Bridging mobility gaps is not only an economic and technical issue. Mobility has an inestimable social asset. It is a requirement for social inclusion and participation in economic life. Providing easy access to mobility and door-to door connections facilitates social integration especially of elderly, of youngsters and of physically impaired people. At the same time, it is fundamental for enterprises and their employees to stay connected and to be easy to reach.
Under the theme of a mobilife skills, partners will develop, and implement a variety of measures which will improve the capacity to sustain a mobilife of different target groups. This will be reached by a large scope of exemplary measures reaching from travel training for elderly, cycling schools for foreigners, training mobility managers for enterprises
to realizing a skills improvement program and facility introducing service operator staff to ICT-based mobility management.
This work involves GMPTE (Greater Manchester, UK), University of Aberdeen, UK, TraffiQ (Frankfurt/M, DE), Genk, BE, NiO (Offenbach/DE), Pays de la Loire Region, FR, rundum mobil/Thun, CH, Pirmasens, DE, SPT (Strathclyde/ Glasgow, UK) and Dordrecht, NL.
The implementation of the Train the Trainer Programme is one of the key actions of ICMA| amobilife in order to facilitate the mobility competence of different target groups, especially senior citizens and children. The training module has been originally developed by the Swiss mobility agency rundum)mobil for the training of mobility attendants. But wiithin the ICMA| amobilife project the training module has been further developed and applied to different target groups in North West Europe.
In Offenbach for instance the training scheme has been applied for senior citizens. There seniors could apply as voluntary mobility trainers for other seniors. This "Seniors Train Seniors" programme had an enourmous positive feedback with 110 seniors trained in Offenbach and even raised interest beyond the cityborders and the ICMA amobilife project. Recently the local public transport organisation of the City of Uppsala (Sweden), Uppland Lokaltrafik decided to adapt the approach in their region.
Download the NiO Training Manual for Senior Mobility Trainers (German) or
In the jointly developed Transnational Competence Center the European partnership provides services and solutions covering the four mobilife themes.
