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ACT-Net
ACT-NET is a transnational community of European experts and practitioners working on the evaluation of informal learning. It is based on the science-practice project ACT! (Active Citizenship Training 2005 - 2008) that developed a unique approach to assess and evidence competences in informal learning contexts. ACT-NET offers methodology, instruments and easy to use web-based software to develop tailor-made evaluation of individualised informal learning projects especially to those stakeholders who work with “non-mainstreaming” and disadvantaged target groups.
Active Ageing Events
This is an initaitive to promote the participation in a programme of celebratory events and festivals highlighting the importance of Active Ageing and physical activity for older people. From July 2010 the British Heart Foundation National Centre is leading a programme of Active Ageing events with the purpose of:
•Providing a national and local profile to celebrate and promote the concept of Active Ageing,
•Providing support for local Active Ageing events and programmes and
•Stimulating debate and policy on active ageing.
ADD LIFE - Adding quality to life through inter-generational learning via universities
The project will give learners in five countries the opportunity to participate in the piloting of the modules and to become promoters and facilitators/mentors for the participation of other people
The ADDLIFE-Tool Kit is designed to introduce you to the best practice in inter-generational learning developed in the ADD LIFE project.
CHANCE - Community Health Management to Enhance Behaviour
CHANCE bases on the preliminary assumption that a community’s structure determines health information and the perception of health information. The aim of the project is to initiate a local network in order to help adults to improve their knowledge and competences and to design and implement specific community-related offers for health information and education.
DARE-Democracy and Human Rights Education in Adult learning
DARE is a Europe-wide network of NGOs and other organisations devoted to raising the profile of Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) and Human Rights Education (HRE), promoting transcultural and transnational cooperation, and enhancing the quality of education within these fields.
ELSE Academy
The eLearning for Seniors Academy focuses on increasing the social participation, empowerment and inclusion of European seniors in the knowledge and information society with a special focus on reducing the isolation of vulnerable seniors.
ELLA - Ehrenamtliche für lebenslanges Lernen im Alter
ELLA is developing a training programme for volunteers to become "education mediators". These volunteers will be trained to work with older peoplee for example in nursing homes. The idea is that the volunteers contribute to the older peoples's learning and enable intergenerational exchange.
Family Competences Portfolio
The FamCompass will help lower the barriers to lifelong learning programmes for target groups that currently face a low participation in formal schooling programmes, e.g. women, elder citizens and immigrants, and increase their employability and career opportunities.
HealthPROelderly
The healthPROelderly-project aims to develop health promotion for older people by producing evidence-based guidelines with recommendations – on EU, national and local levels – for potential actors in this field.
HiStory – Seniors tell about history
Psychological findings show that learning in higher ages is possible and desirable, especially when particular needs of the target group are taken into account. The project HiStory regards these needs by choosing a subject, the personally experienced history and integrating the subject into an easy-to-handle weblog learning environment with the potential of including audio and video files. HiStory wants to address the social inclusion (and eInclusion) of seniors and to advance active citizenship in terms of awareness of historical contexts and, as a consequence, responsible political and cultural acting in the presence and future.
IGLOO –InterGenerational Learning in OrganisatiOns
The project IGLOO sets out to develop a tool-set for companies and organisations in order to support and facilitate intergenerational learning and exchange. The model will include latest scientific results on learning abilities and on workplace learning. It will not be a concept for a conventional seminar but a complex mix of new learning strategies, settings and techniques. Furthermore, the aim is to raise the sensitivity of employers and workers concerning the issue intergenerational learning in general.
InCreaSe
InCreaSe will be a travelling training academy for cultural learning and participation of older people in Europe. The partnership will explore the best methods of reaching seniors to increase their cultural participation - as audiences, producers, ambassadors and volunteer organisers of cultural events. Secondly, the partners will reflect and evaluate the experiences of the workshops and jointly develop a methodology for professional training for working with seniors.
Informelles Lernen
Informelles Lernen is an independent project whith the aim to broadly discuss this topic. On the website you can find information concerning informal learning in general, related articles, international perspectives and methods how to actually use concepts of informal learning.
