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Products and results
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Working with Older Volunteers in Manual Intergenerational Projects
A network of active agents was established.
In total, 423 people took part in 20
events. Over the two years the following
activities took place:
» Five steering group sessions and work
groups respectively with 60 participants
alltogether
» One kick-off-meeting, two workshops,
one partner meeting with 93
participants
» Four one-week exchange programmes
in Hamm, Oberhausen, Vigy/
Metz and Zbraslav/Prag with 115
seniors, 142 pupils, 8 teachers and
many supporters from visited institutions,
companies, politics, administration
and press
» A curriculum was generated for a
further training seminar for multipliers,
which was held in Paris with 27
participants from 11 countries
» A three-day transfer conference
“Mobility of the Elderly in Europe
– working with elderly volunteers in
European exchange projects” in Düsseldorf
with 129 participants from
20 countries.
A project video documents the exchanges
and provides a visual insight into the
diverse activities of the elderly. The second
video, 25.sec-TRAMP of the artist
team Middendorf/Schimanski in Berlin,
contains 25-second statements made by
40 participants regarding their ideas and
associations with the subject “Seniors –
Mobility – Europe”.
A set of methods for transnational exchange
programmes with senior citizens
was tested and documented for interested
multipliers.
A database with senior-related European
projects was created and is available on
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the website http://tramp.aulnrw.de/.
Organisations, projects and individuals
who are interested in the development of
manual and intergenerational exchange
programmes can access and make use of
the database.
Based on the project experiences, practi-
ce recommendations for exchange programmes
with the elderly were devised
for the European Commission.
The exchanges were evaluated and the
initial hypothesis was confirmed: the
work in intergenerational manual work
projects promotes linguistic and cultural
communication in an outstanding way.
The general conditions for success were
clarified and fixed.
The results, which were documented,
and the method set are available in book
form. An electronic version was published
on the website www.tramp.aulnrw.
de.
Project conclusion
The seminars and the overall high satisfaction
of participants demonstrate the capacity
of the concept to unite people from
different European cultures and different
generations in a common communicationintensive
learning context by applying
methods of manual work and intergenerational
dialogue. However, the implementation
also showed that meta-communication
exercises, thus intercultural training, raised
the awareness to interpret experiences of
difference, which are usually experienced as
“strangely” necessary during the everyday
seminar contact. Based on this experience a
further development of exchange seminars
is urgently recommended.
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