The paper describes the activities of the European project SOPHIA, Socio-Physical Interaction Skills for Cooperative Human-Robot Systems in Agile Production. The consortium involves European partners from academia, research organizations and industry. Themain goal of the project is to develop a newgeneration of CoBots andWearbots and advanced instrumental-based biomechanical risk assessment tools in industrial scenarios to reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders and to improve productivity in industry 4.0.Further aimof the project is to create the basis for newergonomic international Standards for manual handling activities.
REACH stands for "Responsive Engagement of the Elderly Promoting Activity and Customized Healthcare". Sustained physical activity matters greatly to the health and well-being of older people and significantly improves their chance of maintaining independent living. It can make a difference across the whole care continuum as well as in almost every setting. Therefore, REACH solutions focus on the systematic, targetoriented increase of physical activity of older people, and tackle the whole prevention spectrum (primary, secondary, and tertiary). It seeks to empower older people and their formal and informal caregivers, and works towards viable solutions for both the formal and in-formal care sector. Technology-based personalization of prevention, activation, and care services provided in various living and care settings is at the center of the developed solutions. Ideally toolkit approach would allow for the tailoring of solutions that create value for end-users, care providers and health care payers alike through the combination, integration and adaptation/re-design elements towards the different contexts of different countries, different payment and reimbursement structures. This Special Issue sheds light on such solutions, their conception, their development, and their testing.
Mitte Oktober lud der Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) dreißig Stipendiatinnen zu dem zweitägigen Seminar „Strategisch und erfolgreich kommunizieren“ nach Frankfurt ein. Neben Workshops und Vorträgen lag der Schwerpunkt auf dem Kontakt und Austausch zwischen Doktorandinnen und Führungskräften aus dem akademischen Bereich und der Industrie.
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