ACTIVE2 Erasmus Project

Project Title

ACTIVE2

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: Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

From the field of Psychology, we have been working on programs that develop various types of mental activities that reinforce both the cognitive aspects and the emotional management of each person in the last stage of the life cycle. They allow to reduce the effects of the passage of time, and increase the levels of personal well-being and health.

To face the challenges posed by the problems of aging, we propose to develop a program that trains the cognitive functions that have greater importance in maintaining the active mind, among which we highlight verbal strategies, the development and strengthening of emotional aspects to improve self-esteem, exercises that raise perceptual skills, numerical intelligence is approached from different points of view, problem solving and decision-making are worked on, and finally thinking skills that are the essence of the greatest are included part of the proposed objectives.

The demographic reality that lies ahead demands initiatives that train professionals and family environment in the management of resources both cognitive-functional maintenance and in the management of the effective interpersonal relationship in the promotion of emotional well-being.

The line of work that we propose aspires to facilitate solutions at an integral level and that in the context of the professional user or family relationship – elderly person spontaneously emerge actions of care and prevention of cognitive impairment. The professional development of educators and support staff is intended.

The target group is the trainers of socio-health care staff for dependent people in social institutions and at home. Taking into account that the training we will focus on three levels:

1. First, we are going to train trainers of health care staff.
2. The social health care staff will implement activities with dependent elderly people to enhance cognitive and emotional development based on the areas of multiple intelligences.
3. The socio-health staff will train the family members in strategies and skills to be able to attend more effectively to the elderly dependent people, being essential collaborators.

We intend to develop training actions that meet the diversity of the elderly and better inclusion with significant teaching and learning styles.

As an innovative aspect, this training will complement with professional development workshops the certificates of professionalism of socio-health care for dependent people in social institutions and dependent people at home.

It will be developed from the perspective of the intervention and through daily activities by support staff and family members.

The socio-health staff will train family members in strategies to enhance cognitive development in dependent elderly people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 296940 Eur

Project Coordinator

DACORUM COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Andragoski zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje
• Asociación de Estudios Almerienses
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
• STOWARZYSZENIE ARID
• GROWTH COOP S.COOP.AND