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Health + Smart Technology + Age-friendly environments = SHAFE

The aim of SHAFE interventions is to facilitate healthy, independent living and social inclusion.

What is SHAFE?
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Learn about how SHAFE approaches can help you, your family, or your community

Hands-on SHAFE aims to deliver informal learning experiences and hands-on tools to implement SMART and HEALTHY BUILT environments

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Learning about SHAFE approaches could be the next step towards starting your own business

Courses are free for you to complete at your own pace

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SHAFE and BUSINESS learning experiences


Hands-on SHAFE is a project that aims to deliver informal learning experiences and hands-on tools to implement SMART and HEALTHY BUILT environments or to develop BUSINESS in this area.

All this is made available publicly and for free.

Persons supported by Hands-on SHAFE facilitators

In the scheme below, six characters are identified. They are based in the so-called personas used within other European research projects, such as Blueprint, PHArA-ON and GrowMeUp and adapted to Hands-on-SHAFE. Their main issues have been indicated and linked to the relevant learning modules and experience:

If you want to learn more about these personas you are invited to go to the MEET section.

Last News and Events

Hands-on SHAFE project presented to Valletta delegation

01/11/2023
Hands-on SHAFE project presented to Valletta delegation On the 20 th of October, the Irish Hands-on SHAFE project team members presented to visiting delegation (55 persons) as part of the ESF funded... Read more

Have you seen our new learning materials for those who support ageing-in-place?

19/12/2022
The Hands-on SHAFE consortium partners are delighted to announce the release of our online learning platform for informal and formal caregivers, volunteers, and other people who support or want to... Read more

Hands-on SHAFE project outcomes presentation: A highlight at the International Conference LEARNING AND IMPLEMENTING SOCIAL INNOVATION

01/12/2022
By Javier Ganzarain , AFEdemy With more than 150 international participants the Conference took place in Coimbra, Portugal, from the 8 th to the 9 th of November 2022. In this frame, the... Read more

Hands-on SHAFE presented at the SICAP Digital Awareness conference for Older People

30/10/2023
Louth and age-friendliness go hand-in-hand. On Friday 27th of October Paula Hannon, Fatima Badmos, Peterson Jean and Damon Barry from the Technological University Dublin presented to a packed room at... Read more

Hands-on SHAFE Newsletter #4

05/12/2022
Introduction Welcome to the fourth and final Newsletter of the Hands-on SHAFE Erasmus+ project. The project that started in 2019 already ends, and we are happy to inform you about the concrete... Read more

International Conference: Learning and Implementing Social Innovation

12/10/2022
By Javier Ganzarain , AFEdemy, Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe B. V. On November 8th and 9th, we will talk about Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments and Social Innovation in... Read more

Hands-on SHAFE is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Key Action 204 Adult Education programme.

The European Commission's support for this project and the production of this website does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.