ARGENTUM - Strategic competencies for Silver Economy

A report of the European Commission highlights that by 2070, 30.3% of the population is projected to be aged 65 years or older and 13.2% is projected to be aged 80 years or older. The Green Paper ...

By implementing the project, our primary goals were: Develop Educational Resources: We sought to create an innovative e-learning platform to support the development and transferability of training course contents. This platform serves as a valuable resource for stakeholders seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills within the Silver Economy. Promote Training and Innovation: Our objective was to deliver integrated training courses tailored to the needs of companies, NGOs, and local governments involved in the Silver Economy. These courses focus on aligning businesses with new technologies, promoting innovative approaches to social services, and driving adoption of supportive measures for healthy aging. Facilitate Collaboration and Visibility: We aimed to establish an Innovative Cluster for the Silver Economy, bringing together companies, service providers from various sectors such as Information Technology, Welfare, Health & Care, Tourism, Leisure/Sport, and Education and local governments. This cluster enhances collaboration among relevant actors and provide visibility to stakeholders within the Silver Economy.

Throughout the duration of the project, various activities were implemented across the three Work Packages: project management, communication/dissemination of project results, and quality management. These activities spanned the entire lifecycle of the project. Regarding the specific objectives of the project, activities were divided into four main Results. Firstly, activities related to mapping and establishing an Innovative Cluster for the Silver economy included developing guidelines for mapping the potential economic and business fabric, creating a list of potential members, defining the structure, aims, and activities of the Cluster, setting up a facilitation strategy for round tables, organizing thematic round tables in partners' countries, and involving/detecting potential members. InnoGrowth managed the successful implementation of these activities related to R1. Secondly, the project aimed to deliver training courses on integrated innovative services design for aging populations in various sectors of the Silver Economy (R2). ARIS was responsible for coordinating these activities, which included conducting a preliminary survey on the learning needs of the target groups, defining the curriculum and methodologies, developing the curriculum, gathering and involving participants for pilot courses, delivering online pilot courses, evaluating them, editing the e-learning course, and translating its content. Thirdly, similar activities were conducted to deliver the second training courses for accelerating innovation in local governments regarding innovative social services and supportive measures for well aging (R3). Sofia Municipality spearheaded these efforts. The fourth result focused on setting up an e-learning platform and producing learning materials, overseen by the Spanish partner INIT (UJI). Activities included defining the e-learning design and structure, developing materials for the R2 training course, testing and producing materials for R2, developing materials for the R3 training course, testing and producing materials for R3, and setting up the e-Learning platform.

The concrete project results are available: On the project website www.argentum.biz On the e-learning platform: Moodle: https://platform.argentum.biz/login/index.php and are: - Mapping and creation of innovative Cluster for Silver economy - E-learning Training Course: Integrated innovative services design for ageing people in Information Тechnology, Welfare, Health & Care, Tourism, Leisure&Sport - E-learning Training Course Accelerating innovation in local governments: Innovative social services and supportive measures for well aging -The e-learning platform