GRUNDTVIG
PARTNERSHIP
Project "Students to
Senior Citizens: ICT and Inter-Generation Communication"
KICK-OFF MEETING MINUTES
PARTICIPANTS:
Partner institution 1: EDUCAnet, Czech republic
Persons: Lenka Prikrylova; lenka.prikrylova@educanet.cz
Petra Pavlasová; pavlasova.petra@gmail.com
Partner institution 2: Foibe Center, Finland
Person: Marja Tovainen; marjatoivanen@hotmail.com
Partner institution 3: Volkshhochschule Selg, Germany
Persons: Michaela Hermannsdoerfer; m.hermannsdoerfer@vhs-selb.de
Silke
Partner institution 4: Association E-Senior, France
Persons: Monique Epstein; epstein@free.fr
Martine Defosse madefosse@wanadoo.fr
Partner institution 5: Adult Education Center, Spain
Persons: Terese Rodriguez; epazn@pobladores.com
Partner institution 6: Center for Social Integration, Poland
Persons: Lidia Maria
Jedlinska; tpnk@interia.pl
Jerzy Jedlinski
HOST INSTITUTION
Name of institution: EDUCAnet, a.s., Czech
republic
CONTACT PERSON
Name and surname: Lenka Prikrylova
Contact: + 420 774 073 319
PROGRAMME:
1. Introduction of
participants 2
2. General
Organization 5
2.1. Project meetings agenda 5
2.2. Communication between
partners 6
2.3. Project objectives 6
2.4. Project tasks allocation 6
3. Monitoring plan 9
4. Evaluation plan 9
5. Dissemination
plan 10
6. Project products 10
6.1. LOGO 10
6.2. Website 10
6.3. CD 11
1. INTRODUCTION OF PARTICIPANTS
E-seniors (France
The aim of the organization is teaching and
helping out seniors about new technologies of information and communication. Group
courses are in 10 different places (public
places) in the centre of
Adult Education School of Aznalcollar (Spain
Aznalcollar Adult schools (
The aims of the adult school are: Integration into
society (community + council + town), citizen participation, wide educational
studies, ICT lessons
Computer training:
6 computers
They offer several courses of different levels
The first priority is to be aware that internet is not only for young
people
From 5PM to 8PM : young people
From 4PM
to 6 PM :
older people
Volkshochschule ELB (Germany
Selb is a town in
There is a high unemployment rate; so young people are leaving the town and old people stay. 10000 students attend non
formal education courses with 16 full time teachers and 60 part time teachers. Among
the students there are more women than men.
The activities are (among others) :
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Courses for vocational training : business education , more
qualification for people who left school, personal business skills
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Language courses: English, Czech, Russian, ..
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Health courses : yoga, aerobic,..
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Different cultural subjects
Activities for seniors
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computer training
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mobile phone courses
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language discussion groups (with coffee…etc)
-
health courses
New : Internet Café Anschluss
Begins next week (22nd of October),
meeting place especially for people to get :
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access to new medias
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access to other people
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access to the world
-
access to other generations
Regional Center for Social Integration (Poland)
It is part of the public regional library in KRAKOW in MALOPOLSKA region
The missions
of the library are :
- center
for meetings /socializing
- professional
training
- training
for work with children and disabled readers.
- cooperation
with other libraries
Activities for Seniors:
How to deal with modern technological tools
Objectives:
- Social
integration through meetings
- Stimulating
active way of live
- Stimulate
intergenerational communication
Computer training:
67 applicants
8 computers
10 hours for fundamentals of computers
10 hours for internet
Computer rainings are free - people would not able to pay
There is a slow change of mentalities to
consider senior as a wealth resource and the
state to recognize this
There are different other trainings for social
integration
There is a partner in this project : Polish-German Association in Krakow in
view of international cooperation
Service Center Foibe (Finland
The institution is located
Among the activities : physiotherapy, group
therapy, gym exercise, rehabilitation for veterans and music, spiritual events,
lectures, library, computer courses for elderly.
Different new projects of the centre:
- Activities
for care giving relatives
- Courses
for weight control
- IT
for Seniors
- Nutrition
for elderly
- Learning
in later life = inter-generation communication Grundtvig project:
Using ICT: E-mails
Bill paying,
Order travel and tickets,
Contact net doctors,
Buying articles
Other subjects to develop: Contact
far away relatives by Skype,
How
to use cellular telephones (young people could be good teachers),
How
to use digital camera
Private Secondary schools network EDUCANET (Czech republic
It is composed of 6 schools offering 2 studies programs
for juniors: information technology in 4 years,
business studies in 4 years and a
program for adults. There are 20
students (15 years old to 19) involved in the project: They are divided into a group of teachers cooperating together with a
group of managers. Programme for IT for adults :
- Word
processing
- Mails
- Skype
ICQ
- Internet
: search for information
Courses are once a week at school, with 20 computers
Students will go to seniors at home to teach
computers
Motivation for juniors = they get experience in teaching , in
English…
2. General organisation
2.1.
