Santander hosted this week a meeting organised by the technical team of the European programme Interreg SUDOE. Out of 150 projects, 34 were selected, including REVITAL.
The meeting in the Cantabrian capital was attended by part of the REVITAL project: Cluster SIVI, Social Services Management of the Junta de Castilla y León, Gogoa Mobility Robots and École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA).
In addition to sharing experiences and learning from both the organisers and the other participants, the conference was a meeting point to disseminate the projects that are being carried out within the Interreg SUDOE programme.
Luis Ángel Agüeros Sánchez, Minister of Economy, Finance and Public Funds of the Government of Cantabria was in charge of delivering the SUDOE agreements to the participants in the meeting.
On behalf of REVITAL, Cluster SIVI as coordinator and main beneficiary of the project was in charge of collecting the signed agreement.
Socio-economic revitalisation of low population density areas through clinical telecare.
Led by Clúster SIVI, the REVITAL project consortium integrates organisations and companies from Spain, France and Portugal. The objectives of the project are to meet the need to provide specialised health care and physical and neurological rehabilitation services (especially for dependent and elderly people), using technological tools to offer tele-assistance and tele-rehabilitation services, which will also help to create qualified employment and establish a new population that will boost the rural economy.
The project has a clear strategic orientation towards strengthening social cohesion and territorial and demographic balance through social innovation and endogenous development. The challenges and needs to be covered are clear: to respond to the depopulation and ageing of inland rural areas by fixing new population with social and health care training, to avoid that elderly and dependent people have to migrate to urban areas to access advanced clinical services, as well as to develop sustainable productive systems based on tele-assistance and tele-rehabilitation technologies, responding to the social needs not sufficiently covered in the field of social and health care services.
The REVITAL consortium will work together during the 36 months of this action and is constituted by a total of 9 partners from Spain, France and Portugal: SIVI Cluster, Gerencia de Servicios Sociales de Castilla y León, Fundación San Cebrián, GOGOA Mobility Robots, École Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA), University of DEUSTO, Etablissement Public de Santé de GARAZI, Associação Empresarial da Beira Baixa (AEBB) and Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB).