WISE aims at fostering multidisciplinary synergies, so as to provide an integrated framework for interventions
that may promote transition from passive into active aging, both by activating the potential of seniors as well as
promoting healthy aging through voluntarism, education and dementia-prevention strategies, generating thus wider
benefits at both economic and social levels. More precisely, the hypothesis rests on the evidence-based assumption
that although cognitive decline increases with age, this process can be either prevented or delayed through
interventions contributing to the constitution of a cognitive reserve. The most innovative aspect, however, in the
WISE framework is related to its dual targeting, aiming at enabling seniors (retired teachers) to carry on their
occupational activities after retirement at a voluntary basis, whilst at the same time providing individuals over 65
years with the chance to combat the onset of dementia, as well as to get involved in creative and socialising
activities, multiplying thus the spill-over effect of the original interventionmade up of the initials of the main axes of focus (Wellbeing, Innovation, Seniors, Education), to add to the state of
the art in the field of LLL initiatives in the EU