E- SHAHRAZAD project aims to bridge the gap between the young generation and the adult generation using stories, which have been the best means of learning in every era from past to present. It is inevitable for the project, which is on a subject that closely concerns all countries in the European Union, to be carried out internationally with a multi-partnered and multicultural structure and for the products to be launched at EU level. Inspired by the Thousand and One Nights Tales, the E-SHRAZAD project aims to bring teenagers and adults over 55 together in an intergenerational dimension, develop the ICT skills, basic reading and writing skills of adults, and to provide teenagers with knowledge and skills about the European cultural heritage, values and history. In our project, which is conducted with the partnership of Turkey, France, Portugal, Austria, UK and Italy , Methodology, Guides and Educational Material on the use of Digital Storytelling for Intergenerational Learning in adult education will be developed and these materials will be accessible as open source videos in English and all other partner languages. Digital Starytellinh Hub will create and provide self learning platform with differents educational materials. Within the scope of E-SHRAZAD, a 4-day training will be conducted with a total of 24 individuals responsible for adult education from each partner country, and these trainers will conduct workshops and a pilot application with the attendance of 20 adults aged over 55 and 10 young individuals aged 13-25 from each country with a duration of 3 months. During the project period, a minimum of 5 and a total of 20 digital stories will be created from each partner country. At the end of the project, a Compendium that will consist of good practices at EU level will be prepared and shared with all stakeholders.
- For trainers, institutions and organisations working in the field of adult education, development of IT skills of adults over 55 using digital storytelling management with an innovative approach to intergenerational learning - in this context, training materials and training of trainers as well as pilot applications have been developed in each partner country) Ensuring the transfer and sustainability of intangible cultural heritage with adults aged 18-25 and 55+ through the digital storytelling method (digital stories have been developed in each country in pilot implementations). Preparation of an online self-learning E-SHAHRAZAD HUB for trainers and organisations working in group and adult education for adults aged 55+ who have become isolated in the Covid era (video, podcast, training material, methodology, best practices, etc. prepared)
Meeting the learning needs of older people and ensuring that they are engaged in learning throughout their later years, which are becoming an increasingly long period of their lives, are important and growing challenges. Adult learners not only need better literacy, they also need better digital literacy. The "digital skills gap" is widening in Europe. With the development of technology, a period that exists especially among adults over 55, but which deepens with the isolation experienced during the covid 19 process and the social, psychological and existential problems it brings, Our project focuses on three main needs: 1. While rapid changes, the virtual world, technological advances are defined as important requirements in social and economic life, Covid 19 is no longer a need and has become a necessity. Numerous scientific studies and EU reports on adult education confirm this. 2. The Covid 19 process is not only a process of pandemic and isolation, but also a sociological process that has to be evaluated with social transformation and new arguments. In this context, the risk group of adults over 55 years of age and isolation has established the feeling of loneliness. In this context, intergenerational learning will strengthen social and societal ties and provide a link to the past for the future. 3. "As many sources show, storytelling is a very important part of personal and social memory and cultural heritage. In particular, the experiences and fiction-sized stories that adults over 55 tell are a very important method for intergenerational learning, as well as being a record for oral history.