“TALENTAGED” project, on the basis of a structured comparison of the most significant policies and practices tested in 4 European countries on the subject of management of population change and active ageing promotion, develops and experiments with a new integrated methodology of guidance to choices in the processes of permanence/change of aged workers, starting from the 20-year experience CORA network has worked out, with the European EWA network, in the processes of adult women re-entering the labour market and of reconversion of female and male workers expelled from the labour market.

Talentaged project detects the needs of increasing aged female/male workers’ skills and motivations, so that they can stay inside the workforce as long as possible, particularly adopting positive measures to maintain their working capability and their qualificaztons, especially in a labour market based on knowledge and on the ability of constant adjustement/re-adjustement to professional contents and to more and more complex relations.

At the same time, with reference to corporate social responsibility, the employers themselves are asked to give an important contribution, developing initiatives and creating conditions able to allow aged female/male workers a longer permanence in the labour market

The project sets the following objectives:

        to expand, through case studies and good practices, on the most significant subjective, social and organizational variables on the subject of ageing management;

        to update the intervention approaches, already tested by the partnership, and to develop an advanced and integrated methodology of guidance and accompanying targeted at two specific segments of aged human resources (operational and managerial areas), with a particular attention to gender characteristics; in particular the starting point of the adjustment of the methodological model is identified in CORA-Retravailler method, that in its more than 30-year application has achieved excellent results of effectiveness in the professional reinsertion and change of adult people;

        to experiment on the ground, involving a sample of aged people, the methodology developed in the project, strengthening approaches and operational tools;

        to make the project results and the adjusted intervention tools known, increasing the sensitization of the systems towards age management.

The adjustment of the new methodological approach, both in the contents and in the way of its use, has been carried out by the Italian and French partners, collecting the best experiences developed in Spain and Germany and making a comparison with them.

The project main product is the development and the implementation of a methodology of competence and potentiality empowerment of adult female and male workers, offering intervention tools to Companies, Social Parts, Local Authorities