| Short descriptor of good practice |
| Project AGES aims to empower the European elderly citizens with knowledge, strategies, and tools to help them raise their quality of life and have active, happy, healthy, and successful aging. The consortium will run webinars and develop training materials to introduce new methods of stress management, health-financial-digital literacy, and foreign language learning activities. The project also targets to enhance the intergenerational communication and exchange of experiences and information among the generations. Another AGES project goal is to create a more age-friendly environment by exploring the good practices and achievements of Age Friendly Cities and Communities of the partners’ cities. Once successfully implemented, AGES will be one of the milestones in achieving such aims as: The sense of socially belonging in the elderly will increase as they will feel that they haven’t been forgotten.The number of senior citizens who are aging actively and successfully will increase.The policymakers and authorities of WHO will be our beneficiaries since the IOs will be shared with them, which may let them point at our project for future analysts. |
| Type of setting where good practice is delivered |
| NGO / Adult education / Governance Non formal education In an effort to inspire an age-friendly environment project was running a series of mobility events. They explored the good practices and achievements of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities of partners’ cities as follows: – Active Aging and Information Society, Porto, Portugal. – Knowing Asturias as a Safe, Respectful, and Still Active Home, Gijon, Spain. – Boosting Seniors’ Social, Civic Participation and Employment, Paris, France. – Spatial Strategies for An Age-Friendly The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands. |
| Time Frame for delivery of good practice |
| Targeted to the senior citizens and youth, to ensure the intergenerational spirit and communication project hosted: – A health seminar on the topics of active aging & successful aging – Practicing sports on the World Senior Citizens’ Day – Memory enhancement activities & laughter therapies – Traditional arts workshop in reviving of the cultural heritage – Drama workshop as a tool of self-reflection and realization |
| Type of learner the best practice is supporting |
| Seniors in lifelong learning activities |
| Resources used as part of good practice |
| Guidebook of the Age Friendly Cities and Active Aging in Europe. It will serve as the basic handbook for future researchers and analysts in this field. https://agesproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Guidebook_Final_version_3.pdf Online Learning Seniors and Seniors’ E-Handbook. An online course on how to get involved in civic life and find a working activity after retirement to avoid inactivity and cognitive diseases linked to ageing. https://agesproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/E-Handbook-EN_compressed.pdf Development of a Digital System “EasyLearn” and a mobile app. All three IOs will be free open sources and they will also show how AFC features have an impact on active and successful aging. https://agesproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Presentation-AGES-IO2_EN_compressed.pdf |
| Aims and objectives of good practice |
| Through the AGES project the participants have: – Received education and saw best practices on-site on the phenomenon of aging, active aging, and successful aging. – Acquired new skills and applications. – Improved their linguistic competencies. – Had the chance to observe what kind of problems a person can face in later phases of life thanks to the surveys and interviews which were evaluated by the sociologists. – Become active cultural, social, and educational ambassadors, and contributed to social diversity. – Expanded their networks both on local and on EU level, which also helped the project to reach people and organizations on a wider level. – Connected the formal education with non-formal education. – Been pioneers and initiators of good examples which can be copied and applied by other local and regional organizations. |
| Evidence as to why this was considered good practice |
| The partners strived to give older people the knowledge, tools and strategies to be active players in their own ageing and not passive spectators. The consortium, composed of 6 European countries (Turkey, France, Spain, Poland, Portugal and Netherlands) aimed to develop the tools and training necessary to empower seniors in their ageing. These tools cover a wide range of topics such as stress management, digital training and even language learning. AGES also encourage intergenerational exchanges as partners believe that both generations will benefit from this exchange as they have learned a lot from each other. |
| 3 Key learning Principles that were used in this good practice to support senior learners |
| – Active learning – Feedback and assessment – Self-regulated learning |
| Any additional learning that we can take from this good practice example |
| The E-Handbook contains three main learning units, which present the most important points and specifics on the following topics: – Financial aspects of active retirement and professional life for seniors, – Social aspects of active retirement, – Educational aspects of active retirement and learning after retirement. All these units also contain examples of activities that seniors can do, a series of self-assessment questions, and finally a last section entitled “Questions to ask yourself before engaging in new activities”, which should allow each senior to reflect on his or her motivations and capacities for engagement according to his or her needs and constraints. These Learning Units, which aim to remain very general in order to address as many senior citizens as possible, by offering them some food for thought, are followed by a set of practical guides dedicated to each of the project’s member countries: Turkey, Poland, France, Portugal, the Netherlands and Spain, and written specifically by the partner of the country in question. These country-specific resources and examples deal with the same three main themes as the Learning Units, but go into more depth on the specifics of each country, as well as the related issues and possible questions to consider for a senior citizen wishing to discover new activities after retirement. |
| Any Additional Information |
| https://agesproject.eu/ AGES Facebook Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE3k07X7lTjOXyG96UR82iZNrs1NfzZvL&v=WGEr_1wlAfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE3k07X7lTjOXyG96UR82iZNrs1NfzZvL&v=kX-Vef8yeCs |