SASSI LLC – Silver Age Silver Sage Initiative: Later-Life Careers
he SASSI LLC project aims to empower older adults (aged 50+) to actively shape their later-life careers by enhancing their personal and professional development opportunities. Against the backdrop of Europe’s ageing society, this Erasmus+ project promotes active ageing, lifelong learning, and inclusive labour market strategies that value the contributions of older generations.
Project Duration: 01.11.2020 – 31.10.2022
Funding Programme: Erasmus+ KA204 – Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education
Total Budget: €285,000
By fostering career guidance, self-reflection, and competence validation, SASSI LLC helps senior adults re-orient themselves professionally, engage in meaningful activities, and explore new work-related or civic roles. The project creates a supportive framework for adult education providers to work with this target group in a dignified, empowering, and flexible manner.
Project Activities
SASSI LLC builds on the belief that later-life transitions deserve structured support. It aims to:
Help older adults define and pursue later-life career pathways (whether paid, voluntary, or entrepreneurial).
Promote inclusion, personal empowerment, and mental well-being in later career development.
Support adult education providers in designing individualised guidance tools and competence-oriented training.
Use validation systems like LEVEL5 to assess personal growth, motivation, and employability competences.
Raise awareness among employers and policy-makers about the potential of older workers and active ageing.
Key Activities and Outputs
Development of the SASSI LLC Competence Framework for later-life career guidance.
Design of self-reflection and assessment tools to support older learners and their facilitators.
Piloting of career labs and individualised coaching sessions in partner countries.
Creation of a digital learning environment for adult education providers.
Development of a train-the-trainer module to equip educators with skills for working with the 50+ target group.
Dissemination of a policy recommendation paper to promote supportive conditions for senior careers.
