For the elderly, it is necessary to engage actively in society, to be constructive, to deal with current and social issues. There is a substantial need for opportunities to promote senior’s active inclusion in society and lifelong learning, so they can connect with other people and their social contribution can be ensured. The project aims at the social integration of the elderly and seniors in a unique way where they can engage in social life through high-quality learning opportunities via digital learning solutions through various learning methods. The project will focus on the inclusion of seniors and elderly people in society, for that reason the GAP-IOS project brings together seven partners from 4 European countries, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Turkey who work with and for seniors and are experienced in life-long learning, training and online activities. The cooperation from different EU countries will ensure useful and good practices to the project. The project partners are chosen carefully according to their expertise and experience in the fields which this project involves. They will all bring their unique contribution to the project and its intellectual outputs. Target group will be elderly people and seniors over the AGE OF 65+ YEARS OLD. There will be three intellectual outputs in this project: The first intellectual output will be the GOLDEN AGE PLATFORM (GAP) which is prepared under a curriculum by experts of the related subjects, consists of basic knowledge on digitilization, health, financial, legal issues cultural and hobby activities (IO1) that elderly can use in their daily lives and protects them not to be cheated by malicious people. GAP is free of charge and is organised under the curriculum prepared by the academia and the experts in related subjects from public and private institutions with the collaboration of the project partners. The curriculum and the training programmes include different aspects of views from different cultures, sharing of experiences, searching for the best solutions in a transnational way. The second intellectual output is the TRAINING DOCUMENTS FOR SENIOR TRAINERS (IO2), which will consist of four tasks: Presentation and Teaching Techniques, Basic Teaching Skills, Basic Knowledge about Long-life Learning and Basic Models of Pedagogy. “TRAINING OF THE SENIOR TRAINERS” is organised according to the training document prepared in the (IO2) which will be organised as Short Term Training Activities (STT). These three workshops will be realised in Ankara(C1), Lisbon (C2) and Bonn (C3). The partner organisations in each country will be responsible from the organizational process of the workshop . The last intellectual output of the project will be COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION MEDIA (IO3), which will contain four tasks: Technical developments of the web, content production, social media activities and animation movies, online teaching materials, e-learning tools. During the GAP-IOS project, there will be 4 transnational meetings. From each project partner, 2 participants and from the coordinator partner 3 participants will attend to these four meetings and contribute according to their expertise. The purpose of these transnational meetings is, basically experience and know-how transfer between the project partners. The consortium of the project supports seniors as well as elderly with disadvantaged backgrounds through e-learning tools and digital platforms. The project aims at creating educational environments and provides a BEST PRACTICE MODEL that can be used in various countries to increase the living standards of elderly and provide their social inclusion into society. The project aims the social inclusion of the seniors and elderly people in an innovative way where they can join in social life by high quality learning opportunities on digital learning applications through informal and non-formal learning methods. For that reason all the document and training modules will be uploaded in the web pages of the partners and open axess for everyone. For multiplier event (E1) an international conference is planned “International Conference on The Social Inclusion of Seniors” in Turkey which focuses on the intellectual outputs of the project, besides “Experiences and Best Practises on Seniors” for 2 days in Ankara. The conference will be supported by all the project partners. During the project, the impact of the project is evaluated after every activity of the project by statistical methods via surveys and interviews. Project Management Board (PMB) will continuously monitor the implementation of the work plan, control the project budget and the project activities. The public will be informed from the project activities and results via EPALE.
With the increase in the elderly population in the modern world and the development of technology, elderly individuals over the age of 65 face some difficulties to adapt themselves in social life. The project aimed to promote the social, emotional and socio-educational support of the elderly and contribute to the improvement of their quality of life. The project consortium supports the elderly as well as those from disadvantaged backgrounds through online modules and digital media. By creating educational environments for the elderly, the project aimed to raise their living standards and ensure their reintegration into society, and this goal was achieved through the activities carried out within the scope of the project. With the increase in the elderly population in the modern world and the development of technology, elderly individuals over the age of 65 face some problems in social life. The project aims the social integration of the elderly and seniors in a unique way where they can engage in social life through high-quality learning opportunities via digital learning solutions through various learning methods.
Demographic ageing in Europe is accelerating, as the number of elderly people aged 65–79 years will increase significantly until around 2030 (by about 37.4%). Life expectancy in EU is increasing, and the number of very old persons (those aged 80 years or above) are rising 57.1% between 2010 and 2030 These developments play an important role in the current agenda of the European Union, where one of the main aims of EU policy is to ensure both solidarity and non-discrimination among the EU population. Council of Europe adopted a recommendation in 2014 numbered CM/Rec(2014)2, which specifically addresses the promotion, protection and ensurance of full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by older people, and promotion of respect for their inherent dignity. For that reasons, there are needs in every country to include the elderly in the active part of society; to promote public and private support for their social inclusion, to generate new policies which keeps them strong in the public. It shows that there is a very big need for the social inclusion of the seniors in every country. GAP-IOS supports the EU policies to strengthen seniors above 65+ years old seniors by creating online training modules..