We wish a better world Erasmus Project

Project Title

We wish a better 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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Denmark has been the world leader in Internet penetration for many years: it was 96,9 % in 2017 (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm#europe). In Denmark, a law came into force that eliminated the personal customer services and all the cases have to be managed through remote administration by Internet. As Denmark is at the forefront of digitalisation, participants of our ERASMUS + 15/KA1AE/3340 project could visit Telecentre Danmark and get acquainted with the organization’s adult training system, its legal background, programs, effective training organization and their software. They have gained useful information on how, by what methods they reach the elderly people, the hard-to-reach strata of the society and how generations can help each other. They could study their network of educational activities and marketing activities.
We learned from the Danes that with the help of volunteer helpers of the same age group they reach the elderly, the hard-to-reach strata of the society, since we are the last in Europe in elderly Internet usage. The main reason for this, according to a 2005 study (http://www.05.ibm.com/hu/social/idos/dn/kutatas.pdf), lies in the fact that the Hungarian companies were not, or very little, sacrificed to the further training of an aging population. The age group affected by the survey has now become retired.

The purpose of the application was:
– reducing the vulnerability of aging society
– creating possibility for the elderly people to keep contact with friends and family members in an inexpensive way
– making possible for elderly people with limited mobility to manage their things without traveling
– lesser burdens for younger family members who always have a shortage of time
– providing meaningful activities for elderly people

The aim of the project was to train such elderly (beyond 60 years old) and young (between 18 and 30 years old) teamleaders, who are capable to build relationships and teams after the training in their own communities in the field of elderly training, including the use of Infocommunication Techniques and Senior Adult Counseling.

Project partners:
Main applicant:
Dél-alföldi Teleházak Regionális Közhasznú Egyesülete – Regional Telecottages Public Association of South Hungarian Plain,
Responsibility: Project management, project portal development, project meeting organization, curriculum development, development of distance education curriculum, multiplication conference organization
Partners:
KIFE –
Responsibility: curriculum development, training
EMKE –
Responsibility: curriculum development, training
Telecentre- Danmark –
Responsibility: project meeting organization, curriculum development, training
Malta Communications Authority –
Responsibility: project meeting organization, curriculum development, training

Presentation of the most important activities carried out:

1. Initial workshop day M1 – Denmark, Copenhagen
2. Developing the project webpage
3. Development of curriculum (O1, O2)
4. Workshop day M2 – Malta
5. Senior Contemporary Group leaders C1 – Hungary, Szeged
6. Senior Contemporary Group leaders C2 – Malta, Lija
7. Training of Intergenerational Helper C3 – Denmark, Copenhagen
8. Training of Intergenerational Helper C3 – Romania, Cluj Napoca
9. Development of distance education curriculum for Intergenerational Helper
10. Multiplication Closing Conference – Hungary, Szeged
11. Closing Workshop day M3 – Hungary, Szeged

Target group:

During the project and in the future, we expect all retired age people, especially those over the age of 60 or between the ages of 18 and 30, who feel active and open to new knowledge about team leadership and improving the quality of life of the elderly so that these knowledge can be further extended to the aging population or their own peers.
On each training max.15 people can be trained on the basis of the network of Telehouses, community houses. The volunteers who, in addition to learning the training material, undertake to pass on the basic idea of the training, encouraging the creation and operation of additional local workshops.

• Results and impacts achieved;

3 curricula were completed (in English, Danish, Hungarian and Rumanian languages):

O1 Senior Teamleader Training:
The main themes of the 80-hour training: team characteristics, team mechanisms, team work / team dynamics (16 hours); leadership identity and styles, communication situations, conversation, problematic situations (16 hours); the characteristics of old-age learning, methodology for the training of the elderly (32 hours), needs assessment and organization of senior training, social inclusion, individual development plan in the field of elderly education (16 hours).

O2 Training of Intergenerational Helper:
The main themes of the 48-hour training: team characteristics, team mechanisms, team work / team dynamics (16 hours); the characteristics of old-age and young-a

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 133215 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dél-alföldi Teleházak Regionális Közhasznú Egyesülete & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Katolikus Ifjusagi es Felnottkepzesi Egyesulet
• Telecentre-danmark
• Societatea Maghiara de Cultura din Transilvania
• Malta Communications Authority