Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
aging
, autonomy
, citizen
, city
, community
, education
, inclusion
, neighbor
, participation
, technology
, wellbeing
Description:
Older adults learn digital skills by applying age-friendly environments and usability
Overview:
Bridge the Gap! wants to find creative and sustainable ways to enable older people to live autonomously and to shape living environments in such ways to support the independence and the social participation of older citizens. Simultaneously, the transformative power of digitalisation is visible in almost every field of our society. The speed of digital development is going that fast, that even younger older adults can't keep up the pace. It calls for new knowledge and skills to be able to fully participate in society. It is therefore highly important that we reduce the digital gap that divides certain groups (e.g. older people) from those with full access to the digital world.
Objectives:
Bridge the Gap! links these two challenges: Older people are empowered and trained to explore, analyse and (re-)shape their neighbourhoods with the help of digital tools.
Initiatives:
combination of questionnaires and tools for individual and collective empowerment also making use of ICT and fostering the digital skills learning process
Shortcomings:
Need to have more testing phase time due to the aim of the project and its ambition
Relevance:
5
Relevance Description:
High relevance
Quality:
5
Opinion:
The very useful; it could be shared among experts in the field to be adopted in several EU areas
Recommended:
Yes
Overlap:
Yes
Overlap Detail:
Hands on SHAFE - Horizon Europe CSA SIRENE
Sources:
https://bridgethegap-project.eu/
Keywords:
AFE awareness and citizens empowerment at district level facilitating the connections among people also usig digital tools
Submitted By:
Willeke van Staalduinen
Email:
oscarzanutto@gmail.com