AGE and its Greek member, 50+Hellas, are involved in DIGITOL, a new European project for the digital inclusion of older adults that kicks off this January 2020. By building intergenerational synergies, the project aims to sustain the digital participation and active citizenship of older adults and contain the spread of fake news and hate speech.
The DIGITOL project will address the emerging need for a better digital literacy among older adults in filtering-out fake news that promote unfounded hateful speech, discriminatory attitudes, radical or divisive nationalism, racism and homophobia. It will use an evidence-based, successfully used life-long learning method, that capitalises the benefits of intergenerational learning and intergenerational solidarity.