The challenge addressed by the project is a fast ageing. Due to rising life expectancy, the proportion of older people in Europe is increasingly rapidly. Active ageing and solidarity between generations are key to the creation of a Europe for all ages. The transmission of older people's knowledge and skills to the younger generations should be encouraged and their skills should be utilised after retirement, for example through voluntary work. Multigenerational learning as an answer to above challenges, represents one of the most important means of overcoming gaps between generations. Proposed project aims to increase the quantity and above all enhance the quality of multigenerational cooperation between the oldest and the youngest generation – seniors and preschool children. Project is designed on the basis of ongoing Erasmus+ Strategic partnership, through which, partners recognized the great added value of multigenerational learning if it is well planned, and conducted by relevantly trained senior mentors, adult education and preschool staff. Project main target group are senior mentors. Project aims to provide seniors with opportunities for active ageing by training them for multigenerational programs mentoring. The overall project objective is to develop and pilot five well planned multigenerational activities programs, which will become a part of regular activities of all project partner organizations. Adult education providers, preschool teachers and senior mentors will in a project, trough learning from each other, sharing ideas, practices and methods gain all the knowledge and skills needed for implementation of good quality multigenerational activities. Connecting not only two different sectors of education - preschool and adult education but also partners from five different countries will bring innovative solutions for facing the common challenges in the field of multigenerational learning. Transnational dimension of working in the project will allow participants to get in touch with completely new visions and ideas – combining them will lead to solutions that could never happened in just one national environment.
With the project, we wanted to ensure the possibility of transferring good practices of intergenerational learning between different organizations. We pursued the goal of developing and testing four well-planned programs of intergenerational activities within the framework of the project, which will become part of the regular activities of partner organizations. At the same time, with the project, we wanted to enable the elderly to acquire all the knowledge and skills necessary for mentoring quality intergenerational activity by learning from each other, exchanging ideas, practices and methods as mentors in the project.
With the project, we responded to the challenge of rapid aging. According to EU documents, active aging and intergenerational solidarity are key to creating a Europe for all ages. With the project, we encouraged the transfer of the knowledge and skills of the elderly to the younger generations, thus enabling the elderly to "utilize" their skills even after retirement - through voluntary work. We recognized intergenerational learning as a response to the challenges of rapid aging and as one of the most important means of overcoming the gap between generations. We applied for the project because we wanted to increase the number, but above all, raise the quality of multigenerational cooperation between the oldest and youngest generations - older and preschool children. At the same time, the project addressed the elderly's need for active aging - namely, the project provided the elderly with opportunities for active aging through training for the implementation of intergenerational programs.