Project coordination: UTA Lódzki Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku im. H. Kretz, Lodz, Polan
Funded by: Socrates Grundtvig Programme of the European Commission
Duration: August 2008 – Juli 2010
Website: Website Senior
ECLOS (2006-2007) is the short form of "European conference: Learning opportunities for senior volunteers: "Managing trans-national exchanges". ECLOS's target is the further development of volunteer services, especially of older adults. Experiences of four model projects which were realised since 2000 are summarized (European Exchange Programme of Older Volunteers, Mobility 55, Still Active, Teaming Up!). ZAWiW is one of 31 project partners out of nine European countries.
Project coordination: ISIS - Institut für Soziale Infrastruktur, D-Frankfurt/Main
Contact: Dr. Karin Stiehr
E-Mail: kontakt@isis-sozialforschung.de
Contact ZAWiW: Carmen Stadelhofer
Tel.: +49 (0)731-50-23193
E-Mail: carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
Further information at: www.isis-sozialforschung.de/en/projects/voluntary_service.html
Sponsor: European Commission, GD Education and Culture, SOKRATES-programme
"TownStories" is a three-years-project for joint learning and meeting. Partners are senior education institutions in Madrid, Rome, Macomer, Prague, Kaunas, the ZAWiW of the University of Ulm and the Heimatmuseum (museum of local history) of Treptow/Berlin, which also is co-ordinating the project.
Participants in this project are senior groups and people learning languages from seven European towns. Object is to show foreign people the own town from an individual point of view. This may be achieved by creative writing of texts about different aspects of life. Texts are transferred into the other project languages by translator partnerships. An extended website is documenting the work of the different groups and the joint work in the project.
Sponsors: Grundtvig Program of the European Commission
Duration: 08/01/2002 - 07/31/2005
Project Responsible: Carmen Stadelhofer, Ingeborg Reske
Further informations: Townstories
Since August 2004 the Institute for virtual and real learning in the area of adult education at the University of Ulm (ILEU e.V.) is coordinator of the European learning project "ODE" - Open Doors for Europe funded by the Sokrates Program Grundtvig II of the European Commission for three years. Partners are Universities of the Third Age in Alicante (Spain), Lublin and Lodz (Poland) and Vicenza (Italy).
Within Germany ILEU e.V. is cooperating with ViLE e.V (Virtual and real learning and competence network for elder adults) and the working group "European Contacts" of the ZAWiW.
Further information: Project Site ODE
The aim of this two year project was to contribute to digital literacy of older adults 60+ in Europe with special focus on the use of the new media in lifelong learning; to stimulate the application of the ICTs by providers of education for older adults; to promote active co-operation between organisations of seniors' education within the European network LiLL and other European networks and to contribute to active participation of older adults in all spheres of life in Europe.
Project Coordination: Carmen Stadelhofer and Gabriela Körting
Tel.: +49 (0)731-50-23193
E-Mail: g.koerting@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
For more information see: www.elill.net
"Adapting e-learning techniques for integrating senior citizens in the new digital world" is the title of the SeniorLearning project. It is sponsored by the EU-program Socrates Grundtvig and will last two years. ZAWiW is one of six project partners. The others come from Spain, Austria, Hungary and Norway.
Project coordination: Centre de Recerca i Investigació de Catalunya, Barcelona
Contact: Felip Miralles (CRIC)
E-Mail: felip.miralles@cric.cat
Contact ZAWiW: Carmen Stadelhofer, Ralph Schneider, Gabriela Körting
Tel.: +49 (0)731-50-23195
E-Mail: carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: ralph.schneider@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: gabriela.koerting@uni-ulm.de
Project website: www.seniorlearning.eu
SeniorLearning classroom in development: Learning platform (moodle)
Website for project partners: seniorlearning.cric-projects.com
Duration: October 1st, 2006 - September 30th, 2008
The goal of the project is to contribute to improvements in the integration of ICT in society for the benefit of elderly persons, taking into account their specific needs so that they can enjoy the benefits of ICT. The project focuses on enabling trainers and training organisations in Europe to design specific programs for ICT-supported training of senior citizens, and developing their media and eLearning design competence. This will be based on appropriate pedagogical models and design-for-all principles. The project intends to provide more accessible solutions and to contribute to the inclusion of the elderly, to pool knowledge and experience in order to achieve concrete and innovative outcomes and to pilot experiences and produce teaching products of high quality.
