Context/background and Objective of the project: Transmission of Experience through Digitally Trained Senior Mentors to Mentees (TEaTIME) project is a research-driven project aiming senior citizens who are regarded as digitally low-skilled but good at their current job and willing to transmit their profession to younger generations. The senior citizens (we aim to see them after the project as "digitally trained senior mentors") will three tailor-made training modules namely; Mentorship, Conflict of Generations, and Digital Competence which will enable them learn to communicate with the younger generation, to use digital devices easily, and to transmit their professions to young mentees. Number and Profile of Participants: The project’s main target group is senior adults (retired or in a wider context aged 55+ adults) and young people (newly graduated or newly started his/her working life – aged between 23-30). The participants will be allocated as follows: 1. 180 senior adults will participate in pilot trainings (45 for each training module’s pilot training and minimum 15 senior adults from each organisation) 2. 60 young people (newly graduated or newly started his/her working life – aged between 23-30) will participate in a conflict of generations pilot training (minimum 15 people from each organisation). All participant will be awarded a certificate that proves they have successfully completed the training. The trainers dealing with adult education will be qualified to give training on mentorship for adults. Methodology to be used in carrying out the project and description activities: Coordinator: Pendik Municipality Outputs: 7 (O1: Preparation & Implementation of Survey; O2: Mentorship Programme Participant Database; O3: Mentorship Program Training Module; O4: Conflict of Generations Training Module; O5: Digital Competence Training Module; O6: E-learning Platform; O7: Guidebook) Activities: 26 (PMI, Dissemination, Timetable, Valorisation, Exploitation, etc.) Steering Committee: Each organisation has a representative to be in charge of taking important decision related to the project. Transnational Meetings: 4 Multiplier Events: 4 (Conference for Digitally Trained Senior Mentors Programme) All partners will be involved throughout the project in all the activities and events. The activities will generate genuine research, need analysis, training modules, e-learning platform, mentorship database, and a guidebook. Short description of the results and impact envisaged: The whole participants will be awarded certificates which we desire it to extend across Europe that will testify their skills and background received in adult education on mentorship and so on. In short term, the project firstly aims to get results and have an impact at local and regional levels. We aim to enable the active participation of senior adults and providing them with active ageing within society. Therefore; a set of trainings are planned to be actualized in related education centres and universities. Potential long-term benefits: The project will change perceptions of people towards senior adults to have them into social life. They will have enough opportunities to share their experiences through well-designed education and will break the walls with young generations. The local and national governments will give importance and the project’s outputs will be trained in more places than expected. The project aims to be a solid reference for the future of adult education.
According to Eurostat data, life expectancy will be 80.6 in 2050. Ageing is one of the challenging issue within the EU and it affects most of its policy areas of the EU Commission. In addition, the EU declared the year of 2012 as European Year of Active Ageing to raise awareness of ageing & encourage policymakers & stakeholders to promote active ageing We have aimed to support & promote active ageing wthn the project activities for seniors Acceleration of the technological development & social changes seniors' knowledge have to update. So the project activities given opportunity reskilling & upskilling thanks for seniors. They can find new ways to adaption with younger generation The project aimed to upskill the adults & gain some other competences to transmit their professional skills to new generations. This did not just provide social inclusion of adults after retirement but also enable them to set good relations with young ones The objectives - Facilitating the integration of senior adults (SA) into social life after retirement - Providing mutual understanding among SA & young generations - Updating & reskilling digital competence of SA - Facilitating & increasing integration among mentors & mentees thg mentorship database
The priority of the project is Adult Education: ımproving and extending the supply of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low qualified adults. When we analyze this priority in terms of project aim some important result occured during preparation of the project. The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth is considered lifelong learning and skill development were responses to demographic ageing within the European Union (EU). The Council Resolution on the European Agenda for Adult Learning gives attention to lifelong learning to enable adults to include within the society. In the project, we upskilled the adults' digital competences, enable them getting on well with the young generation, and transmit their professional skills to them through training they received during the project. To sum up, they were not just be a learner but also a mentor at the end of the project which facilitated their adaption to social life after retirement.