The Gérontopôle AURA is able to:

• Federate all regional expertise and lead a gerontology network: researchers, academics, PUPHs, user associations, entrepreneurs, the homecare and medico-social sectors, users, healthcare professionals, etc.
• Dynamize and support innovation co-constructed with users and professionals in the sector via support for project leaders and companies.
• Support interventional, collaborative and participatory research projects in the region, and enrich knowledge that meets the challenges of demographic transition.
• To publicize local initiatives, communicate to all audiences, evaluate and support the spread of successful solutions.
• Accompany local and regional authorities, carry out territorial diagnoses and support public policy decision-making in terms of preventing and addressing loss of autonomy.
• Mobilize multidisciplinary expertise through its scientific committee and its mixed studies approach (qualitative / quantitative / modeling).
• Act to increase the attractiveness of careers in the elderly sector, notably through training.

From ideation to project implementation, through to evaluation and even spin-off.

The Gérontopôle Aura intervenes at any stage of project maturation.

No, Gérontopôle is not, in essence, a project funder, but accompanies in the search for funding.

In the specific context of supporting innovation, the Gerontopôle, with the support of its partners, can, on a regular basis, set up a call for projects aimed at supporting innovations in the territory.