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.
The objectives of our projects are: - increasing the inclusive processes of pensioners over 60, excluded from the labour market - enhancing the skills of pensioners and older people, through an intergenerational process - enhancing the skills of pensioners and older people for the hospitality and integration of migrants and vulnerable groups - offering training courses for older people in order to increase their flexibility and their active participation, also through the use of ICT. The possibility of facing other realities, is an opportunity to improve and transfer best practices, and increases the ability to get involved and to observe, reflect and evaluate. The objectives are part of a broader context, which aims to ensure equity in our contexts, in particular referring to solidarity and integration of foreigners, migrants, refugees and Roma. The project is valuable with respect to transnationality, because the associations that are part of the project can leave their self-referentiality and open their mind towards other horizons, experiences, policies for older people Another objective is to increase of mobilities in order to get out of stereotypes and prejudices, and to improve the internationalization process.
According to EUROSTAT – The EU statistical office and its demographic projections published Each year on October1st, the International Day of Older persons, the proportion of older people in European Union is increasing fast and EU will have to face up to important challenges related to economical situation and social inclusion of older people. It is projected that 1 out of every 8 persons in the EU could be 80 or above by 2080 (12%). In Europe this phenomenon seems to be slowing down. In 2014 the proportion of population aged 80 or over reached 6.4% , but the proportion could reach 13.3% by 2080. Active ageing is, in fact, one of the elements necessary for solidarity among the generations, an objective that the EU has declared in Article 3 of the Treaty of Lisbon. This means that older people can be responsible for their own lives and contribute to society; in this way it will be possible to care about those older people that mostly need it. Moreover, active ageing is mentioned in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 21 - and Article 25 - Rights of the older people: EU recognizes and respects the right of older people for a decent and independent life and for participation in social and cultural life.