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Digital Generations

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2021-1-SI01-KA220-ADU-000035182
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Cooperation partnerships in adult education Funder Contribution: 209,860 EUR

Digital Generations

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<< Background >>Our elder citizens have faced in the last year one of the hardest situations they could face. Many of them were isolated at home, but with no tools to engage with the outer world. While younger generations faced the restrictions with creativity. They created videos, songs, danced… and they shared it with their peers, their friends and families. Elder citizens do not have that opportunity. They do not have the skills to create and interact with others online. According to Eurostat - Community survey on ICT usage in Households there´s an essential need for digital education and training especially in our partner countries as most of them have a lower capacity than the European average. The priority of the partners is to establish a quality life of eldery and improve their lives in the home environment. The age structure of the population has been changing and society is becoming long-lived. Life expectancy has been increasing and the share of over 65-year-olds has been growing rapidly. This fact requires existing systems and arrangements to be adapted to leverage the capabilities of the altered age structure. Partners' goal is to create possibilities and opportunities for quality living for all generations, and for dignified ageing. We can already see that adjustments in many areas are required. Also, in the field of participation in society, focusing on intergenerational cooperation, volunteering, use of ICT in communication, etc. Some partners provide trainings for seniors and aim at raising awareness among them about the importance of ICT solutions for their social inclusion and for cognitive training. They are all involved in intergenerational activities bringing together disadvantaged groups, such as seniors, migrants and younger people with few opportunities, to promote social cohesion and solidarity. Digital generation project is perfectly in line with their needs and objectives and will bring an added value to partner's activities on national level and inspirations.<< Objectives >>This project was born as an opportunity to empower our elder citizens by training them to acquire the skills to be creative on the web and to interact with their peers. But we do believe that the best ones to do so are the younger generations. They use online creativity as a way of communicating. Spending an hour on Tiktok any adult can realize the creative potential and ability of the younger generations.This project will therefore generate the tools needed for young people to be able to train the elderly population on how they can be creative, express themselves, share their knowledge and interact with their peers in an online environment.Objectives: -To research the situation of isolation of elder citizens in the partner countries and collect examples of good practices of creative and digital activities.-To research and collect on intergenerational good practices in the partner countries.-To research and collect the digital tools that can be used for creative expression.-To create a training and mentoring methodology that is based in intergenerational training to support the creative process of elder citizens in the digital context.-To promote the social inclusion and good mental health of elder citizens.-To disseminate the project results beyond the partnership.-To create new synergies between adult education organisations and youth work organisations to promote intergenerational learning.-To promote the use of creativity amongst the elderly.-To promote active ageing.-To give guidelines for other municipalities and key organisations to implement such a programme at their local, regional or national level.<< Implementation >>WP0 - Management and coordination-A0: Management activities-A5: Activity and financial reports-A8: Management meetingsWP1 - Quality and Evaluation-A3: Quality Plan-A6 & A7: Quality reportsWP2 - Dissemination and Exploitation-A1: Dissemination plan-A2: Dissemination materials-A4: Dissemination reports-A9: Dissemination activitiesWP3 - State of the art research & good practices collection (R1)WP4 - Digital tools handbook (R2)WP5 - Training and mentoring methodologies (R3 & R4) and Guidelines for other municipalities and interested organizations across Europe.(R5) The pilotings, training activities and Multiplier events will enable us firstly to check the quality and adequacy of the materials. To upskill participants for them to share good practices, to enable intergenerational contact, training and interaction to happen. C1 short term training “Training methodology” The objective of this short-term joint staff training is to train the young people that will implement the training methodology on its use. A subsequent objective is that the young people participating in the event and have acquired the skills from the training, will be able to multiply the training methodology and boost the sustainability of the project.C2 short term training “Mentoring methodology”: This activity will include 3 participants per partner organisation. The participants of this training will be 2 young adults (18-30) who will implement the piloting phase and a person responsible from each organisation of creating the R4. The objective of this short-term joint staff training is to train the young people that will implement the training methodology on its use. A subsequent objective is that the young people participating in the event and have acquired the skills from the training, will be able to multiply the mentoring methodology and boost the sustainability of the project.<< Results >>• A Good Practices (R1), collecting the good practices carried out by and outside the partnership.• A handbook with video tutorials (R2) with a) the competences needed to be creative online; and b) the tools that can be used to achieve this aim, along with the guide on how to use them.• A guidebook with the training methodology developed that can be followed by young people to teach the elders how to use that tool (R3). This guidebook will be piloted in all countries, that will select at least 2 young people and 2 people over the age of 65 to test the guidebook.• A guidebook with the mentoring methodology on how to accompany an elder person to create artistic digital products and how to share them online (R4). This result will be piloted as well.• Guideline for other municipalities and interested organizations across Europe. (R5)

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