Year 2006

Project Type Pilot Project, project with multiplying effect (2000-2006)

Status completed

Country AT-Austria

Marketing Text mature@eu - Supporting Employers Recruiting and Selecting Mature Aged Persons is directly concerned with providing an integrated support package to Business Leaders, Equal Opportunities Representatives, HRM, Trade Union Officers and Workers' Representatives based on open source e-learning environment and a toolbox of collection of innovative training materials which enable them to introduce age-diverse recruitment policies and practices. The ICT sector serves as pilot sector for content development and testing.

mature@eu has been awarded with the "Keeping on [http://www.mature-project.eu/award.html Track Best Practice Project" Award], in June 2009.

Summary Age-diverse recruitment is a challenge, as many standard recruitment practices and selection criteria are age-related. mature@eu helps in implementing age-diversity in recruitment.

Description mature@eu responds to the low level of labour market participation of older employees in most of the European member states in general and to the existing structural barriers to be found in enterprises recruitment and selection policies in particular.
Core objective of mature@eu is therefore, to enable HRM/ personnel recruiters to introduce age neutral recruitment procedures. mature@eu focuses on the ICT sector with its significant youth oriented culture and image.
Specific aims of the mature@eu project are:
n To identify existing tools for personal marketing, job search strategies, recruiting and selection of elderly persons, to identify shortcomings of existing tools and to develop enhancements.
n To set-up a modular e-learning course, presented in eight languages.
n To field-test and optimize the “mature aged hiring” e-learning modules together with members of the target group.
n To disseminate and valorise the results into policy, training and practice.

The consortium consists of 8 operative and of 8 “silent” partners, coming from 10 countries (AT, BG, DE, GR, HU, NL, SI, UK, Switzerland)

Themes     Labor market
    Equal opportunities
    Continuous training

Sectors

Product Types website
open and distance learning
modules
others

Product information The main result of mature@eu is a modular e-learning course for HRM, who are in charge of recruiting and selecting staff. The e-learning course was tested in the ICT-sector and optimized according to test-results. The course enables HRM to introduce age-neutral recruiting strategies and –processes.
The modules are presented in eight languages: Bulgarian, German, Greek, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch and Slovenian.

Projecthomepage http://www.mature-project.eu/