Dušana Findeisen, PhD, Slovenian Third Age University, and DANET e.V.
Abstract: Younger people are natives and older people are migrants in the world of new technologies.
The authors from partner organisations active in the project Silver Code, an Erasmus+ project co-founded by European Union, are writing about the project developments, the transnational meeting in Ljubljana, the European Code Week, the Symposium to take place in Ljubljana promoted by Slovenian Third Age University, called E-Seniors. A message from Bulgaria is about the 1st October- the International Day of Older People, where Znanie, a project partner will introduce a wider audience to the project. In Vienna, the coming days will be digital and a conference will take place in Lisbon (on project regarding older people, promoted by RUTIS and AidLearn. In Italy, they will be organizing intergenerational coding. It’ll be great fun, they say. In Romania, they have drafted the programme of training on coding for older people (who are migrants in the digital world and media traditionalists, experience a lot of technostress) and in Poland, a programme on older people’s key (social, linguistic, digital) competencies is in the focus of the National Agency.
It has been nominated for a national award.
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