European Senior Travellers
The European Commission, as well as INATEL, SEGITTUR, and the Ministry of Sport and Tourism – Poland, have developed a project called “European Senior Travellers,” which aims to encourage the exchange of senior citizens between Portugal, Spain, and Poland. This trial project will serve as a way to analyze the possibilities for a more comprehensive transnational seniors exchange program between seniors in all EU member states. Such research and promotion of intercultural exchange through tourism is a great way to encourage safe travel for seniors by tailoring it to their specific needs, and, therefore allowing them the mobility and freedom to explore Europe and meet other seniors from all different countries.
For more information about European Senior Travellers, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/tourism/files/calypso/est_project_summary_final_en.pdf
Linking Lives
Help Age International has developed the “Linking Lives” project, which is a part of a new campaign to increase communication between peoples around the world to address the subject of older peoples’ rights. Linking Lives has a website where people from around the world can upload videos with personal comments and relevant stories, therefore creating an international and intergenerational video dialogue. In this way, older people from the Czech Republic can “meet” and converse with Josaphine, an older woman from Nairobi, for example. Linking Lives, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to discuss older peoples’ rights with perspectives from around the world and allows older people to share their stories and to be heard.
For more information about Linking Lives, please visit http://www.helpage.org/get-involved/meet-the-activists/josephine-napkonde/
Germany's Older Generations Take Up Graffiti
In Germany, many seniors have the opportunity to be creative and interact with others in an unconventional way – through graffiti classes. Graffiti classes for seniors are now gaining popularity and aid in the promotion of intergenerational solidarity and active ageing. In their classes, seniors and young people have the opportunity to paint graffiti alongside each other, which allows for intergenerational exchange through social interaction. The classes also promote increased community involvement for seniors.
For more information, please visit http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,778978,00.html
Meeting Places for Everyone
The project Meeting Places for Everyone is being led by Sveriges Makalösa Föräldrar, a Swedish NGO for single parents. The goal of this project is to promote intergenerational solidarity by creating a medium through which single-parent families can meet and form friendships with people who are 60 years or older. There will be several events throughout the year 2012 that provide a way for relationships to form between generations in a natural and positive way. On activity days groups of single parents and their children will be paired with persons over 60 and they will then be provided with a full day of activities and experiences.
At least three activities will be planned with at least 30 single parents and their children and 30 persons over 60 years old. The organization will then develop a method strategy which will be distributed to other NGO’s as well as government organisations. Sveriges Makalösa Föräldrar will also create a method booklet on how solidarity and cooperation can be developed between generations based on experiences and insights drawn from the activities.
For more information please contact: Sophia Lövgren at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Or visit: www.makalosa.org
Learn with Grandma
In recent years, grandparents have been playing a much larger role in the caretaking of their grandchildren. On the other hand, there are also many grandparents who now live much farther from their grandchildren. This organisation aims to promote relationships between grandparents and grandchildren who live close together as well as far apart.
Their aims are to:
1. Encourage grandparents to create lasting memories and have fun with their grandchildren as well as instil a love of learning
2. Encourage respect between the generations by showing each generation what the other has to teach them
3. Encourage seniors to learn technological skill from their younger generations and for seniors to teach more traditional skills to their children and grandchildren.
4. Create local and internet support networks for grandparents, parents and children.
5. To discover educational, fun activites and resources that grandparents can enjoy with their grandchildren
6. To work with other organisations to promote these aims internationally
To learn more, please visit: www.learnwithgrandma.org
- Young People are Part of the Community Too!
SALTO is a network of 8 Resource Centres that work to provide resources and organise activities in the field of youth work and training to support organisations and national agencies within the frame of the European Commission’s Youth in Action programme and beyond.
This month, SALTO is offering a training course which aims to explore how youth can empower the whole community. It will gather youth actors interested in intergenerational youth work. Besides the thematic workshops implemented by experienced trainers, it will include an action that will be carried out in the local community by the participants.
For detailed information, please visit http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/2248.html
Please make active use of all our other online resources and services available via MySALTO ( http://www.salto-youth.net/mySALTO/).
- On The Bus With Granny
"On The Bus With Granny" is one of the initiative of AENEAS (Attaining Energy-Efficient Mobility in an Ageing Society), a European project funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) programme.
The initiative aims at promoting older people’s mobility in Salzburg, Austria. AENEAS, along with the public transport company of Salzburg (StadtBus) created a brochure, in both English and German, explaining to children how to help older people with using public transport and how to behave.
To see the brochure in English, click the following link:
http://www.aeneas-project.eu/docs/OnTheBusWithGranny.pdf
For more information, please click on the following link:
http://www.aeneas-project.eu
- Generationendialog-Bürger in der Praxis initiierenNachhaltigkeit
In a Stuttgart (Germany) nursing home, pupils, students and trainees have the opportunity to spend time with older people and to see the world through the eyes of the older generations. Young and older people can interact by talking together, making music, playing and walking. A video (in German) is also available here below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLCgyYFNbusOn 27 May 2009, this project won the "Intergenerational Dialogue in Practice – Citizens Initiate Sustainability" competition, organised by the German Federal Government and the German Council for Sustainable Development.
