The overall objective is to provide conditions for older people to obtain digital skills through selected good practices including filmmaking; to train trainers how to apply good practices with older people in the frames of modern digital approach. The need was identified through consulting relevant studies in this field, through our own research, conversation with our senior students. (When students are low educated questionnaires do not yield any valid results); to enable organizations to develop and strengthen their capacity to increase the ability to work internationally by sharing ideas, methods and good practices and implement successful activities with older people at local, regional and national level. The specific objectives are to improve capacity of experts working with seniors in digital field as far as ICT is developing very fast and digital skills of seniors remain very poor. The preliminary needs analysis in each partner organization showed that older people lack of updated digital skills and this makes a lot of problems for them and decreases quality of life. End users - retired - usually live alone but have a lot to share with people – they need access to modern education and integration. The target group involved - trainers, experts, teachers, social workers who work with older people will be trained how to use effective good practices. They will participate in 3 trainings: in Germany, Slovenia and Portugal for improving ICT skill and learning new methods as well as a lot of techniques how seniors to have better access to apps, new skills for jobs (if they want to continue working, even retired), how to be better integrated in society and to send their digital messages to their grandchildren and to the world using favourite arts tools as cinema making – production of shorts films; documentary - biographic interviews, Web TV with videos, etc. This project combines and unites previous experience of partners in their work with seniors but now entirely in the digital context. We have recently identified an interest also in groups of low educated and low skilled older workers who took some courses with our organizations. Facilitating the education and the digital inclusion of older generations who, unlike younger generations, were not born into the world of images, is the need behind this project. 15 trainers will obtained new skills how to involve older people in ICT activities, new digital skills for making cinema, documentary, Web TV, learning skills for new jobs; enriched expertise with many non-formal methods as city games, biographic interviews, how to make a film; scriptwriting; 1050 older people will be involved in local training activities including 350 with fewer opportunities ( in 7 partners countries) International activities will be 3 trainings of trainers ( 7 partners x 2 persons in selected good practices using digital tools how to organize trainings for older people in their countries. Methodology. As they are, by rule, functionally illiterate, using films rather than linear texts has proven to have many advantages over the rest of the methods. The cinematographic text and language have an advantage over other languages, since such text leads to free interpretation and learning. Film is definitely a teaching and/or learning tool that reveals the other (not the self), and leads to the comprehension and construction of ndividual, social and cultural identity needed for successfull social inclusion. Moreover making films is a creative process and as thus inclusive for all who participate in a film making team. Cinematographic text is a tool that can be used in the process of older people education. The results will be at least 2 films per partner ( 14); web site for uploading films and documentary videos; E-brochure with selected good practices examples for free access for any expert working with older people. Moodle based platform will be used for the repository and communication purposes to support the tasks: Management, Dissemination, Evaluation and Trainings. For each task a separate Learning Room will be established in order to support collecting documents and products. For communication each Learning Room will offer a dedicated Forum. Impact envisaged and finally the potential longer term benefits are that all product and resources will be uploaded on the web site of the project for free access of trainers and end users and also for general audience who like cinema. Each partner will create Face page group where all new audio-visual products will be uploaded; Web site with all resources will be active after project life. Older people will find friends from other countries who have similar interests and will be part of large EU seniors filmmaking network. They will receive the chance to send their messages to Europe based on their life stories through cinema tools.
The Strategic Partnership for Older People’s Inclusion into the Digital World (SPIDW) project was implemented in the period from 01/10/2018 to 31/12/2020 within the Erasmus + programme by seven partner organizations from Germany, Slovenia, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and Slovakia, which are very good aware that in the age of digitalisation, the development of ICT skills of older people has the great importance. The current pandemic situation that arose during the implementation of the project also pointed out that the education of seniors in the field of digital technologies is inevitable. The main objectives of the project were to provide training for trainers by exchanging experiences and best practices based on modern digital tools in education of older adult, enable education providers and trainers to develop and strengthen their skills in international cooperation, share ideas, methods and best practices for developing the skills of seniors, especially in the field of ICT, to provide older people with opportunities to obtain and development of digital skills, implement successful educational activities with older people at local, regional and national level. The direct target group of project were experts of the partners’ organisations, adult trainers, particularly for seniors, social workers but indirect benefit from results had also older people in post-professional phase of life. Trainers from all partner organizations took part in three training activities in Germany, Slovenia (face to face) and Portugal (online) in order to improve their ICT skills and learn new digital methods and techniques, which they then passed on to their older students within the local training activities. The participants of trainings acquired competencies in the field of the City Games method, a biographical narrative method in the education of older adults, in the field of the application of SILVER blended learning, the implementation of digital storytelling and the preparation of films. A total of 36 trainers took part in the training and 84 seniors took part in film preparation training. Within the project there were created 27 short films, including the experiences of older people from the pandemic period of COVID-19. Older people were involved in local training activities including also 362 people with fewer opportunities (in the partners countries). All in all 10742 persons were involved or got in touch with the SPIDW project. More detailed information about the project and the results of the project can be found at - the project website https://www.spidw.eu/ - the project Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SPIDW-1212175895601506?locale=de_DE - in the e-book Including older people into the digital world https://www.spidw.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/SPIDW-E-book-21.12.2020_FINAL.pdf