Mateja Erce Paoli is an assistant researcher at InnoRenew CoE and a PhD student at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska. At InnoRenew CoE, she researches best practices in building care facilities and seeks to identify links between well-being and needs of the older adults, quality of buildings and the environment.

Dr. Laura Fiorini is an assistant professor at the University of Florence. She is a researcher at the Biomedical and Robotics Lab of the Department of Industrial Engineering. Her research interest are in the design and the testing of advanced IoRt solutions for frail citizens. Laura is the Coordinator of the Pharaon Italian Pilots.

Dr. Francisco Melero is the Head of CETEM´s International Unit for Collaborative Research and Innovation, working on transferring innovation to traditional industry sectors, his research expertise is centered on ICT solutions that support active and healthy aging at home, within the community, and in the workplace.

Ilenia Gheno is project manager at AGE Platform Europe. Since 2009, she works directly on European projects related to universal design, health and ehealth, accessibility, new technologies, rooting for a genuine involvement of older adults in projects and monitoring the ethical implications in research. She is moreover active in disseminating the projects’ results, with the goal to bring scientific evidence to European policy makers and stakeholders.

Project officer in the European Commission AI Office. He is project officer for the European Digital Innovation Hubs projects within Croatia, Italy and Slovakia. Previously he worked as a Head of Digital Entrepreneurship for the Economic Affairs Ministry in Spain where he led the coordination of the startup law and the design of the Next Tech fund of funds. He has great experience in several research and innovation projects on aviation safety (SafeClouds and Data4Safety). In the private sector, he worked as a composite materials development engineer for Airbus.

Master’s degree in political science from the Universityof Florence. He has experience in impact analysis andservices’ sustainability strategies of innovative solutionon the social-healthcare domain. Author of severalarticles in the fields of health, social and healtheconomic policies for numerous Journals, Pietro is chair of the WG Health within the Alliancefor Internet of Things and Edge Computing Association (AIOTI).

Ana Perandrés, Head of the R&D and Digitalization Department at Ageing Lab, graduated in Psychology from the University of Granada (2015). She holds an official Master’s degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from the same institution (2016) and an official Master’s degree in Marketing and Consumer Behavior (2017). She has been a researcher in various projects and areas (experimental, social, and clinical psychology) and research teams at the University of Granada specializing in neuroscience and neuropsychology, addictions, as well as gender studies.

Dr. Damir Haskovic is a senior researcher and department lead at MINDS & SPARKS GmbH. He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Production Engineering & Management as well as a PhD in Mechanical Engineering which he obtained at Vienna University of Technology. He has broad project strategy and management skills combined with more than 10 years of leadership experience. Additionally, he has been responsible for the coordination and supervision of teams in multiple European research and innovation projects with focus on ICT, emerging technologies as well as Smart Web Solutions.

Elisabete Pitarma has been a Project Manager in the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra since August 2021. She is currently responsible for various EU projects (ALL, Erasmus, and H2020) focused on Active and Healthy Aging.
With a background in Social and Cultural Development since 2007, Elisabete has gained experience in different areas of social intervention, including working with children, youth, individuals with cognitive disabilities, and poverty relief. Additionally, she has been involved in the cultural sector, organising community activities, particularly for people with physical and intellectual needs. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Social Intervention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Coimbra.

Paulina Villalobos Quesada is a project manager and researcher at MINDS & SPARKS GmbH. She graduated in Industrial Design Engineering from Costa Rica Institute of Technology and holds a Master’s degree in Digital Healthcare from Barcelona University. She has extensive experience in developing customer-centric solutions and identifying new business opportunities, along with comprehensive training in tools, methods, and legal frameworks within the health ecosystem. She actively contributes her expertise to multiple European projects in the health and tech domains, driving innovation and fostering progress in these fields.

Mariana Camacho is a Social Innovation Consultant at the Innovation Department of Misericordia da Amadora. With a degree in Social Work from the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she has been actively working in European projects since 2021, mostly in the fields of Integrated Care and Active and Healthy Ageing. She has experience in project management, co-creation and stakeholder engagement, field-testing of digital solutions, and ethics and data processing.

Dr. Madlen Schmudde is working since more than two years as a project manager in the Group Research and Transfer within the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN). Her focus is on facilitating the transfer of research results into standardisation within diverse European R&I projects.

Dr. Erika Rovini is an assistant professor at the University of Florence and a researcher at the Biomedical and Robotics Lab at the Department of Industrial Engineering. She is the author of articles and patents concerning the fields of AAL and wearable devices. Her research interests include motion analysis, pattern recognition, data processing, biomedical signal processing, machine learning algorithms, ambient assisted living, and wearable sensors.

