Silver Grow: Career Guidance And Digital Education
For Senior Workers In Enterprises

Project No. 2022-1-PL01-KA220-VET-000086542

KA220-VET - Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training

Lead time: 1 November 2022 – 31 October 2025

The project aims to provide a complex model of services for senior workers to support their potential in the labor market.

The constructivist approach that facilitates 50+ employees' professional development and interest in continuing their work in companies is the project's innovation. 

• Trainers.

• HR specialists.

• Career Counselors.

• Instructors providing day-to-day consulting and training services in enterprises.

• Employers and managers.

• Senior workers over 50 years.

Creating a forum of experts to exchange national practices.

• Organizing online panels with experts in each partner country.

• Developing recommendations on the use of effective instruments for the activation of mature workers. 

• Conducting interviews with employers and employees to identify needs, expectations, and barriers to employment they are struggling with.

• Establishing cooperation with enterprises.

• Preparation of a report with interactive tools.

Creating a rapid response path for seniors in enterprises - "Fast Path".

• Preparation of a comparative analysis on tools to support the employment of mature employees in partner countries. 

• Development of a set of tools to be used by employees 50+, i.e., practical exercises and lessons plans based on the constructivist approach, webinars/short video instructions to develop the skills of remote workers.

• Preparation of an interactive course with the training and advisory path for career counselors, trainers, and HR department employees.

• Testing in partner countries developed training and consulting solutions (workshops for staff and mature employees).

• Development of a manual presenting the results of the project.

• Voivodeship Labour Office in Katowice (VLO) – Project Coordinator, Poland.

• Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa (JDU), Poland.

• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (CPU), Slovenia.

• Institute for Innovative Applied Counseling Sciences (INfaBW), Germany.

• Spangar Negotiations (SN), Finland.

• Varna Economic Development Agency (VEDA), Bulgaria.

More information about the Partners - here.