For more information, please check the following links:
http://www.zeit-fuer-menschen.de/seite511.htm
http://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/projekte/eigene-projekte
- Gymkana intergeneracional
This activity consisted of the completion of five games to be played by various groups formed of children from 10-11 years and elderly persons, arranged in pairs (one child - one older adult). They piled up points in every game and the sum decided the winners.
At the end, everyone was invited to a snack; the winners received their prizes and the participants got a little something for their cooperation. The goals thatachieved were: the enhancement relationships between children and the elderly by assigning a common goal in the activity; the encouragement older people to become more involved in physical activities and cognitive stimulation; and improve the concept that children have about the older people in residential areas.For more information:
In Padua (Italy), the Community of Sant 'Egidio, which is a movement of lay people with more than 50,000 members, dedicated to evangelisation and charity working in Rome, Italy and in more than 70 countries throughout the world, sponsored a photo exhibition entitled "Long Live The Elderly! An alliance between generations", which was attended by many residents of the city, including many students. The exhibition represented an important intergenerational exchange. Older and young people discussed about ageing and the intergenerational contract. A series of meetings and debates have also seen young and old people together. Older people told younger generation about their lives, in particular the terrible experience of war.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.santegidio.org/index.php?pageID=2278&idLng=1062&res=1
- Between Generations 2.0
Project 2.0 Between Generations was born with a dual purpose: on one hand promote social values necessary for adequate living, this being the foundation for the new generation, (i.e. young people whose lives bear the burden and responsibility to becoming a better society) and secondly, to respond to the need of greater demand to make sense of their existence and be adaptable to the great changes that our society is experiencing (technological advances, globalization, current social policies such as gender equality, etc.).
Activities include: Review of the Society 50 years ago and currently over 30; arts and crafts shows: retrieval and transmission of traditions; and festival "Dance With Us" where both young and old teach and learn traditional dances of each era and time.
For more information:
- Connecting younger second language learners and older bilinguals:
Intergenerational, intercultural encounters and second language development
Monash University, Australia
The project brings together upper secondary school learners of Chinese, German and Spanish with older speakers of the language, promoting mutually beneficial inter-cultural, intergenerational encounters. Such encounters enhance second language acquisition outcomes for the young language learners. For the older participants these encounters provide opportunities for greater social engagement, resulting in an enhanced sense of empowerment, wellbeing and self-esteem.
This is a cross-disciplinary project, which involves a team of researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Health, Nursing and Medicine working collaboratively on this project and assessing the benefits for students' language and for senior's health.
For more information, please contact Ramona Baumgartner,
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or visit the website:
www.arts.monash.edu.au/intergenerational
- Raconte-moi…des histoires de vie: échange entre jeunes et personnes âgées de France et d'Allemagne (projet réalisé par l'organisation Parkwohnstift de Arnstorf et ViTaCiTé, la mission locale de Massy)
Des jeunes allemands de terminale et un groupe de jeunes français en difficulté professionnelle rencontreront en France puis en Allemagne des personnes âgées accueillies en maison de retraite et recueilleront leurs témoignages sur les transformations des conditions de vie et des technologies qu'elles ont observées au cours de leur vie mais aussi sur leur situation actuelle. Ces petites "histoires de vie" seront documentées au moyen d'enregistrements vidéo et de photos réalisés par les jeunes eux-mêmes qui travailleront en permanence en équipe franco-allemande. Chaque séjour se terminera par une petite fête rassemblant les générations.
http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language1/html/25954.asp
- Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt: Austausch zwischen Jugendlichen und älteren Menschen in Deutschland und Frankreich (durchgeführt vom Parkwohnstift in Arnstorf und ViTaCiTé, der "Mission locale" in Massy)
(Winner in an german competition / Robert-Bosch-Stiftung)
Junge Deutsche und Franzosen besuchen ältere Menschen in Seniorenheimen in Frankreich und Deutschland. Sie tauschen sich mit ihnen über ihre Erfahrungen aus und lernen über die unterschiedlichen Lebenswege, aber auch über die aktuelle Situation der Senioren. Diese "Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt" werden von den Jugendlichen, die in deutsch-französischen Teams arbeiten, anhand von Video- und Fotodokumentationen festgehalten. Jeder Austausch-Besuch wird durch ein kleines Fest abgeschlossen, das die unterschiedlichen Generationen zusammenbringt.
Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Padova, Italy.
In Padua (Italy), the Community of Sant 'Egidio wich is a movement of lay people with more than 50,000 members, dedicated to evangelisation and charity working in Rome, Italy and in more than 70 countries throughout the world, sponsored a photo exhibition entitled "Long Live the elderly! An alliance between generations". , attended by many students of the city. The exhibition represented an important intergenerational exchange. Older and young people discussed about ageing and the intergenerational contract. A series of meetings and debates have also seen young and old people together. Older people told younger generation about their lives, in particular the terrible experience of war.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.santegidio.org/index.php?pageID=2278&idLng=1062&res=1
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