Comparing Resources for Subjects in Severe Situations Erasmus Project

Project Title

Comparing Resources for Subjects in Severe Situations

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Social dialogue

Project Summary

In the 21st century, we are witnessing the emergence of a growing concern about major international issues that will mark the political and educational agendas of many countries, such as active ageing, the digital divide and cybersecurity, the conservation of cultural heritage, rural abandonment, youth employability, sustainable development and public health. All these issues are opening up new horizons of content for those people in Adult Education, with a special focus on older people, who want to improve their knowledge and skills and remain active in the field of lifelong learning, in order to be able to develop active and informed citizenship with regard to these challenges of today’s society.

It is therefore necessary to establish a scenario for exchanging pedagogical approaches and educational resources on these crucially important issues to which citizens must respond in a unanimous manner. To develop a set of mobilities, both of teachers (through short joint training events), and of students (courses structured in combined presential-virtual mobilities), and where each entity, specialized in one of these topics, shares its experience and good practices developed in its geographical area, both by themselves and by other close collaborating entities, in such a way that the exchange effect at a transnational level would be multiplied. Furthermore, these actions would serve as a basis for the improvement of the teaching skills of the teachers involved, as well as of the programmes, methodologies and resources of their institutions of origin, and therefore, of the quality of training of their students, their skills and knowledge, helping them to face and act upon the current challenges of this changing society strongly influenced by the topics described above. This proposal wishes to bring together these objectives.

The University of Malaga (Spain) with its program Aula de Mayores+55; Tierra de Maestros (TdM, Spain), a private entity with its courses and activities of promotion and cultural awareness in Adult Education, Università della LiberEtà (ULE, Italy) as a People’s University closely related to the municipal and regional government; The Intercultural Association for All (IAFA, Portugal) as an institution specialized in the mobility of adults in entrepreneurship and intercultural issues; GEA (Slovenia) through its numerous social programs of environment and responsible consumption and the Public Health Service of Serbia (GZZJZ) as a public entity of awareness and training in major health issues such as pandemics, will form the consortium that will develop the project.

The consortium will produce a final handbook for trainers, as a result of the exchange of the set of activities, which will highlight initiatives, resources and training materials created in projects financed by the European Union in the entities involved and other nearby institutions, as examples of good practice, with free access from the project website and other institutional repositories. In order to promote the sustainability of the project and to extend the application of its results beyond the geographical scope of influence of the consortium and local entities, information seminars will be organised after the training mobilities in each of the participating countries, as well as a final event in the coordinating country (with a more national/international character), expressly inviting the key actors in the field of the project (adult and senior educators, social services staff, political stakeholders, etc.).

In short, CRxSiSS aims to promote, especially through meetings of teachers and courses for students of adult education programmes, and especially for older people, the exchange of experiences, good practices and content of interest on issues of great relevance in the whole of European society today (active aging, digital divide and cyber security, conservation of cultural heritage, youth employability, rural abandonment, sustainable development and public health), thus creating a scenario of dialogue and exchange at a transnational level which, from the diversity of the natures of the entities and countries involved, goes into the need to fight from the education in the promotion and improvement of key concepts to favour a common European identity: active aging, digital world, heritage, environment and territory, health, etc. In this sense, it is therefore necessary to highlight the promotion of an active citizenship that responds to these great challenges of the 21st century for European society, as well as to include the intergenerational perspective, covering the different age cohorts within adult education and lifelong learning.

Project Website

http://seniorsocial.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167403 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Università delle LiberEtà del Fvg
• ASSOCIACAO INTERCULTURAL PARA TODOS
• Gradski zavod za javno zdravlje Beograd
• Zaposlitveni center GEA, zavod za usposabljanje in zaposlovanje invalidov
• TIERRA DE MAESTROS