Akademia Aktywnego Seniora

"<< Background >>""Active Senior Academy"" is a project that responds to the needs of the modern world. An aging society forces activities that educate and activate seniors. That is why the leading organization (that has been carrying out social activities, including international ones, for many years), together with a partnering association from the Czech Republic, based on experiences, decided to prepare activities for seniors and cultural staff. The cycle of educational workshops concentrating on the use of new technologies, artistic and activating workshops for culture-creating seniors, or workshops for cultural staff on preparing the program offers proposals aimed at improving the competencies and qualifications of participants and influencing their development and the quality of life. It also means transferring good practices to other local seniorsthat are not a part of a project.<< Objectives >>The priorities we chose for the realization, clearly define the goals we were striving for: ""Creating paths for improving qualifications, improving accessibility and increasing the number of people benefiting from adult education"", ""Improving access to high-quality educational offers for adults"", and ""Creating future education centers"". The ""Active Senior Academy"" project (AAS) was a project that responded to the needs of the modern aging society world, which lives in a world with gigantic technological development. ""The project's main task was to promote both cultural and educational activities (learning how to use social media,operate a smartphone, or surf the Internet) addressed to Seniors. Realizing this project we wanted to socially, culturally, and technically activate the community. Colloquially, we wanted to get them out of the houses. We implemented the project simultaneously in two ways: we focused on promoting activities addressed to our target group by training and supporting the staff of cultural institutions, as well as we, involved associated seniors with training other employees. The project activitiesled to one main goal: directly or indirectly - the activation of seniors.<< Implementation >>Two workshops were carried out as part of the project: - workshops for seniors and workshops for cultural staff. As part of the workshops for seniors, the following were held: smartphone use workshops, Internet surfing workshops, eco-tailoring workshops, and theater workshops. As a workshop for cultural staff, we organised: a workshop on adapting the program offered in cultural institutions to the needs of seniors and a workshop on raising external funds for activities aimed at seniors.<< Results >> expanding competencies among employees of cultural institutions who will use the acquired knowledge in working with seniors,- knowledge acquired, transferred to local organizations, mechanisms inlife- C1 and C2 training- activation of seniors and their technical and artistic development through participation in C3, C4, C5, and C6 training- establishing contacts and relationships not only between employees of the cultural institution but also between seniors- organization of local and international meetings, exchange of experiences and skills, learning the specifics of work and cooperation"