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<strong>TRAMP</strong> – Transnational Mobility of Older People in Europe<br />
The best thing about the trip to France was the companionship<br />
and the companionship with people from other<br />
countries, and that we worked together and also that we<br />
got to know another culture and existing differences. We<br />
learned how the elderly live in France and the Czech Republic<br />
and what their situation is like. This improves the<br />
knowledge of human nature. Regarding the communication,<br />
there were some difficulties in the beginning and<br />
at first everyone tended to stay in their own little group,<br />
but over the course of time they tended to mix more and<br />
more. We either communicated using our hands and feet<br />
or with the help of someone who spoke a little German.<br />
All of that worked pretty well. We definitely came closer<br />
to Europe. And the children probably learned from the<br />
experience of working with people from other cultures.<br />
We would definitely go again and we think it would make<br />
sense by all means to expand such projects.<br />
Theo Risse and Winfried Kaiser, Hamm, participants<br />
in Metz<br />
The exchange in Prague<br />
• Interior decoration of the nursery Eliška<br />
– the elderly and pupils of the primary<br />
school coated and painted the walls together.<br />
Result: nicer atmosphere in the<br />
nursery.<br />
• Construction and repair of benches and<br />
tables at KLAS, decoration of the garden<br />
and construction of a boule site. Result:<br />
improved environment for leisure activities<br />
of the elderly.<br />
• Setup of benches in the school garden:<br />
polishing and varnishing wood, assembly<br />
of benches, positioning and encasing<br />
in concrete, works on the surro<strong>und</strong>ing.<br />
• Securing the KLAS premises – building<br />
of a fence aro<strong>und</strong> the KLAS building.<br />
Result: increased protection and more<br />
aesthetically pleasing appearance.<br />
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• Renovation works on KLAS building –<br />
the fence, main door and windows were<br />
repainted (originally not planned – this<br />
was initiated by German seniors). Result:<br />
increased lifetime and more aesthetically<br />
pleasing appearance.<br />
• Design of puppets for UNICEF, silk<br />
painting and tiffany works. Result: products<br />
for the UNICEF stall and support<br />
of child vaccinations in Africa.<br />
All project works were completed by the<br />
end of the exchange week and presented<br />
during the final ceremony.<br />
The concept of encouraging communication<br />
between people with different native<br />
languages in a manual work context despite<br />
a lack of foreign language skills has proved<br />
to be a success. This was also indicated by<br />
the participants themselves during interviews<br />
and in the evaluation questionnaires.<br />
On the one hand this is due to the fact<br />
that manual work activities usually do not<br />
require a very complex theoretical context.<br />
Most of the information can be communicated<br />
in a non-verbal manner. On the<br />
other hand, as one participant put it, it is<br />
‘craftsmanship international’. The participants<br />
enjoyed the selected project work,<br />
which contributed to an open atmosphere<br />
and promoted communication processes.<br />
In an interview one of the participants of<br />
l’outil en main said: “I really enjoy passing<br />
my knowledge on to adolescents. Many<br />
of them were completely alien to manual<br />
work. One of the adolescents told me he<br />
could picture himself working in this kind<br />
of profession after he left school.”<br />
Almost all participants evaluated the<br />
workshops as informative, varied and versatile.<br />
Most of them thought the workshops<br />
in Hamm, Oberhausen and Prague<br />
were well-organised. The final exchange in<br />
Prague received the best evaluation. The