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Better Ageing Starts Together

EUCLI brings the care, longevity, and AgeTech ecosystem together so innovation reflects real needs and reaches the people who need it most.

Better lives for older adults
start with better collaboration.

The European Care, Longevity & Innovation Hub (EUCLI) is a trusted connective layer for the care, longevity, and AgeTech ecosystem, helping people, organisations, and ideas find each other so innovation is developed with real care realities in mind and reaches those who need it most.

Our vision

Our vision is ageing supported with dignity, choice and shared responsibility, with connection serving people first.

People First

Older adults' dignity and well-being come before technology, growth or hype.

Grounded in Reality

Innovation must reflect real care settings and constraints, not ideal scenarios.

Collaboration Over Competition

Progress in ageing requires shared effort and openness across sectors and borders.

Clarity and Honesty

Clear language, realistic expectations, no buzzwords, no overpromising.

Respect for Lived Experience

Caregivers and older adults are essential contributors, not test audiences.

Good work stays siloed.

Strong local innovation exists in almost every European country. But countries rarely learn from each other, so good work stays where it started.

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Making collaboration easier.

The people working to improve older adults' lives are spread across countries, sectors and disciplines, and they often find each other too late or not at all. EUCLI exists to shorten that distance, so founders, care providers, researchers, policymakers, investors and older adults themselves can work together sooner and with better context.

The Platform

A shared space to see who's active across the field, find opportunities for pilots, research, funding and partnerships, and get introduced when there's real alignment.

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Events

We host community meetings and roundtables, and support events that educate, connect people across sectors and help good work grow.

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Programmes & Projects

We're developing programmes with education and policy partners in Europe and beyond, and bringing members together into project consortia for EU and international funding.

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Insight

Regular newsletters and published resources on what's moving in ageing, care and longevity, so members can act on what matters.

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EUCLI is for everyone who wants to see a positive change.

EUCLI brings together people across the full spectrum, from those building new solutions to those living the realities of ageing every day. Each group brings something the others need.

Innovators & Founders

Builders of care and longevity solutions

Get grounded in real care contexts, connect across borders, and find the right collaborators and pilot partners before it's too late to change direction.

Care Providers & Implementers

Working on the ground every day

Your operational reality should shape innovation, not the other way around. EUCLI ensures your experience and constraints are heard before products are built.

Researchers & Educators

Generating knowledge that must reach practice

Connect your work to the people building, implementing, and funding, so research doesn't stop at publications and education shapes what's actually built.

Government & Policy Leaders

Shaping the frameworks that affect everyone

Access lived experience, operational insight, and cross-border learning, so the policies you shape reflect what actually works in care settings.

Investors & Funders

Looking for direction in a complex market

Understand the care realities that determine whether innovation succeeds. Find founders and initiatives already grounded in the right context.

Older Adults & Caregivers

The foundation, not an afterthought

Your lived experience is not a data point, it's the starting point. EUCLI creates space for that experience to genuinely inform what gets built and how.

Dec2026

Upcoming event

The first EUCLI community meeting

Our first gathering as a community. Meet other members, help choose our themes for 2027 and bring a question you'd like help with.

  • Friday 4 December 2026
  • Online
  • Open to all EUCLI members. Members find the joining link in the portal.

The people behind EUCLI

Joanna Ata

Founder, World

Joanna Ata

Founder, World

Joanna spent years working in the US market, where she saw how a functioning innovation ecosystem helps the right people find each other. In Europe she found genuine expertise but no shared map, so she started EUCLI to help good ideas travel.

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Silvia Pellegrini

Founding Member, Italy

Silvia Pellegrini

Founding Member, Italy

Silvia Pellegrini is a healthcare strategy and innovation consultant with more than 20 years of experience across European and global healthcare, shaped by a multicultural background spanning Italy, the United States, and Puerto Rico.

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Kayla Patullo-Liao

Founding Member, Canada

Kayla Patullo-Liao

Founding Member, Canada

Kayla Patullo-Liao is a dance-scientist, educator, and creative health entrepreneur who translates evidence-based research into real-world impact. She holds a Specialized Honours BA in Dance and Dance Science from York University and further education through Canada's National Ballet School and Baycrest Health Sciences Hospital's global teacher training programme in research-developed methodology for dance with older adults, including those living with dementia. She is a certified Dance for PD® and Conditioning with Imagery for Dancers™ instructor.

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Natalie Kravitz

Founding Member, United States

Natalie Kravitz

Founding Member, United States

Natalie brings more than 20 years of experience as an Activity Professional in senior living, specialising in person-centred engagement, dementia education, and life enrichment. As Director of Engagement Operations for Activity Connection, she supports senior living communities through innovative programming, technology, education, and team development.

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Silvia Andreeva

Founding Member, Bulgaria

Silvia Andreeva

Founding Member, Bulgaria

Silvia Andreeva is currently the Marketing Director at Syscom Engineering. Her personal mission is to fight age discrimination in the workplace. She took the stage at DisruptHR Sofia in September 2025 with this topic, and the video of her presentation ranked in DisruptHR’s global Top 5 for three consecutive weeks.

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Hicham Temsamani

Founding Member, France

Hicham Temsamani

Founding Member, France

A recognised leader in healthcare and medical technologies, he brings over 25 years of international experience at the intersection of digital innovation, data, and clinical transformation. With a background in biomedical engineering, he began his career at the CNES, contributing to the development of Europe’s first telemedicine networks. He went on to build a strong expertise in medical devices and cardiology, before pursuing leadership roles within leading global organisations such as Cisco, Cardinal Health, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, where he led digital transformation and AI adoption strategies for healthcare systems. Deeply committed to public health, he played a key role during the Covid-19 pandemic as Managing Director of PandemIA, contributing to the deployment of innovative epidemiological surveillance solutions at a European level.

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Partners & supporters

EUCLI works with organisations that want good work on ageing to travel further across Europe. If yours does too, we'd like to hear from you.

  • 1Partner with us. Networks, universities, care providers and event organisers working with EUCLI on shared goals.
  • 2Host or co-host. Offer a venue or co-organise a roundtable or community meeting.
  • 3Support the work. EUCLI is volunteer-run and self-funded. Time, skills or funding all help.