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About the project
Erasmus + K204 Strategic partnership for Adult Education – Exchange of good practices
“Intergenerational Bridge: Connect to Create”.
Duration of the project: 24 months
30 October 2020 – 29th October 2022
TARGET GROUP: elderly people (55+), young people (16-30 years old)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The surveys and the researches show that generation gap is a serious problem of the society in Europe. Furthemore, most of the education and training systems in Europe are still mainly organized around the possibilities for young people, so the existing educational systems still don’t reflect enough the elderly people’s and adults educators’ needs.
Intergenerational learning is one of the approach that could be effective to use in this context. It is systematic transfer and interactions of knowledge, skills, competencies, wisdom, norms and values between generations. Intergenerational learning programs are defined by the International Consortium and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as “social vehicles that create purposeful and ongoing exchanges of resources and learning among older and younger generations “. The theories of such pedagogists as Dewey, Vygotsky and Erikson support the intergenerational learning approach as a form of service based, experiential and community learning.
Intergenerational learning programmes create significant learning opportunities and a transformation in attitudes between generations.
In the frame of this project we are going to share best practices in Intergenerational learning approach, develop new ideas and implement them in local communities.
OBJECTIVES
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To share good practices on intergenerational learning among project partners through organisation of 2 international training/experience exchange meetings
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To collect the best practices in the field of intergenerational learning
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To develop the elderly people educators' competences through organisation of the Training for adult educators on Intergenerational learning
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To create new ideas of intergenerational learning activities and implement them in local communities
Results
- Transnational experience exchange and learning events will be organised to develop the competences of elderly people educators and share the experience in the sphere of intergenerational learning.
- Local workshops for adult and elderly educators on the specific of intergenerational learning will be organised to transfer the knowledge to local communities of the educators and enhance the opportunities for active involvement in social life of elderly people.
- A structured dialogue will be built between partners to create common understanding about the definitions of different concepts related to intergenerational learning and the specific of IGL
- The collection of best practices in the field of intergenerational learning (elderly and young people) will be created and published in the Digital manual of the best practicies
- New intergenerational learning activity ideas will be created and developed