Isolation to Inclusion
The project work focused on the identification and improvement of measures that enable groups at a multi-dimensional risk of social exclusion to fully participate in community life. A major focus was put on strengthening initiatives by older persons for older persons and on supporting networks of these initiatives. The i2i-project was carried out in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the UK.
KeyComKit
KeyCom Kit project is aimed to acquisition of key competences for Lifelong learning among adults with lack of training and education gaps in order to strength the personal fulfilment, social inclusion and employment access/improvement. The partnership will analyze and compare the development levels of the 8 key competences.
LARA - Learning - a Response to Ageing
The project LARA aims to support adult educators by developing and delivering training to provide knowledge, skills and practical information that will enable them to deliver learning that is responsible to the demands and opportunities of ageing.
MALT
The goal of the MALT project is to provide methods for the teaching and learning of adults in a teaching bank, for which we select, explain and provide appropriate learning and teaching tools. The aim is to openly invite interested individuals, communities or establishments to use these tools, to evaluate them and to add new ones.
Migrant ICT
This project aims to support the integration of the new residents coming from new EU accession countries into society and particularly into the workforce. Targeting those with lower levels of education, skills and ICT competency it will develop new methods for Adult Education Providers to assist migrants to effectively integrate the competences and educational experiences acquired in their countries of origin into the workplace.
Possible Europe
The aim of the citizen panel on “Stories of a Possible Europe” is to work on the theme of inter-cultural dialogue in Europe, through cooperative and autobiographical methods. The particularity of the work methodology of this panel is that it takes as its starting point the telling of stories by European citizens - both as individuals and as collective groups – as a form of participation and interaction in “constructing an ever closer Europe”. Listen to stories of possible Europe which were done at a conference in Vienna.
SenEmpower
The project aims at offering training courses to members of seniors' self-help groups and voluntary work initiatives to improve their skills in empowering seniors with weak family and social networks, to take on a greater role in society. It builds on work outlined by the European project “Isolation to Inclusion” in which Local and Regional Action Plans for the re-integration of isolated old people into community life were set up.
Senior Project
The Social Ethical and Privacy Needs in ICT for Older People: A Dialogue for Roadmap (SENIOR) is a 2 year support action which aims to provide a systematic assessment using dialogue as the key instrument to evaluate the social, ethical and privacy issues involved in ICT and Ageing.
SEELERnetz
Seniors in Europe learn in Networks - is a project - in which older people have the opportunity to better participate in learning processes by coming together in social groups (networks). A cooperation of several countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece and Romania, researches the daily activities of this target group and uses the findings to create a practical model that can have various applications.
SEVEN
SEVEN is an international network of 29 organisations promoting senior volunteer exchanges. SEVEN's member organisations include NGOs, local governments, universities and research centres with experience in the co-ordination and management of senior volunteer programs.
Students-Retirees Intergeneration Learning Circle
The overall aim of this project is to bring seniors and young people together in intergenerational learning circles so that both gain awareness of their cultures, achieve mutual understanding and respect and support each other for mutual benefit.
TraVeLAGEnts – over 55’s without frontiers
The “TraVeL AGEnts” project aims at promoting active participation of older people in society and facilitating their mobility across the European Union through the establishment of the “over 55s without frontiers” networks. It is implemented in 10 EU countries (Greece, Italy, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Cyprus, Estonia, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic) with the co-funding of the European Commission in the framework of the ENEA Preparatory Action.
TOP + “Training Older Persons - Pioneer model usable for older adult trainers”
The low enrolment of older workers in Lifelong Learning in Europe represents a waste of individual opportunities and potential as well as a loss of productive and economic potential. The aims of the project are therefore to identify best and worst practices in lifelong learning and to design and develop a vocational training model for older adults teachers and trainers, including a curriculum and an innovative training tool.
VOCH – Volunteers for Cultural Heritage
This project takes the position that institutions involving volunteers must offer adequate training, not only to provide skills necessary to carry out what may be very specialised tasks, but also to contribute to the volunteers’ growth as individuals, as members of a community, and as European citizens. Project activities and outputs will for example include Europe-wide research on volunteers in the cultural heritage sector, design, development and delivery of short training modules both for volunteers and coordinators and development and publishing of guidelines for good practice when working with volunteers.
