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TrAining High tEch seniors for Discovery
Start date: Nov 1, 2013,

The project AHEAD aims to develop test and mainstream an holistic approach to senior education and active ageing based on seniors travelling experiences and, through a dedicated friendly-APP, by equipping senior travellers with those ICT skills that will enable them to turn the collection and share of travelling information in an experience of a proper, innovative training activity. AHEAD has 4 specific objectives:1. Developing an app for mobile devices targeting seniors and allowing them to record and share their travelling experience in a complete fashion. 2. Developing a training methodology and set of resources aimed at introducing the use of the aforementioned app through a proper training activity, encouraging active ageing and the development of ICT skills and active participation in society.3. Connecting the stories produced by the app (Learning adventures) to a sharing AHEAD sharing platform, possibly an existing social network (such as Vimeo or YouTube) and propose them as a new approach to tourism planning to be used by other members of the communities. 4. Introducing the produced tools and resources in the activities and initiatives run by organisations, located in three different European countries, involved in providing educational and entertainment activities to seniors, to make them improve relevant skills that can add value to their contribution in nowadays’ society.The project will produce the following results: A senior-friendly app for their travels experiences recording; implementation of 4 national pilot experiences involving at least 240 senior learners; a lifelong learning adventures collection; organisation of local events, embedding and facilitating the integration of adult learning into civil society world; the AHEAD Manifesto, targeting policy makers and stakeholders for sustainability; a new community approach to tourism planning as an attempt to formulate a bottom-up form of planning.
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