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TITLE OF PROJECT

ManAGE: Build your Corporate Age Management Strategy

Country:

EU Member States

Project Period:

2007-2009

Project Value:

€ 200.000

No of Staff Provided:

3

Origin of Funding:

EU- Leonardo da Vinci- Community action programme on vocational training

Name of Client/ Beneficiary:

Private enterprises, employers' organizations, NGOs and bodies responsible for implementing social and employment policy.

Description of Project:

The main aim of the project is to enhance HR management competence with the emphasis put on the problem of discrimination of older workers. This will be achieved with the development of an interactive modular e-learning course on Age Management for HR managers in the business sector. To increase the project impact the course will be available in eight European languages, incl. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek and Swedish. The course will be available through the project website (on-line) and on CDs (off-line). The course will be tested with a sample of 4-6 companies in each Partner's country through workshops and seminars with HR specialist and managers.


The e-learning age management course will promote new ways of learning and will also enhance the skills and qualifications of human resource staff and management to help them manage an ageing workforce. The project will increase the employability of older people and will prevent older workers taking early retirement. It will also increase the awareness of human resources specialists and management about age management practices in other European countries. The project will test a modern approach to vocational training by using IT methods.

Services Provided:
  • to develop an interactive e-learning age management coursefor use byhuman resource staff and management
  • to improve the professional skills in human resources departments and managers
  • to raise awareness of the role and contribution of older people in companies
  • to encourage companies to retain older workers as a main source of experience and knowledge
  • to increase opportunities for older workers on the labour market

Name of Partners:
  • Association of Entrepreneurship Promotion
  • Gesellschaft fur soziale Unternehmensberatung mbH
  • Labfor
  • Life Academy
  • System