Digital Life Learning
Overview of the project
Today’s EU and global societies are undergoing fundamental changes, such as the ageing of populations and digital innovation. Digital Life Learning bases its foundations on the premise that digital innovation can be an opportunity to improve the quality of life of our ageing societies and to shift towards more sustainable and inclusive health and care systems, creating economic growth and jobs.
What is Digital Life Learning’s aim?
Digital Life Learning Life’s main aim is to create macro laboratories for older citizens aged 65-74 years old with the objective of improving their digital skills. The project operates in 4 EU countries where teachers will train HEIs students, that in return will teach seniors, thus being able to obtain micro-credentials employable in the job market from this experience.
What are Digital Life Learning’s purposes?
Get deeper understanding of older adults and their needs and wishes
Develop digital skills of older adults to enjoy fuller and more independent lives
Foster and develop coaching and teaching skills for university students through digital knowledge transfer to older adults
Develop a micro-credential system recognition
Promote a more socially included life for old people
What are Digital Life Learning main activities?
Surveys on digital literacy of older people and project report
Presentation events and final conference
Training of students and older people
Release of micro-credentials
National survey findings
Digital Life Learning Report
News:
Digital Life Learning: training with older adults in Athens
As part of the "Digital Life Learning" project, our Greek partner People Behind implemented an impactful training in Athens for older people. This activity was possible thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality of Athens, who provided the venue of the workshop....
Digital Life Learning: student trainings continue in Athens with People Behind
On 8 April 2024, in the context of the Digital Life Learning project, People Behind, an organization based in Athens, organised a training for young students on how to teach digital literacy to older adults. The training was in collaboration with a vocational center...
Digital Life Learning: training of older adults on digital literacy
Through the Digital Life Learning project, on 18 March, the students of the Università di Roma Tor Vergata trainied older adults on digital literacy, focusing on four main subjects: digital banking, credit cards, Microsoft Word and Excel. To be able to do so, the...
Digital Life Learning – Start of training in Rome
Training activities for university students and older adults in Rome Following the pilot phase of training activities in Coimbra and methodological adaptations after the second TPM, the University of Tor Vergata and the garagErasmus Foundation commenced training...
Digital Life Learning TPM in Madrid
3rd Transnational project meeting in Madrid The third meeting of the Digital Life Learning project (2022-1-IT02-KA220-ADU-000088024) took place in Madrid on 22 and 23 February. The project was organised by the Plataforma del Voluntariado de España and hosted by the...
gE is looking for a trainer for Digital Life Learning
garagErasmus Foundation is looking for a trainer to review the training content developed in the Digital Life Learning project and to facilitate 20 hours of training on digital literacy for older adults to be held in Rome from 26 February to 29 March 2024. The...
Digital Life Learning TPM in Coimbra
2nd Transnational project meeting in Coimbra On the 23rd and 24th of November, the 2nd meeting of the Digital Life Learning project took place in Coimbra, at the Instituto Pedro Nunes and Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra.During the meeting, the project partners discussed...
Digital Life Learning – Start of training in Coimbra
Training activities for university students and older people in Coimbra After the realisation of the report "Digital Literacy of Older People", the partners of the Digital Life Learning project had the mission to design a methodology and a toolkit to train university...
Digital Life Learning Report on “Digital literacy of older people”
The report on "Digital Literacy of Older People" has finally been published. The main focus of the report was to describe the panorama of digital literacy of older people in the partner countries, i.e. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. In order to produce the report,...
PVE celebrates the day of “Solidarity and digital inclusion for older people”
The Plataforma del Voluntariado de España (PVE) celebrated an important milestone in the framework of the Digital life learning Ka2 Erasmus+ project, on Wednesday, 15th March, the day "Solidarity and digital inclusion for older people". The aim was to highlight the...
PARTNERS OF THE PROJECT
garagErasmus Foundation
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra
Plataforma del Voluntariado de España
People Behind
Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Duration
November 2022 – December 2024
– June
Reference number: 2022-1-IT02-KA220-ADU-000088024
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