The population of older people in Burdur is increasing fast, due to low birth rates and migration to other neighbouring cities. The demographic change that we have experienced in Europe has been rapid. In the near future nearly a third of the population will be elderly. This increase is primarily due to increased life expectancy coupled with a decline in birth rates. Life expectancy in Europe has increased from 55 in 1920 to 80 today. An aging population means a change in the economic, social and technological structures for a country. Ageing is causing changes in the society as whole. Ageing is a global phenomenon. Although it is usually associated with loneliness and isolation, ageing can also be an enjoyable experience if senior citizens are provided lifelong learning opportunities, live healthy and independently with security. Elderly often feel confused when faced with new technologies. Same of them have computers and internet at their home, but their relatives don‘t have enough patience and time to teach the elderly to use these technologies. EU’s 2010 initiative and its action plan on ICT and Aging sets three areas rising from the user needs. It sets high emphasis on elderly users’ needs in using, learning and taking-up the ICT. The project aim is to imparting digital skills to people aged over 60+ years, and to present new learning strategies. Because elderly people has some problems on to reach news, health information, shopping (e-trade), and the ability to stay in touch with distant friends and family. On the other hand many elderly people on fixed incomes and with little access to current technology are experiencing frustration and helplessness. Within the Project, basic digital skills will be provided to elderly people with courses thus elderly people will be eased into the digital world—active participation in community. Our target group is 60+ aged people. Our aim has been to present a case for imparting digital skills to people aged over 60+ years of age, and to present strategies.The project will help to teach elderly how to use the internet to keep in touch with people, find information, use of credit cards, bank operations, requesting a doctor’s appointment, and purchases over the Internet much more. Objectives of the project are: - To develop and implementation of a new information and communication technology (ICT) education program for individuals over the age of 60+, and increase their quality of life. - Social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development, and resulting in an improvement of the quality of life of elder - To support social life of elder - To design of evidence-based training initiatives for digital inclusion of older people; -To promote active ageing. The project will be carried out totally 5 partners. Our local partners is Burdur Public Education Centre. European partners are PHOENIXKM BVBA in Belgium, CIDET (Spain) CPIA 1 (Italy) . All partners have expertise & experience in the field of education, training, while making it available to the targeted user groups through well-defined consultancy services, as well as EU funded projects. Within the Project, a new training materials will be developed in order to connect them to the new technologies, ensuring that these technologies are appropriate for their needs, expectations and interests. In this way, society’s goal of achieving equality and full participation of the elderly may become a reality. Within the Project, two Short Term Learning, Training activities to be held in Belgium and Italy. PHENIVKM BVBA (Belgium) will organize first Short Term Learning Teaching activity in Belgium. For this purpose, PHENIVKM BVBA will give training course for 10 participants from Turkey, 2 participants from Spain and 4 participants from Italy. Second Short Term Learning, Teaching and Training activity will be organized by CPIA 1 in Italy . CPIA 1 will give training course for 10 participants from Turkey, 2 participants from Spain and 2 participants from Belgium . Then local trainings will be given to seniors to improve their digital literacy. Also, two multiplier events (seminar) will be organized in Burdur and Italy with participation of relevant staekholders for sharing and disseminating the intellectual outputs realised. The expected results of the project are achieve a sufficient quality of life in old age, which may allow older persons to lead a fuller and more participatory life and can serve as essential instruments in promoting their civil participation. Other expected result of the project is development of the mental and psychological conditions of the elderly and for being part of social life. Thus, active ageing will be provided. Project will impact senior citizens LLL opportunities for active ageing. The promotion of the digital literacy will support their ageing and offer them social inclusion, independence and motivation.
The population of older people in Burdur is increasing fast, due to low birth rates and migration to other neighboring cities. The demographic change that we have experienced in Europe has been rapid. On the other hand, Ageing is causing changes in society as a whole. Although it is usually associated with loneliness and isolation, ageing can also be an enjoyable experience if senior citizens are provided lifelong learning opportunities, live healthily and independently with security. Elderly people often feel confused when faced with new technologies. Some of them have computers and internet at their home, but their relatives don‘t have enough patience and time to teach the elderly to use these technologies. Besides, elderly people have some problems on reaching news, health information, shopping (e-trade), and the ability to stay in touch with distant friends and family. Target group is 60+ aged people. Our aim is to present a case for imparting digital skills to people aged over 60+ years of age and to present strategies. The project helped to teach the elderly how to use the internet to keep in touch with people, find information, use credit cards, bank operations, request a doctor’s appointment, and purchases over the Internet much more. Objectives of the project are: - To develop and implementation of a new information and communication technology (ICT) education program for over the age of 60+, and increase the quality of life. - Social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development, and resulting in an improvement of the quality of life of seniors - To support the social life of elder - To design evidence-based training initiatives for digital inclusion of older people; -To promote active ageing. Within the Project, basic digital skills has been provided to elderly people. To improve the digital skills of seniors, new Intellectual outputs such as Training Curriculum, Training Materials, Practical Handbook, E-Learning Module and to solve their problems, Quick Solution App. were developed. All Intellectual outputs were developed in order to connect them to the new technologies, ensuring that these technologies are appropriate for their needs, expectations and interests have been developed. Also, to teach seniors use of inter, computer, and mobile phones, we organized the local courses in Burdur and Catania by using project Intellectual Outputs. Local training courses impacted increased seniors' quality of life. Thus elderly people have eased into the digital world—active participation in the community via training courses. The project was carried out totally 5 partners. Our local partner was Burdur Public Education Centre. European partners were Austrıan Assocıatıon Of Inclusıve AIS (Austria), CIDET (Spain) CPIA 1 (Italy). All partners have expertise & experience in the field of education, training while making it available to the targeted user groups through EU-funded projects. Two Short Term Learning, Training (LTT) activities were held in Austria and Italy. AIS (Austria) was organized first Short Term Learning Teaching activity in Vienna. 6 participants from Turkey, 2 participants from Spain and 2 participants from Italy were attended to 1. LTT . 2. LTT was held by CPIA 1 in Italy. CPIA 1 organized a training course for 5 participants from Turkey, 1 participant from Spain, and 2 participants from Austria. Then local training was given to seniors to improve their digital literacy in Burdur and Catania. Also, two multiplier events (seminar) were organized in Burdur (40 participants) and Italy with the participation (30 participants) of relevant stakeholders for sharing and disseminating the intellectual outputs realized. At the end of the project, we believed that we reached the expected results of the project with the contribution of project intellectual outputs and local training courses of seniors organized in Burdur and Catania, Italy. Since seniors start to use internet, mobile phones, use social media, online banking, online shopping, read news etc a sufficient quality of life in old age has been provided. In this way, society’s goal of achieving equality and full participation of the elderly was provided. Now, seniors are more active and social in their life. Thus, social inclusion was provided. The result of the project is the development of the mental and psychological conditions of the elderly and for being part of social life. Thus, our project has been supported active ageing. Local training courses impacted increased seniors' quality of life. Also, social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development have been provided. The project also has impacted senior citizens LLL opportunities The Ageing Together project has been impacted senior citizens' LLL opportunities for active ageing. The promotion of digital literacy has been supported their aging and offered them social inclusion, independence, and motivation.