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