With this project we wanted to make it possible to establish parallels between the twenties of the past century and the current one, allowing the conditions in which totalitarianism were born in Europe, and the consequences of these to be known. We aimed to provide participants with tools that allow the detection of the totalitarian and antidemocratic attitudes, as well as those that help them to resolve conflicts peacefully through democratic values and mutual respect. Based on the Cybernovel Replication Handbook (A1) the historical cybernovels of Clarita and Klarika (https://livingthe20s.blog/) were created, in order to illustrate the socio-political and economic context of the time in which the stories take place and to draw parallels with contemporary events. Following the narrative thread of the fictional characters, multicultural and intergenerational workshops (A2) were developed and organized in the participating countries (Spain and Romania), in which both old and young people had opportunity to value and to show their experiences of resilience, to enhance multiculturalism and to foster mutual respect. These experiences can be exchanged between people from different European countries.
Because of the way we currently live, our society is becoming increasingly individualistic, which is changing the way we have always related to the main social institutions, fragmenting society in small towns and diluting the notion of community in the broad sense. We believe that it is important to develop activities that help to overcome this fragmentation, the way that helps us to overcome it must be activities that promote the recognition of diversity and the integration of different perspectives. Through local entities, which are close to the citizens, Living the 20’s Erasmus+ project aimed to create learning synergies between the elderly and the very young within their municipalities, in order to motivate both old and young people to value and to show their experiences of resilience, to enhance multiculturalism and to foster mutual respect. In addition to learning about the history and linguistic turns of their cities, thus promoting integration, the activities carried out in the project allowed participants to learn about the conditions that prevailed in the 1920s and are still relevant today: economic crisis, high unemployment, precarious employment conditions, growing inequalities, high level of dissatisfaction.