Sparkling
grey
Turning
silver into gold through management strategies that effectively address an
ageing and multi-generational workforce
Erasmus
+
36 months: 2017-2019
Coordinator: INOVA+
(Portugal)
Partners:
Association E-Seniors (France)
Bitmedia (Austria), Inno-Motive (Hungary)
Fondo Formacion Euskadi (Spain)
Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Têxtil e do Vestuário (Portugal)
Federación Vizcaína de Empresas del Metal
(Spain)
FyG Consultores (Spain)
The Sparkling Grey project aims to
enrich the current management strategies towards an aged-friendly career
planning. In detail, the project aims to provide SMEs of textile and metal sectors,
with adjusted and innovative human resources management strategies that address
age and multi-generational issues while supporting career management skills
specifically targeted to senior workers.
To achieve the general objective, a set
of specific objectives were defined:
·
To raise
awareness to the potential of an aged workforce and to support policy makers in
the creation of a common framework to unveil it through education and training
activities that catalyse smart and inclusive growth;
·
To improve age
management strategies in SMEs from the metal and textile sector while
reinforcing the capacity of employers, managers and HR professionals to better
use the potential of their age and multi-generational workforce, to retain
talented seniors and to plan gradually retirement processes,
·
To make a
lifelong learning a reality to senior workers, involving them in flexible and
adjusted learning opportunities which support their career management skills,
enhance their key competences (including digital and mentoring skills), encourage
collaborations with younger workers and increase their motivation and
satisfaction;
·
To increase the
availability of innovative and tested tools for fostering the creation of
age-friendly workplaces and for unleashing the potential of an aged and multi-generational
workforce, which can be used by employers, employees and professional guidance
providers and trainers;
·
To increase
opportunities for professional development and strengthen the cooperation and
networking between participating organisations and
individuals in an international context where best practices are exchanged.