Retirement process contains many different psychological and sociological dynamics. Because of the increase in the average life expectancy, people spend high percentage of adult life in retirement. It is given in Ageing Report in 2015 that percentage of adult life spent at retirement is 43 for men and 48 for women in Turkey. The rates respectively are 34, 38 in France, 28, 32 in Germany and 28, 32 in Netherlands. The high statistics show that this period is so long to waste in human-life. In this long period , retirees earning less than in working life, becoming foreigner to technologic development and relatively being less capable to learn make them be a disadvantaged group. For this reason they need help to improve and extend their skills and competences with supply of high quality learning opportunities. The project creates"Life-Long Learning Training Module" as main output which is accessible to large percent of the retirees. Hence, it contributes to realization of improving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults. The project also has a social inclusion aspect. Because they earn less than in working life, they can hardly find opportunity to join to the social life, gain hobbies or do sports. This causes them to stay at home isolated from the social life. This project gives chance to experience such acivities and discover their interests. By the help of this experiences and project MORE, they will understand life is not over after retirement and there are MORE to do. The Life long learning training module consists of 5 sub modules, which are Guidance and Orientation, Rights and Laws, Healthy Ageing, Language and Introduction to ICTs. Apart from this there will be transnational meetings, one LTT and multiplier events. In the LTT it is planned to organize workshop where retirees will form 5 working grups (each group consist of nine retirees.) In the workshops retirees will compete on the area of digital story telling and they will share their experiences about training module. For multiplier event it is planned to organize a conference in Turkey. Project results are going to be shared and project-related documants will be disseminated. For the implementation part, a total of 45 retired will attend to pilot practices of training module who are determined by each organizations from partner countries. There are two important criteria for the training module participants. First criteria is that the retirees must have been retired for at most five years before the project starts. The second is about gender equality which will also be given importance throughout the entire course of the project. For LTT activity 65 participants are going to be invited. In this LTT it is planned to organize workshop where retirees will form 5 working grups (each group consist of nine retirees.) The remaining 25 people will consist of project team and experts working on the subject. For multiplier event it is planned to organize a conference in Turkey. 300 domestic and foreing participants ( members of association, experts, policy makers, academic researchers, NGOs etc.) are invited to conference. Participants and speakers who are involve in conference have knowledge about project subject. At the end of the project concrete outputs such as evaluation reports and informative paper brochures are going to be shared by conferences with the participation of all of the partners in Turkey. Public spots will be shot to advertise the project outcomes and promote the use of training module. Project website will be estalished with open source products about training module under SSI website. Thus retirees are going to acces the training module easily. To summarize, the retirees waste their time at home isolated to activities around rather than being a part of social life. As Institution we are eager to change this situation at retirement so that they can gain hobbies, do effective activities for their health, learn new things and discover their skills. In the project we will implement pilot activities, however the main aim is to disseminate these activities. The main expected effect of the project on this vulnerable group of people is to add value to their life with a help of planning well ahead of retirement or in the first years of it. Besides, by providing a productive learning environment with the innovative aspect of the project retires can find opportunity to have preoccupation suited to them even so the project can motivate them to set up their own business which make their retirement life much MORE meaningful.
There is many different psychological and sociological dynamics in retirement process. People spend high percentage of their life in retirement due to the increase in the average life expectancy. In this long period, retirees earning less than in working life, becoming foreigner to technologic development and relatively being less capable to learn make them be a disadvantaged group. With the project of Meaningful Occupation after Retirement for Active and Healthy Ageing (MORE) which was coordinated by Social Security Institution (SSI), it was aimed to create an Adaptation to Retirement: Life Long Learning module in order to ensure that retirees do not fall into the gap in the adaptation process to their new life after work and adapt to new technological world easily. Besides, it was aimed to improve the self-confidence of people who are retired or will be out of long working life in the near future. In addition to the SSI, there are six strategic partners, which are three local, and three foreign. They are YASAM, TURYAK, SincanHEM, NFE, E-Seniors and FAU-ILI. Totally four transnational meetings, one of which was in Turkey, were made with mentioned partners. Three pilot groups were created from three country, which are Turkey, Netherlands and France in order to form the main output by applying them and measuring their satisfaction level in the module. Forty-five retirees attended who were determined by organizations from partner countries to the implementation part. There were two important criteria by choosing the participants. First criteria was that the retirees must have been retired for at most five years before the project starts. The second was about gender equality. The outcome of the project which is Adaptation to Retirement: Lifelong Learning Module consists of five sub-components, which are Guidance and Orientation, Healthy Living, Rights and Laws, Language and Introduction to ICT. Guidance and Orientation module consists of six sections. In the seminars given in the first two sections by TURYAK, the participants were explained the social, cultural, psychological and economic dimensions of retirement and how they could adapt to this process. In the third section;SSI, YASAM and TURYAK organized a program of visits to city centers, museums, glass workshops and science centers. In the fourth part of this module, where the practical activities take place, painting, drama and ceramic workshops were organized. For volunteer activities LÖSEV, animal shelter and women’s shelter visits were organized. At the last part of the module, which is the intergenerational solidarity section, nursing home was visited. Similar project activities that applied in Turkey were also carried out in Netherlands and France. For example within activities about assessing leisure time and gain hobbies a mood board in which they had to make clear what is meaningful for them during their retirement was made by retirees from NFE. For encouraging participation in voluntary activities, NFE made a presentation about ‘Zilverlijn” service which is a service where volunteers daily calls to a lonely elderly to have a chat. E-Seniors organized a salsa course for retirees. The goal of Healthy Aging Module is to raise awareness of the participants about their health. The trainings in this module consist of topics such as healthy life culture, health literacy, rational drug use and were organized by YAŞAM. In addition, this module includes physical activities. NFE and E-Seniors also organized seminars by using documents prepared by YASAM. Within the scope of Rights and Law sub-module, the participants were provided with information that could be useful in the field of social security and health. Seminars organized for this purpose were given by SSI, NFE and E-Seniors. Language module was organized and created by SincanHEM and at the end of the course, participants were awarded to A1 certificates. In the Introduction to Computer Technology module which was also organized and created by SincanHEM, it is aimed that the people who provide access to the module have basic computer skills. After Adaptation to Retirement: Lifelong Learning Module was fully applied to the pilot groups, LTT event called Educational and Cultural Amalgamation Workshop was held in Antalya. The workshop was realized with participation of the retirees from pilot groups and project team. The workshop’s aim was to be a practical application of the module in real life. In the workshop, the retirees found the possibility to practice and develop what they learned. As a multiplier event, a final conference was hosted by Social Security Institution. Participants from NGOs, associations, academy, public and private sector representatives and also the retired people attended to the event. With this event, it was aimed to reach as many retiree as possible to disseminate the project outputs.