At the core of the project is the development of a training course addressing digital literacy needs in terms of developing media competences and building up strategies for effective information design. Furthermore, it will provide training in Design-for-All, in order to support training organisations and trainers to better design ICT-supported courses for elderly according the existing research results.
Other key objectives include the following: Develop appropriate new pedagogical models and lesson plans that use the eLearning state of the art; develop training material, provide teacher training, evaluate, test, discuss and disseminate the pedagogical models, lesson plans and course material in Europe among training institutions, trainers and senior learners.
Project coordination: Institute for Future Studies - AT
Contact: Klaus Reich Mail: klaus.reich@futurestudies.org
Contact at ZAWiW: Carmen Stadelhofer, Gabriela Körting, Ralph Schneider, Ellen Salverius-Krökel
Tel.: +49 (0)731-50-23195
E-Mail: carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: ralph.schneider@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: g.koerting@uni-ulm.de
E-Mail: ellen.salverius-kroekel@uni-ulm.de
More information: http://www.ict4t.net
Duration: 1st October, 2006 - 30th September, 2008
The project SEVEN (Senior European Volunteers Exchange Network) is funded by the European Commission in the frame of the Lifelong Learning program 2007-2013, for the period October 2007 to September 2010.
The project should foster voluntary work of older adults in Europe through shpwing good practices, development of adequare supporting measures, development of an information and communication oplatfornm and the creation pf new applciation possibilities.
Working together in the network on the subject of "Seniors in Europe" are representatives ftrom international networks, public bodies, institutes for continuing education, research institues and other organisations.
To the SEVEN Website
The project is coordianted by the Italian organisation
Lunaria.
In december 2008 an international workshop supported by the Grundtvig-programm took place in Venice:
Active Citizenship Training Initiative for Volunteers in Europe (ACTIVE)
You find the announcementhere (PDF).
During class the ZAWiW hold two sessions:
- Session 5 (Dialogue between Young and Old)
- Session 6 (Use of the Internet in voluntary work abroad)
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| Carmen Stadelhofer spoke about the dialog of generations. (Origin of photo material: R. Schneider) |
A working group during Session 5. (Origin of photo material: R. Schneider) |
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| In Session 6 the videoconference-tool "Flashmeeting" was demonstratet. (Origin of photo material: R. Schneider) |
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The project EuCoNet is a learning partnership planned for two years. Partners are seniors' education institutes at universities in Brno and Prague in the Czech Republic, Bratislava in Slovakia, Strathclyde/Glasgow in United Kingdom, Vicenza in Italy and ZAWiW in Ulm. Project coordinator is ZAWiW. In this learning partnership, the participating seniors exchange culturally differentiated and didactically reflected approaches for the acquisition of competences for using of the Internet designed specifically for this target group and discuss the applicability of the approaches in the partner countries. The initiation of multiplier networks, development of Internet cafés for older people and the design of materials specifically for this target group play a important role.
Funded by/sponsored by: Grundtvig Program of the European Commission
Duration: August 1, 2002 till July 31, 2004
Project Leaders: Carmen Stadelhofer, Gabriela Körting
Further Information (in German): Website EuCoNet
Durch die demographische Entwicklung - der Anteil der Älteren in der Gesellschaft nimmt ständig zu - kommt der Altersbildung zunehmend eine neue und bedeutende Rolle zu. Vor diesem Hintergrund und aufgrund der Notwendigkeit, im Zuge der Globalisierung internationale Studiengänge einzurichten, startete das ZAWiW im Jahr 2000, zusammen mit sechs Partneruniversitäten aus Deutschland, Spanien, Belgien und Kanada, das Internationale Studienaustauschprojekt GERON, ein Projekt der Geragogik (Wissenschaft der Altersbildung).
Das Projekt hatte zum Ziel, auf internationaler Ebene Erfahrungen im Bereich der Geragogik auszutauschen. Durch Studienaufenthalte von Erst- und Seniorstudierenden, die sich mit Fragen der Geragogik befassen, sollte in den verschiedenen Partnerländern das Verständnis für Themen und Problemstellungen der (Weiter)-Bildung für ältere Menschen im internationalen Vergleich erweitert und vertieft werden. Dadurch sollte gewährleistet werden, dass der Bedarf an ExpertInnen für ein System zur sozialen Sicherung sowie an ErziehungswissenschaftlerInnen mit verschiedenen Zielgruppen, u. a. Ältere, durch eine Vorbereitung und Ausbildung, sowohl auf der Ebene der Grundausbildung, als auch auf der Ebene der Weiterbildung, gedeckt werden kann. Die jeweiligen Studienangebote im Frühjahr/Sommer 2001 und 2002 fanden an den einzelnen beteiligten Partneruniversitäten statt und sollten auf der Basis eines gegenseitigen Austauschs erfolgen.
