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Intergenerational learning
Alan Hatton-Yeo in: Guide of Ideas for planning and implementation intergenerational
projects
There is a current need to promote intergenerational learning (IL) in Europe
as a means to enhance intergenerational solidarity. In 2007 the European
Commission (EC) encouraged EU member states to establishing a new solidarity
between the generations to confronting demographic changes in Europe.
EU citizens are in favour of fostering IL: according to a 2008 Eurobarometer,
85% of the EU citizens consider it important to use public budgets to support
initiatives and projects which bring together young and elder people.
The policy initiatives that are more explicitly concerned with intergenerational
learning are incorporated within recent moves to promote lifelong learning,
through instruments like the European Commission‘s ‚Memorandum
on Lifelong Learning”. This underlines the need to promote a ‚cradle to grave‘
culture of learning in European society, supporting seamless transitions
from school through higher education and into adult and informal learning.
Closely allied to this vision of continuous learning are other policy agendas,
associated with skills utilization and development and with social inclusion
– particularly focusing on promoting the inclusion of elder people within
economic, social and cultural life. The key policy agendas shape how intergenerational
learning is situated within this broader education policy landscape,
including the Grundtvig sub-action (as part of “Lifelong Learning Programme”),
that underlines the importance of generational learning by giving a
specific priority to „Teaching and learning in later life; Inter-generational and
family learning“.
Source: Guide of Ideas for planning and implementation intergenerational
projects
http://www.matesproject.eu/language_maps/English.pdf
EMIL European Map of Intergenerational Learning
European Network, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2009
Involved countries: over 20 European countries
Coordination: Julie Melville - EMIL Project Coordinator (Beth Johnson
Foundation) EMIL@bjf.org.uk
EAGLE- European Approaches to Inter-Generational Lifelong
Learning
funded by Grundtvig Programme
Involved countries: England, Finnland, Germany, Greece, Italy and Romania
Coordination: FIM-NewLearning
Web: http://www.eagle-project.eu
Email: thomas.fischer@fim.uni-erlangen.de
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