It has been well documented that Europe's population is ageing fast. One aspect of active ageing is the continued access of older people to political and civic processes. This contributes to ensuring that the voice of older persons is heard and that the needs of older persons are considered when policy matters are debated in local, national and EU contexts, while also helping to broaden the participation of elderly people in society. The Digital Agenda for Europe aims to promote independent and safe living for the elderly and to encourage involvement in society. The Silver Sidekicks project will form a response to these issues of digital exclusion for the older generations throughout Europe by exploiting the specialist knowledge and experience of the partner organisations. It will develop an innovative adult education Train the trainer multi-media resource toolkit which will train the Third Age (U3A) generation to become “Silver Sidekicks” who in turn will train the older people who are being labelled as the Fourth Age generation thus enabling their participation and inclusion in adult education and society.The toolkit will be a learning platform for managers and advisers (Silver Sidekicks) in the adult education training organisations enabling them to develop the skills and competencies to successfully deliver Digital technology and ICT training to the oldest in society. It will be accessible on line and in hard copy. It will be in English, Polish, Swedish, Italian and Spanish. Silver Sidekicks will identify the state of the art and best practices in partner countries and further afield, and bring the best of these together in a report in the partner languages. Other stakeholders and social partners will feed into the toolkit’s development. Partners have local, national and EU networks, ensuring wide take up of the toolkit beyond the partnership. The project has detailed dissemination and exploitation plans involving national and international associations.