Laufzeit: GERON 1: 24. Juni 2001 - 15. Juli 2001 GERON 2: 23. Juni 2002 - 14. Juli 2002
Förderer/Drittmittelgeber: Mittel der Europäischen Kommission aus dem SOKRATES-Programm
Projektverantwortliche: Carmen Stadelhofer
An analysis of elderly people care policies in the project partner countries as well as the assessment of the educational possibilities, realities and needs of inhabitants of old people's homes. Shown was the decisive importance of cultural and educational programmes for people living in rest homes on overcoming of social and cultural exclusion and its contribution to life quality improvement. Promoted is the notion that the elderly people living in old people's institutions are protagonists of their own educational and cultural development, which is achieved through generating a participation process in social and cultural development in their own daily environment. Different practices and activities offered in homes and day centres must be assessed and analysed and transformed in such a way, so that the elderly gain a leadership in decisions affecting these programmes and in all such decisions affecting the quality of their life in the institution.
Promotor/sponsored by: SOCRATES PROGRAMME: ADULT EDUCATION ACTION
Duration: 1. September 1999 - 31. August 2000
Project Leaders:
Coordination:
University of Valladolid, SPAIN - Rosa López, Xoan Manuel González, Asunción Gimeno, Raúl de Prado, Angela Hernando
Partners::
DENMARK: Henning Salling Olesen and Helle Krogh Hansen.
GERMANY: Carmen Stadelhofer, Astrid Ühlein and Gabriela Körting.
University of Ulster, GREAT BRITAIN: Peter Shanahan and Evelyn Brett.
Ziel des auf zwei Jahre angelegten Projektes war es historische, kulturelle und sozioökonomische Schlüsselprozesse in den beteiligten Partnerländern (Bulgarien, Belgien, Deutschland, Litauen, Spanien, Italien, Schweden, Großbritannien, Rumänien und Frankreich) zu vermitteln. Gleichzeitig sollte damit ihre Entwicklung hin zu Europa nach Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges aufgezeigt werden und so das Wissen über die Geschichte der Europäischen Union und der nationalen europäischen Kulturen erweitert werden. Außerdem sollten Multiplikatoren ausgebildet werden, welche die im Projekt erarbeiteten Inhalte an sozialbenachteiligte Erwachsene weitergeben. Jede der Partnerinstitutionen erstellte das pädagogische Material zu ausgewählten Themen aus der Geschichte des eigenen Landes, die dann multimedial aufgearbeitet wurden.
Durch dieses Projekt sollte ein besseres Verständnis über die Entstehung der Idee eines vereinigten Europa und dessen Bedeutung erreicht werden, der Sinn für die gemeinsame Europäische Identität geschärft, Wissen über einzelne Europäische Kulturen vermittelt und ein höherer Bildungsstandard und mehr Möglichkeiten für eine berufliche Erfüllung beider Zielgruppen erzielt werden.
Förderer / Drittmittelgeber : Gefördert wurde das Projekt im Rahmen des europäischen Sokrates-Programm GRUNDTVIG
Laufzeit: 1.09.2000 - 31.8.2002
Projektverantwortliche:
In Deutschland wurde das Projekt gemeinsam vom ZAWiW und dem Paritätischen Bildungswerk NRW verantwortet.
Projektverantwortliche für das ZAWiW:
Carmen Stadelhofer
The central idea of this two year project was initiation of autonomous learning groups of older people in various locations in Europe with the inclusion of the new communication and information technologies.
The project focused especially on older adults who are interested in continuing education. Within the framework of an inter-generational approach also other age groups could be included.
The project had started in September 2000 and finished in August 2002.
Promotor/sponsored by:
SoLiLL was supported by Socrates-Program GRUNDTVIG
Duration: 1 August 2000 - 31. August 2002
Project Leaders: Carmen Stadelhofer, Gabriela Körting
More information you can find on the Project-Website
