Golden Age Platform: Inclusion of Senior Citizens to Virtualised Environments with Lifelong Learning Facilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Golden Age Platform: Inclusion of Senior Citizens to Virtualised Environments with Lifelong Learning Facilities

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

For the elderly, it is necessary to engage actively in society, to be constructive, to deal with current and social issues. There is a substantial need for opportunities to promote senior’s active inclusion in society and lifelong learning, so they can connect with other people and their social contribution can be ensured.

The project aims at the social integration of the elderly and seniors in a unique way where they can engage in social life through high-quality learning opportunities via digital learning solutions through various learning methods.

The project will focus on the inclusion of seniors and elderly people in society, for that reason the GAP-IOS project brings together seven partners from 4 European countries, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Turkey who work with and for seniors and are experienced in life-long learning, training and online activities. The cooperation from different EU countries will ensure useful and good practices to the project. The project partners are chosen carefully according to their expertise and experience in the fields which this project involves. They will all bring their unique contribution to the project and its intellectual outputs.

Target group will be elderly people and seniors over the AGE OF 65+ YEARS OLD.

There will be three intellectual outputs in this project:

The first intellectual output will be the GOLDEN AGE PLATFORM (GAP) which is prepared under a curriculum by experts of the related subjects, consists of basic knowledge on digitilization, health, financial, legal issues cultural and hobby activities (IO1) that elderly can use in their daily lives and protects them not to be cheated by malicious people. GAP is free of charge and is organised under the curriculum prepared by the academia and the experts in related subjects from public and private institutions with the collaboration of the project partners. The curriculum and the training programmes include different aspects of views from different cultures, sharing of experiences, searching for the best solutions in a transnational way.

The second intellectual output is the TRAINING DOCUMENTS FOR SENIOR TRAINERS (IO2), which will consist of four tasks: Presentation and Teaching Techniques, Basic Teaching Skills, Basic Knowledge about Long-life Learning and Basic Models of Pedagogy.
“TRAINING OF THE SENIOR TRAINERS” is organised according to the training document prepared in the (IO2) which will be organised as Short Term Training Activities (STT). These three workshops will be realised in Ankara(C1), Lisbon (C2) and Bonn (C3). The partner organisations in each country will be responsible from the organizational process of the workshop
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The last intellectual output of the project will be COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION MEDIA (IO3), which will contain four tasks: Technical developments of the web, content production, social media activities and animation movies, online teaching materials, e-learning tools.
During the GAP-IOS project, there will be 4 transnational meetings. From each project partner, 2 participants and from the coordinator partner 3 participants will attend to these four meetings and contribute according to their expertise. The purpose of these transnational meetings is, basically experience and know-how transfer between the project partners. The consortium of the project supports seniors as well as elderly with disadvantaged backgrounds through e-learning tools and digital platforms.

The project aims at creating educational environments and provides a BEST PRACTICE MODEL that can be used in various countries to increase the living standards of elderly and provide their social inclusion into society.

The project aims the social inclusion of the seniors and elderly people in an innovative way where they can join in social life by high quality learning opportunities on digital learning applications through informal and non-formal learning methods. For that reason all the document and training modules will be uploaded in the web pages of the partners and open axess for everyone.

For multiplier event (E1) an international conference is planned “International Conference on The Social Inclusion of Seniors” in Turkey which focuses on the intellectual outputs of the project, besides “Experiences and Best Practises on Seniors” for 2 days in Ankara. The conference will be supported by all the project partners.

During the project, the impact of the project is evaluated after every activity of the project by statistical methods via surveys and interviews. Project Management Board (PMB) will continuously monitor the implementation of the work plan, control the project budget and the project activities.
The public will be informed from the project activities and results via EPALE.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 198665 Eur

Project Coordinator

ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• iserundschmidt GmbH
• Turkey Retired Persons Organization (Türkiye Emekliler Derneği)
• Proportional Message – Associação
• OPEN EVIDENCE
• Altindag Belediyesi
• ANKARA UNIVERSITESI