"""Efficient seniors’ inclusion: Do not hold a candle under the dowry, share your talents and hobby - inspire others"""

<< Background >>Creativity is the ability to raise new ideas, think outside the box, find unusual solutions, and deal with problems quickly. It’s very important in adult training, especially for seniors. Adult trainers promoting creativity enable adult learners to explore and find their hidden talents. A lot of educators working with adults are not aware how to develop these competencies. Motivation of this project partners was to exchange good practices how their organisations open talents and develop creativity of adult learners. Partners decided to involve in project activities participants from different cultural and social backgrounds: ethnic and national minorities, migrants and refugees, representatives of different religions, disabled, seniors etc. with the aim to share European diversity and common European values. Partners built intercultural dialogue by improving the availability of high-quality learning opportunities for adults in own organisations by offering training in new hobbies which they learn from the project partners. Project partners were interested to collect good practices in E-Book with the aim to equip and support educators who work with adult learners using non-formal methods of education.<< Objectives >>The partnership wanted to achieve new competences (knowledge, skills, attitudes) and experiences of participants - staff members, learners and other stakeholders. Intercultural and intergenerational partnership brought different teaching and learning approaches and cultural diversity. Thanks to the project activities, participants expanded their individual social networks and become more creative, self-confident and more open minded. Project instigated participants to take initiative to learn and develop new hobbies and shared them with international group of project partners what stimulated creativity and innovations. Educators had opportunity to improve professional competences, staff members improved project management skills working with foreign partners. Educators learnt from each other new methods of teaching and learning in the intercultural and intergenerational environments. Partners' organisations gained experience in European strategic partnership which finally is the potential long-term benefit and beginning of future wider cooperation on European level. This contributed to the development of creativity and adult education and expanded the capabilities of partners' organisations as adult education providers. << Implementation >>Educators transfered knowledge and skills how to develop creativity to their learners. Project activities directly and indirectly benefited people lacking creative soft skills, digital skills and different competences important in XXI century. The main activities were focused on the improvement of competences during exchange of practices between project partners and work on the project E-Book. Partners organised transnational meetings, training course and international and local workshops, evaluation, dissemination and follow-up activities. Particular attention was paid to local workshops at each country with the involvement of seniors. Participants shared own hobbies to other partners and provided new ideas, materials and recourses. Collection of good practices helped seniors to learn about interesting hobbies from other countries, compare them with similar in own country. Partners agreed that such educational materials were needed in their organisations and were also used in other institutions and organisations. Partners confirmed that it is the need to increase awareness of creativity and cultural heritage of Europe. << Results >>Project E-Book is main tangible result. It consisted of good practices and pedagogical materials (108 pages). There are chaptes about skills-oriented hobbies - knitting, traditional kitchen tapestry, glass, clay, ceramic, metal and wood works, honey-flavour cake, folk interior decoration-spder, wicker, felting, ethnic ornaments, also chapter about sewing, art, pottery, street decorations and about different collections. The idea is to share what partners have in own countries, to learn about creativity and cultural diversity in Europe and to transfer ideas and hobbies from one country to other.Other outputs: improvement competences of adult educators; exchanging of good practices and experiences; developing talents and training creative skills of adult learners with focus on hobbies; supporting inclusion of seniors to adult education; improvement the availability of high-quality learning opportunities for adults; improvement the capacities of organisations active in the fields of adult education and training; contribution to the awareness about the cultural diversity in Europe. Apart it, partnership created videos of official visits, articles in newspapers, in EPALE, project logo, flyer, poster, Project Facebook Page.