To address the gap and needs of the field, the IDEAL project’s objectives are to: -Build the capacity of senior adult educators to become digitally literate in their teaching practices, by supporting development of professional networks across Europe -Build the competencies of senior adults to use basic digital tools in their every day life, by simplifying the implementation and accessibility of high quality teaching and learning programmes in all forms of adult education, and making them relevant to the needs of individual and the society at large -Build a digital competence to senior adult learners, in order to be able to use computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information and also to be able to communicate and participate in collaborative networks via the Internet. Using internet and communication technologies requires a critical and reflective attitude towards available information.
Lifelong learning refers to all planned or random learning activities throughout one’s lifetime to develop individual’s knowledge, skills and competences. So we can say lifelong learning is an umbrella that contains all formal, informal and non-formal learning process. . People must continuously renew themselves and must develop in different areas. Lifelong learning should be seen as a process that will continue throughout our entire lives. As globalisation continues you will need a wide range of key competences to adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing and highly interconnected world. To effectively and continuously benefit from Lifelong learning activities, one needs to have certain qualifications as recommended by the European Council. Preparing Adult Educators for a Digital World, IDEAL is an idea related to this priority funded by the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 1 (KA122-ADU), by implementing non formal life long learning methods via group mobility activities.