Global ageing: a triumph and a challenge Erasmus Project

Project Title

Global ageing: a triumph and a challenge

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Social dialogue; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Project’s partnership is composed by 8 partners: 3 Italian partners and 1 partner from each of the following countries: Spain, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia and Sweden. The ADA Association is the Project Coordinator.
The Partnership focused on needs analysis, dwelling on those difficulties that older people, pensioners in particular, have to face up to after their transition from work to retirement, when they feel displaced in society and need to reinvent themselves. Moreover, the project will promote internationalization through intergenerational training courses addressed to women and men below 60 years of age, inside the associations partners of the project.
Objectives of the project are:
– to increase inclusive process of pensioners over 60 years of age, who feel “expelled” from labour market, in order to increase their inclusion in social fabric
– to enhance skills of older people and pensioners through an intergenerational training course
– to enhance skills of older people and pensioners in order to facilitate hospitality and integration of migrants and weaker sections of population, in agreement with local authorities and schools
– to offer training courses to older people in order to increase their flexibility and active participation, even through the use of ICT, according to Digital Agenda for Europe 2020.
Objectives place in a wider context whose aim is to guarantee equity, solidarity and integration of foreign people, migrants, refugees and Roma.
The following activities will be developed in the project from September 2019 to August 2021:
– three international meetings:
*10/2019 first meeting;
*10/2020 second meeting;
*06/2021 third meeting
– two training courses:
**11/2019 training course on active ageing, addressed to Partners ’staff;
** 03/2020 training course on social improvement, addressed to Partners’ staff
– one mobility for Association’s adult learners
The project aims at promoting, through the participation in training courses and mobilities, a real active ageing of old people and pensioners living in Partnership’s countries, who are often even volunteers or members of the staff of the associations involved in the project; a reorientation in the society after their retirement; the approach to ICT for a continuous learning; the attendance of international, inclusive training courses through exchange activities.
The project will promote English language learning, working language of the project itself.
The project includes a communication, monitoring and evaluation plan; a dissemination plan will highlight the project results through a clear and precise organization and a responsibility matrix.
Sustainability of the project will be assured by further participation in actions such as KA2 Innovation, or Europe for Citizens, or Active Ageing.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138571 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIAZIONE ADA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• I.R.E.S. – ISTITUTO DI RICERCHE ECONOMICHE E SOCIALI DEL FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA IMPRESA SOCIALE
• ACHAIKO INSTITUTO EKPEDEFSIS ENILIKON
• LJUDSKA UNIVERZA TRZIC
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y DEPORTIVA LAHOYA
• Kadin ve Genc Girisim Merkezi Dernegi – Woman and Young Entrepreneurship Centre Association
• NORDIC DIASPORA FORUM
• UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE