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"Lifelong learning is a concept that integrates a wide variety of learningformats and is usually seen as education throughout the lifetime. In our vision, new media for lifelong learning (""Media4Life"") is no longer just one aspect of education and training; it must become the guiding principle for learning context in modern digitized society.In 2018 in the EU Member States, the highest rates of adult participation in learning were in Sweden (29.2 %), Finland (28.5 %) and Denmark (23.5 %). In contrast, five Member States had participation rates below 5 %: Romania (0.9 %), Bulgaria (2.5 %), Croatia (2.9 %), Slovakia (4.0 %) and Greece (4.5 %). Regarding Poland – 5.7 %, and only Slovenia is slightly below the average – 11.4 %. Therefore, we see big need in providing more opportunities for adult participation and promoting lifelong learning.Therefore, the main AIM of this project is to equip educators with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for working with seniors and adult learners through using new media in lifelong learning process in order to react on modern challenges and encourage social change.We have developed a concept of Media4Life in order 1) to make greater use of new media in the lifelong learning process working with adults; 2) to develop adult education using new means 3) to raise the competencies of educators and learners 4) to stimulate intergenerational dialogue. In this way we want to create preconditions for development and adoption of modern solutions in lifelong learning, using new media as a tool for social change.Our main aim will be achieved through concrete „Media4Life” objectives:- to create space for sharing knowledge and exchanging experience, know-how and good practices in the field of adult education; - to enhance educators’ understanding from different countries and working styles about using new media for lifelong learning of seniors and adults;- to strengthen seniors’ role in civil society by creating social dialogue and promoting participation, inclusion, membership and belonging, civic and social competence;- to learn new approaches and to find innovative way of interaction between educators, seniors, seniors’ families and to create easy to use Manual for Intergenerational Dialogue on this base; - to create sustainable international consortium devoted to the planned results and to disseminate learning achievements within different stakeholders on local, national and international level.We will try to create a space to learn and share about analyzing our previous experience and then create a learning environment in which we can practice and test the best way how to include lifelong learning in every part of the project cycle.This project is innovative in several aspects: 1) Theme of the project. There are pretty a lot of researches related to social media for seniors in the context of learning, but the topic of new media still remains open and requires constant flexibility in researching, as these new media are changing and improving constantly. That is why we want to direct our work not to individual tools, but to the methodology of how to use new media for lifelong learning.2) Target groups. In the frame of our project we choose to work with 3 main target group: - Educators; - Seniors; - Seniors' families. Since when educator works with a senior, he/she works not only with this person, but the work extends much further - to the environment of this person. Very often, many limiting beliefs, lack of motivation for learning, lack of self-confidence, problems in the mental and even physical health of seniors come from their families, where seniors do not find support for their learning initiatives, but rather a lack of understanding and support. That is why we want to work simultaneously not only with the seniors, but also with their environment, stimulating intergenerational dialogue between senior and family. 3) Created project's outputs. We described main outputs in the previous block, so there are few more important points to add. We planned that the results would be useful not only in this project, but also be widely used in the future for different organizations, that's why we want to create Guidelines on new media for adult education, Manual for Intergenerational Dialogue between seniors and their families and a project Brochure that will be used by other educators and people interested in adult education. And moreover, a lot of effort we want to direct into the practical local activities in order to maximize the involvement of both seniors and their environment. 4) Scope of activities.Within the framework of the project we came up with innovative combination of activities. Virtually every international activity has increased due to local activity taking place after. Thus, we have strong follow up, quality feedback and project promotion at the same time, which will be able to bring greater impact for the local community and other entities."
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