The rapid demographic ageing is one of the main factors determining future European and global economic development. Life expectancy has risen sharply also in people affected by disabilities, leading to a major challenge for the society, but also to a great opportunity for economic growth and jobs, within the so called “Silver Economy”.

Ageing and older adults can be seen as a valuable resource that can contribute to society and live actively. This also applies to disabled people, as often in Europe they will access earlier on (around 60 years of age), to a minimum pension that in most cases won’t provide enough income and resources for their own self-subsistence & health care.

It is therefore incumbent to create mechanisms to encourage and enable them to remain as long as possible into a work environment.

The project SILVER+: “Silver Economy as a new pathway to foster entrepreneurship and facilitate the disabled persons’ insertion and reinsertion in the labour market” aims to:

· develop an innovative training methodology and a set of e-tools, that will allow professionals working with persons with disabilities to respond to the need of keeping these persons as long as possible work active;

· enhance the employability potential of professionals from the socio-sanitary sector, as well as of those willing to start new business ventures within the Silver Economy.

Target groups:

· Educators & professionals from the socio-sanitary sector.

· Adult learners with disabilities (the end-beneficiaries).

• O1: SILVER+ Competency Frameworks and Course for health workers and educators dealing with training and labour insertion of disabled ageing groups and elders;
• O2: SILVER+ e-learning platform: e-tool designed to train health workers and educators in favouring labour insertion & reinsertion of both young and elder people living with physical and/or mental disabilities;
• O3: Capacity Building Toolkit for Blended Learning: Development of Methodology and Guidelines for complementing the blended mobility of Staff (Train the Trainers);
• O4: Training Modules for Disabled Persons – developed in order to test the skills acquired by the direct target group of adult educators and put them into practice when training the final beneficiaries on digital, financial literacy and transversal employability skills and competences;
• O5: SILVER+ Project Handbook: developed in order to test the skills acquired by the direct target group and put them into practice with the final beneficiaries, thus increasing the project outreach and impact on young and elder disabled, whom will be encouraged to be and stay work active.

GoEurope · Asociación Intercultural Europea Spain

Irips France

Associazione Centro Italy

Coopérative SAPSE France

FyG Consultores Spain

Danmar Computers Poland

CIEP Belgium