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WP.3: Developing Business Concepts for Age
Management & Investment in the HR Sector
• 3.1 Designing model for
enterprises on age management:
Uni. of Strathclyde
• 3.2 Guide for management
optimisation performance: Uni. Of
Social Sciences
• 3.3 Development of measurable
performance indicators: FU-
Uppsala
• 3.4 Analysis of older workforce
work traits: Documenta
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Activity 3.1: Designing model for enterprises on age management
• Focus on the development of innovative business concepts related to age management processes. To this end, a study
will be conducted to design a model for enterprises on introducing age management concepts, flexible working
arrangements and succession management, using the finding of the report already elaborated in WP2.
• Duration: M15, 1 month
• Budget: 13.627,00€
• The 40 pages report will be firstly available in English and in electronic version and then translated in Greek,
Spanish, Polish and Swedish
Activity 3.2: Guide for management optimisation performance
• The above guide will cross examine the management systems currently deployed in the companies of the EU with
those suggested in the first action of WP3 and will lead to the development of a methodological guide which will
point what actions need to be taken in order to optimize the performance of management systems used in the EU
market.
• Duration: M17, 1 month
• Budget: 2.674,00€
• The 40 pages report will be available in English
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Activity 3.3: Development of measurable performance indicators
• In order to examine the effectiveness of the proposed systems, a guide will be elaborated stating the measurable
performance indicators that are needed in order to estimate the effectiveness of the management concepts. This will
offer the opportunity for perfective maintenance actions as well as identification of further needed actions that need
to be taken.
• Duration: M19, 1 month
• Budget: 7.797,00€
• The 40 pages report will be available in English
Activity 3.4: Analysis of older workforce work traits
• An analysis of the work traits of the aged workforce (strengths and weaknesses) will be conducted in order to
identify the EU labour market employment opportunities for the aged workforce. The SWOT analysis will be
conducted under the perspective of the “new skills for new jobs report”, thus the findings of it will point the set of
questions needed to be asked so to start transforming older workers to become more productive again for their
companies/ organizations.
• Duration: Μ20, 1 month
• Budget: 7.785,00€
• The 40 pages report will be available in English and then translated in Greek, Spanish, Polish and Swedish
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Activity 3.5: Employment opportunities for older workers
• Employment opportunities will be the results of the previous report and will be
examined in relation to the EQF system along with the national qualifications systems.
The aim of the report is to examine how to adapt the approach of potential
employment opportunities for aged personnel to the local labour market. The report
will examine how the different levels of the professional framework systems can become
the starting point for changing the perception towards aged personnel and their skills.
It will also demonstrate the required actions in terms of training issues for older
workers.
• Duration: Μ22, 1 month
• Budget: 6.944,00€
• The 40 pages report will be available in English
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5.2: Methodological Guide for WP
“Developing Business Concepts for Age
Management & Investment in the HR
sector”: Univ. of Strathclyde
5.5: Evaluation of the results of
the project: Uni. Of Social
Sciences & 3L Research Institute
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• 5.2: Methodological Guide for WP “Developing Business Concepts for Age
Management & Investment in the HR sector”
• Status Update by University of Strathclyde
• Responsible PP: UoS
• 5.5: Evaluation of the results of the project
• Status Update by 3L Research Institute
• Responsible PP: 3L Research Institute
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• Role of the evaluator
• Stages of the project evaluation
• Types of evaluation
• Project evaluation + quality next steps
• Available tools for evaluation for the project
Contents
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The evaluator must:
• Set the context for open discussion on project performance
• Identify strengths & weaknesses, obstacles to progress
• Make recommendations to continue, modify, and/or delete
• Assures and improves the quality of the project and project outcomes and of other actors
• pursues a culture of quality assurance
• Helps quantifying results
• Predicts how the project activities will develop
• Reduces the work of the Final Report
Role of the evaluator
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• Start after the project approval
• Make a logical schedule
• Choose evaluation tools carefully structured and make
indicators clear
Stages of the project evaluation
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• Use the evidence to implement changes
• Analyse results -if possible at a project meeting
1. What does this mean for the project?
2. What should we do next?
3. How will we manage changes to the project’s workplan?
• Draw attention to the positives as well as challenges
• Adapt: workplan, activities, communication platforms, management,
budgets
• Inform everyone involved -try not to impose!
• Record all reasons for the changes
Stages of the project evaluation
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• Internal Evaluation: performed by staff of partnership
members, preferably directly involved in the project work
• External Evaluation: performed by an expert not attached to
any of the partnership members, who has no other task in
the project
Types of the evaluation 1/2
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Planningevaluation
• Send a questionnaire to
all the participants before
the event to assess their
expectations
Formativeevaluation
• Enable the participants
to reflect on the progress
of the event (e.g.
training, meeting,
seminar) while it is
taking place (e.g. through
reflective diaries,
individual interviews,
post-it notes stuck on a
wall, etc.)
Summativeevaluation
• Gather final evaluative
information at the end of
the event, discuss it, use
to improve the next
event
Examples types of evaluation
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• What can we say about the object in our hands?
