OUTDOOR ICT Grundtvig Project
2011 -2013
PARTNERS
Università LiberEtà del Fvg - ITALY
Aula de Mayores de la Universidad de Málaga - SPAIN
Die Kärntner Volkshochschulen - AUSTRIA
Cultural Institute of Évora - PORTUGAL
INSTITUT E-SENIORS FRANCE
EdirneTurizm ve Otelcilik Meslek Lisesi Okul Aile Birligi - TURKEY
/ EDIRNE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOLL & PARENT UNION
D.1. SUMMARY
Within the framework of its i2010
initiative the European Commission communicated its "Action Plan on Information and
Communications Technology for Ageing" with the subtitle of "Ageing
well in the Information Society". In this document the Commission
expresses its belief that ICT can provide enormous support to older people to
stay active for longer in various fields of life: at work, in the home and in
the wider community. Among the reasons why already existing ICT tools and
applications are prevented from effective use in this group is stated
to be low awareness of the opportunities and insufficient sharing of
experiences.
The project Outdoor ICT aims to face these
challenges and offer pathways to explore and use expertise and knowledge of
project partners in the field of adult education, health care promotion and ICT
and unify these pools of knowledge by tailoring them to the needs of people
over 45. The main objectives of the project are 1, to explore needs of the
target group 2, to offer people45+ opportunities to explore new ways of
acquiring knowledge on
ICT 3, to make pathways to apply knowledge gained via ICT in the field of
active lifestyle 4, to combat intergenerational gaps 5, to share experiences of
partners and participants
The piloting activity which will offer a
package of objectives 2-5 is built around the idea of geocaching.
Through geocaching the partnership
attempts to carry out a vast program promoting education and awareness about
important sights from an environmental or historical/patrimonial point of view
in each of the participating countries. The learners involved would get to know
not only important sights in their own country, but also in other countries
belonging to this partnership by sharing teaching materials and experiences.
D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES
AND STRATEGY
In general, the main
objective of the project is to provide opportunities for exploring ways of
applying knowledge gained in the field of ICT to the promotion of active
lifestyle by gaining and sharing knowledge and experiences of partners and
participants and empowering people over45.
Concrete objectives
of the partnership are:
1, Investigating
the needs of adult users 45+
2, Exploring
ways to combine knowledge and expertise gained in the fields of health
promotion, ICT and adult education
3, Sharing knowledge
and expertise of project partners
4, Giving
opportunities for people 45+ to explore new, entertaining but also useful ways
of learning ICT (main topic: geocaching)
5, building up or
empowering communities which -besides traditional ways of keeping contacts- are
maintained by online social networks
6, overbridging intergenerational gaps
7, disseminating
project results
8, evaluating main
project activities and adopt necessary changes
The main questions
the project is seeking answers to are: 1, What are the
barriers of people 45+ to use ICT tools and applications extensively? 2, Can informal
and entertaining ways of teaching ICT be a high motivatonal
force for older people? 3, Can online
social networking systems support social integration of the target group? 4,
Can intergenerational gaps be diminished by applying new approaches?
To achieve these
objectives the partnership will use the following approaches:
The project will
highly rely on the expertise pooled in the participating organizations. By
sharing experience, knowledge and best practises
partners will gain new perspectives in the relevant topics, increase their
potentials in collaborating with each other. The project will rely on
experiences gained in previous or ongoing European Union projects including
Time-well (IBB), E-com45+ (Malaga), Mindwellness (Trebag),“A sense of Place:
presenting your locality" (Libereta). These
projects will be presented in workshops embedded in the meeting schedules.
Investigations by
quantitative and qualitative methods alongside the above mentioned questions.
Drawing conclusions
on SOTA analyses and applying this in further activities.
Developing ICT
related outdoor activities with the main objective to promote healthy lifestyle
(the recommended activity that each partner might undertake is geocaching)
Moreover, each
partner will be responsible to implement local activities and also to
contribute to the common outputs of the project.
Meeting in Villach (Austria June 2013)
D.4.
RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
Experience from previous projects
Flyer
List of workshops
State of the Art (SOTA)
Flyer for Course
Geocaching trip in France
Foursquare
ACTIVITIES made by Inst E-SENIORS
Results of questionnaire
Dancing
(Guinguettes) places in Paris
FINAL HANDBOOK of the project
|
12/2011 |
project logo |
|
12/2011 |
recommendations on capitalization
of results and experiences of previous projects (Time-well, Mindwellness, Kifli, E-com45+,
Sense of place etc.) |
|
03/2012 |
developing and
introducing to the project the web2.0
page (eg. facebook) |
|
04/2012 |
Project website |
|
05/2012 |
finalization of
short ICT trainings- giving project certificate to participants |
|
06/2012 |
final version of
leaflet in English |
|
06/2012 |
Mid-term evaluation
summary |
|
05/2012 |
finalization of
national investigations |
|
07/2012 |
finalization of
SOTA analysis (summary of national investigations) |
|
06/2012-06/2013 |
Organizing ICT
related outdoor activities (recommended activities are geocaching,
but partners are encouraged to implement and try other ICT related outdoor
activities too) |
|
06/2013 |
summary of
disseminating activities |
|
06/2013 |
plans for valorisation activities (further contribution, exploitation
of results) |
|
06/2013 |
final evaluation
summary |
|
06/2013 |
finalizing the
GUIDE (which is elaborated jointly by project participants alongside contents
including eg. summary of SOTA, lessons learnt from
previous projects, recommendations for ICT related outdoor activities,
reflections on project by users,etc |
G.2. WORK PROGRAMME
|
Description of mobilities
and other activities |
Destination country |
Approx. Start date |
|
Kick off meeting. Defining
further steps, presenting draft ideas for logo, website, deciding about the
leaflet, sharing experience on experiences and expertise gained in previous
projects. (see section F1) Brainstorming, Study visits |
HUNGARY |
10/2011 |
|
2nd TN meeting.
Presenting results achieved, facebook page, draft
leaflet, draft website. Presenting first results of national investigations. Study visits |
GERMANY |
03/2012 |
|
3rd TN meeting.
Partners present their experiences gained at the course, final SOTA presented
and discussed, ICT related outdoor activities are organized with the
involvement of target group. Study visits. |
TURKEY |
06/2012 |
|
4th TN meeting.
Presenting project activities fullfilled,
discussing further steps, outdoor activities. Deciding about content of the
Guide. Study visits |
SPAIN |
09/2012 |
|
5th TN meeting.
Presenting activities, presenting the fullfilled
tasks in developing the guide. Dissemination report of all partners. Outdoor
activities, study visits |
AUSTRIA |
02/2013 |
|
6th TN meeting.
Finalization of results. Dissemination, valorization activities, further
cooperation. Outdoor activities, study visits. |
ITALY |
06/2013 |