The overall mission of the PACE 2000 International Foundation is to promote new solutions linking young people and the elderly. Providing Intergenerational programs with regular interactions with the aims of transforming their lives and enriching the cultural heritage of each generation.

Furthermore, the objectives are:

To promote intergenerational communication and support, including frail seniors and youth with special needs using innovative communication tools.

To facilitate seniors’:

• Autonomy, by joining telemobility programs,
• Entrepreneurship, by using telementoring programs
• for the benefit of young and older generations

 

PACE 2000 has developed a modern secure videoconferencing application for face-to-face interations without the technology barriers typical of videoconferencing applications. We call it PACE-2-Face™

Using PACE-2-Face™, an accessible, user-friendly "four dimensional, 4D” interface, consisting of :

1. Audio
2. Video
3. Concomitant and symmetric document and applications sharing
4. Co-Edition of texts

and senoirs can use PACE-2-Face™ without the need of an attending third party.

An excellent and highly inclusive solution to empower older adults to engage in entrepreneurship and promote intergenerational collaboration.

The PACE-2-Face™ solution has been thoroughly tested and the application and associated managed partner-pairing program demonstrated great knowledge of the needs, wishes and aspirations of older adults and of youth of varying socio-economical backgrounds.

Since its creation, the PACE 2000 Foundation has therefore developed new urbanization and virtual community tools, in particular thanks to new communication technologies.