Reviu, a platform that promotes transparency in housing access

Laura Hurtado on 3 July 2024

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Reviu, a platform that promotes transparency in housing access

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Reviu

Online platform for sharing and searching for apartment reviews

Reviu is a portal where tenants can rate the apartments they live in or have lived in, as well as their relationship with the real estate agency and the property owner. The main objective is to provide transparent and real information about the real estate market to prevent people looking for housing from doing so blindly and without references. This way, the information asymmetry that currently characterizes the housing market can be overcome.

The platform allows searching for reviews of specific apartments and buildings, writing anonymous opinions, and searching for all published information about each real estate agency. When publishing a review, tenants must provide data about the apartment, such as the condition of the housing, the initial and final price, the relationship with the property owner and the neighbors, the characteristics of the space, the temperature, etc.

To combat fraud, the website relies on municipal cadastral data and information from Google. Although it is an anonymous portal, the platform asks for some personal data from the authors of the comments in order to contact them if they want to verify the authenticity of the reviews. To avoid creating a platform where only “hate comments” are posted, Reviu approaches reviews from a constructive perspective. The portal also offers practical resources, advice, and explanatory videos about information related to renting housing.

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Localization

Barcelona, Catalonia

Partners / Funders

PUMBA, Synapsis, Across Legal, El Canòdrom (Barcelona City Council), Department of Business and Employment (Government of Catalonia), Recovery and Transformation Plan and Resilience (Government of Spain), and NextGenerationEU Funds (European Union).

Genesis

After two years of work and research, the cooperative IDRA (Urban Research Institute) officially launched Reviu on June 10, 2024, at a presentation event in the Paral·lel 62 hall in Barcelona.

Level of implementation

Currently, Reviu only collects reviews and information about the real estate market in Barcelona, but in the future, it aims to expand its implementation scope to other territories. Furthermore, the team behind the platform is already working to incorporate the possibility for real estate agencies and property owners to respond to comments, with the aim of giving voice to all actors involved in the process.

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SmartSocks, socks that detect distress in people with dementia

Laura Hurtado on 19 June 2024

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SmartSocks, socks that detect distress in people with dementia

Milbotix

SmartSocks

Smart socks that enable the detection of risk situations in people with dementia

According to WHO data from 2023, more than 55 million people worldwide have dementia, with over 60% living in low- and middle-income countries. Annually, there are nearly ten million new cases. Additionally, dementia is the seventh leading cause of death globally and one of the main causes of dependency and disability among the elderly.

SmartSocks are intelligent socks that provide information about the condition of patients with dementia, but also with other conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and various intellectual disabilities. The sensor is embedded in discreet and comfortable socks that can be machine-washed, and it collects physiological data such as heart rate, movement, or anxiety. This way, caregivers receive alerts that allow them to intervene more quickly and prevent undesirable situations.

By scanning the QR code on the SmartSocks, the socks connect via Wi-Fi to the Milbotix app, which uses artificial intelligence to detect patterns and anomalies and alert caregivers before a risk situation occurs. These intelligent socks allow for the remote identification of cognitive changes in patients, a very useful feature for professionals in care homes and also allows extending the stay of people with dementia in their own homes before admitting them to a facility.

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Localization

Bristol, United Kingdom

Partners / Funders

University of Exeter, NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, Care Research and Technology Centre of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at Imperial College London, Innovate UK, Alzheimer’s Society

Genesis

Dr. Zeke Steer, creator of SmartSocks, experienced firsthand the dementia of his great-grandmother and the various episodes of distress she suffered. After volunteering at a care home, he identified that these episodes were not an isolated occurrence with his great-grandmother but were common in most dementia cases. These situations led him to develop a way to detect crises in patients early.

Thus, he began working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory as a PhD student to find an innovative solution, as most devices monitoring users until then were wristbands, which stigmatized patients and, in some cases, caused them more anxiety. Socks proved to be a more suitable alternative, and Dr. Steer decided to start the company Milbotix in February 2020 and bring SmartSocks to life.

Level of implementation

SmartSocks has received the Santander X Accelerate Award, the Future Technologies Award, the AbilityNet Tech4Good Ageing Society Award, and the Medilink South West Start-Up Award.

