• Provide evidence of the effects of hearing impairment in adults and in the elderly;
• Increase the awareness among administrators, policy makers, health care professionals and the public opinion about early detection and intervention for hearing impairment in adults in the elderly;
• Analyse costs associated with the implementation of integrated large scale, or nationwide, programmes of hearing screening and intervention in the elderly;
• Provide minimum requirements for screening methods and the related diagnostic techniques;
• Develop recommendations and guidelines on how to implement successful screening programmes using the variety of available methods, and began setting new criteria for recently proposed new technologies;
• Analyse protocols and models to be tuned to the local, social, and economical conditions of a country or region.

Project workplan, overall strategy and working group activities will be presented. A big benefit of the implementation of the this project is that it will contribute significantly to the implementation of health protocols, programmes and models for a variety of health care systems to be tuned to the local, social, and economical status of a country in the EU area. This project will also contribute to homogenise the quality of screening program and the standards of care in the EU. Within a time range of about 3 years from now, European Citizens may profit of a full set of provisions and likely also the quality background services to cope with this impairment.