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Grundtvig project YODUL THE ADULTS AND YOUNG: PARTNERS IN INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE |
Coordinator ORHANELI HALK EGITIMI MERKEZI
Turkey
Partners
CEPAPUB ROSALIA DE CASTRO Spain
INSTITUT E-SENIORS France
D.1. SUMMARY
As we all know, an adult is anybody who is out of
the formal education process regardless of the age. Since adults are out of
this crucial process, a need arises to form a very broad term which we call
“adult education”. In broad term, adult education is the practice of teaching
and instructing these adults via informal education. However, due to
environmental and social problems and so on, some adults around Europe do not
have opportunity to raise their life quality. With this context, these adults
not having this adequate quality have problems in communicating with younger
generations. The adults cannot express, convey themselves to the young. The
young on the other hand cannot comprehend what the adults know, feel, have
experienced. We try to overcome this problem by increasing the life quality of
the adults and forming the communication links between the adults and the
young.
The YODUL project (the YOung
and aDULts) seeks to identify and develop innovative
methods for enhancing the intergenerational dialogue between the adults and the
young in European countries; and then, to disseminate the findings and the good
practice widely. The project wants to develop the collaboration between the
adults and the young in EU standards, and arrange activities and dialogue
meetings so as to improve the collaboration to the benefit of the adults in the
European educational system.
Each of the five partners, from a range of
institutions in five widely-spread countries, will establish contacts with
adults, schools and other relevant stakeholders of the local community in order
to ensure national participation and ownership of the project. The local
communities act as reflection partners and will be involved in the survey.
D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY
Long-term objective:
To increase the life quality of the adults who have
not been able to acquire basic education due to various reasons by enhancing
basic life and cognitive skills, and to make them active in society.
Short-term objectives:
A) To enhance
the life standards of the adults in participating countries.
B) To increase and empower the communication link
between the adults and the young by means of dialogue interaction and
communication skills.
C) To
indoctrinate the adults with the idea of adaptation to the modern world.
D) To establish partnerships between adults and the
young, improving their self-esteem and the consciousness of working together.
E) To awaken and share examples of innovative
methods and good practice among our partners.
F) To use and integrate ICT for
partnership-communication and dissemination, as well as inviting adults to make
use of it.
G) To provide the adults with basic social
information such as nutrition, health care, basic maths
knowledge and, especially, literacy.
H) To develop the cultures of the participating
countries.
In overall, these objectives are directly linked to
the Grundtvig operational objectives 1 and 2 [See
section E.1], and specifically to the following ones, as for instance:
GRU-OpObj-3 ; GRU-OpObj-4 ; GRU-OpObj-6 . The ICT
component in our project is also important, but it is used as a means by which
to communicate, collect and disseminate the results and evaluation of our
project. Moreover, we will like to highlight that within and throughout the
YODUL project, it will be noticed that we have also taken into consideration
and contributed to the national priorities (if any) of the countries of the
participating institutions in YODUL, as well as to the European ones.
As we have just stated, we would like to achieve a
real and effective participation of adults into the educational systems by
means of improving the communication between the adults and the young. We
believe adult education is a tremendous asset to the educational community; and
besides this, we need to tackle these adult based issues because of their
importance in European societies.
D.4. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
Questionnaire will be prepared for the adults who
lack the basic skills and cognitive skills.
A logo of the project will be made. This logo will
enable the project to be known nationally and internationally.
The questionnaire (Aug.-Sept. 2011) will be
translated to the mother tongue of the participating countries.
The results of the Questionnaire will be presented
and be publicized in the website. Brochures will be prepared for the project to
be known widely.
Cultural activities will take place in national
media. These activities are culture based and the ones which are in danger of
extinction.
Meetings between the young and adults will be
arranged. The problems of the adults will be debated and the adults will be
given the opportunity to solve their problems creatively.
Final project evaluation report
G.2. WORK PROGRAMME
Turkey : The first project meeting: exchange of information
about the project, discussion of the project materials, ideas about the reality
of the project according to the questionnaire, the admission of the logo.
France : The second meeting: Overall discussion of the
questionnaire, the laying of the studies up to that date, and -if necessary-
the update of the project.
Spain : Internal mid-term evaluation, exchange of ideas
about the coming main courses and seminars in terms of European Standards.
Lithuania : We will evaluate the project.
The giving of certificates to the main course
participants in the project. Evaluation will be given in the website. Farewell party.