Greater labour mobility is of significant value the European community and both the economy and the individual workers can benefit from it. However, older workers are still displaying a lower level of mobility than their younger counterparts.
CaMEO aimed to re-define mobility by linking 3 distinct areas:
- Geographical mobility is defined as the movement of labour from one place to another.
- Job mobility is mobility within the same employer (e.g. career advancement); occupational mobility; and job mobility proper (change of employer).
- Virtual mobility is access to virtual tools that can support geographic and job mobility, such as e-learning tools, collaborative working tools, tools supporting remote working, etc.
In order to develop a new strategy for mobility that was inclusive of ICT older workers, the aims and objectives of the project were:
- Improve the knowledge base for policy makers of attitudes to the mobility of older ICT workers among employers in the Public, Private and SME sectors.
- Develop an e-Academy for older workers to improve engagement with ICT and benchmark and validate skills and experience against the EQF.
- Create a pan-European Strategic Advisory Group to ensure effective dissemination and valorisation of project results.
