| Short descriptor of good practice |
| Active Ageing focuses on providing new perspectives about their life for elderly. It is of utmost importance, since due to different psychical or mental illnesses, elderly usually are afraid or simply cannot join to social life programmes if there is any – in the target area there is an important lack of recreational & community building opportunities. In order to overcome these deficiencies, RE-BIRTH is based on 4 legs: 1) provides mental care for pensioners to help & encourage them in reintegration, 2) gives great alternatives to elderly to feel themselves important & leisure their time usefully through volunteering & intergenerational learning, 3) offers trainings for elderly: developing IT skills, training for guidance or producing craft products, helping to overcome generational gaps through learning about Y & Z generations. 4) Finally, since during social life activities it is easy to get to know each other, the project provides different community building activities. RE-BIRTH will mobilize the Lower Ipel Valley, raise awareness of the target groups and prepares the ground for further developments and investments carried out by other projects. |
| Type of setting where good practice is delivered |
| NGO, private associations |
| Time Frame for delivery of good practice |
| (18 moths) 1 March 2022 – 30 September 2023 |
| Type of learner the best practice is supporting |
| Main target groups – seniors; Other activities for people of other age groups – students, parents etc. |
| Resources used as part of good practice |
| Project: https://www.skhu.eu/funded-projects/re-birth-active-ageing |
| Aims and objectives of good practice |
| Decreasing employment inequalities among the regions with a view to improving the level of employment within the programming region. – Provide mental care for pensioners – Deliver alternatives for elderly people to discover importance of leisure time with useful activities e.g. volunteering and inter-generational learning – Offer different trainings for elders – ICT skills, guidance in producing craft products, helping to overcome generational gaps through learning about Y & Z generations. – Provide different community building activities |
| Evidence as to why this was considered good practice |
| Practice is part of a RE-START project which lasted for 4 years. More specific objectives were planned: · job creation based on new services, social care and silver employment (min. 19 jobs in supported enterprises) · raising employability by training & mentorship programmes to support the unemployed, unqualified & inactive people (min. 88 trained persons) · increase cross border mobility of labor force by capacity coordination and cooperation. |
| 3 Key learning Principles that were used in this good practice to support senior learners |
| 1. Individualized Learning 2. Experiential Learning (Learning by Doing) 3. Lifelong Learning |
| Any additional learning that we can take from this good practice example |
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