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DEFINE : Digitalized Financial Education for Seniors - Interactive Scenario Gaming Solutions for Increasing
Online Financial Literacy of Seniors |
Starting date : 01/10/2019
Finishing : 30/09/2021
Partners :
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Wirtschaftskammer
Steiermark, Austria, coordinator
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Vitale TecnologieComunicazione – Viteco
SRL, Italy
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AssociazioneProgetto
Marconi, Italy
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Universidad
de Alicante, Spain
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VolkshochschuleHannover,
Germany
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E-Seniors,
France
The DEFINE projectis set to upgrade seniors´ skills in handling online
financial management services to increasetheir active
participation at financialmarketsagain, to decreasetheircosts of participation due to upgraded online
IT skills, to enhancetheirinvestmentpossibilities and
understandingwhichleads to a minimization of
disadvantages and fraud of thistarget group.
New developmentssuch as online banking are generallysupportive
for financial management,
still, the olderadults are not able to followthesedevelopmentsbecause
of tworeasons:
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IT skills and understandingismostlymissing
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Technologicaldevelopments in finances are not understoodwellgiven the lack of digital technologyskills.
The objective of the projectit to increase the skills on IT and technologicaldevelopments in finances connected to money
management, budgeting and investments. In order to achievethis
goal learningscenario games in these areas willbedeveloped for all of the participating countries. In
addition to these scenario offline training materials, trainer guides and a handbookwithadditionalmaterial for offline trainings willbedeveloped. Both, the learning scenario games and the
offline materialswillbeused to complementeachother.
In practice, the main
resultsthatwillbefinalizedduring the DEFINE Project
and itscompletion are:
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Good practice Catalogue on
Digitalized Financial Education for Seniors : It willfocuse
on the identification and collection of good practices fromEurope
about existing cases and good practices on digitalizedfinancialeducationteaching
andtraining concepts for seniors.
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SkillCardCreation and Training
Curriculum including the Strategy Design : The skillcardwillbe
the definition of set of skills to beadressed by the
future trainees. The curriculum is the important linkbetweentheory
and practicalpedagogicmethodologywork.
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Trainings for Digitalized
Financial Education for Seniors : This is the coreproduct
of the project. It isdividedin
2 parts :
o Training materials for face-to-face trainings
o
Learning scenario games
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Transferability and Evaluation
Handbook : To evaluate the resourcescreatedduring
the project’slifetime.
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PromotionalVideo : to spread the
word about the project to the broaderpublic.
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