1. City of Göteborg 500 000 inhabitants 16 upper secondary school units 1 400 teachers 14 000 students

2. Employed teachers 2007

3. Demographic facts - 2006 The share of teachers age 55 and above are 53 per cent. The share of teachers aged 60-64 are 26 per cent No significant differences between female and male teachers concerning age distribution

4. CONNECTION TO THE CODES AWARENESS/ COMPETENCE EXCHANGE/MENTORSHIP Awareness that older teachers possesses important competence. Effective mentorship/competence exchanges old/young teacher i.e - Introduction of new teachers - Collegial guidance - Yearplanning - Non-teaching work tasks i.e institutional work - Observation and support in classes - Teaching and didactical help - Planning and developing of lessons - Helping with exams

5. THE COMPETENCE TRANSFER PROJECT The political board responsible for the Upper secondary schools designed a two-year competence transfer project at a total cost of about Euro 600 000. Three schools were chosen. 35 per cent of the teachers in these three schools were older than 60 Two newly employed teachers where placed in each of these three different secondary schools 8 older teachers reduced their lessons with 25 per cent in every school and had instead other assignments. No reduction of working time for the older teachers