The Learning Age. Intergenerational learning for commit together as citizens of the XXI century

Europe is getting older, according to the latest demographic reports, and, at the same time, the world is going digital. Two trends are intertwined and give rise to a number of needs that The Learning Age project has addressed after its 24-month duration and its 2 results, starting with the question: How will these people remain included in today's society? In countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries, Internet penetration in households was early: involving young adults, they achieved incredible results in digital literacy in older adults, in comparison with other a priori equally "digitised" countries such as Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania (Partners of this consortium), which seem to have suffered about ten years of delay. This delay makes it all the more urgent to adapt intergenerational education to bridge the digital divide: - the digital divide: technology is advancing at a high pace and older adults cannot adapt to this pace on their own; - the intergenerational divide: young adults do not have the necessary social skills to relate to older seniors. seniors.

For the above mentioned motivations the objectives of the project were: - To improve the digital competences of seniors in order to make it easier for them to use necessary or standardised digital tools and applications, which will enable them to actively participate in society. - To increase the training offer of adult education centres, with innovative strategies that invite to participate strategies that invite participation in training based on the methodology of intergenerational learning. - To increase the number of adults involved in education by designing new programmes and strategies capable of attracting adults' attention in a real way.

The project has two Project Results that led to the achievement of the objectives and results as follows: PR1. Reference platform for intergenerational teaching-learning. Reliable resources have been hosted on this platform so that any organisation can implement actions of this type ( https://trainingclub.eu/age/ ). 102 European experiences of intergenerational education have been analysed and sorted into 6 categories: citizenship, culture, environment, critical thinking, technology, and health. In addition, a chat-type forum for educators has been implemented on the platform, allowing constant communication, resolution of doubts, as well as the exchange of experiences from the collected experiences, arranged in English, Spanish, Greek, Romanian and Polish.

The project has two outcomes: PR1. Reference platform for intergenerational teaching-learning. Achieving this result has entailed work on the design of the methodology to be used for the search, the selection and analysis of the experiences that determine the platform, the creation of the categories and the discussion forum, and, finally, peer control of the content collected and its translation into 5 languages. PR2. Creation of an audiovisual channel and its content. The richness of this RP lies in the fact that it has been built between educators, seniors and young adults, without having involved a traditional teaching-learning process. In fact, prior to the creation of the audiovisual reproduction channel, seniors and young adults have met, many times, among peers, in meetings where adults were the protagonists and learned about mobiles and other digital practices by doing.