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Hands on SHAFE

Hands-on training and tools on Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments

Client / Funding programme:
Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
KA204 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FR ADULT EDUCATION
Hands-on training and tools on Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments n° 2019-1-NL01-KA204-060243

Start and end dates:
09/2019 – 12/2022

Website: www.hands-on-shafe.eu

AFEdemy role in the project:
Project coordinator, research and online tools developing partner

☒ Coordination
☒ Research
☐ Training
☒ Curriculum development
☒ e-Learning Platform
☐ Networking
☐ Policy recommendation

Description

Since September 2019, AFEdemy is coordinator of the Erasmus+ project “Hands-on training and tools on smart healthy age-friendly environments (Hands-on SHAFE)”.

Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) support independent living, active lifestyle and participation in society for every citizen, no matter if someone is young or old, handicapped or healthy, rich or poor. To provide easily accessible tools to actually realize SHAFE, AFEdemy initiated the Hands-on SHAFE project.

Hands-on SHAFE aims to deliver informal learning experiences and hands-on tools to implement SMART and HEALTHY BUILT environments or to develop BUSINESS in this area. The learning experiences aim to enable facilitators (volunteers, formal and informal caregivers) to create smart healthy age-friendly environments for themselves, their parents, neighbours or friends.

Hands-on SHAFE will focus on 4 main building blocks: SMART, HEALTHY, BUILT and BUSINESS.

Objectives

The overall expected outcomes of the Erasmus+ Hands-on SHAFE project are:

The improvement of the smart, physical and social environments at local level to foster social inclusion for all,
The improved empowerment of people with low skills or low qualifications who work at local level or act as volunteer for their parents, family or neighbourhoods and
To increase the opportunities for them to become a social entrepreneur.

AFE Related Topics

☒ Outdoor spaces and buildings
☒ Social participation
☒ Transport and mobility
☒ Social inclusion and non-discrimination
☒ Housing
☒ Civic engagement and employment
☒ Communication and information
☒ Community and health services

Target Audience

All adult learners are targeted, including adults with lower skills or low-qualifications.

Process

The project will run from September 2019 till September 2022.

During the project, partners will organise 12 national multiplier events to demonstrate the (draft) working of the training modules and tools.

In June 2022 the closing international multiplier will take place in Coimbra, Portugal.

Partners

PROJECT PARTNERS:

(Coordinator) AFEdemy: Willeke van Staalduinen and Javier Ganzarain
Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra: Carina Dantas and Flávia Rodrigues
ISIS Institut für Soziale Infrastruktur gGmbH: Karin Stiehr and Jesper Schulze
TU Dublin: Damon Berry, John McGregory, Paula Kelly, Matteo Zallio and Charlie Pritchard
Politechnika Warszawa: Agnieszka Ciesla and Marianna Ulanicka
Airelle Corrèze: Miriam Guzy and Sonny Renaux

ASSOCIATED PARTNERS:

AGE Platform Europe
An Siol Community Development Project Cabra Dublin
Autonom’lab
Covenant on Demographic Change
ECHAlliance
Enable Ireland
Giunta Regionale della Campania Italy
Hamburg Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection, Germany
International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth
Seniors Initiatives Centre Kaunas
Tecnalia
LILT Associazione Provinciale di Biella – ONLUS
Municipality of The Hague
Ordem dos Engenheiros Região Centro
Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade de Coimbra
Instituto de Sistema e Robótica – Universidade de Coimbra
Nursing School of Coimbra
Instituto Pedro Nunes
City of Warsaw

Output

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUT IO1

Comprehensive study to bridge existing knowledge gaps between partners on smart healthy age-friendly environments topics and to prepare the training packages.

National reports on SHAFE

Information gathered from desk research and interviews on SHAFE products and measures in the partner countries.

EUROPEAN COMPENDIUM OF GOOD PRACTICES ON SHAFE

It presents 46 good practices on implementation of Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) from France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and The Netherlands.

EUROPEAN SYNTHESIS REPORT ON SHAFE

It summarizes the key findings from the national reports, including the most relevant facts and figures with the aim to arrive at recommendations for contents and methods for training packages from a European comparative perspective.

FACTSHEET ON SHAFE

It presents infographics with the key facts and figures on SHAFE in France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and The Netherlands.