4th Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation Award Ceremony to Be Held in Bangkok for First Time
4th Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation Award Ceremony to Be Held in Bangkok for First Time
Prize winners from Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia will gather in Bangkok to receive awards recognizing their innovative solutions to address the challenges facing rapidly aging societies.
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) will celebrate the winners of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI) at an award ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand on January 31, 2025. Members of the press are invited to attend this event, as well as the press briefing by the organizers from 1:00 PM, and press conference with the winners from 4:30PM. Details below:
4th Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI) Award Ceremony
Date: January 31, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM; Press registration starts from 12:30 PM
Location: Chadra Ballroom, Siam Kempinski Hotel, Bangkok
To arrange interviews, please contact: 4DPR media relations team at fourdeecomm@gmail.com
HAPI is an award program designed to recognize and amplify innovative policies, programs, services, and products that address the challenges facing aging societies in ASEAN and East Asia. This year marked the fourth round of the award, and it was the most competitive yet, with impressive applications received from across 12 countries or regions in East and Southeast Asia.
Selections were made by an international committee of seven experts from throughout the region. Grand Prize and Second Prize winners were named in the three categories of Technology & Innovation, Community-Based Initiatives, and Supporting Self-Reliance.
This year’s applicant pool saw an increased number of organizations from Thailand and the Philippines, with a Filipino organization winning a HAPI Grand Prize for the first time. The two other Grand Prize winners were from Japan and Thailand. We also saw a rise in applications focused on the concept of lifelong learning, aiming to provide educational and income-generating opportunities for older people to empower them to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and also to address the digital divide and improve digital literacy.
In addition, this year the committee awarded a 2024 Special Prize for Care Network Development, recognizing an innovative initiative that has successfully created an integrated system that serves older people in a depopulated area of South Korea. Three honorable mentions, two from Thailand and one from Malaysia were also recognized.
The full list of winners along with brief descriptions of their activities is included with this press release on the pages below.
