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  • 08 August 2010 | Category: Media News

    KT-EQUAL Investigator named leading UK engineering lecturer

     

  • 30 July 2010 | Category: Other Workshops

    AgeWell Conference, Birmingham - an opportunity to learn about relevant research findings and to comment on future studies. Free for people aged over 65.

  • 30 July 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities
    Discipline Hopping: Engineering and Physical Sciences and Economic and Social Sciences

    Invitation for proposals: The engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences interfaces are of strategic importance to EPSRC. The Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces Programme aims to enable UK engineers and physical scientists to be world-leading in research and training at existing and emerging cross-disciplinary interfaces.

  • 30 July 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities

    Future Leaders in Ageing Research in Europe "FLARE 2" Fellowhips -  is NOW OPEN for applications until 15th October 2010.

  • 01 July 2010 | Category: SPARC News

    The latest issue of Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN)has a feature on SPARC Award holder Maria Wolters, as part of their special issue on Women in Computer Science.

  • 22 June 2010 | Category: SPARC Workshop News

    Video of KT EQUAL i-Med event held on 19th May in Bath

  • 21 June 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries

    Another KT-EQUAL workshop monograph i-med: Serious apps for mobile healthcare is now available.

  • 17 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops

    Last month, on 24th May 2010, at the British Science Association 2010 Science Communication Conference, Verity Smith and Alan Archer drew on their accumulated experience of organising public engagement events and growing older to give a widely appreciated presentation entitled Engaging with Older People: Making People Welcome -  Presentation, Handout.

  • 13 June 2010 | Category: Funding Opportunities

    Healthcare Partnerships - Town Meeting
    Expression of interest: EPSRC is holding a Healthcare Partnerships’ Town Meeting on 22 July 2010 in London, to share information about the forthcoming Healthcare Partnerships’ call and provide an opportunity to network.
    http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/Pages/healthcarepartnerships.aspx

  • 10 June 2010 | Category: Executive Summaries

    A new monograph based on the recent A Built Environment for All Ages: exploring the challenges of accessibility workshop has just been uploaded.

  • 09 June 2010 | Category: Research News

    More Opportunities
    Wellcome Trust: Health Innovation Challenge Fund - third call focuses on chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis, heart failure and dementia that at present can only be controlled not cured.
    BUPA Foundation Awards 2010

  • 08 June 2010 | Category: Media News

    The Older Inventor: The scourge of capitalism turns entrepreneur by inventing the 'Seatcase'


  • 03 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops

    Keeping well at home : Self care & whole system demonstrator conference, Headland Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall, 22nd June 2010 - 23rd June 2010 organised by the WSD Action Network

  • 03 June 2010 | Category: Other Workshops

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Welcome to SPARC and KT-EQUAL: Knowledge Transfer for Extending Quality Life

SPARC brings together researchers, practitioners and policy makers in ageing. It specialises in communicating the latest design, engineering and biological ageing-related research to all stakeholders, making the case about the benefits for an ageing population of scientific research, and it encourages new blood into ageing research. Although funding for SPARC ended in December 2008, SPARC is continuing to function from the University of Reading within a new initiative - KT-EQUAL which commenced in January 2009. Soon KT-EQUAL will have its own website but for the time being news and information about SPARC and KT-EQUAL events are being handled by the SPARC website.

SPARC Mission Statement

Supporting Older People by
Putting Research into Practice and
Actively Promoting Needs and Solutions through
Research Leadership and
Commitment

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