> Timeline: 2023 – 2024
> Keywords: age-friendly environment
Purpose
Many European cities are improving their age-friendliness and work in partnership with older people to create inclusive physical and social environments.
However, there is still room for improvement, namely on these relevant cross-cutting issues:
- Ageing and human rights
- Participation
- Solidarity and intergenerational cooperation
- An integrated model of health and social care
- Experiences of dementia-friendly cities
- Technological and social innovation according to the opportunities of the demographic transition
- Management of age-friendly cities.
Expected outcomes
To address those needs, the Erasmus+ funded project “AFC Toolkit – Age-Friendly City Toolkit” work on two main areas:
- A training curriculum meant to define a new professional profile for inclusive development in age-friendly cities, based on the partners’ identification of a set of knowledge, skills and competencies for the new professional profile of “Reference Professional for inclusive ageing in age-friendly cities”.
- An education toolkit for the development of age-friendly cities. According to the learning outcomes described in the training curriculum, partners develop and test a set of open educational resources through an educational app and an eLearning course.
Partners
- CEOMA, Spain (Project Coordinator)
- AFEdemy, the Netherlands
- SOSU, Denmark
- Anziani e Non Solo, Italy
- Edad Dorada – Mensajeros de la Paz, Spain
- AGE Platform Europe, Belgium
AGE involvement
AGE contributes to every step of the project, working for a person-centred training curriculum and educational toolkit, consulting its members and experts in the conception and validation of the training modules and supporting partners in the policy work and dissemination.
Project results
- The AFCToolkit website is available in multiple languages (click on the respective flag on the top right corner of the AFCTooklkit website)
- The project leaflets in multiple languages (click on the language to download the leaflet): English – French – Italian – Spanish – Dutch – Danish
- Training curriculum in multiple languages (click on the language to download the booklet): English – Italian – Spanish – Dutch – Danish
- The first project newsletter (June 2023) (click on the language to download the newsletter): English – French – Italian – Spanish – Dutch – Danish
