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Le projet a pour objectif général de définir les conditions de maintien dans l'emploi et favoriser le développement de l'employabilité des salariés âgés en PME PMI.

Les objectifs opérationnels sont :
· Sensibiliser les dirigeants de PME PMI et leurs salariés sur la réalité du vieillissement et ses effets afin de faire évoluer leurs représentations.
· Accompagner entreprises et salariés dans un état des lieux au regard du vieillissement.
· Accompagner entreprises et salariés dans la recherche de solutions innovantes et adaptées.

Une demarche d'anticipation

Le projet se situe clairement dans une démarche d'anticipation des effets du vieillissement et a pour ambition d'expérimenter des solutions concrètes en PME-PMI de maintien dans l'emploi des salariés âgés, le tout dans un contexte de changement des pratiques sociales de gestion des ressources humaines

3 Leviers (sur quoi faut il intervenir ?)

1. Agir sur les conditions et l'organisation du travail

Pour faire face à l'absentéisme, aux maladies professionnelles ou à la baisse de performance augmentant dans un contexte de changements et de rythme accru de travail, deux dimensions seront abordées particulièrement :

· Les questions de santé : l'établissement de liens entre la performance, l'organisation du travail et la santé doivent permettre une amélioration des conditions de travail favorable au maintien dans l'emploi des salariés âgés.
· Les dimensions psychologique ou motivationnelle : la perte de motivation de la part des salariés âgés peut être évitée en analysant et en remédiant aux causes possibles de la démotivation (changements brutaux d'organisations du travail, développement de la polyvalence, modalités d'apprentissages différentes des salariés âgés...).

2. Agir sur la gestion et le transfert des competences

· A court terme, la pyramide des âges laisse apparaître des départs importants en PME PMI au cours des prochaines années. Il convient pour la PME PMI d'éviter la perte de compétences et de mettre en place des outils de transfert de compétences.
· A moyen terme, l'objectif de relèvement du taux d'activité des plus de 50 ans nécessite une gestion particulière des compétences des salariés âgés.

L'introduction d'une réflexion sur la gestion des compétences en PME PMI par la diffusion d'outils appropriés se fera dans un premier temps sur la problématique de court terme : le risque de pertes de savoirs faire lié au départ massif de salariés âgés.

3. Agir sur les pratiques de developpement des competences

Au-delà de la problématique des départs massifs en retraite, les PME PMI devront développer des pratiques de compétences des salariés âgés qui seront de plus en plus nombreux. Il s'agit donc de développer les pratiques de formation continue mais aussi outiller les entreprises sur le pratiques de mobilité interne , de gestion des parcours, de développement de la polyvalence, d'évaluation et de reconnaissance des compétences…

Ces outils doivent permettre à l'entreprise de mener une démarche efficace de développement des compétences concernant les salariés âgés, mais bénéficiant bien sûr à l'ensemble des salariés.

3 Axes d'intervention

Pour atteindre son objectif général, le projet met en place une démarche globale , progressive selon 3 axes d'interventions :

Axe 1 : Sensibiliser les dirigeants de PME PMI et leurs salariés sur :
· L'importance de l'enjeu vieillissement.
· La réalité du phénomène, lutter contre les idées reçues.
· L'importance d'anticiper les effets du vieillissement.

=>diagnostic de territoire

Les objectifs sont :
· Aider à la sensibilisation des acteurs par la mise en lumière des réalités globales du phénomène.
· Aider à la constitution de messages de communication.
· Cibler les entreprises ou branches professionnelles les plus concernées potentiellement par l'anticipation des effets du vieillissement.

=> une stratégie de communication

Le constat : l'importance des représentations sur le vieillissement nécessite la mise en place d'une stratégie de communication. Il faut profiter de toutes les opportunités et en susciter de nouvelles pour évoquer les enjeux liés au vieillissement.

La stratégie de communication s'appuie sur les actions de l'ensemble des partenaires qui construiront ensemble avec l'intervention d'un consultant expert en communication les contenus de message ainsi que les outils de communication nécessaires.

