Seniors band, a new form of activity offering social interaction and experiences for elderly people © Tamk Living Lab
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smart devices, energy-efficient and healthy buildings and entrepreneurship and innovative business. Specific horizontal fields of expertise areas include social robotics, games technology and entrepreneurship. The cutting-edge competences and methodologies of these fields provide many possibilities to be combined with all other sectors in order to produce innovative solutions, applications and services. TAMK Living Lab prefers to look two product generations ahead instead of looking at the product and service concepts that are nearing the end of their life span. TAMK’s cooperation networks find and test new products and service solutions, and also implement them in real life settings. We find solutions
to everyday problems, and our service repertoire ranges from small student operated development assignments to large transnational projects. Especially small and medium size enterprises benefit from the complementing RDI knowledge and resources of TAMK’s students and staff members.
Example Projects Active Ageing in Tampere Region and in Europe Projects End-user involvement in developing innovative, preventive senior services and operations models together with TAMK’s education, seniors themselves and services providers. Education and development themes included, e.g. physical,