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Conecta Mayores

Digital inclusion and protection against fraud

The digital divide isn't closed with more technology. It's closed with someone by your side.

We bring in-person workshops, human support and our own materials to older people. In your company's spaces or in your town's.

A programme by Fundación Gesmed, Gesmed and Imedes · partners in the European Mobile Money project (Erasmus+)

How it works

Three parts that work together.

Face-to-face workshops

A cycle of eight in-person workshops, in small groups, with educators from Fundación Gesmed. From the first WhatsApp to spotting a fraud.

A method built on European know-how

Our experience was forged as partners in the European Mobile Money project (Erasmus+), alongside organisations from five countries. We apply it with our own materials, made to measure for each business or town.

Measurement and seal

A before-and-after survey, an impact report with an SDG framework and the Fundación Gesmed seal: a third-party endorsement that isn't bought, but earned.

The problem, with sources

It isn't a problem of age.
It's a system designed without them in mind.

72.8 % of people over 60 live with low digital inclusion Fundación Ferrer i Guàrdia, 2025
12.7 % of people over 75 have ever shopped online INE, Encuesta TIC-Hogares
+2.2 M older people live alone in Spain INE, Encuesta Continua de Hogares
11,000 calls from older people to the 017 helpline about attempted cyber-scams in a single year INCIBE, Línea de Ayuda 017

The programme, in 33 seconds

These hands have done everything.

Video with subtitles. A piece introducing the pilot workshop.

“They kneaded, they farmed, they raised families. But no one taught them this. Until now.

The recognition

A seal that isn't bought.
It's earned.

“Older-People-Friendly Business” and “Older-People-Friendly Institution”: the endorsement of a specialist foundation, after delivering the programme and measuring its results.

  • It's awarded by Fundación Gesmed, never by the organisation itself.
  • It requires completing the workshop cycle and reaching verified results.
  • It's valid for a year: renewed by keeping the commitment.
  • It always travels with an impact report, not just an intention.

Friendly organisations

This space is waiting for a name.

The programme has just been born: this is where the first older-people-friendly businesses and institutions will appear, with their seal and their story. Yours?

The European backing

Partners in a European project.

Fundación Gesmed is a partner in Mobile Money (Erasmus+), the European project that has researched how to bring banking and digital shopping closer to older people, together with five other organisations from five countries. Its findings were presented in October 2025 at the headquarters of the Confederación Empresarial de la Comunitat Valenciana.

That shared learning is the basis of the Conecta Mayores method. The project has its own materials, which we don't sell: here we apply the knowledge gained, with the programme's own workshops and materials.

Project co-funded by the European Union (Erasmus+)

6partner organisations, Fundación Gesmed among them
5European countries researching together
2025findings presented at the CEV headquarters in València

The next step

Thirty minutes. No commitment.
With judgement.

Tell us where you're writing from and we'll prepare a proposal tailored to your organisation.