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Purpose The world is facing similar challenges in respect to the ageing population and shortages of care personnel, with dementia as one of the largest challenges (Gauthier et al., 2021). Across Europe and beyond, various dementia friendly eco-systems are in place with Active and Assisted Living (AAL) products and services to empower people with dementia (PwD) and their informal- and formal carers (Nap et al., 2018; Nap et al., 2020). However, it can be burdensome for (informal) carers to use multiple devices, applications and UI's, and particularly in care - where workload is high - bandwidth is limited to use multiple devices. With the HAAL project, The Netherlands, Italy, and Taiwan combine their expertise and experiences in development, co-design and evaluation to iteratively design an AI-driven cloud-based dashboard for formal carers to share data, collected from integrated sensors, that measure the well-being and quality of life of PwD. The dashboard is linked to a state-of-the-art bundle of HAAL products and services for PwD in various stages (see Reisberg et al., 1982) and their (informal)carers (see Figure 1.). Method All end-users are involved from the start of the HAAL project in co-design, business modelling, responsible innovation (Lukkien et al, 2021) and during the evaluation in the later phases of the project. Over 75 end-users will be involved in co-design, meaningful try-outs and formative evaluations. In the final summative evaluation, 90 end-users will be involved in 3 pilots (30 per country), consisting of triads of PwD, their informal and formal carers with a major focus on evaluating workload of carers and quality of life of PwD. Results and Discussion The first results from the co-design phases and meaningful try-outs show that formal carers are positive about a central AI-driven dashboard, as well as about a number of products and services in the HAAL bundle. In Taiwan, PwD were also involved in trying out the products and they showed their interest mainly in serious games and social robotics. In addition, within the HAAL project, a first UI design of the AI-driven dashboard has been iteratively developed, along with the software and the hardware architecture. Responsible innovation workshops supported in an early critical assessment of the merits and perils of AI in care for PwD. In HAAL, PwD, their relatives, and care professionals are the focal point for the testing, development, and design. In the following phases of the HAAL project, we will further co-design with these groups to assess the bundle of selected technologies, learn from the best practices and eventually develop and evaluate the AI-driven dashboard that offers the most useful solutions for dementia care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]