Since 2016, Elena Rocher works as R+D+i Technician at Valencai Innovation Capital, the foundation for technological and social innovation of Valencia City Council, where she is responsible for the design, development and implementation of health innovation projects, most of them addressing the challenges of active and healthy ageing. She previously worked as consultant in strategic planning, public policies and programme design for Public Administration during more than 15 years.

President of Legacoopsociali. After a significant period as an executive and president of a social cooperative, since 2007 she is engaged in representing cooperatives and social enterprises. Vice-president of Coopfond, she is also currently a member of the Board of Directors of “Cooperazione Finanza Impresa”, a financial entity supervised by the Ministry of Economic Development for the creation and development of worker cooperatives and social cooperatives. Additionally, she is a mebmer of the Board of Directors of SEFEA Impact SGR, aimed at promoting impct finance capable of generating positive changes in the well-being of communities. She believes in the need for an evolutionary path that promotes and values a new interpretation of the value-driven mission and entrepreneurial actions of social enterprises, including through alliances and with a view to the synergistic development of social economy actors, she is involved in Third Sector organizations where she holds positions in the National Third Sector Forum and the National Council of the Third Sector.

Valentina Fiordelmondo is part of the staff of the Innovation Projects Sector of AIAS Bologna onlus and part of the WeCareMore Centre team. She has a degree in Economics (2008) and a master’s degree in Social Policy and Sustainable Territorial Development (2011). Since over 10 years supports the coordination, the implementation of research activities and the financial reporting of European and national projects, mainly in the areas of Health&Care, Digital Inclusion, Inclusive Education and Housing.

Mother of 3, is currently (since May 2021) Director of the Economic Development Department of the Puglia Region after having directed two of the eight sections that compose it. The Department is dedicated to aiding businesses for material investments, research and development, internationalization (including interreg territorial cooperation) and process and product innovation. It also deals with industrial infrastructures and business crises. Action on energy and youth policies completes the picture.
In this demanding role she puts to good use the experience gained between Bari and Brussels as a lawyer mainly in the field of administrative law, the skills acquired with the specialization in law and economics of the European communities and with the research doctorate of Public economic law. She loves her land viscerally and acts without any desire to appear objective and impartial in national and international contexts.

Dr. Pietro Siciliano received his degree in physics from the University of Lecce. He took the Ph.D. in Physics in 1989 at the University of Bari. He is currently a Director of Research at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM-CNR) at CNR in Lecce, where he has been working from many years in the field of Sensors, MEMS, Microsystems, being in charge of the Sensors and Microsystemsgroup. He is author of about 400 scientific papers. Dr. Siciliano is referee and member of the advisory board of international journals. He has been responsible for several national and international projects at IMM-CNR. He is member of the Steering Committee of AISEM, the Italian Association on Sensors and Microsystems. He has been chairman and member of the organising committee of international Conferences and School in Sensors and Microsystems area. He has been the Director of the Section in Lecce of IMM-CNR. He is President of INNOVAAL scarl, the Technological District on Active & Assisted Living, and President of the Italian Technological Cluster on “Smart Living Technologies (SMILE)”. He is currently the coordinator of the European Digital Innovation Hub “DANTE – Digital Solutions for an Active, Health and Smart Life”.

Married with two children, she comes from a working-class, antifascist family. She began working as a pediatrician in the emergency department of the Meyer Children’s Hospital in Florence in 2007. From a young age, she engaged in volunteer activities in Fiesole, where she ran for city council in 1999 and assumed the role of councilor for education and tourism. In 2004, she was confirmed as councilor of Fiesole with a portfolio for health and social services. In 2015, she ran in the Florence 2 constituency in the regional elections and was elected with 5,450 votes. In the Regional Council, she was a member of the Health and Social Policy Commission. She focused particularly on public health services, the prevention of pathological gambling, and the rights of people with disabilities. She advocated for women’s rights, environmental and landscape protection, the circular economy, and the shared management of common goods. From 2016 to 2020, she was president of the Regional Observatory on the phenomenon of pathological gambling. She was among the promoters of the Regional Table for the full implementation of Law 194/78 on voluntary termination of pregnancy. In 2017, she was among the founders of Articolo UNO and in 2018, she participated in the national project of Liberi e Uguali. In the Tuscan regional elections on September 20 and 21, 2020, she was a candidate for the Sinistra Civica Ecologista list