In the 21st century, we are witnessing the emergence of a growing concern about major international issues that will mark the political and educational agendas of many countries, such as active ageing, the digital divide and cybersecurity, the conservation of cultural heritage, rural abandonment, youth employability, sustainable development and public health. All these issues are opening up new horizons of content for those people in Adult Education, with a special focus on older people, who want to improve their knowledge and skills and remain active in the field of lifelong learning, in order to be able to develop active and informed citizenship with regard to these challenges of today's society. Through the CRxSiSS project, we have developed a scenario for exchanging pedagogical approaches and educational resources on these crucially important issues to which citizens must respond in a unanimous manner. To this end, we have organised a series of mobilities, both of teachers (through short joint training events), and of students (courses structured in combined presential-virtual mobilities), and where each entity, specialized in one of these topics, have shared its experience and good practices developed in its geographical area, both by themselves and by other close collaborating entities, in such a way that the exchange effect at a transnational level has been multiplied. Furthermore, these actions have served as a basis for the improvement of the teaching skills of the teachers involved, as well as of the programmes, methodologies and resources of their institutions of origin, and therefore, of the quality of training of their students, their skills and knowledge, helping them to face and act upon the current challenges of this changing society strongly influenced by the topics described above. The University of Malaga (Spain) with its program Aula de Mayores+55; Tierra de Maestros (TdM, Spain), a private entity with its courses and activities of promotion and cultural awareness in Adult Education, Università della LiberEtà (ULE, Italy) as a People's University closely related to the municipal and regional government; The Intercultural Association for All (IAFA, Portugal) as an institution specialized in the mobility of adults in entrepreneurship and intercultural issues; GEA (Slovenia) through its numerous social programs of environment and responsible consumption and the Public Health Service of Serbia (GZZJZ) as a public entity of awareness and training in major health issues such as pandemics, have formed the consortium that have developed the project. The consortium have produced a final handbook for trainers, as a main result of the exchange of the set of activities, which highlights initiatives, resources and training materials created in projects financed by the European Union in the entities involved and other nearby institutions, as examples of good practice, with free access from the project website, the Erasmus+ Results Platform and other institutional repositories. In order to promote the sustainability of the project and to extend the application of its results beyond the geographical scope of influence of the consortium and local entities, information seminars have been organised after the training mobilities in the participating countries, as well as a final event in the coordinating country (with a more national/international character), expressly inviting the key actors in the field of the project (adult and senior educators, social services staff, political stakeholders, etc.). In short, CRxSiSS aimed to promote, especially through meetings of teachers and courses for students of adult education programmes, and especially for older people, the exchange of experiences, good practices and content of interest on issues of great relevance in the whole of European society today (active aging, digital divide and cyber security, conservation of cultural heritage, youth employability, rural abandonment, sustainable development and public health), thus creating a scenario of dialogue and exchange at a transnational level which, from the diversity of the natures of the entities and countries involved, goes into the need to fight from the education in the promotion and improvement of key concepts to favour a common European identity: active aging, digital world, heritage, environment and territory, health, etc. In this sense, it was therefore necessary to highlight the promotion of an active citizenship that responds to these great challenges of the 21st century for European society, as well as to include the intergenerational perspective, covering the different age cohorts within adult education and lifelong learning.
CRxSiSS has sought to promote, especially through meetings of teachers and courses for students of adult education programmes, and especially for seniors, the exchange of experiences, good practices and contents of interest in these subjects, thus creating a scenario for dialogue and exchange at a transnational level which, from the diversity of the natures of the participating entities and countries, will deepen the need to fight from education in the promotion and improvement of key concepts to favour a common European identity: active ageing, digital world, heritage, environment and territory, public health, etc. It should be noted, therefore, that the promotion of an active citizenship that responds to these major challenges of the 21st century of European society, as well as the inclusion of an intergenerational perspective, covering the different age cohorts within adult education and lifelong learning, can foster educational innovation and the improvement of teaching-learning in these areas in the consortium of participating entities, as well as in their local networks of associated collaborating institutions.
In the 21st century, we are witnessing a growing concern about major international issues which are on the political and educational agendas of many countries, such as active ageing, the digital divide and cybersecurity, heritage conservation, rural abandonment, youth employability, sustainable development and public health. All these topics open up new content horizons for those in Adult Education, with a special focus on older people, who want to improve their knowledge and competences, and stay active in the field of lifelong learning, in order to be able to develop an active and informed citizenship with regard to these challenges of today's society. Therefore, through CRxSiSS we have established a scenario of exchange of pedagogical approaches and educational resources around these crucial issues in order to facilitate their teaching, while promoting the training of teachers, from the methodological and content point of view, as well as the training of students for a critical and active citizenship oriented education.