1. who will be responsible for evaluation across the partnership
2. agree on the priorities for evaluation
1. What are we going to evaluate?
2. The processes of the project?
3. The outputs of the project?
4. The outcomes of the project?
3. What tools we are going to use for all 3 types of evaluation
Evaluation Quality next steps
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WP.6: Awareness Raising Activities
• 6.1 Workshops for the age
management concept
benefits
• 6.2 Sensitizing
entrepreneurs
• 6.3 Seminars addressing HR
managers
• 6.4 Sensitizing the aged
workforce
Employers Employees
Entrepreneurs Managers
Local Society Stakeholders
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Activity 6.1: Awareness raising activities
• The five workshops (one per country) will involve local public and private actors, enterprises
employees, customers, suppliers, employers and the community and will discuss as well as
examine the benefits enterprises could have from the proposed strategies. It will reveal the
strengths of aged work force and at the same time will demonstrate how enterprises can be
prepared to face the “demographic bomb issue”. Invited speakers, expert on their fields, will
elaborate on Age management concepts.
• The target groups will be targeted by the partners through the general promotion of the
project and directly by communicating with national and local stakeholders, through
meetings, emails and phone calls in order to catch a minimum of 20 participants per
workshop.
• These workshops will last half a day and will be organised by each partner in each
participating country, adapting the content to their language, their specific working
conditions, labour market needs and specificities of the attendants.
• Duration: M10-M12, 3 months
• Budget: 29.706,00€
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Activity 6.2: Sensitising entrepreneurs
• Project partners will visit each other’s area and will visit businesses that operate with aged work force and have successful
results, for exchanging experience. PPs will discuss with the personnel and owners, gaining valuable experience and know–how
that they could bring back to their organizations as well as countries. Local business people will be part as well of the study
tours.
• These study tours (5 in total, one per country), will last one day and will take place together with the project meetings, in
order to save time and money from travelling.
• Duration: M2, M9, M15, M21, M27, 5 months
• Budget: 2.500,00€ (included in 6.1)
Activity 6.3: Seminars addressing HR managers
• There will be organized 5 seminars, one in each different participating country, addressing to Human Resources Managers for
implementing decisions on staff recruitment, retention and redundancy in view of the formulated Age Management Concepts.
The proposed issues will be deriving from the reports already elaborated in the context of the project.
• Catch a minimum of 20 participants per seminar.
• These seminars will last half a day and will be organised by each partner in each participating country, adapting the content to
their language, their specific labour market needs and conditions and specificities of the attendants.
• Duration: M18-M22, 5 months
• Budget: 1.700,00€ (included in 6.1)
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Activity 6.4: Sensitising the aged workforce
• In parallel with the seminars organized focusing in HR managers, another 5 will be organized,
addressing to aged workforce and Unemployed aged 50+, with special focus on sensitive social
groups. It will explain the strengths they have as well as the skills that they need to gain, in
order to remain competitive in the labour market they operate and even in the EU market.
• Catch a minimum of 20 participants per seminar
• These seminars will last half a day and will be organised by each partner in each participating
country, adapting the content to their language, their specific labour market needs and
conditions and specificities of the attendants.
• Duration: M18-M22, 5 months
• Budget: 1.700,00 € (included in 6.1)
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Activity 7.2: Publicity campaign – Information and Sensitisation
brochures
Four brochures of 4pages will be produced, in the following languages: EN, ES, EL, SE, PL
• one presenting the project
• one sensitising the aged workforce
• one sensitizing enterprises and
• one presenting the project results
• The Lead Partner of the Work Package will create a common layout (with the approbation of all partners),
including a project logo, to be used in all brochures and overall material, and a common text, but each
partner will adapt the text to local conditions, needs and specificities
• Each brochure (A5) will be printed in 1000 items per country
• Duration: M3, M7, M33, 3 months
• Budget: 11.300,00€
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Activity 7.3: Publicity campaign – Dissemination of events
• For each event organised (workshops, seminars, conference), each partner will produce and
diffuse flyers and posters to disseminate the event in order to ensure the largest possible
participation.
• This means that 6 different flyers and 6 different posters will be produced in each language.
Each flyer (A5) will be printed in 200 items, each poster (A3) in 20 items.
• The Lead Partner of the Work Package will create a common layout (with the approbation of
all partners), to be used in for flyers and posters, and a common text, but each partner will
adapt the text to local conditions, needs and specificities.
• This dissemination will be done in an electronic way as well.
• Duration: M9, M17, M26, M28-29, 5 months
• Budget: 1.900,00€ (included in 7.1)
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Activity 7.4: Publicity campaign – Electronic Newsletters
• 6 newsletters on the employability of the aged workforce and presenting the project
evolution and outputs during the project lifetime will be sent electronically, which will
be used to promote the main Project initiatives, to inform the operators of interested
sectors on the project implementation, the activity phases still in progress, the
possibilities and modalities of participation, to sensitize the population towards the
thematic at the focus of the debate, to spread the results obtained by the Project.
• The Lead Partner will have the overall coordination of the activity, but all partners will
participate in the drafting of the newsletter and in its dissemination to all relevant EU,
national, regional and local actors, not only within the 5 participating countries but
also in other European countries, to ensure the largest possible dissemination.
• Duration: M3, M9, M15, M21, M27, M33, 6 months
• Budget: (included in 7.1)
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Activity 7.5: Press campaign
• The project will be presented to local actors and local press by each partner during a press-conference
presenting the project and addressing specific issues relevant to the project theme and the local conditions.
Each partner will decide on when organising the press-conference, in order to choose the most appropriate
moment for a more effective and positive event (e.g. before an important event).
• During the press-conferences, folders will be distributed to the journalists with information about the
project, the programme, the transnational actions and the local actions and added value of the project.
• Regional press-releases will inform target groups about the project and the organised events and will be
issued after the press-conference and more often if possible.
• Project partners will launch a press and radio campaign trying to sensitise as many actors and target groups
as possible.
• Duration: M1-M36, 36 months
• Budget: 250,00 € (included in 7.1)
