project goals

The goal of the project is to increase competences in using intergenerational learning. Our goal is to develop relevant tools to support their work. Our long-term work with instructors has given us wide perspective and vision of the needs of education targeted for adult educators.

target group

Our primary target groups are teachers, facilitators and instructors in the field of liberal and non-formal adult education. Pilot groups are working as a platform for investigating the different processes of IGL, providing up-to-date information on diverse experiences and testing methods.

INNOVATIVE RESULTS

Through the whole project the main principle is to create models which are so concrete that those will easily be reduplicated, applied and disseminated in formal and non-formal education and in in-formal learning sector. One partner has also the idea of producing TV-program of intergenerational learning.

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“The project is likely to have a substantial positive impact on the participating organisations and on their staff and/or learners, during and remain after the lifetime of the project.”

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GENERATIONS IN INTERACTION MULTIPLIER EVENT IN UNITS

The multiplier event “Apprendere tra le gener-azioni” (Learning between generations) related to the Erasmus + project “Generations in Interaction” took place in Italy on 6th November 2020, online on the platform Go-to-meeting, according to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19. The event was attended by 52 participants, the majority being [...]

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Old People’s home for 4 year olds

Intergenerational issues concern everyday life and also arrive on TV in 2019, to stimulate public opinion about the possibilities of the care for older people. “Old People’s Home for 4 Years Old” is a British Channel 4 program, itself inspired by a similar program born in the United States 25 [...]

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A model for an intergenerational learning centre: the rules of the game

The analysis of best practices in intergenerational learning/education, managed by the Units research group, uncovers several recurring and indispensable elements. These should be the key elements of any intergenerational learning proposal. When we talk about learning situations, we are referring to planned, deliberate circumstances, able to generate positive outcomes on [...]

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Project work during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Henna Timonen University of Easten Finland The pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus has affected work and education widely in Finland, as in any other country in the world. As the University of Eastern Finland had to close its’ doors in March, remote working, learning and teaching have been introduced [...]

Intergenerational Learning & Active Citizenship in Non-formal Education e-learning course

Intergenerational Learning and Active Citizenship in Non-formal Education course is now available in our GE&IN e-learning platform. This formal university course was developed as a constructor of Identity and Culture. The course contents, prepared and pre-tested by the University of Eastern Finland last summer, consist of five learning modules and [...]

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Stop motion animation in pedagogical videos

Raisa Laukkanen / Citizen’s Forum From the beginning we had an experimental idea of making the non-formal course of intergenerational learning in the form of three videos, which consist of lecture-kind voice-over, visualized with stop motion animation. Stop motion animation is created by moving stable objects and capturing the movement [...]

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RECORDING OF THE VOICE-OVERS OF THE NON-FORMAL COURSE

Citizen’s Forum made three stop motion animations about intergenerational learning, which together will form the non-formal course of the project. The voice-over recording of the animations took in January in Joensuu, Finland. Raisa Laukkanen from Citizen’s Forum travelled to Joensuu from Helsinki. On the first day, she and Henna from [...]

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TRAINING GUIDE GENERATION IN INTERACTION

As a part of the Generations in Interaction, project partners are developing a training guide titled „Generations in Interaction: A guide to intergenerational learning.” The guide will contain a rationale of the project and some basic facts about the benefits and reasons for intergenerational learning in the introductory part. The [...]

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iNTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS

There will be four different outputs in this project. The main principle of the project is that all outputs are open for everyone who are interested in them. All outputs will also produce content to all other outputs. So you can find the results of the project from many different environments.

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„Our goal is to create tools, how adult educators can use it as a resource in all education context.”

Raisa Laukkanen – Sivistysliitto Kansalaisfoorumi

„My expectations about this initiative is to gain some new tools for intergenerational learning, to implement them into our organisation and our educational program.”

Mojca Vukovič – Ljudska Univerza Rogaska Slatina

„Finally, to the end of the project, we will find solution to involve more people from our community.”

Mihaela Popovici – Abilities Career Training Attitude

„For me intergenerational learning is when people from different generations learn from each other, share experience and so on, so either from elderly people to children and from children to elderly people and other generations also.”

Mojca Vukovič – Ljudska Univerza Rogaska Slatina

„Intergenerational learning is not just a connection between childhood and elderly, for example, but I think that intergenerational learning is for all the ages.”

Matteo Cornacchia – Universita Degli Studi di Trieste

„I think intergenerational learning is mostly about classic knowledge like passing on information and habits and culture to other generations in good and also in bad ways, sometimes – but it’s something that is not maybe visible, but we are trying to make it a bit more visible in this project.”