ELCANET

Regarding specific objectives, the project brought together people from local authorities, encouraging interaction between citizens and developing thematic long lasting cooperation between towns and themes relevant for the target groups. It will also help to create new methods and strategies through the involvement of different service providers. The added value of this project has to be found in the opportunity for the participants to introduce locally the best available solutions coming from the discussion and the exchange of best practices developed inside the project activities. This chance to implement new policy models can be seen as the transfer of transnational knowledge in local working models which can provide long lasting effects in the municipalities’ actions. Another important feature of this project was the strong element of intergeneration solidarity which represents an important element for achieving the project’s objectives:

1. To improve the decision makers’ knowledge about the general and specific issues of the network;
2. To improve the policies responsibilities’ knowledge about the organization strategies and the best European practice;
3. To define and test concrete actions in support of old people living alone and/or families caring for their elderly;
4. To improve and strengthen the families’ information about the service provided locally;
5. To show information and examples of new models of business related to the support to the families and the elderly persons;
6. To strengthen the relations between private and public service providers;
7. To improve the knowledge of cost-effective solutions;
8. To improve the knowledge about NGOs and Volunteering as an added value for the society in terms of service for elders;
9. To create new study practices and new training programs;
10. To improve the interaction between service providers and training institutions;
11. To foster the knowledge and the dissemination about ICT- based solutions coming from partner countries;
12. To broadcast the best practice and experiences during the implementation of services.