NETWORKS

SHAFE Foundation –Smart, Healthy Age-Friendly Environments
A new concept was created since 2017, based on the desire to implement Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) across Europe, fostering happier and healthier people in all communities. This idea took shape and became a solid movement.
SHAFE began as a Thematic Network, approved by the European Commission, to draw policy makers, organisations and citizens’ attention to the need of better alignment between health, social care, built environments and ICT, both in policy and funding and delivered a and a in December 2018 to the European Commission and Member States.

After this, SHAFE evolved to a European Stakeholders Network, with over 170 partner organisations, and more recently to a Foundation, with Carina Dantas and Willeke van Staalduinen as Directors. It is working to achieve better COOPERATION and IMPLEMENTATION, as an opportunity for the digital revolution to be well thought and implemented, if all the adequate challenges are well considered and tackled.

SHAFE Foundation website

EURAHL | EU Coalition for Active and Healthy Living
SHINE 2Europe is one of the founding members of the EURAHL | European Coalition for Active and Healthy Living, which aims to strengthen connections, promote synergies and bring together the voices of European Networks working in the field of Active and Healthy Living.
To do that, it gathers a group of associations representing stakeholders active in the broader European Active and Healthy Living (AHL) arena, which include SHINE and AFEdemy, as promotors of the SHAFE Foundation (Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments) and Coordinators of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly.

The main goals of the Coalition are:

Bringing together all the relevant networks and associations with an interest in active and healthy living to influence and inform the development of AHL policies and actions at European, national, and regional levels.
Developing stakeholders’ understanding of active and healthy living and the role played by the different EURAHL partner associations.
Promoting the concept of active and healthy living and collaborative initiatives among the networks and associations engaged in the Coalition.
Developing synergies and collaborations across networks and associations to ensure greater harmonisation of AHL activities and initiatives.
Signposting and access to the resources and expertise of the Partner networks.

These goals are completely aligned with the concept behind NET4Age-Friendly and the SHAFE Foundation. Integrating EURAHL, we will advocate for solutions and environments that include, adapt, grow, and respond to the personal needs of people of any age or condition.

Large Scale Skills Partnership for the Industrial Cultural and Creative Regional Ecosystems
SHINE2Europe is Member of the Steering Committee of the Large scale skills partnership for the Industrial Cultural and Creative Regional Ecosystems.

“All the organisations that support the Creative Pact for Skills Manifesto recognise the importance of thriving talents and skilled workers in the European Cultural and Creative Industries ecosystem and all its sectors. Therefore, they decide to establish a large-scale partnership to promote and facilitate the re-skilling and up-skilling of the creative workforce, to support the aims of this manifesto, to mutualise and pool resources, and to engage in the concrete initiatives and actions it promotes”.

To support the manifesto and join the partnership, organisations are kindly asked to fill in the online form available here: Endorsement of C-P4S Manifesto

The online version of the Pact for Skills -C-P4S Manifesto can be viewed under: https://bit.ly/C-P4S_Manifesto

European Covenant on Demographic Change
The Covenant aims to gather all local, regional and national authorities, and other stakeholders, that commit to cooperate and implement evidence-based solutions to support active and healthy ageing as a comprehensive answer to Europe’s demographic challenge.

Carina Dantas is the Vice-President since 2016. It supports local and regional authorities, and other stakeholders, in developing environments for active and healthy ageing that:

improve healthy life year expectancy (HLY);
enhance opportunities for independent living of older people and;
support a society for all ages.

To reach these objectives, the Covenant is open to all interested parties (i.e. local, regional and national authorities, as well as civil society organisations, industries, research centres and universities) that voluntarily commit to making age-friendly environments a reality in their communities and to share their experience with other Covenant members.

Full members of the Covenant commit to develop an action plan on age-friendly environments, i.e. one or several of the eight domains of the WHO age-friendly environments approach: housing, transport, community services and health services, outdoor spaces and buildings, social participation, respect and social inclusion, civic participation and employment, communication and information. Such plan has to set priorities to help the public authority become (more) age-friendly, with the help of Ordinary and Associate members.

The Covenant is aligned with existing initiatives such as the World Health Organisation Global Network on Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC), the WHO-European Healthy Cities Network, the Dublin Declaration on age-friendly cities and communities in Europe and the EIP-AHA (European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing), in order to work in a coordinated approach. The Covenant is established as an international non-for-profit association under the Belgian Law.