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Jooay, an app that helps children with disabilities find leisure activities

Laura Hurtado on 22 May 2024

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Jooay, an app that helps children with disabilities find leisure activities

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Jooay

Free app that connects leisure activity offerings with families of children with disabilities

Leisure and sports are vital for the development, health, and well-being of children with disabilities, but families often struggle to find activity programs that meet their needs. Additionally, many recreational offerings are not accessible to this group.

Jooay is a free app that helps children with disabilities and their families find nearby, accessible, and suitable leisure opportunities that meet their needs and preferences. The platform also helps parents, professionals, and educators connect, exchange experiences, and learn from one another.

To reach as many families as possible, the team of researchers, developers, and collaborators participate in various research projects. The team of Dr. Keiko Shikako, co-creator of Jooay, has studied what makes communities inclusive and has published the Child Community Health Inclusive Index. They have also examined how the development and design of inclusive technologies can help young people with various disabilities improve their health outcomes.

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Localization

Canada

Partners / Funders

Childhood Disability Link

Genesis

In 2016, after noticing the lack of support and leisure activity offerings for families with children with disabilities, Dr. Shikako decided to create an app that would provide easy access to proposals specifically designed for these children. Jooay started in Quebec and expanded to five other provinces in Canada.

Two years later, the team launched a second version of the app with the support of the CHILD-BRIGHT network. From the early stages of Jooay, parents, youth, and families have been part of the core research team.

Level of implementation

Jooay provides information on nearly 4,000 activities in all provinces and territories of Canada. In 2019, Canadian political representatives cited Jooay at the United Nations Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as one of the country’s most relevant actions to advance towards inclusive societies.

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ShareAmi, intergenerational language exchanges through videoconferences

Laura Hurtado on 15 May 2024

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ShareAmi, intergenerational language exchanges through videoconferences

Oldyssey

ShareAmi

Language exchange program through videoconferences between elderly people and young individuals living outside their country

During the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many elderly people found themselves isolated, while young refugees lost the opportunity to attend language meetings and classes that would facilitate their social integration and the learning of the host country’s language.

To address these two issues, the organization Oldyssey launched the ShareAmi project, a program that allows intergenerational language exchanges through videoconferences. On one hand, it helps young refugees better integrate into the new territory, and on the other, it combats the feeling of unwanted loneliness experienced by many elderly people. Additionally, the use of this tool also allows elderly people to improve their relationship with technology and, at the same time, reinforce their sense of usefulness in society.

ShareAmi operates through a volunteer system, in which volunteers contact both parties interested in the exchange and act as intermediaries. The meetings last for three months and are held weekly. To ensure follow-up, the mediator receives monthly feedback on the sessions. Once the scheduled time has passed, participants can decide whether to continue the video calls or end the exchange.

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Localization

França

Partners / Funders

Carsat (Social Security), Assurance Retraite (Retirement Social Security) Île-de-France, AG2R La Mondiale, Red Cross, Rotary, Malakoff Humanis, Make sense, Viva Lab, Deutsch-Französischer Bürgerfonds, The Conference of Funders, Seine Saint Denis, France Bénévolat, Après Demain (…)

Genesis

ShareAmi was born in May 2020, during the first lockdown, to address the feeling of loneliness and isolation among elderly people, as well as the need and desire to learn French by students and refugees outside their country..

Level of implementation

According to the latest data from 2023, ShareAmi has recorded a total of more than 2,000 language exchange pairs with over 32 volunteers. Additionally, learners from more than 120 different countries have registered.

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Kloosiv, technology and social intervention to ensure social inclusion in access to housing

Laura Hurtado on 8 May 2024

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Kloosiv, technology and social intervention to ensure social inclusion in access to housing

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Kloosiv

Web platform that promotes social inclusion in housing to combat speculation and unwanted loneliness

Kloosiv is a cooperative web platform that combines technology and social intervention to facilitate access to housing for vulnerable groups struggling to pay rent. Its audience ranges from young people to single-parent families or elderly individuals living alone. The tool includes real information on the supply and demand of real estate in participating municipalities and offers more affordable rental prices compared to the market. The goal is to create a network that connects different stakeholders and, through artificial intelligence, optimizes resources and data to better meet their needs.

