Population aged over 60 years
ISIS project supports the active ageing of the population over 60 through digital education and active volunteering in a context of experimental social innovation actions in the involved areas of Southern Italy
Because of social and demographical changes in many regions of the Southern Italy, older and younger people may have to cooperate together in their current activities at workplace and even outside of it. However, the intergenerational exchange and cooperation may encounter some difficulties, as different generations use ‘different languages’, have different social and working practices, and activate and work at different paces.
The elderly and young people are both involved in a several educational and social voluntary activities for the acquisition of life skills by enhancing a virtuous collaboration and intergenerational knowledge exchange.
The ISIS project is based on the experience gained during a long years of work on this topic by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale that states constructive intergenerational relationships can favor both active aging and the development of life skills of young people, in a virtuous process of solidarity between the generations where the community as a whole benefits from that. The general objective of the project is the promotion of active aging and solidarity between generations, through intergenerational learning training courses that can provide elderly and young people with a collaborative participation.
Students and teachers of Secondary Schools of southern regions of Italy, VET and Adult Education institutions and organizations; adult training centers, policy-makers, social innovation experts, other education stakeholders and general public.
The ISIS project aimed to give a contribution in favour of older people’s active participation in our society, through the definition of an integrated learning model based on the support and enhancement of intergenerational exchange, as a lever for promoting successful ageing (active ageing) and social inclusion of older people in the local communities. The project defined a series of LLL methodologies and tools designed to meet the specific requirements of older people’s learning, such as motivation, contents of experience, communication and transmission means, flexibility needs in terms of time and methods, in order to favour the complete fulfilment and active participation of older people in the different living and working contexts.
In particular, the project provides experiential and intergenerational training on:
The activities:
The project brought together more than 3,300 people from several regions of the Southern Italy.
Here below the Secondary Schools involved in the training courses
In April 2015 a team of experts selected (for each of the six regions of Southern Italy involved in the project activities) the project that best interpreted the concept of social innovation. The projects have been awarded the “Award of Excellence for Social Innovation”. A representative of one of the projects, drawn by lot, has been invited to present its social innovation project on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Call for Knowledge Volunteers in Rome.
The project helped to building the elderly people sense of belonging to the group, favoring a process that makes the elderly people feel an active and meaningful part of a community by enhancing their multiple capacities: attention concentration, perception, observation, manual skills, etc, in short, to work their cognitive development and to age in an active way.
A community that learns to work out new solutions by changing the reality of the surrounding territory, it would like to develop a precious sharing of its capital to get out of vicious circle of welfare and at the same times, it can be able to design in a independent way its own development.
To be a good practice, the ISIS project aims to achieve and to include the following objectives:
Al lot of initiatives (very similar to the ISIS project activities) have been repeated in other regions of Italy with the aim of the social inclusion of the elderly people by involving several Municipalities and other kind stakeholders.
The ISIS project identified a series of Life Long Learning methodologies and tools designed to meet the specific requirements of elderly people’s learning, such as motivation, contents of experience, communication and transmission means, flexibility needs in terms of time and methods, in order to favour the complete fulfilment and active participation of elderly people in the different living and working contexts.
Cecilia Stajano – c.stajano (at) mondodigitale.org
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