ERASMUS + INTERAGING

<< Background >>Promoting Erasmus+ among all citizens and generations is the priority the project responds to, addressing a target group of the population that records very low participation rates. The project proposal stems from the partners' experience in different specific sectors: communication, non-formal education - both in adult and youth sectors - and intergenerational dialogue. In outlining the context, the partners referred to data collected in small-scale research at the local level; the framework of official data; and the resources available on Erasmus+ Project Results, EPALE, and SALTO. The set of collected data confirmed what had been hypothesized as a premise: the low knowledge and participation of the elderly population in the Erasmus+ program and the weakness of collaboration activities between organizations with different target groups (young and old) within the program. << Objectives >>By promoting the Erasmus+ Programme in its principles and in the opportunities it offers to organisations and people, through actions at local and transnational levels and in a perspective of intergenerational dialogue, the project wanted to contribute to the construction of a common European identity, involving new organisations and people in a process of discovery of the Programme. The specific objectives we aimed to achieve are 1. to improve the participant's organisation capacities in seizing the opportunities that the Eramsus+ Programme offers them; 2. To increase older people's knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme and to foster their active participation in the Programme. 3. To improve the capacity of cooperation between youth organisations and organisations for older people to achieve common objectives. << Implementation >>The activities carried out were the following: Activity 01. Organization, at the local level, of a series of meetings aimed at promoting and deepening the Erasmus+ Programme, its values, strategies, objectives, and opportunities. Activity 02. Implementation, at the transnational level, of a non-formal learning training activity. Activity 03. Implementation, at the local level, of a series of meetings for the dissemination of the results of the learning training activity. Activity 04. Creation of an online training module built by exploiting and rationalizing the results of previous activities. << Results >>The planned activities led to the following concrete outputs 1. Materials for the presentation and promotion of the Programme Erasmus+ in the context of reference; good practices selected through the Erasmus+ project results platforms, EPALE and Salto; tools for the evaluation and replicability of the proposal, as a result of the whole cycle of activities carried out. 2. Adhesion to the program of 14 new organizations through the creation of OIDs, as a result of the activities carried out at the local level by each of the partners and at the transnational level collectively. 3. Three project drafts for new small-scale Erasmus+ projects as a result of the activities carried out at the transnational level. 4. Online training module for the promotion of the Erasmus+ program within the EDA sector as a result of the whole cycle of activities carried out, both at local and transnational levels. As an additional result, a collection of written interviews with the participants has been created in the form of a PDF.