The initiative focuses on social and healthcare attention, well-being, home security, and conflict mediation. Kloosiv diagnoses the situation and specificities of both tenants and landlords. Professionals accompany individuals throughout the process and supervise each case personally.

Users’ circumstances vary. A common profile among Kloosiv users is elderly individuals experiencing unwanted loneliness who are looking for someone to safely share their apartment. There are also cases of young people who cannot afford to rent an apartment alone and are interested in accompanying someone living alone. In this sense, Kloosiv includes different types of cohabitation and provides professionals with regular monitoring to ensure residents’ comfort.

Additionally, the technological platform allows processing data and combining it with indicators of health, physical well-being, and emotional well-being to evaluate the program’s impact on users’ lives. Kloosiv also pays special attention to the homeless population and aligns with the Housing First methodology, prioritizing access to housing for these individuals.

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Localization

Catalonia

Partners / Funders

Worker Cooperatives, Social Economy, Department of Business and Employment (Government of Catalonia), Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, Social Tides, Coop, SocialTech4Eu (European Cluster Collaboration Platform), and HISS

Genesis

The Kloosiv cooperative was established in 2020 and is based on a model of social and solidarity economy. During the first two years, they conducted pilot tests in Girona to assess needs, establish protocols, and digitize information collected on housing availability in the area. In 2022, professionals began assisting individuals and creating cohabitations. In 2024, it will be implemented in Ripollès, with the participation of three municipalities (Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Campdevànol, and Ripoll). Additionally, Kloosiv will carry out municipal support tasks in the housing and social intervention field in the territory.

Level of implementation

Kloosiv won the Maria Figueras and Mercè Bañeras 2024 Social Action Award, organized by the Educational Platform, in the Social Innovation category. Furthermore, it is one of the ten projects selected by the Social and Health Innovation Hub of the Government of Catalonia. Currently, it has already created and supported more than 100 housing cohabitations in Catalonia.

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Pycipedia, collaborative platform for social workers specialized in parenting with intellectual disabilities

Laura Hurtado on 9 April 2024

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Pycipedia, collaborative platform for social workers specialized in parenting with intellectual disabilities

Research and Development Center for Health, Care, and Social Work in Linköping (FoU)

Pycipedia

Web platform for social workers specialized in supporting parents with intellectual disabilities

Parenting processes can be especially challenging for people with intellectual disabilities. Additionally, the number of social workers specialized in this intervention area is very limited, and in the case of rural or non-urban areas, geographical distance makes it difficult for professionals to share their experiences and methods.

Pycipedia is a platform that connects social workers, regardless of where they work, through a digital network, to provide assistance and enable them to improve their support tasks. This ensures more equitable attention throughout the territory, ensuring that all professionals have access to useful resources and training.

The tool allows social workers to create, navigate, edit, and share training materials to support families with intellectual disabilities in everyday situations. Resources include texts, videos, and images. Materials are categorized, such as child health or hygiene tasks. Pycipedia also offers a forum where professionals can share best practices and provide empirical results on the different methods they use.

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Sweden

Collaborators / Funders

IT University of Copenhagen

Genesis

Many Swedish municipalities have a limited number of social workers trained in supporting families with intellectual disabilities. Pycipedia aimed to be a response to this situation, exploring how these professionals can co-design new and innovative ways of working and providing support to families.

Level of implementation

Pycipedia has been operational for four years and has over 100 social workers registered as users, from more than 30 municipalities, who share ideas and materials with their peers.

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App Morada, support against gender-based violence for women with disability

Laura Hurtado on 6 March 2024

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App Morada, support against gender-based violence for women with disability

CIDIP

App Morada

Application that helps and guides women with disability and victims of gender-based violence

App Morada is a free platform, functioning as both an app and a website, aimed at providing support to women with disability who have experienced situations of violence.

It offers information to understand gender-based violence and tools to address this issue. Additionally, it provides contacts for institutions and civil society organizations working in this field, as well as direct access to emergency numbers. All content is accessible in braille, in easy-to-read format, and in Mexican Sign Language (LSM).

