The aim was: 1. Encouraging local people and our employees 55 + to improve their skills for conflict solving, communication and better know the concept of conflict resolution and mediation. 2. Reducing the knowledge/skills gap between people 55+ and younger generations who have more education on conflict resolution (school, college, Internet) and professional people involved in conflict resolution (like professional mediators) 3. Delivering some solutions and recommendations for further development of the bigger project "Gento", submitted recently by our Turkish partner. 4.Enabling people 55+ to deal with conflicts in a better way and to play the role of “social mediator” - a person in local society who can help to solve different problems (family, senior clubs, local society) 5. Promoting the idea of mediation as a peaceful method for conflict resolution.
Our organizations from consortium worked with adults and saw the need for activities connected with conflict resolutions for adults 55+ as they did not exist for a bigger scale. People for whom we prepared activities like 55+ often had small conflicts also during our meetings or complaint not to be understood by others. They also did not know about modern conflict resolution solutions like mediation. We diagnosed the need to improve this situation.