Objective 1 Development and improvement of social and digital skills from VET-students with their teachers and older people is realized. In this project, pedagogically valuable methods and methodologies are developed that are well suited for teachers and learners to develop and improve social and digital skills, combined with Culinary Heritage. The learning and instruction materials that serve this goal can be viewed and downloaded in the Web App. The joint intergenerational activities contribute to develop a cooperation and better understanding between young and old. Objective 2 Digital possibilities for intergenerational communication and the digital readiness of older people contribute to improve their skills. During the project VET-students and older people had interviews to collect CH recipes, to create regional online cookbooks and to use it for joint cooking events or comparable intergenerational activities. Objective 3 Learning scenario "Culinary Heritage" contribute to make VET lessons more attractive and stimulate intergenerational contacts. CH has proven to be the best way to achieve the above-mentioned goal to develop and improve social and digital skills among VET students with their teachers and older people.
Needs for this application Based on collected information from the potential partners and a first Desk Research, the consortium made a Need Analysis and used it in the proposal. These results were in line with European measures in the EC from 17-01-2018 and the EU-strategy. That made the focus from YMOCH on increasing these key (social and digital) competences. The consortium came to the conclusion that a development and advancement of social and digital skills have an significant and important influence on European society. To improve the inclusion of the elderly generation into this society and to develop intergenerational cooperation and understanding, was the immediate objective of the YMOCH project. This objective is realized through developed learning and teaching content for the target group: VET-students with their teachers and the older generation. The focus was on the theme Culinary Heritage (CH). Needed competences for all target groups (VET students, their teachers and the older generation) were developed by activities, like joint cooking events. In the CH Web-App, all learning and instruction materials for intergenerational activities can be used and downloaded. See www.culinairy-heritage.eu