HANDS-ON SHAFEThe Hands-on SHAFE project takes on a multifaceted approach to social inclusion, within the context of the WHO concept of age-friendly environments. This is achieved by focusing on the successful implementation of age-friendly environments through a stronger alignment of the ICT-sector with the construction sector in order to meet the real needs and expectations of end-users and locations. This concept of aligning ICT, construction, People and Places, the so-called Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE), is fundamental to achieve active participation in society (social inclusion), health & wellbeing and independent living. Our project aims to deliver training packages for informal learning experiences and hands-on tools to improve the skills of people of all ages, and especially seeks to enable people with low-skills or low-qualifications to choose and implement smart healthy age-friendly environments in their own homes or neighbourhoods. In this way the project fosters and promotes social inclusion for people of all ages and genders, including people with cognitive or physical impairments or disabilities. The Hands-on SHAFE project also aims to enable people to become innovators and trailblazers in their neighbourhoods or to become entrepreneurs in the field of smart healthy age-friendly environments services and products. The project partners will elaborate four (online) training packages on smart healthy age-friendly environments and train the drafts and full developed packages with involved teachers and staff of the consortium. Further the training packages will be disseminated by multiplier events and active involvement of the great variety of associated partners, such as AGE Platform Europe, International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and public authorities Hamburg, Campania, The Hague and Warsaw.Expected results of Hands-on SHAFE are:1. Comprehensive study to bridge existing knowledge gaps between partners on smart healthy age-friendly environments topics and to prepare the training packages.2. Four interrelated training packages on ICT, housing and public spaces, health and wellbeing and starting a smart healthy age-friendly business.3. Online training courses of above mentioned training packages, manual for stakeholders and hands-on tools, such as chatboxes, self-assessment questionnaires and interactive design and feedback on a creation.4. Two short term training events to prepare the trainers to use all training packages in the future and to present these during the multiplier events to people with low-skills or low-qualifications.5. Twelve national multiplier events in six countries, dedicated to low-skilled or low-qualified adults and other interested persons.6. One international multiplier event in close relation with existing European network to further disseminate the results.The expected impacts of Hands-on SHAFE are: - Participants of the national multiplier events are enabled to learn and understand better how to use, install, detect, or handle with issues regarding ICT, housing and public spaces, health and wellbeing in their own living environments or for their family, friends or neighbourhood. Some of them may ask further questions and communicate with each other and the trainers in the dedicated chatboxes or by using telephones.- Participants of the national multiplier events are also enabled to set up their own smart healthy age-friendly business and how to be an entrepreneur.- Involved associated partners are able to guide their citizens or members to the training packages, hands-on tools and online courses. - Staff personnel from the involved partners have been trained to use all modules of the training packages, online training courses and hands-on tools.- Staff personnel from the involved partners have been trained to present and guide the training packages, online training courses and hands-on tools with low-skilled and low-qualified persons on the topics of SHAFE.With these expected impacts the Hands-on SHAFE consortium hopes to achieve that the project will lead to improved social inclusion and participation of low-skilled or low-qualified adults, their parents and children, other family members, friends and neighbours. To the sustainably involvement of volunteers and to higher social skills to support the estabilishment of social and accessible physical indoor and outdoor environments. Finally that Hands-on SHAFE will lead to an increased trust in society.The results of the project will disseminated by using a variety of dissemination means and using the large networks of coordinator and (associated) partners.When approved and finalised, the results of the project will remain available on the www.shafe.eu website for at least 10 years (till 2032).