
The RSCN
About
The RSCN promotes and facilitates the implementation and Scaling-Up of Innovation and Digital Solutions to address the life-course approach to active and healthy living.
Representing all accredited Active and Healthy Living Reference Site regions the RSCN facilitates multidisciplinary experts from public authorities, health, social care, education, business, research, to engage with policy makers, patient and citizen groups, and communities in sharing their diverse backgrounds and experience to identify and address mutual health and care challenges that will lead to sustainable improvements in health and care outcomes for citizens throughout the life-course.

Triple Win
Overall Regional, National, and Europen Benefits
Our Mission
- Promote all active and healthy ageing actions within a “whole life course”
- Accelerate the deployment of major innovations which will improve health, wellbeing, and care outcomes
- Develop new business models for innovative services
- Facilitate economic growth opportunities through new skills and new jobs in health, well-being, and social care
Our Aims
- facilitate the sharing of knowledge and expertise
- create opportunities for collaboration to address common health and care challenges
- facilitate AHL Reference Site regions in the development and implementation of regional health and care transformation programmes
- generate connections with European and International forums to promote a life-course approach to active and healthy ageing
- Promote a life-course approach applied to specific targets and settings
- Accelerate the scaling-up and deployment of major innovations and digital health and care solutions that are tailored to our AHL Reference Sites
Supporting AHL Reference Sites

Facilitating AHL Reference Sites in collaborating and sharing knowledge and good practices
Thematic Working Groups – Bringing together experts from Government, health and care, research, business, and civic society to:
- identify research gaps to be addressed collaboratively to maximise the impact of research findings
assess and evaluate good practices and case studies to elicit: the context, learning, outcomes, experiences etc. - support regions and organisations to adapt and adopt innovative solutions,
- spread knowledge and skills coming from previous research and innovation projects, commitments, best practices
Sharing Knowledge, Learning, and Good Practices – Events and Twinning schemes to facilitate the sharing of regional knowledge, learning, good practices, digital and innovative health and care solutions in their approaches to addressing a life-course approach to active and healthy ageing,
Twinnings – Promote and identify opportunities for Twinning initiatives as part of EU funded projects to share knowledge, transfer, and scale up innovative and digital solutions and practices between regions.
Panel of Experts – Composed of health and care professionals, researchers. policy makers. business leaders.
Working Groups – Facilitate the development of AHA Reference Sites across Europe and internationally
Executive Board
Maddalena ILLARIO
Chair
Maddalena Illario is Endocrinologist, Associate Professor at Department of Public Health of Federico II University of Na...
Our Team




Cristiano Carnevale
Secretary
Secretariat, Administration & Dissemination – RSCN Cristiano Carnevale works within RSCN, the European network that coordinates Reference Sites in the field of active ageing and health. His mission is to ensure the operational efficiency and visibility of projects, events, webinars and workshops managed by the organization. Professional profile: Cristiano Carnevale stands out for his organizational skills and a solid communication ability aimed at institutional and scientific stakeholders. He is oriented to optimize processes, promote transparency and increase the impact of RSCN projects in the public health sector.
You Can Contact Us
Get in touch with us to contribute to our work in the field of active and healthy ageing, collaborate, or learn more about what we do.