ExpAct
When older people retire, valuable skills and expertise are lost to society and the labour market. For those affected, the step into retirement often proves difficult. The ExpAct project aims to develop a software framework with which to create and operate platforms that support older people by making it easy for them to offer first-hand professional and life experience, while participating in social and professional activities. This experience can be of great benefit to profit or non-profit organisations, associations, and private individuals. To facilitate successful matches and bring together those who offer experience with those who demand it, innovative matching algorithms and a sensitive taxonomy are being developed, enabling different kinds of experience to be entered and retrieved. To understand the needs of providers and beneficiaries of experience with regard to the system, users are integrated along the whole development process. This ensures a solution that is needs-based as well as oriented to its target-group and market.