SEAS 2 Grow project aims at improving framework conditions for innovation in Silver Economy (any economic activity targeting people of more than 60 years old) in order to develop sustainable solutions and products tailored to elderly needs. To reach this objective, it is necessary to enable different stakeholders from this sector to meet and work together, such as elderly, companies, health institutions, local authorities.

Collaboration between all these types of actors is needed to develop products that really fit the elderly's and their caregivers' needs.

Then, SEAS 2 Grow focuses on living-lab activities to test innovative products with panel of elderly (at home or in health institution) to validate the product use.

Since the project starts (in Sept 2016), SEAS 2 Grow has delivered a lot of tools to help companies and health institutions to better understand each other, and to advices businesses on how to enter the Silver Economy market in each of the 4 countries:

• Organization of needs finding sessions in each of the 4 countries.
• Market study about structuration of the Silver Economy and main opportunities.
• Online Route to market tool, to advice each company with personalized information about regulations and routes to market in each of the 4 countries, when they answer a list of questions about their products
• Strategic Guide to be successful in developing, marketing, using, ordering and/or purchasing innovative products and services.
• Strategic Recommendations to help Silver Economy stakeholders be more efficient.
• Strategic Action Plan to the implementation of the Agetech Accelerator International.

SEAS 2 Grow has also set up the cross-border Accelerator to enable companies to test their products from co-creation to business sacceptability in the 4 countries. Processes and methodology have been defined conjointly by all partners - template for registration form of companies, evaluation criteria to select them, methodology to test products, etc.

5 calls for projects have also been launched to select products to be tested with panels of elderly in the 4 countries through our Accelerator.
34 companies have been selected via those 5 calls for projects. Experimentations have started with elderly at home or in health care institutions. The idea is to make all the stakeholders in the engineering chain work and innovate together.