Month: June 2022

E4ALL – EPALE Posting: Intergenerational Training

E4ALL – EPALE Posting: Intergenerational Training
E4ALL Project Logo

In the frame of the E4ALL project, we created a post dealing with intergenerational training and the training of digital competencies. The post refers to a specific pilot course hold in Wiener Neustadt with people of the 65+ generation.
Intergenerational issues are one of the topics in this project for exchange of best practice (the others are environment, games, language teaching, and Flipped Learning 3.0).
The post serves to further disseminate the project to the Adult Learner Community.

EPALE Blog Post
Screenshot: EPALE Blog Post (E4ALL Project, intergenerational training)

Post: Practical experience in an intergenerational training of digital competencies
Project: E4ALL

About the Article

The post refers to an empirical experience of an intergenerational training course dealing with digital competencies. In hardly any other area are the competencies as varied as in the field of digital competencies. While younger people are used to working and living in a digital world through their education and professional life, older adults in particular have little experience.

Why Intergenerational Trainings?

The major intention of the intergenerational approach was to energize older adults and to give a sense of purpose, especially when they’re sharing their experience and skills.

Consequently, another intention was to help younger generations understand aging and face their own generation more positively.

Findings

From the observations of the trainers and the evaluation of the learning outcomes, this intergenerational training worked excellent. It was clear from the beginning, that the trainers had a specific responsibility of monitoring and to keep in line the given intentions of the training.

Furthermore, the success of learning groups like described above depend on the composition of learners and their open approach to both the learning topics and the given group situation.

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About the project: The project provided two Learning/Training/Teaching Activities during the project’s lifetime, one of them organized and implemented by the European Initiative for Education in Wiener Neustadt. Intergenerational training was one of the set focuses.

CONNECT project meeting

CONNECT project meeting

EBI/EIE is a partner in the CONNECT project. Peter Mazohl from the EBI attended the Face-to-Face meeting in Portugal at the University of Porto. The meeting took place on June 3rd, 2022, and all project partners people were present. The meeting focused on DISSEMINATION
INTENSIVE STUDY PROGRAMME (Presentation of dissemination related actions Student, Enrolment, Logistics, Budget for ISP, ISP Schedule,
Distribution of responsibilities, Description of metrics to be used, Time plan, Stakeholder Engagement), MULTIPLIER EVENTS (Feedback, Multiplier Event Report, Dissemination), and the IO2: EHEALTH COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (Feedback and recommendations, Implementation of interactive eLearning Modules).

Here is a slideshow from the meeting.

About the CONNECT project

Our project focuses on the Romanian national priority of “Tackling skills gaps and mismatches” by delivering an education program that engages students from across European countries to enable continuous innovation and entrepreneurship in the European eHealth sector. The main focus of the CONNECT project is on issues of eHealth innovation, state-of-the-art training, and education of students necessary on the health market, in the form of a highly and systematically organized formal and non-formal educational program to improve knowledge, develop cross-sectoral skills and competences, entrepreneurship and support students’ critical thinking required to improve health care.

The developed project results are a Community of Practice Platform and a Distance Learning Platform containing eight course modules.