Furthermore, it allows the recognition of situations of violence through a test and offers assistance and contacts to receive support. The content is developed in collaboration with the National Association of Interpreters and women experts in gender and disability.

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Localization

City of Mexico, Mexico

Partners / Funders

Government of Mexico City (Women’s Secretariat), National Network of Shelters, Casa Gaviota, Casa Mandarina, Espacio Mujeres para una Vida Digna Libre de Violencia, Empoderándonos para la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social, National Association of Interpreters, Collective Luchadoras, and Accessibility Lab.

Genesis

App Morada was born in 2019, the same year in which a joint survey was conducted with the government of CDMX to gather more data on the violence experienced by women with disabilities. The results confirmed the need to create a tool that would empower women living in these situations.

Level of implementation

Of the 400 women who participated in the study, 100% claimed to have experienced some form of violence. More than 80% had not received information about gender-based violence and disability, and over 90% were unaware of their sexual and reproductive rights. In this sense, App Morada aims to address these shortcomings. Additionally, in order to increase the effectiveness of the application, a sensitization process was promoted aimed at the personnel of the institutions working in this field. 

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Nagaya Tower, an intergenerational building to combat unwanted loneliness

Laura Hurtado on 28 February 2024

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Nagaya Tower, THEM

Nagaya Tower

Community building that connects people of different generations to combat the feeling of loneliness

The Nagaya Tower has six floors and is designed in a V-shape to encourage residents to see each other when entering and leaving their homes. Additionally, the exterior balconies have no partitions. This way, homes are connected. On each floor, there are communal dining rooms and other spaces for interaction, such as areas for recreational activities or elevated gardens. All of this facilitates neighborly communication in daily life, although preserving each person’s personal space is also sought.

In this community estate, the majority of residents are over 70 years old, but there are also other generations. Younger residents receive rent discounts if they get involved in common tasks like changing light bulbs, moving furniture, or taking out the trash. Elderly residents place a magnet on the door of their home when leaving the residence so others are aware. Additionally, people requiring vital support can receive services in the same building. Furthermore, there is a room where adoptive families raise children who cannot live with their guardians.

This initiative aims to alleviate the feeling of unwanted loneliness, a phenomenon especially prevalent among the elderly and with a particular prevalence in significantly aging societies like Japan.

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Kagoshima, Japan

Partners / Funders

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism of Japan

Genesis

The Nagaya Tower was created by Dr. Haruhiko Dozono, founder of one of the first palliative care clinics in Japan. There, he realized that most of his patients with mental deterioration suffered from social isolation and psychological loneliness, and they needed human interaction. In 2011, he decided to create a space where people in this situation could build community bonds among themselves. The construction of the building was completed in March 2013.

The building is inspired by old collective housing from the Edo period of Japan, which spanned from 1603 to 1867, where diverse individuals lived together in a shared compartmentalized house. Around a common well, they conversed while carrying out domestic tasks.

Level of implementation

The residents of Nagaya Tower assert that this intergenerational exchange makes them feel more accompanied and less lonely. According to data from the Ministry of Interior in 2023, 10% of Japan’s population is over 80 years old. Additionally, in 2023, the country broke its record of centenarians, with 92,000 individuals. In 2021, a Ministry of Loneliness and Social Isolation was established to address the issue.

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Barnahus, care service for child victims of sexual abuse

Toni Codina on 21 February 2024

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Barnahus, care service for child victims of sexual abuse

Catalan Government, Save The Children

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A pioneering integrated unit in Catalonia and Spain, made up of a specialised multidisciplinary team, whose objective is to avoid the re-victimisation of children and adolescents who are victims of sexual abuse and to provide all the necessary care in a single space.

Barnahus (children’s house in icelandic) is a project to help children and young people –from 0 to 18 years of age– who have suffered sexual abuse and to prevent aggression against minors. It puts the victim of sexual abuse at the centre, working in a single space with all the care services they need and minimising the traumatic experience of reliving the aggression. This avoids victims having to go through courts, police stations, hospitals and children’s services. It is promoted by Save the Children and is supported by five Catalan government departments, mainly the Social Rights department, but in coordination with the Health, Education, Justice and Interior departments.

