Projects
SIforAGE
Social Innovation on Active and Healthy Ageing for Sustainable Economic Growth is a collaborative project aiming to strengthen the cooperation of all those interested and committed to improve the welfare of older people. We want to enhance the competitiveness of the European Union regarding the promotion of innovative products for longer and better lives, but also spreading the need for elderly to actively participate in social life.
What’s SIforAGE?
SIforAGE (Social Innovation on Active and Healthy Ageing for Sustainable Economic Growth) is a collaborative project aiming to strengthen the cooperation of all those interested and committed to improve the welfare of older people. We want to enhance the competitiveness of the European Union regarding the promotion of innovative products for longer and better lives, but also spreading the need for elderly to actively participate in social life.
Why is SiforAGE needed?
We are living much more years than before and our life expectancy is going to keep growing. Because being old is not anymore a synonym of inevitable decline, loneliness, dependency and disability, we aim to promote a new view of elderly people as active citizens able to offer great benefits to our societies.
Who is involved in the project?
We are a team of twenty partners from Europe, Brazil, Turkey and India. Our members include universities, care centers, private firms, public practitioners, civil society organizations and think-tanks
The SIforAGE project, in its path to create a fair, equal, and non-discriminatory society for all ages, has developed a document entitled “Making choices for a society for all ages“, which serves as a white paper in which recommendations for decision-makers are collected.
Those recommendations are evidence-based on what has been done during the four-year duration of the Project, which is also summarised and concluded. The document, written by Elena Urdaneta and Dirk Jarré with comments by the SIforAGE project consortium and a preface by Professor Parminder Raina.
The e-version of the White Paper is downloadable from here: White Paper: Making choices for a society of all ages
