By implementing the project, we wanted to achieve two overall goals: - To train the brain of the elderly people by means of different toolkits in multiple intelligence, with a view to facilitating to them the process of learning new things, such as digital skills. -As a result of improved digital literacy, to include them in the society by giving them skills that are most required in this society Specific objectives: - to train some important cognitive skills of the elderly - linguistic, mathematical, spatial and musical. Training these spheres of brain contributes to better brain plasticity and ability to learn new things, such as digital literacy. - Develop self-confidence of the elderly people as for learning and acquiring new skills - when they see that they can successfully complete different tasks activating different fields of brain and learn new skills, they are more likely to learn something new in the future. We also aimed at helping them get rid of the cliche many seniors create themselves ̈I am not going to learn it, because it is too difficult ̈.
We applied for this project, because we detected that throughout Europe, elderly people lacked digital skills that are necessary for the comfortable life of nowadays. We decided to develop an innovative approach: to train cognitive abilities of the elderly, so that it could be easier for them to learn new skills, such as digital competences. The needs addressed have been: 1. Needs to train some cognitive abilities of the elderly people, so that their brain is more flexible and ready to learn (digital skills). 2. Needs to integrate these elderly people in all social processes, that they were excluded earlier because of lack of digital skills, as a consequence of their readiness to learn new things. 3. Needs to give these people confidence that they are still able and should take up cognitive training and acquire new knowledge 4. Needs to implement Multiple intelligence approach as an innovative methodology for cognitive training.