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Virtual Study Visit
Your guides
Meet your expert guides
- Nicole MenkeProgram manager iZi Healthy@HomeNicole Menke is a Senior associate of the city of The Hague, in the Netherlands, specialized in policy matters on e-health for citizens who are in need of support to live independently and healthy at home. She is the manager and responsible for the iZi Experience.
- Christiane WüstkampProject leader iZi communities
Christiane Wüstkamp works for the Municipality of The Hague, in the Netherlands, as the community engagement leader of the awarded innovation program iZi Experience.
iZi Experience Home, the internationally awarded living lab promoting innovations that help older adults living longer and healthier at their own homes.
Assisted technologies at home: community-based living labs in The Hague
iZi Experience Home is a unique living lab in the city of The Hague (the Netherlands) that aims to help the local population stay independently at home as long as possible with the help of technology.
The city of The Hague has a mission to help people with long term care needs staying at home as long as they want. With iZi experience home, the municipality created a participative living lab imbedded in the community. Its Ambassadors are elderly people who live in the neighborhood. These volunteers are in charge of public relationships with their peers, helping them understand and adopt assisted technology solutions that will help them staying at home safely and independently.
The living lab team supports the developpement of this unique technology-based community and works with companies to encourage the development of solutions that meet the needs of the older aduts and people with disabilities. A vital challenge to help the 600,000 people who use Dutch home care services every year.
iZi Experience Home is a unique living lab in the city of The Hague (the Netherlands) that aims to help the local population stay independently at home as long as possible with the help of technology.
The city of The Hague has a mission to help people with long term care needs staying at home as long as they want. With iZi experience home, the municipality created a participative living lab imbedded in the community. Its Ambassadors are elderly people who live in the neighborhood. These volunteers are in charge of public relationships with their peers, helping them understand and adopt assisted technology solutions that will help them staying at home safely and independently.
The living lab team supports the developpement of this unique technology-based community and works with companies to encourage the development of solutions that meet the needs of the older aduts and people with disabilities. A vital challenge to help the 600,000 people who use Dutch home care services every year.
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What is a virtual study visit or eJourney?
Virtual study visits or eJourneys go beyond webinars and other traditional online learning formats and get you into the heart of the most innovative organizations.
Each study visit includes:
60+ minute video visit
A mix of interviews (managing teams) and footages captured directly onsite by a professional video crew highlighting the best from the featured expert-organization.
15+ Workbook pages
detailing the elements to remember and the practical keys to help you draw inspiration from the experience of the structure visited or the good practices put in place.
1 live conference (optional)
You participate in an international conference live with the experts of the organizations visited, to share experience and good practices.
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