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Turning silver into gold through management strategies that effectively address an ageing and multi-generational workforce

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

EC Europe 2020 Strategy points to increased ageing and low employment, especially of older workers, as two of Europe’s main structural weaknesses. EC proposed a target for 75% overall employment rate for 2020, which specifically needs greater involvement of older workers and for Member-States to promote innovative active ageing policies. The adoption of this Strategy was followed by the Council co ...
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ICT services for Life Improvement For the Elderly (ICT4Life)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

There are many efforts at European level to improve our ability to monitor health and to prevent, detect, treat and manage disease so that active and healthy ageing can be promoted. In this project, breakthrough research and radical innovation on new services for integrated care is achieved by means of an efficient and cost-effective service-oriented ICT-based collaborative platform which exploits ...
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Healthy Lifestyles for Elderly People

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The general objective of the HELP project is to empower older people (65+) in Europe to adopt healthy lifestyles which include a healthy diet, physical activity, and social participation. Together with supporting older people on an individual level, HELP aims to develop the quality and cost-effective-ness of services for older people by promoting cooperation between service providers and recommend ...
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Be a Change - invest socially

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The aim of the project BACIS - Be a Change - invest socially is to make social impact and to inspire people to be a change in the world, to become an incentive for local societies from partnership countries to be creative and socially involved. The aim of the project is to motivate people - adults to create a change, to teach people how developed creative solutions to address social problems, to ...
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Senior Social EntrepreneuringBuilding capacity among seniors to serve as social change brokers in communities

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

SENIOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURINGBuilding capacity among seniors to serve as social change brokers in communitiesSocial innovations do not happen by themselves. Throughout their life cycle, they need to be supported and nurtured if they are to make an impact on society and the economy. Empowering people, driving change – social innovation in the European Union, European Commission, 2011CHALLENGEThe co ...
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Sharing good educational practices and systematising a training competences programme for employment and inclusion for vulnerable adult people

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

E&I Project is dealt with from the scope of training for one of the greatest needs in our society: employment as a way for social inclusion with people in numerous situations of vulnerability.We esteem that it is necessary to show and improve the task of the teachers in training institutions for adults, as it is in these places where the latter find a way to access a normal life within society. Th ...
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"It is easy to teach – if you know how"

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project titled „It is easy to teach – if you know how” was created in response to observed, by the partners organisations, difficulties with choosing the appropriate methods of teaching the elderly. Methods of teaching children, youth and adults have been widely developed. However, there are very few works on the methods of teaching seniors, which would consider perceptive capability of the ...
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Beyond Retirement - A Migrant Integration Resource

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The BRAMIR Project proposes the development and implementation of a multi-layered andragogic framework designed for a seniors target group comprising older workers approaching retirement and recent retirees. This framework will incorporate a bespoke train-the-trainer curriculum, a suite of psychographic profiling tools and a digital toolbox of appropriate teaching resources to enable the redeploym ...
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Development of a Training Program for the Improvement of Active and Healthy Ageing through the Exploitation of High-Tech Assistive Technologies

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Functional abilities of Older Persons (OPs) can be improved using Assistive Technologies (AT). There is a lack of adoption and use High-Tech AT by OPs due to a lack ofi) Acceptance, including: lack of awareness, safety concerns, lack of trust, general reluctance to technology, fear of stigmatization, low expectations or restrictions of autonomy (Merkel & Enste, 2015)ii) ICT-Literacyiii) Support ...
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“YEP! young entrepreneur people to mentor long term unemployed adults”

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project idea wants to develop a training course for young entrepreneurs (age 18-30) and startuppers to let them able to mentor adults and elderly people on how to start a business, improving their “spirit of initiative”, develop a more entrepreneurial approach towards life, job, society.The mentoring relationship has always been focused on a special link between two actors in which the most ex ...
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Teddy bears in pairs- e-learning with grandchildren

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This project will involve elderly people from all sectors of the community, including those suffering from disadvantage or from mild dementia, sharing their life stories with young people from secondary schools. The project aims to motivate the whole community to adopt a caring approach to its elderly residents and improving the overall quality of their life. The adults will share their life stori ...
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Ways to enhance active aging through volunteering –WEActiveVol

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Low fertility rate and increasing life expectancy are two issues which directly influence a higher number of older people in the total population. The problem of the population ageing affects the modern Europe and remains a major challenge for the economy and social security systems of the European society. An increasing share of the older people implicates the need to undertake actions aimed to e ...
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60+ Virtual Culture

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The progressive ageing of European society is a fact. Growing number of people aged 60 plus seem to be lost in new, virtual reality. Communication between people, contact with public bodies , banking, access to culture – all these fields require more and more virtual competences. Senior Centers, libraries have been providing computer literacy courses yet they are mostly focusing on very basic sk ...
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ehcoBUTLER. A global ecosystem for the independent and healty living of elder people with mild cognitive impairments. (ehcoBUTLER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The ehcoBUTLER Idea:Nowadays, it is a fact that Europe is ageing. A common characteristic of elders is the frequent occurrence of either physical or mild cognitive impairments. This situation brings new challenges in how to improve the independence and quality of life of elderly people and promote their good health in different ways. The ehcoBUTLER project addresses this challenge by developing an ...
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European Elderly Home Learning Service

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The EEHLSe (European Elderly Home Learning Service) proposal is based on widely accepted and reported Europe-wide analysis about (missing) learning opportunities for elderly and its consequences. All steps to overcome this miserable situation can clearly be derived by logical and empirical evidence. The first analysis element: European elderly are, in their majority, excluded from continuous learn ...
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ALFRED - Personal Interactive Assistant for Independent Living and Active Ageing (ALFRED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Description ALFRED’s objective is to develop a mobile, personalized assistant for elderly people, which helps them stay independent, coordinate with carers and foster their social contacts. ALFRED is a mobile, personalized Butler, created using cutting edge technologies such as advanced speech interaction, so you can talk directly to him. AL ...
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SOCIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR ANTI-AGING, CAPACITATION AND WELLBEING (SEACW)

Start date: Feb 4, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Description The objective of the project is to create an ecosystem including tools for the provision of training, literacy, information and awareness in the area of ICT for active and healthy aging. There are two main target groups: agents for social inclusion, and the elderly and the general population. For the first target group, agents of ...
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Long Lasting Memories (LongLastingMemories)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

Description A unified solution for cognitive and physical health and autonomous living for senior citizens.Long Lasting Memories (LLM) is an EU project aiming at an integrated ICT platform which combines state-of-the-art cognitive exercises with physical activity in the framework of an advanced ambient assisted living environment. By comb ...
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