Projects meetings Agenda
a) The schedule for
next meetings is :
next meeting
in
arrival
Wednesday 16th of January
afternoon
workdays 17th to 18th
other activities on Saturday 19th / Sunday 20th
THEN
4 th to 8th of June in
22nd
to 26th of October
21 to 25th
of January
10th to 14th of June
General rules for all
meetings
Travel, hotel and food are paid by participants.
Welcome drink,
one festive dinner and break
snacks/drinks are offered by host country.
The host country proposes sightseeing visit of
the town
Note
: the German partner would like to get in November the list of
participants for better organization
2.2. Communication between partners
1. Email
2. Google DOCS facility
3. Website
2.3. Project objectives
The objectives are :
1. access to modern
technologies (training, home computer assistance, ...)
2. introduction of
different teaching methods (for seniors and adults)
3. introduction of different activities (for seniors and
adults)
4. new teaching methods
testing
5. senior Olympic games
6. intergenerational
dialogue
7. learning about EU
countries
2.4. Project tasks allocation
Access to modern technologies (task no 1)
This will be the subject of the meeting in January
It include discussions on the following topics
:
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access to hardware (and software) : including the use of recycled
computers to solve the acquisition cost of a computer and the hardware
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access to Internet :including offering free Internet access ( e.g.free
WIFI in town) to avoid the barrier of the connexion costs
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basic ICT training in groups for
low cost participation
-
basic training for new technologies (telephone, Skype,..)
-
free volunteer assistance : finding
and training volunteers for home computer assistance and
training (under others for disabled people who cannot come to group courses)
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finding sponsors for hardware or different grants for adult education
-
state of the art in each country
OUTPUT: a
list of “recommendations” (in terms of finding sponzors)
RESPONSIBLE:
all partners
DEADLINE: 20.12.2007 - to this date all partners send
their contributions to host institution to
Introduction of different teaching methods (
task no 2)
New teaching methods : conceiving and testing –
(task no 4)
This will be the subject of the meeting in
January
For task no 2, there will be discussions on :
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teaching methods depend on scheme : seniors to seniors or juniors to
seniors
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teaching methods depend on age of students
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method depends on subject : windows environment, Internet search, email
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importance of ratio “teachers to students”
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ratio of theoretical/ practical parts of teaching
-
paper support for lessons and exercises
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best time organisation : duration of lesson, how many meetings per week
or month
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levels and content of courses per level
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importance of self (home) training after lessons
For task no 4 :
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models for paper supports/visuals for teaching
-
preparing lessons about technology products (telephone, …)
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ratio of success at short term
-
ratio of success at long
OUTPUT: a
list of “recommendations” (theoretical part)
a list of exemplary lessons on the following
topics: internet, e-mail, windows
RESPONSIBLE:
All partners for
answering theoretical questions and for publication at leat one lesson content.
Testing new activities or "methods" in partner organizations is
voluntary, the outcomes will be presented at the meeting.
DEADLINE:
30.12.2007 for prepairing theoretical questions and lesson template
20.1. 2009 sending lesson content to public on the web
MEETING: everybody
presents exemplary lesson
Note : between November 07 and January 09, every other team must send at
least 1 example of lessons contents and/or supports and think about new methods how to transfer
knowledge about internet, email, windows
At the meeting in
Introduction
of different activities
(task no 3)
This will be the subject of the meeting in June
08 in
Among questions to discuss :
- activities
used by partners
-
to whom the activity addresses
-
technical contents
-
tools required and barriers met
-
conclusions, experience to be
shared
Range of activities :
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activities with or without computer
-
ergonomics
-
basic computer courses
-
memoirs (with book output)
-
cooking courses
-
genealogy
-
practical : banking (voluntary
teacher from bank)
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travel : buying on the internet
-
e-administration
-
road instructions
-
maps
-
yellow pages
OUTPUT: Map
of activities
RESPONSIBLE:
All partners
DEADLINE: 3.6.2008
preparation of activities for meeting presentation
Inter-generational dialogue (task no 6)
This will be the subject of the meeting in
October 08 in
Partners should bring some young
people(students) to this meeting, among other the winning group of the Senior
Olympic Games
2 parts for this task:
- There
will be a “real” discussion meeting with juniors/seniors : “Café des Ages
“
- There
will be theoretical discussion and conclusions between partners
Questions for preparation of the meeting
-
how to find young people interested in this king of dialogue
-
subjects to talk about
-
historical context can be a subject for dialogue
Subjects to discuss :
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Activities/ subjects for juniors and seniors in term of computer courses
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The different benefits of the
dialogue for seniors
and for juniors
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Description of local initiatives (Anschluss Café in
OUTPUT: list
of recommendations
RESPONSIBLE:
all partners
DEADLINE:
26.10.2008 - preparation for meeting presentation
Seniors Olympic games (task no 5)= transversal
This is a transversal task and an important
product of our project. The games will be
in the form of a big QUIZZ with questions , which will mix testing of
technical of computer word processing
and internet search and cultural knowledge
in a ludic way (having the appearance of a game)
Each partner should prepare, for instance
15 questions and then all questions together would make
the Quiz. The first version of the quiz
should be set up in January 08 wher
partners will bring the questions they have prepared. The first part of the
games will be done in each country with the local seniors in June
The winner of the quiz will get a price. The
price could be , first, to appear in a newspaper article written about the project.
