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60+ Virtual Culture

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-1-PL01-KA204-026593
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 46,825 EUR

60+ Virtual Culture

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60+VirtualCulture was an international initiative in which 4 partner organizations of similar background in informal education, including education of seniors, from Wroclaw, Poland (ŻÓŁTY PARASOL), Paris, France (ESENIORS) , Prague, Czech Republic (GLAFKA) and Reggio di Calabria, Italy (INOVAMENTIS) have worked together to improve and optimize educational offer for erderly conserning their digital competences within the context of culture accessibility. The process of optimization has been developed in two stages. First, each organization appointed one teaching tandem (young ICT educator and one experienced senior (50+) educator) who took part in 3 Joint Staff Trainings , during which based on exchanged practices and knowledge, an educational model for local senior centers or libraries had been developed. Therefore, an innovative offer of ICT courses for seniors aiming at encouraging older people to participate in culture resources and cultural events using new technologies (e.g. accessing e-biooks, audio-books, visiting virtual museums, buying tickets online, creating and uploading content etc. ) was created. Simultanously so created teaching program was implemented, tested and adjusted during two cycles of ICT workshops for seniors in each country. The teaching tandems provided during the project a total of 198 hours of workshops for 105 seniors in four countries. Additionally, from among the participants of workshops 8 Digital Ambasadors were selected – people at the age of 60+ whose leadership and digital competences enabled us to include them into dissemination process and in some cases into the process of supporting the trainers in the teaching processes (they are now assisting he educators in further ICT courses for seniors) both during and after the termination of project activities. Digital Ambasadors, together with trainers and coordinators took part in Transnational Project meeting organized for the final part of the project in Wroclaw, Poland. The meeting was an occasion to invite wider audience to discuss the quality of ICT courses offered for seniors in local communities. It is worth saying that over 20 organizations from 4 sectors (science-business-NGO-authorities) were informally involved in the project.Excellent feedback from the participants of local works hops (100% “excellent” and “very good” responses for the question of quality and relevance of provided workshops) as well as local communities (project blog run by Digital Ambasador form Poland noted over 8 thousand visits) resulted in the decision of educators in Wroclaw to prepare and provide additional workshops for 22 persons teaching seniors ICT (including teaching staff from Public Library in Wrocław and Wroclaw’s Senior Centre). Moreover, due to dissemination processes the coordinating organization has received a declaration from local authorities (Municipality of Wroclaw) to provide financial means for further educational trainings for other people working as trainers in ICT courses for senior citizens in Wroclaw. Also, partner organizations from France and Czech republic declare that they are and will include teaching program created during the project into their everyday business , the organization from Italy is now with a great assistance of their Digital Ambassadors, creating senior community to which they would like to address the results of the project in the future. Taking into account unswerving interest of seniors who are willing to participate in further ICT courses and the involvement of several entities and institutions in the idea of improving educational offer for the elderly enables us to believe that the effects of 60+VirtualCulture will be long lasting and that they will reach much more beneficiaries in the future. Coordinating and participating organizations have agreed that they are ready for new challenges and are willing to continue their partnership by applying in Erasmus+ next year.

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