Barnahus has a welcoming and friendly appearance to provide security, comfort and confidence to children and their families. There are separate rooms to preserve privacy, a kitchen-dining room, offices and a medical examination room. The psychosocial team –consisting of psychologists and social workers with a coordinator– works full time, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and also offers translation services.

Catalonia already has centers in Tarragona, Manresa, and Lleida. In 2024, Intress, a partner entity of the iSocial Foundation, has promoted the opening of a Barnahus facility in Terrassa and in La Seu d’Urgell. On February 27th, the Idea Foundation, also a member of iSocial, will inaugurate a center in Granollers.

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Catalonia

Partners / Funders

Catalan Government

Genesis

Barnahus began as a pilot project –a pioneer in Spain– in 2020 in the Tarragona Educational Complex, following the European model -the Barnahus emerged in 1998 in Reykjavik, Iceland- and with the aim of extending throughout the country. In addition, a comprehensive strategy has been developed to address sexual abuse in childhood and adolescence in Catalonia, including preventive policies and specific training.

Level of implementation

The Barnahus service, in operation since mid-2020 in Tarragona as a pilot test, has enabled the detection of 803 cases of sexual abuse of minors and adolescents in this period in Catalonia. Thus, it has been postulated as a successful model and for this reason the Department of Social Rights of the Government of Catalonia wants to implement and promote the service in other Catalan towns such as Barcelona, Girona, Tortosa and Vilanova i la Geltrú.

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Access4you, accessibility certification for people with disabilities

Laura Hurtado on 14 February 2024

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Access4you, accessibility certification for people with disabilities

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Access4You

Innovative initiative based on a certification mark that provides reliable accessibility information of the built environment for people with disabilities

Access4you has a database and a mobile application, available for free, which indicate the degree of adaptation of spaces to the needs of people with disabilities and accessibility needs. It is based on a self-developed system of criteria based on a set of 1000 variables according to the usability aspects of 9 stakeholder groups: people with cognitive and visual disabilities; individuals with blindness, deafness, and hearing difficulties; people in wheelchairs, with baby strollers, and with assistance dogs; and the elderly.

Access4you classifies spaces using a qualification system divided into four categories according to the level of inclusivity of the location: Certified location, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Moreover, the database offers filterable and detailed data including measurements, as well as images of each location to help people with disabilities to plan their stay at an unknown location.

The certification, apart from benefiting these groups, also supports owners and businesses to obtain information about the accessibility of their buildings. In this way, organizations can commission an independent study to accredit the adaptation of their establishments, as well as acquire detailed proposal on how to improve it. Certified locations receive a designated datasheet in the Access4you database, which is available to everyone for free on the website and the application.

Thus, the initiative proposed by Access4you aims to promote the social integration of people with disabilities, improve the accessibility of the built environment, and serve as a center for the dissemination of knowledge and advice on the obstacles that these people encounter in their daily lives.

Access4you International is present in the CEE, SEE and India with the help of an expanding accredited partner network including Colliers, Bureau Veritas, TÜV, and CBRE. Both companies and individuals can join Access4you’s accreditation programme to acquire the skills and knowledge to join its mission and involve more locations to provide accessibility information.

Characteristics of the innovation

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Localization

Budapest, Hungary

Partners / Funders

Erste Foundation and Hungarian Development Bank VC Hiventures

Genesis

The initial idea was born in 2019 when its founder and CEO, Balázs Berecz, a wheelchair user for 15 years, encountered an accessibility problem when entering the accommodation he had booked in Lisbon. At that moment, he realized that “the willingness to help is not enough” and that “a common language about accessibility” is needed. The platform began its international expansion in 2022, with a network of partners in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2023, Access4you is also present in India.

Level of implementation

Access4you International operates in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, and India, with the help of a network of accredited partners such as Colliers, CBRE, Bureau Veritas, and TÜV. Today, Access4you has an impact in 23 countries, with about 1000 evaluated locations across 16 real estate sectors such as offices, shopping centers, and restaurants. The company received the Best Impact Startup Award in 2022, the Social Innovation Award 2023 from the EASPD (European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities), and in 2023 became a member of the RICS Tech Partner Programme.

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