But it could also be that the winner will be
invited to travel -using one mobility of
the winning country - to the last and
closing meeting in
The second part of Olympic Games will be held
in January 2009, topic is "European Countries"
OUTPUT:
outputs of the SEG to compare and present on the web
RESPONSIBLE:
all partners
DEADLINE:
16.1.2008 (
Learning about EU countries (task no 7) +
closing meeting
This will be the subject of the meeting in June
09 in
The second part of the senior Olympic games
could be a kind of test about knowledge
of
If partners are interested to continue work
together, a new project could be prepared and submitted to European grants.
For this meeting media (newspaper, TV, radio)
should be present.
3. Monitoring plan
TOOL: Discussion at the end of each
meeting (workplan with questions for every meeting)
Minutes after meeting : the final
version will contain suggestions of all participant
RESPONSIBLE: Czech republicas the
coordinator + all partners´contribution
Subjects to be treated :
- measurable
project results
- topics
to be evaluated
- collecting
and organizing information
- project
process evaluation
- project
outcomes evaluation – how?
See monitoring plan
TOOLS:
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website
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forum for everybody (if possible)
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creating a mailing list in each country of interested people to send
relevant information (people can give their mail on the website )
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conference (international level)
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meetings
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press release on national level , press conference in each country
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TV (special TV for seniors, 4 pages
for seniors in local newspaper)
RESPONSIBLE: all partners
6.1. LOGO
We want to have a specific logo four our project
Czech
students should make a proposition for a logo which should remind that we deal
with:
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a European project
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connection between generations
-
computers
The different logo proposal will be sent to all
partners after 20.12.2007. They will be presented at the next meeting in
6.2. WEBSITE
First page should be more attractive than just
flags like today.
Possibility to give email for mailing (if
exits)
First page should have following
information and menu
|
PROJECT TEAM MEETING 1 MEETING 2 MEETING 3 MEETING 4 MEETING 5 MEETING 6 OUTPUT CONTACT LINKS |
LOGO of Lifelong Learning Programme |
LOGO of OUR PROJECT |
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Title of project |
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Flags of partners with link to websites |
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For each MEETING the submenu contains:
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PowerPoint presentation of host partner
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Minutes of the meeting
-
Recommendations
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Photo album of the meeting
Keywords to be translated in all
languages (if different from English):
|
English |
Czech |
Finnish |
French |
German |
Polish |
Spanish |
|
e-inclusion |
|
e-inkluusio |
e-inclusion |
|
e-włączenie |
Introduccion |
|
Intergeneration |
mezigeneracni |
Sukupolvienvälinen |
intergénérationnel |
Generationenübergreifend |
międzypokoleniowy |
intergeneracion |
|
Seniors |
seniori |
Seniorit |
seniors |
Senioren |
seniorzy |
Adultos
mayores |
|
Ict |
|
Tietotekniikka |
TIC |
EDV |
ICT |
informática |
|
New technologies |
nove technologie |
Uusi teknologia |
Nouvelles technologies |
Neue Technologien |
nowe
technologie |
Nuevas
tecnologias |
|
|
Evropa |
Eurooppa |
Europe |
Europa |
Europa |
Europa |
|
50+ |
nad 50 |
50+ |
50+ |
50+ |
50 plus |
Mayores de
50 |
|
Training |
trenink |
Koulutus |
initiation |
Training |
trening |
formación |
|
Computer |
pocitac |
Tietokone |
ordinateur |
PC |
komputer |
ordenador |
|
Offers |
nabidky |
Tarjonta/ tarjous |
offre |
Angebote |
oferty, propozycje |
ofertas |
|
Activity |
aktivity |
Toiminta |
activités |
Aktivitäten |
aktywność, działanie |
actividad |
|
Meeting |
setkani |
Kokous |
rencontre |
Treffen |
spotkanie |
reunion |
|
Communication |
komunikace |
Tiedonvälitys |
communiction |
Kommunikation |
komunikacja |
comunicación |
|
Connexion |
spojeni |
Liittymä |
connection |
Verbindung |
połączenie |
conexion |
|
Digital |
|
Digitaalinen |
digital |
Digital |
cyfrowy |
digital |
|
Gap |
rozdil |
Kuilu |
facture |
Trennung |
separacja |
separacion |
6.3. CD
The CD should contain all the existing files
used for presentations, meeting agendas,
photographs, minutes and every existing output , like final recommendations or
content of seniors Olympic games.