<< Objectives >>PLAY aims to develop an educational methodology for Senior Population, using Digital Storytelling as a tool to tackle intercultural learning, diversity and European Identity, and promoting their social inclusion. It will also approach European Cultural Heritage, by making use of topics such as Cultural/historical Sites, Gastronomy, Traditions, among others. It will include an intergenerational learning element by engaging volunteers from younger generations to support the digital component.<< Implementation >>PLAY includes the following main activities:- Project Management and Transnational Cooperation, including 2 transnational meetings- Co-designing PLAY Educational Program- Implementing PLAY at local and transnational level with 36 seniors- 12 PLAY ‘Cinema’ sessions + Learning Moment for 96 seniors- 3 PLAY workshops for 24 Adult Educators<< Results >>By the end of the project we will have the following results:- Video Guidelines for Adult Educators to apply PLAY Educational Program- Digital Booklet Guidelines for Adult Educators to apply PLAY Educational Program- Online Mapping with Digital Stories created by senior participants

"The European Commission proposed six new priority areas for Education and Training 2020, and our project belongs to three of them: Inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination, civic competences; Open and innovative education and training, including by fully embracing the digital era; Strong support for educators. PROJECT OBJECTIVES were To promote social inclusion and seniors’ motivation through innovative integrated approaches like intergenerational learning on a local, regional and international level. To increase the level of seniors’ digital competence promoting innovative methods of digital skills teaching, developing and disseminating learning materials and tools transferable also in other European countries. To use and foster the energy, skills, patience, availability of young digital native volunteers in order to teach adult learners in a most powerful and effective way - including major learning in minimal time frames. To foster professional development of educators especially in dealing with senior learners with socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The TARGET GROUPS were: adult learners/seniors, adult educators and young people who are ready to be involved on voluntary basis in seniors’ education. There have been 48 international mobilities organized in 2 Joint staff training events and 2 Blended mobilities of senior learners. LOCAL ACTIVITIES: 1. Digital skills courses for seniors leaded by young volunteers and supported by professional adults’ educators. Each learner had been assigned their own individual Tutor to work with them at their pace. Each partner organized more than initially planned 4 intergenerational digital skills learning sessions. 2. The analyse of of the existing situation in every country, preparation of the information for the partners. Dissemination of the information in local society. 3. Regular cooperation actitivities with local stakeholders. 4. The collection of information about people, institutions which can help senior learners in difficult situations in every country. 5. Short movies showing the intergenerational work in different ways 6. Local seminars/workshops for adults/seniors educators and local stakeholders. 7. Joint workshops for adults and young people focusing on the use of digital tools. 8. Local infosessions to disseminate project results and to involve relevant stakeholders, web documentary. 9. Creating of a common database, with the associated partners in all countries, as a way of promoting future contacts on European level. 10. Project dissemination materials creation and distribution during the project and after. METHODS: Analyze of existing gaps and needs, Intergenerational learning courses; Local and international seminars; Combination short periods of physical mobility with virtual mobility and use the information and communication technologies such as collaborative workspaces, Skype video conferences, social media, etc. to complement the learning outcomes of physical mobility. Exchange of best practice experience, testing of the most successful models in partner countries; Seniors’ education advertisement and preparatory activities for the potential tutors in each partner country. TANGIBLE RESULTS- The ""Senior & IT"" study- Digital skills training documentation- Project Journal- a set of web documents on all partner websites;- A common database of Associate Partners in all countries to facilitate further contact building and the search for new adult education innovations at European level.- Materials on the Internet (EPALE, FB, partner websites, project inventory at www.dropbox.com and Google Drive) For all partners' organizations this was a new international cooperation experience in a mixed network of schools, training institutions, public bodies, NGOs. They ave now more attractive offers for adults, improved the cooperation with local stakeholders, have new volunteers. There are now more opportunities to make the learning/training more attractive, creating closer connections between the society and educational establishment that has a large and long-term positive effect; improvement of quality of educational activities, inclusion of innovative and advanced methodical procedures; better cooperation between colleagues inside the institution and between schools and adults’ education organizations; raising reputation and attractiveness of our institutions by providing additional learning/training input and international cooperation. Sharing project results not only internally but also with external stakeholders on the local/national and international level enabled others to benefit from the activities and experiences of the Erasmus+ programme and inspired them by showing what is possible to achieve under the programme. The dissemination and exploitation of project results within these target audiences highlighted the European added value of the project activ"

The project reacts on present social and demographic trends, which cause new needs in the field of education of various social groups. On one hand there is the problem of rapidly ageing population in the whole Europe combined with a considerable change in relations within families. Family members are living further apart from each other and are losing their natural intergenerational composition. At the same time, the recent aggressive development of information and communication technologies (including the use of internet) very substantially contributes to the deepening of the intergenerational gap.Even though there are many policies, action plans etc. focusing on the issue of the intergeneration cooperation support, the main bearers of these activities (i.e. NGOs and volunteers) have at present no comprehensive and systematic methodology how to carry out such support. During the last years, there were implemented many projects in the field of the intergenerational cooperation support, however, they were limited from the territorial, content/activity or time point of view (often combined). The current intergenerational social and communication gap is a problem of the whole Europe, and therefore has to be solved on an international level.The main project objective is, therefore, to develop a new