Project: Adaptive system for enabling the elderly collaborative knowledge transference to small companies

Acronym	Elders-Up! (Reference Number: aal-2013-6-131)
Duration	01/07/2014 - 01/01/2017
Project Topic	For many elderly, their jobs represent the way of feeling useful for themselves and the society and also for having goals which keeps them motivated. The elderly are very experienced which is a highly valuable asset at work. The main idea behind Elders-Up! project is to bring the valuable experience of elderly to small companies and start-ups, addressing intergenerational knowledge transfer. One of the main challenges which Elders-Up! project aims to reach is to provide the elderly a tool which enables to team up and create work teams, consisting in several seniors which have professional experience in matters that could be very useful for small companies. This elderly group which work collaboratively by means of the Elders-Up! collaborative & adaptive workspace which will: i) adapt the interface and content of the workspace to the cognitive conditions and the attention of the user in order to provide them an easy interaction and usage, ii) engage and motivate the elderly in optimal collaboration in the work team for a prolonged period of time and, iii) protect the elderly from fail into apathy and frailty after their retirement by providing them means to keep their minds active and to transfer their valuable knowledge. The Elders-Up! project will build an ecosystem for collaboration on which the seniors already retired and small companies provide benefits to each other, thus strengthening the European business, the creation of an elderly experts workforce and maintaining the seniors motivation and usefulness to the society.
Network	AAL
Call	Call 6 – Supporting occupation in life for older adults

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	Assistance Publiques-Hôpitaux de Paris / Hôpital Broca		France
	CleverCherry Ltd		United Kingdom
	connectedcare services b.v.		Netherlands
	E-SENIORS		France
	Elderly Care Center Agia Marina		Cyprus
	GeoImaging Ltd		Cyprus
	Ingenieria y Soluciones Informaticas del Sur S.L.		Spain
	Optimizacion orientada a la sostenibilidad S.L.		Spain
	Red Ninja		United Kingdom
	Stockport City Council		United Kingdom
	Strovolos Community Volunteerism Council		Cyprus
	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca		Romania