• Strengthen "public/private" innovation and research cooperations between with research, corporate and user players, and healthcare and autonomy professionals;
• Accelerate the development and deployment of innovations co-constructed with users & professionals in the sector;
• Enrich knowledge on uses that better respond to societal changes and the challenges of demographic transition, evaluate them in real-life situations and encourage their deployment.

For all projects related to the frail elderly, those losing their autonomy, those suffering from illness or disability, Gérontopôle NA is useful for:

• Benefiting from a monitoring service on public policy developments on active and healthy aging in France and Europe;
• Benefit from a Design service, exploring the real potential of new solution ideas or revealing the usage values of future solutions (user experience);
• Access places for testing, experimenting and evaluating solutions in real-life situations throughout the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (university laboratories or private players, technology transfer centers...);
• Benefit from assistance with the financial set-up of projects and in the search for funding;
• Benefit from support in promoting and spreading solutions, sharing best practices, publications..., and disseminating your information (calls for projects, etc.).

• In the ideation phase: from idea to non-functional prototype;
• In the experimentation phase: testing in real-life situations up to the pre-commercial stage;
• In the medicoeconomic evaluation phase;
• In the phase of commercialization.

No, but Gérontopôle NA provides support for the financial set-up of projects right through to the search for funding.