Age on stage: educational and inclusive pathway for elderly transforming their life through the theatre of memories. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Age on stage: educational and inclusive pathway for elderly transforming their life through the theatre of memories.

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: Gender equality / equal opportunities; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic and social trends of the 21st century, affecting nearly all the countries in the world. Increasing life expectancy is indeed a remarkable achievement of development and health care. However, it also poses obvious challenges. Older people are coming to represent a proportionately larger share of the total population, presenting social, economic and cultural challenges to individuals, families, public welfare systems and societies. The Age on stage project aims at using theatre arts, as a tool to combat social exclusion and isolation as well as stimulating active citizen participation among elderly people and make them feel part of an inclusive Europe. The Age on stage project has the objective to develop a Theatre pathway focused on life Stories of seniors participants. Theatre Lab project will introduce acting and presentation skills to help older people shape their memories into stories culminating in a public performance for peers and others in the community. Trainers will encourage participants to recall sometimes rare memories stirred by a common item, such as a thimble, or a question such as “Can you describe the first kitchen you ever remember eating in ? Do you remember the first time you used remote control for television ?

The Activities of the project are:

1. Development of a common theatre pathway to involve elderly and help them to exit isolation, exclusion and feeling active citizens again. Result: an attractive and professional theatre art pathway.
2. pathway into a virtual dedicated web portal, which will include the curriculum, graphics and videos, interactive material, games, and a dedicated chat rooms for participants to exchange ideas and practices. Result:interactive web portal
4. Short staff training to train trainers on the use of the web portal in connection with the pathway: Result: certification of skills and competences acquired.
5. Piloting the curriculum with seniors in France Italy, Spain, UK, Poland. Result: final piloting report
6. Learning activity for seniors Learning activity for seniors to make them acquired with the Web portal.
7. Writing of a pièce called “life stories” Performed by the elderly Result: Life stories performance
8. Dissemination activities – the project will be disseminated by using the web site, the brochures and dissemination meetings in each country. Results: dedicated web site, logo, information brochures, local dissemination conferences
9. Evaluation and quality control. Evaluation and quality control: following the evaluation strategy the project will be monitored and controlled to see that results
and activities are developed. Result: evaluation reports.
10. Drowning of a dedicated logo and web site

Target groups are:
• elderly people living alone, isolated and excluded, or living in care houses. The project aims at reaching more than 60 people during its lifetimein each country.
• educators who will benefit from new and dynamic training materials with a proven track record and the transfer of these
materials. The project aims at reaching more or less 100 educators along the project.
• public organisation: they may deliver the pathway for edelry people living in their communities.
Throughout the lifetime of the project 50 educators across 5 countries will be directly exposed to these techniques through
their practical application. This is likely to impact on more than 500 elderly. The products will be distributed to over 300 organisations through web sites and various partner networks.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 257885 Eur

Project Coordinator

PASSERELLES THEATRE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Asociación ACE (Aprende, Coopera y Emprende)
• N.E.T. (NETWORKING EDUCATION AND TRAINING) ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• Fundacja Agencji Sluzby Spolecznej
• GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE – THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF GLASGOW CLYDE COLLEGE
• 36,6 Competence Centre
• Giz – we can train you, LDA