Partners

CEPAPUB ROSALIA DE CASTRO Spain

SILALES SUAUGUSIUJU BENDROJO LAVINIMO VIDURINE MOKYKLA Lithuania

INSTITUT E-SENIORS France

HORAMA THESPROTIASGreece

D.1. SUMMARY

As we all know, an adult is anybody who is out of the formal education process regardless of the age. Since adults are out of this crucial process, a need arises to form a very broad term which we call “adult education”. In broad term, adult education is the practice of teaching and instructing these adults via informal education. However, due to environmental and social problems and so on, some adults around Europe do not have opportunity to raise their life quality. With this context, these adults not having this adequate quality have problems in communicating with younger generations. The adults cannot express, convey themselves to the young. The young on the other hand cannot comprehend what the adults know, feel, have experienced. We try to overcome this problem by increasing the life quality of the adults and forming the communication links between the adults and the young.

The YODUL project (the YOung and aDULts) seeks to identify and develop innovative methods for enhancing the intergenerational dialogue between the adults and the young in European countries; and then, to disseminate the findings and the good practice widely. The project wants to develop the collaboration between the adults and the young in EU standards, and arrange activities and dialogue meetings so as to improve the collaboration to the benefit of the adults in the European educational system.

Each of the five partners, from a range of institutions in five widely-spread countries, will establish contacts with adults, schools and other relevant stakeholders of the local community in order to ensure national participation and ownership of the project. The local communities act as reflection partners and will be involved in the survey.

D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

Long-term objective:

To increase the life quality of the adults who have not been able to acquire basic education due to various reasons by enhancing basic life and cognitive skills, and to make them active in society.

Short-term objectives:

A)  To enhance the life standards of the adults in participating countries.

B) To increase and empower the communication link between the adults and the young by means of dialogue interaction and communication skills.

C)  To indoctrinate the adults with the idea of adaptation to the modern world.

D) To establish partnerships between adults and the young, improving their self-esteem and the consciousness of working together.

E) To awaken and share examples of innovative methods and good practice among our partners.

F) To use and integrate ICT for partnership-communication and dissemination, as well as inviting adults to make use of it.

G) To provide the adults with basic social information such as nutrition, health care, basic maths knowledge and, especially, literacy.

H) To develop the cultures of the participating countries.

In overall, these objectives are directly linked to the Grundtvig operational objectives 1 and 2 [See section E.1], and specifically to the following ones, as for instance: GRU-OpObj-3 ; GRU-OpObj-4 ; GRU-OpObj-6 . The ICT component in our project is also important, but it is used as a means by which to communicate, collect and disseminate the results and evaluation of our project. Moreover, we will like to highlight that within and throughout the YODUL project, it will be noticed that we have also taken into consideration and contributed to the national priorities (if any) of the countries of the participating institutions in YODUL, as well as to the European ones.

As we have just stated, we would like to achieve a real and effective participation of adults into the educational systems by means of improving the communication between the adults and the young. We believe adult education is a tremendous asset to the educational community; and besides this, we need to tackle these adult based issues because of their importance in European societies.

D.4. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

Questionnaire will be prepared for the adults who lack the basic skills and cognitive skills.

A logo of the project will be made. This logo will enable the project to be known nationally and internationally.

The official web-site of the project  will probably be "www.yodul.com".

The questionnaire (Aug.-Sept. 2011) will be translated to the mother tongue of the participating countries. 

The results of the Questionnaire will be presented and be publicized in the website. Brochures will be prepared for the project to be known widely.

Cultural activities will take place in national media. These activities are culture based and the ones which are in danger of extinction.

Meetings between the young and adults will be arranged. The problems of the adults will be debated and the adults will be given the opportunity to solve their problems creatively.

Final project evaluation report

G.2. WORK PROGRAMME

Turkey : The first project meeting: exchange of information about the project, discussion of the project materials, ideas about the reality of the project according to the questionnaire, the admission of the logo.

France : The second meeting: Overall discussion of the questionnaire, the laying of the studies up to that date, and -if necessary- the update of the project.

Spain : Internal mid-term evaluation, exchange of ideas about the coming main courses and seminars in terms of European Standards.

Lithuania : We will evaluate the project.

The giving of certificates to the main course participants in the project. Evaluation will be given in the website. Farewell party.