Axe 2 : Accompagner entreprises et salariés dans un état des lieux au regard du vieillissement des salariés
La quasi absence de sensibilisation actuelle des PME PMI à l'importance de l'anticipation des effets du vieillissement incite les partenaires du projet à proposer aux entreprises une démarche progressive et pédagogique.

Trois types d'acteurs du projet se mobilisent sur cette introduction progressive de l'enjeu vieillissement :
· Une " entrée dirigeant de PME PMI ".
· Une " entrée représentant syndical ".
· Une " entrée prévention santé " (CRAM et Médecine du Travail).

Une démarche en deux étapes :
· Un pré-diagnostic
· Accompagnement de l'entreprise dans sa réflexion relative au vieillissement

Axe 3 : Recherche de solutions innovantes et adaptées
Objectif :accompagner les PME repérées lors de l'étape précédente, dans la mise en place d'une démarche allant du diagnostic approfondi à la recherche de solutions.

Cette action prévoit l'intervention d'un consultant.

Les entreprises se verront proposer des actions collectives sur des problématiques communes repérées.

Les résultats de ces interventions seront analysés et capitalisés et pourront permettre de :
· Définir les conditions du maintien dans l'emploi des salariés de plus de 45 ans en PME PMI.
· Alimenter la stratégie de communication.

Introduced low cost, easy to use and simply understandable interactive monitoring will teach the patients how to regulate themselves. This will give the patient a sense of control and allow medical personnel to stay ahead of acute heart failure or other critical conditions. Doc@HOME will provide means for integrating the elderly and disabled into society by introducing remote care essentials quickly and effortlessly to those in need, reducing the overall cost of the patient care and will increase the life quality of the community with diverse health related predicaments. Furthermore, the concept foresees an intuitive work environment for the doctor and care provider establishment.

Objectives:
Scope of the current project is to carry out development, implementation, validation and demonstration of a system including the configuration and provision of end-user services using the doc@HOME concept. Research and development will include definition of methodologies, rules and tools (including security and ethical issues) that will permit to collect remotely and share health condition related data. This information will be accessible to patients, doctors and healthcare professional through secure access via the public data network (including mobile devices). Individual approach will be investigated allowing delivery of health-condition related report of the patient to a close relative to facilitate family support in the care process. We will investigate the system-related architectures for implementing novel network transport services.

Work description:
The project is organised into five main phases, each of which ends with a specific milestone. An incremental approach is used for each phase allowing the research results to be exploited independently and the progress to be assessed prior to project completion. To some extent this will enable to reduce the research risks and minimise plan disruption. The presented phases have been defined carefully to build upon each other and to ensure that the research deliverables are fully adopted into the development activities. For the reasons of quality control a number of intermediate and minor milestones and process control variables are defined and will be continuously traced by Project Coordinator. For the case of deviation from the preset goals alternative strategies for process management have been defined. As a main goal a service configuration and provisioning framework for services with doc@HOME system will be developed, implemented, tested and validated during the project. Also, market analysis will be carried out on an ongoing basis to identify competitors and to remain aware of state-of-the-art technologies. On the basis of the market analysis an exploitation strategy will be developed. Due to the complexity of the project, a strong emphasis will be laid on the business and dissemination plan in order to set a clear objective for the product outcome and the benefit for the business sector as well as the product's marketable potential. R&D activities and demonstration activities of this project are respectively handled under the complementary contracts IST-2000-25363 and IST-2000-75363.

Milestones:
M1 - will ensure that the main goals of doc@HOME are established, confined with administrative measures; produces theoretical grounds, administrative rules and technical blueprints for consequent implementations of the project.
M2;
M3 - a technological infrastructure will be established.
M4 - test evaluation of prototypes.
M5 - a research and demonstration trial involving all aspects of doc@HOME functionality.
M6 - will see all research information published and prototypes evaluated.

