Strategic Partnership for older people’s inclusion into the digital world Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategic Partnership for older people’s inclusion into the digital world

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 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The Strategic Partnership for Older People’s Inclusion into the Digital World (SPIDW) project was implemented in the period from 01/10/2018 to 31/12/2020 within the Erasmus + programme by seven partner organizations from Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Slovakia, which are very good aware that in the age of digitalisation, the development of ICT skills of older people has the great importance. The current pandemic situation that arose during the implementation of the project also pointed out that the education of seniors in the field of digital technologies is inevitable.

The main objectives of the project were
to provide training for trainers by exchanging experiences and best practices based on modern digital tools in education of older adult,
enable education providers and trainers to develop and strengthen their skills in international cooperation,
share ideas, methods and best practices for developing the skills of seniors, especially in the field of ICT,
to provide older people with opportunities to obtain and development of digital skills, implement successful educational activities with older people at local, regional and national level.
The direct target group of project were experts of the partners’ organisations, adult trainers, particularly for seniors, social workers but indirect benefit from results had also older people in post-professional phase of life.

Trainers from all partner organizations took part in three training activities in Germany, Slovenia (face to face) and Portugal (online) in order to improve their ICT skills and learn new digital methods and techniques, which they then passed on to their older students within the local training activities. The participants of trainings acquired competencies in the field of the City Games method, a biographical narrative method in the education of older adults, in the field of the application of SILVER blended learning, the implementation of digital storytelling and the preparation of films.

A total of 36 trainers took part in the training and 84 seniors took part in film preparation training. Within the project there were created 27 short films, including the experiences of older people from the pandemic period of COVID-19. Older people were involved in local training activities including also 362 people with fewer opportunities (in the partners countries). All in all 10742 persons were involved or got in touch with the SPIDW project.

More detailed information about the project and the results of the project can be found at
– the project website https://www.spidw.eu/
– the project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SPIDW-1212175895601506?locale=de_DE
– in the e-book Including older people into the digital world https://www.spidw.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPIDW-E-book-21.12.2020_FINAL.pdf

Project Website

https://www.spidw.eu/?page_id=41

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77455,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

EureCons Förderagentur GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Aidlearn, Consultoria em Recursos Humanos Lda.
• PRO-MED spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia
• Balkanska Agenciya za Ustoychivo Razvitie
• Association for Intercultural Dialogue
• Slovenska univerza za tretje zivljenjsko obdobje, zdruzenje za izobrazevanje in druzbeno vkljucenost
• Spolupracou pre lepsiu buducnost – Velky Meder