PARTNERS

TREBAG Property – and Projectmanagement LTD	Hungary
Università LiberEtà del Fvg	Italy
Aula de Mayores de la Universidad de Málaga	Spain
Die Kärntner Volkshochschulen	AUSTRIA
Zavod za razvoj informativnih, turisticnih in sportnih dejavnosti podezelja
POLANS	Slovenia
Cultural Institute of Évora	PORTUGAL
INSTITUT E-SENIORS	FRANCE
EdirneTurizm ve Otelcilik Meslek Lisesi Okul Aile Birligi	Turkey

D.1. SUMMARY

Within the framework of its i2010 initiative the European Commission communicated its "Action Plan on  Information and Communications Technology for Ageing" with the subtitle of "Ageing well in the Information Society". In this document the Commission expresses its belief that ICT can provide enormous support to older people to stay active for longer in various fields of life: at work, in the home and in the wider community. Among the reasons why already existing ICT tools and applications are prevented from  effective use in this group is stated to be low awareness of the opportunities and insufficient sharing of experiences.

The project Outdoor ICT aims to face these challenges and offer pathways to explore and use expertise and knowledge of project partners in the field of adult education, health care promotion and ICT and unify these pools of knowledge by tailoring them to the needs of people over 45. The main objectives of the project are 1, to explore needs of the target group 2, to offer people45+ opportunities to explore new ways of acquiring knowledge  on ICT 3, to make pathways to apply knowledge gained via ICT in the field of active lifestyle 4, to combat intergenerational gaps 5, to share experiences of partners and participants

The piloting activity which will offer a package of objectives 2-5 is built around the idea of geocaching. Through geocaching  the partnership attempts to carry out a vast program promoting education and awareness about important sights from an environmental or historical/patrimonial point of view in each of the participating countries. The learners involved would get to know not only important sights in their own country, but also in other countries belonging to this partnership by sharing teaching materials and experiences.

D.3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

In general, the main objective of the project is to provide opportunities for exploring ways of applying knowledge gained in the field of ICT to the promotion of active lifestyle by gaining and sharing knowledge and experiences of partners and participants and empowering people over45.

Concrete objectives of the partnership are:

1, Investigating the needs of adult users 45+

2, Exploring ways to combine knowledge and expertise gained in the fields of health promotion, ICT and adult education

3, Sharing knowledge and expertise of project partners

4, Giving opportunities for people 45+ to explore new, entertaining but also useful ways of learning ICT (main topic: geocaching)

5, building up or empowering communities which -besides traditional ways of keeping contacts- are maintained by online social networks

6, overbridging intergenerational gaps

7, disseminating project results

8, evaluating main project activities and adopt necessary changes

The main questions the project is seeking answers to are: 1, What are the barriers of people 45+ to use ICT tools and applications extensively?    2, Can informal and entertaining ways of teaching ICT be a high motivatonal force for older people?   3, Can online social networking systems support social integration of the target group? 4, Can intergenerational gaps be diminished by applying new approaches?

To achieve these objectives the partnership will use the following approaches:

The project will highly rely on the expertise pooled in the participating organizations. By sharing experience, knowledge and best practises partners will gain new perspectives in the relevant topics, increase their potentials in collaborating with each other. The project will rely on experiences gained in previous or ongoing European Union projects including Time-well (IBB), E-com45+ (Malaga), Mindwellness (Trebag),“A sense of Place: presenting your locality" (Libereta). These projects will be presented in workshops embedded in the meeting schedules.

Investigations by quantitative and qualitative methods alongside the above mentioned questions.

Drawing conclusions on SOTA analyses and applying this in further activities.

Developing ICT related outdoor activities with the main objective to promote healthy lifestyle (the recommended activity that each partner might undertake is geocaching)

Moreover, each partner will be responsible to implement local activities and also to contribute to the common outputs of the project. 

D.4. RESULTS AND OUTCOMES

12/2011	project logo
12/2011	recommendations on capitalization of results and experiences of previous projects (Time-well, Mindwellness, Kifli, E-com45+, Sense of place etc.)
03/2012	developing and introducing to the project  the web2.0 page (eg. facebook)
04/2012	Project website
05/2012	finalization of short ICT trainings- giving project certificate to participants
06/2012	final version of leaflet in English
06/2012	Mid-term evaluation summary
05/2012	finalization of national investigations
07/2012	finalization of SOTA analysis (summary of national investigations)
06/2012-06/2013	Organizing ICT related outdoor activities (recommended activities are geocaching, but partners are encouraged to implement and try other ICT related outdoor activities too)
06/2013	summary of disseminating activities
06/2013	plans for valorisation activities (further contribution, exploitation of results)
06/2013	final evaluation summary
06/2013	finalizing the GUIDE (which is elaborated jointly by project participants alongside contents including eg. summary of SOTA, lessons learnt from previous projects, recommendations for ICT related outdoor activities, reflections on project by users,etc

G.2. WORK PROGRAMME

Description of mobilities and other activities	Destination country	Approx. Start date
Kick off meeting. Defining further steps, presenting draft ideas for logo, website, deciding about the leaflet, sharing experience on experiences and expertise gained in previous projects. (see section F1) Brainstorming, Study visits	HUNGARY	10/2011
2nd TN meeting. Presenting results achieved, facebook page, draft leaflet, draft website. Presenting first results of national investigations. Study visits	GERMANY	03/2012
3rd TN meeting. Partners present their experiences gained at the course, final SOTA presented and discussed, ICT related outdoor activities are organized with the involvement of target group. Study visits.	TURKEY	06/2012
4th TN meeting. Presenting project activities fullfilled, discussing further steps, outdoor activities. Deciding about content of the Guide. Study visits	SPAIN	09/2012
5th TN meeting. Presenting activities, presenting the fullfilled tasks in developing the guide. Dissemination report of all partners. Outdoor activities, study visits	AUSTRIA	02/2013
6th TN meeting. Finalization of results. Dissemination, valorization activities, further cooperation. Outdoor activities, study visits.	ITALY	06/2013