CONSENSUS provides driving assessment and feasibility of constructing the Network itself and reaching consensus on pan-European level at medium term. CONSENSUS is a pan-European initiative to exchange practices, experiences and tools in the area of driving ability assessment of people with motor and light cognitive disabilities. Based on the identification of the pros and cons of each national or even local system, effort will be devoted to identify the feasibility and basic concept of a concise pan-European People with Special Needs (PSN) classification in relation to the driving task, on common sets of criteria for the relevant driving ability assessment, systems to apply these criteria and tools to measure them. The feasibility study will review the possible role of telematic tools within the common assessment framework, will greatly disseminate the agreed evaluation framework (by a pan-European workshop and IST-based communication media) and will identify areas (i.e. methodological gaps) that require further scientific research. To achieve this goal the feasibility study brings together 11 Partners (Authorities, Rehabilitation Centres, manufacturers) from 10 European Countries.

Objectives:
- To develop a Thematic Network on driving ability assessment of PSN, covering EU and Associated States, and make efficient use of IST technologies as a basis for network communications and concepts diffusion.
- To review in a concise way the relevant functional classifications, assessment practices and tools followed currently in 10 European countries and beyond.
- To develop specifications for telematic aids (such as shared databases, expert knowledge and/or pre-selection decision tools, driving simulators, virtual environments, etc) for their use within new optimised assessment practices.
- To propose a framework towards reaching consensus on common PSN functional classification schemes, assessment methods and tools, taking into account also the specified above IST aids and tools.
- To achieve consensus upon the proposed assessment framework and related findings not only between Network Members, but also within the relevant PSN society, their relatives, carers as well as rehabilitation aids and car manufacturers.

Work description:
The work starts with the formulation of the Thematic Network and its necessary support mechanism, which initially includes 11 Members (project participants) and will be open to new participations, encompassing many actors from different user group categories and European countries. A Group WWW and FTP site will be established and a variety of telematic tools will be employed to provide quick (real-time), reliable and cost-efficient communication between the Network members. Furthermore, a variety of telematic tools (such as databases, expert decision tools, rapid selection tools, driving simulators, virtual environment simulations, etc.) will be proposed for supporting the PSN driving assessment activities and their relevant requirements will be fully specified.

In parallel, a systematic review of existing PSN classification schemes, assessment procedures and tools regarding driving ability will be performed in all participating countries and beyond. Commonalities and gaps between the various national schemes will be recognised and a common methodology on achieving consensus on them will be formulated, making also use of the above specified telematic tools.

Network efficiency will be monitored and evaluated through 3 project meetings, an internal quality control review procedure of project deliverables and finally a pan-European workshop in Brussels, where project preliminary results will be presented, thus diffusing the relevant knowledge, stimulating debate and promoting the Networks expansion.

An effective project dissemination scheme is planned, through the use of dissemination means such as poster, pamphlets and electronic Newsletters, which will also try to get PSN user feedback on the proposed concept and gather particular users' experiences on the subject. Network viability will be also assessed, taking into account the added value that telematic tools may bring to network developed and diffused tools and services.

Finally, an efficient and economic project management and secretarial support scheme is proposed. Relevant resources minimisation and impact maximisation is mainly achieved by the extensive use of telematic tools for project management and communication.

Milestones:
- An IST Thematic Network on driving assessment of PSN, specification of appropriate knowledge management tools for it and viability scheme for its future extension.
- Compendium of PSN classification schemes, assessment methods and relevant criteria and tools in 10 European countries.
- Recognition of differences and gaps and action towards establishing consensus.
- Pan-European workshop on the issue.

Game-based learning has been adopted widely for children's learning. Only recently has it been discussed for learning of adults. This field should be opened to European Universities for student learning but also for continuous education concepts. Game-based learning can achieve high learning results in areas where interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary and where skills such as critical thinking, problem solving in a group and social interaction are of importance.

The games to be adapted, used, and trailed within UNIGAME will focus on their educational, rather than recreational, value. The game selection will focus on social game forms, which are based on current theories of collaborative and community learning. It will be based on research on game-based learning, but also on best practice of using games in group learning. The game forms will mostly be communication oriented, taking also into account user behaviour in mobile technologies and chat environments.

The key-achievements will be:
-best practice examples of game-based learning in higher education and life-long learning (evaluation of concepts and/or products available).
-trials testing the chosen games.
-research results on learning effectiveness and learner acceptance of the game-based learning approach within the different user groups.
-evaluation results on the organisational and implementation issues involved.

Duration: 24 months