educational programme in the field of intergenerational cooperation support that will provide the target group (volunteers) with a complex methodology how to efficiently provide their services.The project will provide the volunteers across Europe with a systematic approach modern tools (Activity register) do start and develop their activities in the field of intergenerational cooperation support with various social/age group (pre-school children + seniors, school children/youth + seniors, adults in productive age + seniors, adults over 55 + seniors or little children etc.)The project will be implemented by a consortium composed of 5 entities from 5 different countries. All the members of the partnership are either NGOs or educational institutions. All of them are at present active in the field of intergenerational cooperation support. A lot of the partners have already implemented projects (national/international) focusing on the field of intergenerational cooperation support.There will be supported approximately 372 participants, from which there are:- volunteers (TtT activities, pilot testing) – ca 120 persons - secondary target group (people using services of institutions, e.g. senior houses, kindergartens, primary schools, other educational institutions, community houses etc.) – ca 90 persons- other stakeholders (dissemination activities) – 162 personsThe project implementation will consist of the following activities:1) Analysis of the state of the art 2) Development of a new educational programme (incl. the Activity register which will be accessible online on the newly established online portal)3) Train the trainers (TtT) activities4) Pilot testing and evaluation of the developed programme 5) Multiplier events and dissemination6) Project managementThere will be 2 main results created within the project, namely:1) a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art in all the 5 partner countries2) a new educational programme in the field of intergenerational cooperation support using, among others, modern ICTs as tools as methodology aidsThe long-term project’s impact:The new methodology will continue to be spread across the partner countries of the project (to new volunteers and organisations). At the same time, there will take place several trainings in the other European countries which will enable to extend the methodology also to these regions. The level of intergenerational cooperation will increase not only in partner countries, but also in other European countries, where the methodology will be spread.

2018 was the European Year of Cultural Heritage. We believe that the international sharing of cultural knowledge is a constant priority and shouldn’t be interrupted at the end of the year. Cultural activities are precious tools to reunite people and instigate an educational dialogue between generations.PROJECT OBJECTIVES: To improve the accessibility of learning opportunities for adults, to enable people to become closer to and more involved with their cultural heritage, which is both, unique and diverse.To promote social inclusion and seniors’ motivation through innovative integrated approaches like intergenerational learning on a local and international level.To foster the professional development of educators focusing on improved in-service training as well as on new forms of adult learning and providing adult education, and better exploitation of the ICT potential.To increase education of volunteers in this field. The TARGET GROUPS are: decision makers, adult learners/seniors, adult educators and young people who are ready to be involved in intergenerational learning, the local stakeholderThere are 80 international mobilities foreseen in 3 Joint staff training events and 2 Blended mobilities. LOCAL ACTIVITIES:Sharing of experience and best practices among representatives of national, regional and local administrations and other organisations, in addition to the dissemination of information.The analyze of the existing experience in every country. Before every international learning teaching activity: analyze, summarizing and selection of the information about the cultural heritage concerning chosen topics in other partners’ regions, creating and using the learning materials about these topics. (Before the JTE in the Czech Republic all partners will work with craftsmanship topic and digitalisation of the cultural heritage materials of their countries/regions, before the BM in Austria- learn about the agricultural heritage, before the BM Poland- about the Nature heritage, before the JTE in France- about the Culinary heritage). Preparation and implementation of local exhibitions, presentations, workshops about these topics for their demonstration during the relevant following international LTAs. Regular cooperation activities with local stakeholders, consultations, discussions about the challenges and advantages of intergenerational learning and its role in social inclusion.Local seminars/workshops for adults/seniors educators and local stakeholders. These seminars/workshops will focus on role and opportunities of the cultural heritage as a space for learning, inclusion and job creation.Project dissemination materials creation and distribution during the project and after.METHODS: Analyze of existing gaps and needs. Intergenerational learning courses. Local and international seminars. Combination short periods of physical mobility with virtual mobility and use the information and communication technologies such as collaborative workspaces, Skype video conferences, social media, etc. to complement the learning outcomes of physical mobility. Exchange of best practice experience, testing of the most successful models in partner countries. Seniors’ education advertisement. Voluntaries' involvement.TANGIBLE RESULTS:Project Journals,E- exhibitions,Materials of the intergenerational cultural heritage educational workshops on the local and international level, Handbook for intergenerational meeting/learning planning, Web-documentary. The desired IMPACT of the project is a contribution through the project approach to promote and build and further develop intergenerational cooperation and social inclusion through educational activities on local, regional, national and European level. All partners will have new more attractive offers for adults, improve the cooperation with local stakeholders, have new volunteers.There will be more opportunities to make the learning/training more attractive, creating closer connections between the society and educational establishment that will have large and long-term positive effect; improvement of quality of educational activities, inclusion of innovative and advanced methodical procedures; better cooperation between colleagues inside the institution and between public authorities and adults’ education organizations; raising reputation and attractiveness of our institutions by providing additional learning/training input and international cooperation. Sharing project results not only internally but also with external stakeholders we will enable others to benefit from the activities and experiences of the Erasmus+ programme and inspire them by showing what is possible to achieve under the programme. The dissemination and exploitation of project results within these target audiences will highlight the European added value of the project activities.

