Pobierz plik - Grundtvig

project - Grundtvig
IT development,
Learning Partnership
in particular, in
- called www-
golden-age (wwwpiękny-wiek)
terms of technology
use by senior
and
citizens.
began to look for
Only a few
partners. Since we
lacked experience
in international activity,
and also the
courage, we decided
to look for a
partner that would
Meeting of the www-golden-age project partners in Prague, 2006
months after the
project initiation,
it turned out that,
in fact, it was us
and not the official
Danish coordinator,
who supervised
be willing to coordinate the project (even though
the idea of the project was ours). Thanks to the
support of the Kraków Province Marshal’s Office,
we found a coordinator for our project. It was a
Centre for Adult Education from Denmark.
The project implementation began in September
2004. Its aim was an international exchange
of experiences related to making elderly people
familiar with IT, which included such topics as:
effective methods of encouraging senior citizens
to take up learning, methodology of teaching, exchange
of good practices, benefits resulting from
bringing IT closer to senior citizens, establishing a
permanent network of contacts between teachers
and students from partner countries, etc. The
project was designed to last three years and it was
assumed that new partners would join in over
the course of each consecutive year. During the
first year, partner countries included: Denmark,
Poland, Finland, Lithuania and England; in the following
year England dropped out, while Hungary
and Spain joined in; in the third year Denmark resigned,
while the Czech Republic joined in. The
partner countries were significantly diversified not
only in terms of their culture and sociology, but
also with respect to adult education systems and
the project implementation. This resulted
from the fact that, first of all, the project was our
idea, so we were more competent in terms of factual
knowledge, and secondly, we learnt by heart
with the eagerness of neophytes all the rules and
regulations regarding the realisation of this type
of projects, and we were truly good at it. As a
result, at an unanimous request of the partnership,
we officially took over the coordination of
the project in February 2005.
Those few months were enough to radically
change the attitude of our organisation towards
the supervision of work in an international group.
We saw for ourselves that there was nothing to be
afraid of and we able to do it despite the lack of
experience. One needed simply to go through it –
no convincing before the start of the undertaking
would make us do it, anyway.
As part of the project implementation, we organised
seven international seminars attended
by teachers and senior students, each devoted
to a different subject, and one per every partner
country. Apart from the seminars, we staged English
courses, 33 on-line meetings, each of them
devoted to a different topic, as well as meetings
and workshops for senior citizens, during which
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