computer anxiety is defined as an individual’s fear or apprehension of working directly with a computer or the anticipation of having to work with computers (Powell, 2013). The project takes a critical approach in reaction to the current literature: 1) Older individuals are not an homogeneous group; 2) Computer anxiety has not always a linear negative effect on performance and a certain level of anxiety could be functional in the process of technology appropriation; 3) Studies should go deeper in their everyday practices, to understand more about the role, meanings and utilities attributed to different computer activities We aim to create robust models of explaining computer anxiety at elderly, using both individual and social predictors. We reveal also the value of social pressure and the meanings elderly invest in different type of technologies, by using a questionnaire based survey and semi-structured interviews. In addition, we set up a program of research that involves communities in the development of participatory action studies, advancing deep knowledge about computer anxiety and innovative methodological framework. Also, by using netnography (Kozinets, 2010), we investigate the role of online communities in increasing or decreasing computer anxiety and the social influence factors in real interactions.

  • 2014
    2021

    Ageing Communication Technologies (ACT)

    S01817
    Coordinating institution: Concordia University
    Affiliation: SCOALA NATIONALA DE STUDII POLITICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE ()

    Abstract: ACT is a research project that addresses the transformation of the experiences of ageing with the proliferation of new forms of mediated communications in networked societies. We consider how ‘digital ageism’ – the individual and systemic biases that create forms of inclusion and exclusion that are age-related – operates in subtle ways Through our work we are creating intergenerational connections, rethinking new media from the perspective of old age and confronting digital ageism