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assignment_turned_in ProjectPartners:Lidi Smart Solutions, Lidi Smart Solutions, UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, Fundacja Parasol, CANAKKALE VALILIGI +6 partnersLidi Smart Solutions,Lidi Smart Solutions,UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO,Fundacja Parasol,CANAKKALE VALILIGI,"UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO,MAGENTA CONSULTORIA PROJECTS SL,E-SENIORS,Fundacja Parasol,MAGENTA CONSULTORIA PROJECTS SL,E-SENIORSFunder: European Commission Project Code: 2020-1-TR01-KA204-092414Funder Contribution: 190,760 EUR"Aging, active aging, and successful aging are some terms that anyone can hear more nowadays when compared to before. The gradually increasing life expectancy and number of old people in the society has led to an increasing importance and feeling of elderliness as a phase of life in developing countries. World Health Organization(WHO) puts out that there are some ""significant changes"" in elderliness such as ""shifts in roles and social positions, and the need to deal with the loss of close relationships."" The organization also gives the number of old people as 11% now and claims that this percentage will rise by 20's% by 2050.6 partners from different parts of Europe came together to run this project on a European basis because our target group live longer with less stress in our partner countries which have Age Friendly Cities (AFC) designated by WHO. We aim to equip our elderly people with new methods of stress management, health-financial-digital literacy, and other such basic needs of our age as ICT and foreign language skills. We are well aware of the United Nations(UN) Principles for Older Persons, which clearly indicates some such basic rights of the old people as ""participation, care, self-fulfillment and dignity"". Thanks to our project, our target group is going to find new ways of self engagement as UN stated: ""Older persons should be able to pursue opportunities for the full development of their potential."" Besides the UN Principles, there are some other international documents designed for the rights of the elderly, all of which aim to form healthy life areas to meet such basic needs as food, shelter, resting and other social and cultural needs of the elderly.The project AGES has been created for another specific reason; one of our primary objectives coincides with the European Commission Lifelong Learning Strategy, which is ""Encouraging the participation of people of all ages in lifelong learning"" The partners' old population density is more than the world average(changing from 14.5% to 31.75%). Taking these statistics into account together with the fact that our cities are considered as habitable cities for the elderly, and some of these group lead their lives alone ,this isolated lonesomes need being socially included by letting them going out in public and giving them the chance for it. By creating an awareness on our target group about the European issues and the European level of life standards of the elderly which we are going to observe via our international meetings in which our partners are going to share their best practices, we are going to catch the European benchmarks that are shown in EU Strategical Plan. Although it was outlined as 15% in the European Strategical Plan, we would like to enhance this rate of people engaged in lifelong learning at least to 25%.There will be such intergenerational activities as;-health seminar (to raise awareness of the target group about active and successful aging)-sports on World Seniors' Day (Aug 21) (in an open-to-public area to direct the target group to a healthy life)-memory enhancement activities&laughter therapies-traditional arts (all special and traditonal to partner countries - this will be our commitment to reviving of cultural heritage)-drama (as a tool of self reflection and realization. A theatre will be staged in the end)The partners of AGES are also aiming to raise quality and to adapt our adult educations to the changing technologies by involving ourselves in social, economic, political and intercultural bondings arising from the globalizing world. What is more, our target group's involvement in our activities will also help Europe reach its economic and social targets by reducing the risk of social exclusion of the most vulnerable group of the society, the elderly, thanks to an actively aging target group. Europe will benefit from our project since it will also help our cultural heritages revive through our traditional art activities.The project AGES will be remarkable with its outputs as well;IO1:A Guidebook of the Age Friendly Cities and Active Aging in Europe: Being in multilingual (7 languages), It will serve as the basic handbook for the future researchers and analysts in this field.IO2:The Video AGES with best practices in partner countriesincluding an animated video portraying the best practices in AFC in Europe.IO3:Online Learning Seniors and Seniors' E-Handbook: An online course how to get involved in civic life and how to find a working activity after retirement is an appropriate tool in the hands of seniors to avoid inactivity and cognitive diseases linked to ageing. Adult educators will also benefit from the impact of having a E-Handbook that can use in their professional practice.IO4:Development of a Digital System ""EasyLearn"" and a mobile app combining all the IOs and health tipsAll four IOs will be free open sources and they will also show how AFC features affect active and succesful aging."
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