ASLECT – Active Seniors Learn, Educate, Communicate and Transmit
Project number: 511842-LLP-2010-RO-KA4-KA4MP
With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union.

Coordinator: Center of Professional Training in Culture, RO
Partners:
Integra Association, BG
Amitie, IT
Education and Youth Studies Institute Association, TR
The Institute of Social Infrastructure, DE
Internationales Institut fur Managing Diversity, AU

Implementation period: December 2010 – November 2012

Objectives:

1. to provide resources for strengthening the capacity of cultural and educational organizations to offer an adult learning and communication environment favorable for specific groups like senior people;
2. to create opportunities for retired professionals to use their experience/competencies and become adult educators for their peers and other interested groups;
3. to establish partnerships between educational and cultural organizations involved and other cultural and social institutions for sustainability of the practice once the project is over.

ASLECT approaches the presence of senior people in cultural organizations, projecting on them a double perspective: as users/beneficiaries of educational and cultural programmes and equally as learning resources for developing such programmes. In ASLECT perspective, seniors are both resources and beneficiaries of learning, while cultural organizations must strengthen their capacities to treat them as such, to support and to promote their integration as active citizens in the local communities. ASLECT will identify a series of Good practices on Seniors Involvement in Education and Cultural life, will elaborate training materials aimed to help cultural professionals to work with seniors, developing educational programmes with them and for them, will produce a set of Recommendations for Cultural Oragnisations working with Seniors and through promotional activities at national and European level will raise awareness on the potential contribution of seniors to the educational and cultural sphere. Training sessions at local level and international seminars will facilitate the contact with the target groups and exploitation of the outputs.
ASLECT is a project funded under KA4 Valorisation subprogramme.

Contact data:
Adina Dragu, project manager
, Mobile: +4-0788.905.033
Tel.: +4-021-3100815, Fax: +4-021-3100816

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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