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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,

...th systems of supportive democracy, but high unemployment rates and an ageing populationThese traits given, we have chosen a very specific consortium: - An expert member in elderly people and ICTs (E-Seniors France)- Two adult schools, the CEPA in Spain and the CPIA in Italy, state-funded, down-to-earth, which work for employment and social inclusion day after day.- Two state universities with pro ...
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"It is easy to teach – if you know how"

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

...would consider perceptive capability of the students, resulting from the adequate to this age brain work. All the partners taking part in the project - Foundation “Aktywni XXI” (Poland) „e-seniors”(Francce) and Novedades Universidad de Mayores José Saramago (Spain), are organisations educating senior citizens. The objective of the project is developing scenarios for the language workshops, whic ...
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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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Seniors Learning with Apps

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

SenApp develops learning app for seniors to learn handling to go online in 4 countries to support them effectively and individually to become competent ICT user. It focuses on the need for eInclusion of senior citizens in Europe, who still being very under-represented when it comes to competent and self-directed use of ICT. The digital divide still concerns, to a major extent, the older populat ...
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Bazaar-virtual market of mature entrepreneurs

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

In Germany 38 percent of Germans belong to the 50-plus generation.Of the 15 million 50 to 65 year olds; only 39 percent still have paid employment. In Austria in only 39 percent of 55 to 64 year olds were employed, in France 38%, in Germany 52%, in Italy 34% in Turkey even 30% The EU average in this age segment was 45%. UK however with 57% has one the highest rates in EU (Eurostat LFS 2007). Aim ...
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Empowering Seniors to take part in Community Life - Qualification Offers for Members of Seniors’ Self-help Groups and Voluntary Initiatives

Start date: Oct 1, 2007,

Recent demographic changes in Europe contribute to an increased risk of social exclusion for senior citizens. Whilst civic engagement is often an attractive option for older persons, participation is usually restricted to those with higher-than-average levels of education, further increasing the risk of isolation amongst those with little or no formal education. To address this phenomenon, the pro ...
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