Our general objective was to offer seniors (70+ y.o.) with fewer opportunities partecipation possibilities to promote their inclusion and mitigate the isolation they have faced during covid-19. The project wanted to give elders a space for developing creative skills together with their peers. The project was meant to further common values, civic engagement and participation above all of elder people in public life. The project intended also to promote the culture identity of the partner countries and european citizenship. Our specific objetcives were: - to develop a guide describing the work methodology for the travelling Caravan and for creating inclusion and participation through art. - to prepare 3 travelling Caravans with at least 5 seniors (1 in each country), that included a performance, non-formal activities of social values and promoted the engagement of seniors with fewer opportunities. - to travel with the Caravan to 5 locations and thus reaching other seniors living for example in depressed neighbourhoods, isolated villages, low-income areas. - to engage at least 450 people in the events of the travelling Caravan - to share the work methodology with at least 60 organisation active in the field of adult education.
A priority of our projects was to create learning opportunities for 70+ years old citizens, above all those with fewer opportunities, promoting active ageing and fostering community development through creativity, arts and culture. During the last years and due to the conditions faced during the pandemic, many elders have felt highly isolated. Offering the elders a creative activity we wanted to reduce depression and isolation, showing them the power of choice and decision. We also wanted to fulfill the need of a rediscovered sociality as well as the need of feeling still useful and active.