
Autonomia -Real-life Research Center
AUTONOMIA answers to a societal challenge which will create Health-Tech Innovation: PRESERVING PEOPLE AUTONOMY.
AUTONOMIA is dedicated to RESEARCH COMMUNITY to preserve action, decision and feeling capacities throughout life.
UNDERSTAND • COMPENSATE • IMPROVE

AUTONOMIA focuses on scientific areas with technology challenges as:




BETTER
AGING
BETTER
BREATHING
BETTER
MOBILITY
RECOVERY
In 2023, a dedicated center will be available for operational research:16 000 sq.ft indoor and outdoor, with a capacity of 200 people, located at Sorbonne University and AP-HP (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris) fully integrated within the health environment: healthcare teams, patients and caregivers, hospital, home, city, public spaces, transports.
You manage a research project on Health-Tech innovation focused on patients’ loss of autonomy? During your project:
- You need high technology space customized for your project
- You wish to immerse your project in real life, home, hospital, public spaces, transports…
- You want to test your project with various people involved
- You look for collaborations and partnerships
Autonomia welcome desk
Offers you a temporary bespoken accommodation adapted to your research project, immersed in real life and helps you all along your project.
AUTONOMIA Check-out desk
Offers you advises and orientations for the next steps of your project.

Offer
AUTONOMIA offers services and collaborations to help maturing technology at every step of your project.
Personalized services for real environment testing which will bring you added value.
FACILITIES
- Indoor and outdoor testing facilities in real environment
- Equipments (sophisticated Home Automation System, light, temperature, sensors, smart furniture…)
- Flexible open spaces (pre-equipped, pre-connected)
- Biological sample collection room (flow to Bio banks)
- FABLAB Health unit / Availability of engineers
- Data Services: Data storage, access to databases (GDPR
standard)
Acces to
- To large number of patients and cohorts of individuals (citizens, family, caregivers…) during a long period of time.
- Welcome and transport
- Availability of qualified staff on site to implement protocols
- Care workers (medics et paramedics)
- Economical, industrial, political and social networks
Services for researchers
- Remotely: tele-research, connectivity allowing the remote follow up of projects
- On site: offices and connected work spaces
- Events and meetings: organization of events, workshops, challenges
- Show room
AUTONOMIA enables relationships between:
- ACADEMIC RESEARCH, Sorbonne University, universities and schools, national and international cooperations
- CLINICAL RESEARCH, AP-HP (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris)
- PRIVATE RESEARCH, Industrial R&D, start ups
- PATIENTS RESEARCHERS, University of Patients
- SOCIAL COMMUNITY, medical, associations, insurance
- HEALTH COMMUNITY , public and private
- ECONOMICAL COMMUNITY, companies and investors
- POLITICAL COMMUNITY, local and regional collectivities
Autonomia : the premises

Ground floor
- Plarform for walk Sensitive tile floor-virtual reality, Motion capture
- Technical supervision department, Sound and video equipments, Computer, recording
- Apartment, living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom
- Hospital bedroom
- Corridor for walks/2 areas to turn around
- Immersive room (télésanté)
- Connected stairs
- Patient preparation area
- Reception
- Waiting area
- 3 multi function Labs
- Staff locker room
- Management offices and support team
- Staff showers and lavatories
1st floor
- working rooms
- Trandisciplinary research spaces
- Lavatories
- Meeting room
- Connected stairs
- Health FablabSpace of conviviality for researcher
CONNECTED OUTSIDE SPACE
Customized arrangement of the outdoor space according to research needs in an outdoor environmen

Contact
Hôpital Charles-Foix
Groupe hispitalier AP-HP.Sorbonne Université
7 avenue de la république
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine