Education, Learning and Skills for Active Ageing: an Italian Research on Good Practices

The literature review examined the main studies on the topic of active age-ing in relation to the construction of educational care to contrast the fra-gility of the older person and the individual transition to a new phase of their life. Starting from this consideration, the transversal scientific com-mittee Learning, Education and Active Aging, set up within the Age-It Pro-gramme, is conducting national research aimed to collecting Good Prac-tices for understand the processes linking learning, education and work in active ageing, in order to build a map of them at national level. The mixed research design has seen the active involvement of the Programme’s stakeholders, in particular medium and large sized companies and social enterprises, both public and private. The analysis of the quantitative data identified several categories capable of guiding the selection of the Good Practices considered most representative, in terms of population, actions and socio-educational impact. Consequently, in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the intentions and the level of planning underlying the educational action proposed on the territory. The results provided a clear vision of the presence and diffusion, on the territory, of educational and learning processes aimed at the wellbeing of the population in transi-tion and at the development of those life skills capable of supporting entry and remaining in the old age phase.