"""The project intends to affirm the role of young people in enhancing the European memory, to rediscover the values of democracy, coexistence, social justice, as founding values of the European Union.""THE REMOVAL OF MEMORY: A GREAT RISK FOR EUROPEIn the last two centuries, Europe has experienced epochal historical events: two world wars; the extermination of Jews and other ethnic and cultural minorities; the affirmation of Europe itself as the world's only political entity; the iron curtain; the end of communism; the political revolutions of the 70s; the feminist movement; the struggles for work and welfare; the struggles for democracy; internal migrations and mass migrations to other non-European countries; etc…All this, although it is part of the recent history of Europe, is often relegated outside the public discourse, and also outside our conscience as inhabitants of Europe.The oblivion of the memory of European history and the removal of the memories of the individual stories that constitute it, unfortunately also leads to a forgetting in the founding values of Europe.This weakening of European values, together with the economic, environmental and employment crisis, has contributed greatly to the distrust of young people in politics and in active participation in European society. THE YoMEM PROJECTThe project “Young Messengers of European Memory – YoMEM”, wants to affirm a vision of memory not as a mere nostalgic memory of a past, but as a tool aimed to enhance awareness of who we are, as individuals and as a community, in order to recover the sense of a better and possible future; YoMEM project wants, as well, support the important role that young people can play in this profound cultural action.To this end, the project will create tools and methodologies aimed at developing a greater awareness of young Europeans of different ages and social backgrounds, about European Identity and values. The aim of these tools and educational activities is to make young people become ""messengers"" of the positive values on which Europe was founded: democracy, intercultural dialogue, social justice.OUR TARGETThe YoMEM project is aimed at a target consisting of:-Youth workers, with particular attention to operators working with young people in informal contexts; at the same time the methodologies and tools are also useful for school teachers, as well as in general for organizations that deal with educational activities for young people.-Young people, both as an indirect and direct target, thanks to the piloting activities that will be carried out by the project.- Youth education organizations, and decision makers.OUTPUTS AND ACTIVITIESThe project will create the following outputs: IO1 – YoMEM Workshops - Focused on the narration and sharing of personal experiences related to the theme of Europe. IO2 – YoMEM - Cooperative Storytelling Activities by DistanceAs anticipated, these activities will allow young people from different European countries to cooperate together by distance, creating narratives that relate to the different themes of the project.IO3 - YoMEM Tutorials, which will see the creation of tutorials about the narration methodologies, in video format intended for direct use by young people .IO4 - YoMEM App, an app to facilitate the narration of young people in Europe, with a particular focus on the theme of European identity. The APP will be based on the methods and the educational activities defined in IO1 and IO2.IO5 – YoMEM Blended Training Module. Purpose of the course is to train youth workers, as ""multipliers"" on autobiographical and storytelling methodologies.IO6 – YoMEM Massive Open Online Course – This output will provide the contentsof O4 and the methods of IO5 as Massive Open Online Course.The activities foreseen by the project are:-4 transnational coordination meetings;-local and transnational activities for the realization of intellectual outputs;-creation of a joint staff training event, for the staff of partner organizations, dedicated to the development of intellectual outputs;-realization of a blended mobility of young people;-implementation of local piloting activities, aimed at testing the methodologies created by the project;-realization of multiplier events.IMPACT The project will give an important contribution at national and European level regarding:-to affirm the role of young people in enhancing the European memory, to rediscover the values of democracy, coexistence, social justice, as founding values of the European Union.-To promote a culture of memory as a key to understand our present and plan our future.-To promote the active engagement of young people for the social fabric by memory, thanks to the project tools, and to the network “Young Messengers of European Memory”.The project will achieve this impact at the level of youth workers, of young people, as well as at the level of youth education organizations and decison makers."