Dušana Findeisen, PhD, Slovenian Third Age University, and DANET e.V.
Abstract: In November in Rzezsow, Poland, started the SLIDE project one of the much wanted concrete achievements uniting Europe. The project is meant to improve digital and narrative skills in adult educators but also providers of adult education and volunteers and is indirectly targeting less included learners or non-learners. The project partners will be using ancient and local stories or myths to improve their digital skills.
No doubt, SLIDE itself is a frame offered to those who are involved in adult education, who do not know each other yet, and those who have already co-operated, who know each other and have become friends. SLIDE offers them a possibility to meet and create together.
How SLIDE was born? A story many of you know. «Once upon a time » there were three partners used to working together, knowing and trusting each other: LUETEC, Libera Universita Europea della terza eta from Naples and its director Maria Giovanna Romaniello who drafted the SLIDE project idea, Fundacja Integraciji Spolecznej FIS, now the project coordinating organisation, and EESTI People To People from Tallinn. The three partners invited EOSA from Vigo in Spain and Slovenian Third Age University from Ljubljana to join the partnership. SLIDE is a new project for all partners. Faces are new, Rzezsow, nice and cozy town lies in a part of Poland, some of the partners do not know very well. Luckily all the above-mentioned organisations are rather well skilled in running projects. They all know the Eramus+ program, they know how to start, develop and manage projects! They know the psychological problems that may arise and how to cope with them. This type of skills helps, a lot! But first and foremost, they all know they have to act responsibly.