Using Community-Based Learning to Prepare Higher Education Students for an Ageing World
▶Summary
The aim of the COBLAGES is to create a methodology which enables Higher Education teachers, community managers and students’ representatives from 4 partner countries to support intergenerational ...
▶Objectives
The aim of the COBLAGES is to create a methodology which enables Higher Education teachers, community managers and students’ representatives from 4 partner countries to support intergenerational cooperation between young people and older people (aged 60+). This cooperation relies on the development of community projects which support their understanding of the needs within a given rural community.COBLAGES wants better prepared students for an ageing world.
▶Activities
The partnership will develop 5 WPs: WP2 – Methodology for using CBL as a tool for Intergenerational Citizenship in preparing higher education students for an ageing world WP3 – Short course to trigger green, digital and longevity skills among HE students WP4 – Multidisciplinary Capacity-building of Professors, Community Managers and Students’ Representatives WP5- Implementation, validation and exploitation
▶Impact
COBLAGES aims to produce: methodology for intergenerational citizenship; short course focused on green, digital and longevity thematic areas, in blended format to an international group of students; multidisciplinary capacity-building programme to support the facilitation of intergenerational citizenship workshops; final handbook for exploitation and replication. COBLAGES will produce 8 dissemination & exploitation events to present the results to other students and to other HE institutions.