Seniors online security for creativity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Seniors online security for creativity

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

This project is a resubmission of the previous SOS Awareness which was almost finalist, being the 16 out of 69 in the waiting list of projects approved in the previous call. After receiving a letter from the Spanish National Agency inviting us to readapt it to the specific call KA227 considering its quality, IWS decided to use expertise in ICT applied to culture to assist the associations participating in this consortium to increase the online skills and security awareness of their beneficiaries in the field, not only of cultural activities, but also simply when browsing in search of cultural contents, that have proved to be such a great help for adults especially during lock-down in this strange COVID alert.
ICT has severely contributed to change our everyday life and has turned letters to e-mail, market shopping to on-line shopping, apps and automatic replies to human technical customer support, and in particular in the field of culture a great deal of contents are now available online, free to be used and enjoyed, yet the lack of skills and online awareness often prevent adult users to benefit from online cultural offers.

Online availability certainly has improved and speeded our life conditions and our quality of life but the Internet has also a dark side if we consider spam, malware, hacking, phishing, denial of service attacks, click fraud, invasion of privacy, defamation, frauds, violation of digital property rights, etc. With the total value of fraudulent transactions annually amounting to €1.8 billion, according to the latest European Central Bank (ECB) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) reporting the Trend Micro and Europol highlight the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals in terms of how attacks are planned and orchestrated.

The category more exposed comes to be that of late digital. Indeed, a research carried out by Lloyds Bank in 2019 has calculated that a single fraud steals over 2,500 pounds to under 34s, but it is much worse for those over 55, with an average of almost 11 thousand pounds stolen per each. In between are those between 45 and 54 years old with £ 3,500 lost.

Although the rapidly growing group of people aged 65 and over in the European Region represents a rich cultural baggage of experience, skills, contributions and special needs, elderly people have a crucial challenge to face: coping with a society where everything goes faster and travels at an average of 5 Mbps speed of bandwidth, thus being cut out of society and online cultural offer.

In an increasingly IT-driven society with an ageing population, S.O.S. Creativity is designed to support the development of IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online, while boosting their level of consciousness toward the potentialities and the risks of the net such as phishing, fraud, fake news, invasion of privacy, defamation etc. that can arise while navigating free contents website or paying to subscribe to some cultural contents or even looking for books to be read online. Being in line with EU sectorial priority related to promoting Erasmus Plus among all citizens and generation, including by offering activities of education and exchanges of experiences to seniors, with a view to building and adding solidity to European identity, SOS Creativity addresses issues that fully respond to EU transnational perspective in relation to Seniors social inclusion and welfare, and hence could not be undertaken in the isolation of an individual national context. Moreover, this project aims at developing skills and competences in adults to support creativity and its exploitation, in a non-formal education to reinforce cross-sectorial cooperation.

SOS Creativity brings together 8 partners from 6 countries representing associations who have among their offer cultural initiatives (i.e. Arrabal with its Malaga Más Bella and specific IT training for adult people in ICT and digital competences; IAL with different cultural workshops dedicated to Adult learners or trainers) as well as specific training targeted to adults to let them enjoy cultural workshops and online contents, as it is the case of E-Seniors in France, and artistic education and training, adult education, NGOS, social integration. Such variety allows SOS Creativity to build complementary expertise, skills and capacities.
To reach project objectives, Partners will carry out the following activities:
1. IO1 SOS Creativity OER PLATFORM
2. IO2 IO2 Mapping of Cultural and Creative Resources and Digital Skills and SOS Self-Assessment tool development
3. IO3 SOS Creativity CONTENT DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING MATERIALS IN 6 LANGUAGES
4. IO4 PILOT VALIDATION 180 TARGET GROUP REPRESENTATIVES
Expected Results
-Increased low-skilled adults ICT knowledge and know how to support creativity and its exploitation, as well as to boost elderly social inclusion
-Better awareness of cybersecurity risks
– EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 248073 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTERNET WEB SOLUTIONS SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• The European Society for Socio Economic Integration asbl
• E-SENIORS: INITIATION DES SENIORS AUX NTIC ASSOCIATION
• Società Cooperativa Sociale Fuori dal Sommerso
• IAL INNOVAZIONE APPRENDIMENTO LAVORO FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA SRL IMPRESA SOCIALE
• ZDRUZENIE INSTITUT ZA RAZVOJ NA ZAEDNICATA
• ASOCIACION ARRABAL AID
• Fundacja Circle Centrum innowacji i badan w zakresie wspolpracy w doksztalcaniu sie i przedsiebiorczosci