PR3_BestPractices_EN

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PR3- Digital CE tools for seniors - Best practices Report Summary

Conclusions and ideas to draw for SEN4CE project

National and Regional Best Practices

International Best Practices

Introduction

TABLE OF CONTENT

In the framework of the PR3, the SEN4CE project aims to design a course curriculum on digital Circular Economy platform and tools for seniors, closing gaps of existing approaches and creating synergies with other projects addressing the same target group. To achieve this goal, the project partners have conducted a needs analysis based on the existing good practices, i.e., applications and platforms on circular economy for seniors, applied at the regional, national and international levels. Based on the questionnaire analysis, conducted in each partner country at the previous step of the PR3 delivery, the SEN4CE partners compared their analysis results with the good practices identified at the regional, national and international level. The whole report is in the following link and the summary (https://sen4ce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PR3-Best-practices-Compilation.pdf) is presented here below.

Introduction

International Best Practices

International Best Practices

Other CE apps and platforms

Responsible consumption

Product lifespan

Responsible use of resources

Responsible use of resources

Product lifespan

Responsible consumption

Other CE apps and platforms

National and Regional Best Practices

Regional

National

Austria

Regional

National

France

Regional

National

Germany

Regional

National

Portugal

Regional

National

Spain

Conclusions and ideas to draw for SEN4CE project

Conclusions

The main topics covered by the identified best practices are CE awareness, recycling, re-use/second-hand, transport and carpooling. In addition, other topics covered by the practices is repairing among others.

Most of the regional practices are less recent that the national or international ones. In addition, it has been more difficult to find practices applied only at regional level that the national and international ones which are present in several places and also use to finally be applied/act with a regional approach.

These practices are not promoted specifically for seniors and according to the survey and the needs analysis done by SEN4CE in the framework of R3, most seniors don’t know these practices.

Although in some practices there are manuals or information on the website, it is not common. The use of these apps and platforms is more autodidactic.

Seniors must have a minimum basic digital skill to use these platforms or apps, such as use ICT devices (specifically smartphones), download apps from marketplaces, create accounts, and bank details and even use maps or geo-localisation.

Ideas to draw for SEN4CE

Moreover, it will be interesting, in addition to the training material that is being developed in the framework of the project, to use as support the more general applications/platforms available on the market to increase awareness on Circular Economy.

Seniors need to be made aware of these applications. But not only in the form of promotion. Make sure they have the basic digital skills to be able to implement the application correctly (download it, use it, pay with it, etc.). For this, some instructions/manuals will be key.

Among the platforms to teach them, it will be necessary to select those related to the themes they indicated in the needs analysis: awareness, reuse, etc

One of the main benefits of these regional and national apps/platforms are that they are available in the different national languages, and these will allow seniors to use them (as they don’t use to speak English).