This Online Training Course provides background information, inspirational examples and practical tools to participate in the creation of age-friendly environments. It is dedicated to men and women who want to become Mobility Scouts and to all organisations interested in supporting them to do so. It also addresses experts, stakeholders and citizens who want to contribute to age-friendly communities.
To have a look at the various language versions of our Online Training have a look here:
49 participants from 14 EU countries participated in the Mobility Scouts EU Final Event in Brussels on the 5th of June 2018.
In her very interesting and inspiring key note speech Tine Buffel from Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) – Sociology, The University of Manchester, presented an “insider” perspective on the benefits and challenges of peer-research. Furthermore, on behalf of the Mobility Scouts partnership Laura Christ (OVN-NL) and Anita Rappauer (queraum. cultural and social research) gave an overview on aims and outcomes of the Mobility Scouts project.
Finally, in a panel discussion relevant stakeholders and experts at different levels exchanged their views, experiences and visions of an age-friendly environment and the engagement of older people. Our moderator, Ernest van Hezik, also elicited very personal views on this issues and involved the audience actively in the discussions.
Many thanks to all project & cooperation partners as well as participants for bringing in their ideas, and perspectives and made the event really special. Our particular thanks goes also to Julia Wadoux and her colleagues from AGE Platform Europe for the great support in organising the event and to the Committee of Regions for hosting us.
Interesting links:
Mobility Scouts partners finalised the Mobility Scouts Toolkit for practitioners and Handbook for stakeholders at local level in English, German, Dutch, Italian and Lithuanian.
Handbook for stakeholders at local level
Toolkit für Praktikerinnen und Praktiker
Handbuch für Organisationen, Vereine und Kommunen
Manuale per sensibilizzare gli stakeholder locali
Problemos suvokimo stiprinimo vadovas
Handboek voor stakeholders op lokaal niveau
Enjoy reading and learning more about our Mobility Scouts training and local projects, Mobility Scouts have implemented in all partner countries.
Mobility Scouts partner SIC has translated most parts of the EU report into Lithuanian. Please find the translation here.
queraum elaborated a factsheet, which contains information on the issue “age-friendly environment” and the Mobility Scouts approach.
Factsheet “Mobilitäts-Scouts” (German)
The European Report summarizes the most important findings of the national reports. Please find the European Report in English here:
Download European Research Report
Mobility Scouts partners in Austria, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the Netherlands carried out research aiming to investigate the state of the art in the co-production of seniors concerning the age-friendliness of their environment. In all partner countries desk research was performed for a general overview, specific topics were investigated by expert interviews.
All reports are available below:
