The first MC meeting of the NET4Age-Friendly COST Action was held on the 21 and 22 October and the key positions of the project elected.
This COST Action initiated with official participants from 38 countries and a network of 213 stakeholders, will be coordinated by Carina Dantas (SHINE 2Europe) that was elected Action Chair and Willeke van Staalduinen (AFEdemy), that was elected Vice-Chair.
Maddalena Illario is now the Science Communication Manager and AFEdemy was designated the Grant Holder Institution.
The main approach of NET4Age-Friendly will be to establish new local, regional ecosystems or to promote the growth of existing ones in each European country involved, working in health and well-being towards an age-friendly digital world and it was created from the principles of SHAFE – European Stakeholders Network on Smart, Healthy Age-Friendly Environments.
The coronavirus pandemic imposed the need to hold this kick-off meeting online. The 67 participants had the opportunity to discuss multiple topics of NET4Age-Friendly in the course of the two days, all of this happening in different virtual rooms. The sessions led to a joint decision on future tasks, budget for the first period of the project, as well as choosing the leaders for each working group and reference figures of the action.