"<< Background >>The aim of this partnership is to tackle the issue of adult training and more particularly that of seniors.The project partners wish to continue the work of inclusion and diversity in adult education and improvement of the training of seniors.To help seniors overcome the obstacles encountered in accessing opportunities and fighting the potential source of discrimination based on age.There is a lot of evidence that 50+ seniors who keep on working stay socially active and healthy. Also, seniors have plenty of experience, know-how and can contribute to the success of their employers. Other research referring to the evaluation of the roles of entrepreneurship suggests that seniors' self-employment builds their self-esteem and motivates them to take on new tasks and perform well at these tasks.The EU's population is aging rapidly. As a result, the number of workers leaving the labor market over the next few years will be significantly higher than the number of new workers. In many industries, securing the supply of skilled labor will therefore be a major challenge for companies. Studies and surveys have shown that those 65 and over or ""retirees"" are ready to work or consult part time, which could clearly fill the ""gap"" in the supply of skilled labor.In summary, there are many advantages to training seniors while facilitating entrepreneurship. Successful local concrete experiences should be used to reflect on the appropriate implementation tools implemented in EU countries. In this type of project, because the implementation must be immediate, locally applicable and scalable throughout Europe, the consortium will provide innovative but concrete actions, and will rely on their development to fuel intellectual productions.In addition, when it is time for the affected population to return to work, the unemployment rate could be so high that it will be difficult for older people to return to their previous jobs, thus promoting the (re) employment of older people and independent work for seniors is very important.Finally, we are currently learning, in a period of economic / social / political crisis such as that created by the rapid spread of Covid-19, that our dependence on classic macroeconomic rules where employment is the variable of economic health must be reassessed. , the values ​​of autonomy and entrepreneurship must also be revalued and encouraged.The proposed model for promoting the entrepreneurship of senior citizens of the SENEXIA project will be tested in 6 EU Member States. This cooperation strengthens the respective capacities of the consortium partners and allows the production of high quality deliverables with a potential for transferability to other countries.The Erasmus + 2021 plan on adult education and training supports actions that address digital transformation, through the development of digital readiness, resilience and capacities. SENEXIA aims to strengthen and improve digital skills for senior entrepreneurship and the use of European digital skills frameworks to support educators, citizens and organizations.<< Objectives >>Addressing this age discrimination by developing educational and innovative solutions to promote “access to training” for senior employment and entrepreneurship.To achieve this goal, the SENEXIA project offers four production results:- Training program for senior entrepreneurs to support the transformation from traditional entrepreneurship to digital entrepreneurship.- Developing interactive infographic to improve senior entrepreneurs digital skills- Empowerment and narratives: Case study -Storytelling - successful & inspirational narratives of senior workers, self-employed and senior workers' employees supported by their employers to become entrepreneurs.- Development of a Mooc platform to strengthen the digital skills of senior.<< Implementation >>The SENEXIA consortium propose a solution to improve the “access to training for seniors’ entrepreneurship to address the age discrimination by developing educational and innovative solutions. Partners will gather representatives of the relevant stakeholders in their local working groups to ensure that the opinions and perspectives of the target groups inform the development process. The consortium will implement the following activities PPR1: SENEXIA will present:- the mapping of existing barriers in access to training and learning requirements to foster seniors entrepreneurship.- a training program for senior entrepreneurs to support the transformation from traditional entrepreneurship to digital entrepreneurship.PPR2: SENEXIA will create:- interactive infographics to support seniors entrepreneurs in digital readiness and support in personal skills development to handle failure, success, and innovation- will create the content guidelines for the interactive Mooc online platform, to build key competences to support seniors in their needs in entrepreneurship and digital skills.PPR3 SENEXIA will present:An Empowerment and narratives: Case study -Storytelling - successful & inspirational narratives of senior workers, self-employed and senior workers' employees supported by their employers to become entrepreneurs.PPR4: SENEXIA will develop a Mooc platform to strengthen the digital skills of senior entrepreneurs and a learning platform to improve the training of seniors.The consortium will organize pilot workshops in each partner country during month15 and a seminar will be organized in the consortium during month16 and the final partners conference will be held to present all materials produced during the project.- Dissemination, quality management, impact assessment and risk management exercises will be undertaken by all partners at appropriate times during the whole project.<< Results >>The SENEXIA project will develop materials and tangible resources available to trainers.- Training program for senior entrepreneurs to support the transformation from traditional entrepreneurship to digital entrepreneurship.- Developing interactive infographic to improve senior entrepreneurs digital skills- Case study - Storytelling - successful & inspirational narratives of senior workers, self-employed and senior workers' employees supported by their employers to become entrepreneurs.- Development of a Mooc platform to strengthen the digital skills of senior.All results will be produced in all partner languages. All the resources developed will be available online and made available to all interested parties.Each partner will pilot the materials and training program with associated partners.Local networks will be formed in each country and these networks will be used as the main training environments for seniors.It is also estimated that 120 men and women in total (20 in each country) will attend the piloting events.By the end of the project, beneficiaries will have acquired the digital skills necessary to improve their entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity and all parties will have tools to fully access the digital world."