Biomecánicamente - How to design age-friendly workplaces

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Thursday, 12 January 2017 12:39

How to design age-friendly workplaces

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Instituto de Biomecánica (IBV) is coordinating a project that will develop, implement and set the basis for a European dissemination of a new online course focused on the aged‐people centred design of workplaces.

How to design age-friendly workplaces course is aiming at provide tools, recommendations and design criteria with the aim of improving health, comfort and efficiency of aged workers through the ergonomic suitability of these. And give professionals the necessary knowledge to design or to propose improvements at workplaces, as well as to provide criteria to determine which requirements must be met new equipment or tools to be used by aged‐peolple.

Besides IBV is participating the Université Grenoble Alpes.

This initiative is funded by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). EIT is a body of the European Union supported by the European programe of Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020.