The main objective was to propose a new "age-friendly cities reference professional" training curriculum and a set of open educational resources freely available on the Internet for implementation in VET programs in the participating countries. The specific objectives of the project were as follows: -To define the learning outcomes needed in age-friendly cities linked to a set of key cross-cutting themes such as rights, participation, intergenerational solidarity, health and long-term care, silver economy, and management of age-friendly cities. - To create a training curriculum for the new professional figure of "reference professional for inclusive ageing in age-friendly cities" with the common reference of European instruments such as Europass, and the European Qualification Framework level 4. -To develop a set of learning contents to be implemented in an open educational toolkit, based on an educational application and an e-learning course, which will be available for free on the Internet. -To Test the educational toolkit with the project target groups in the participating countries in order to optimize it taking into account educational, digital, social and sustainable approaches. - Disseminate the resul
According to Eurostat data, in the time span of 50 years, the old-age dependency ratio is projected to be more than double. In the same way, the geographical localization and type of household in which older people live may also determine their quality of life, risk of poverty, or the services that they require. We also consider a significant increase in demand for long- term care to be expected and services covering diseases that typically affect older people (e.g. arthritis, mental health/ dementia, sensory impairment). A key issue is also the transition from work into retirement, which shows that older people were more likely to be satisfied at work (around 94%). In line with the priorities of age-friendly cities in the participating countries, the partners agreed on the following needs as a common basis for the Age-Friendly Toolkit project: *The need to implement a lifecycle approach to ageing in vocational training programmes, that allow seizing the opportunities of longevity and demographic transition, following the recommendation of the Green Paper on ageing (European Commission, 2021). *The need to ensure that older people should be able to play an active role in society for as long as possible, so age-friendly cities