Project description
ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing
The main goal of Goldenworkers is to identify emerging technologies and socio-economic trends, new models of extending professional active life and novel application scenarios in the area of ICT for active ageing at work, leading to the definition of a beyond of the state-of-the-art research agenda, fully embraced by research and practice community.
\\n\\nGOLDENWORKERS aims to build a roadmap for ICT adoption in the field of active ageing at work; the project has three main objectives:
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- Towards the research community: To define research directions in the field of ICT for active ageing at work \\n
- Towards companies and public services organizations: To define an action plan going forward to adapt companies and society to the new demographic, economic and social reality \\n
- Towards policy makers: To provide recommendations on policy and public service design to integrate ageing workers into society through the innovative use of ICT.
Longer life expectancies and low birth rates together impacts on the demographics of the workforce. The proportion of 50- to 64-year-olds in the workforce will be double in size compared to workers younger than 25 years (35 versus 17%) in the EU15 (the first 15 European countries to join the union) by the year 2025. Several EU15 countries will face this challenge by 2010 and the situation is expected to last for decades. The new member states of the EU do not ease the greying picture, rather the opposite and immigration will only be a minor solution to the problem.A marked paradox exists between a longer life and a shorter working life. More healthy years will be spent in retirement than in work. So, the problem is not higher life expectancies but earlier retirement.
Improved health and technological advances make it possible to extend work life beyond age 65 extending independence, productivity and quality of life.Ageing–related technological innovations can help ageing to stay at work and they fall into four technological categories:\tenabling technologies (which assist people to "age in place")\toperational technologies (which assist aging people to function in society)\tconnective technologies (which assist aging people to communicate with caregivers, families and medical resources and vice versa)\ttelemedicine (which allows a medical source or caregiver to monitor, diagnose and/or treat patients from a distance).According the above concepts GOLDENWORKERS's main objectives are:\tDevelop an RTD roadmap for active aging at work\tCreate a set of realistic scenarios, based on the socioeconomic conditions that are present in the different regions of EU27\tValidate scenarios and existing gaps with stakeholders\tIdentify shared RTD roadmap (among Industry, SMEs, research and academia) and concrete recommendations for covering the identified gaps and achieving the more agreed scenarios\tCreate expert communities of IT industry and SME representatives for knowledge sharing and for designing a common RTD strategy
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-ICT-2011-7
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Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
31080 Pamplona
Spain