Workshop Reference number

A Joy of Being Active. How to be an Assistant to Blind People in a Multicultural Context.

Subject area: Addressing target groups with special needs

Learning opportunities for people at risk of social marginalisation

Inclusive approaches
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
Adults over 50 years of age including people with Asperger’s syndrome (autism spectrum conditions) Workshop participants should have the following characteristics: Involved or interested in voluntary work in their local communities Contact with blind people Openness to disability issues and interest in assisting blind people Interest in activities which promote integration

Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
The Credo Foundation organises a workshop for people interested in providing personal assistance to blind people. The workshop should be enjoyable and fulfilling for participants and will use creative and innovative methods to ensure its success. The workshop will be based on practical sessions on the following topics:

I. Abilities and attitudes: openness, understanding, acceptance and active citizenship.

1. Active participation in local communities.

2. Empathy

3. Positive attitudes to volunteering

4. Discovering your own abilities and strengths

II. Work in pairs or small groups

1. Group communication skills

2. Communication with blind people

III. Organising leisure activities for blind people

1. Learning to get around a town or city: guiding blind people and teaching them new routes

2. Guiding blind people in the mountains

3. Showing blind people historic sites

4. Nordic walking with a blind person

5. Swimming with a blind person

6. Riding a tandem

7. Films for blind people and the role of audiodescription

IV. The multicultural and international dimension to the workshop: developing a community without borders. The participants from different countries, will give a multicultural and international dimension. They will share and analyse their different experiences and perspectives on attitudes and treatment of disabled people in different countries.

Workshop Organiser: Fundacja Credo
Contact details: ul. Wojewódzka 29/8

40-026 Katowice

PL-POLAND

E-mail: [e-mail]

www.fundacja.credo.org.pl

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-PL1-GRU13-28522
Venue: Katowice Date of the Workshop: 01/07/2013 - 05/07/2013

Web 5.0+

Subject area: New technologies, ICT

Intergenerational learning / learning in later life / senior citizens

Social integration/exclusion
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
Adults of 50+ male or female. English will be the working language. Employed, unemployed or retired (access to Internet should be equal for every EU citizen

Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
A training room with computer stations fully equipped to conduct training sessions (projector, flip charts, etc..) will be at our disposal. We will conduct a survey examining the exact needs of the participants. If necessary the workshop will be split into two groups. During the meetings we are planning the following forms of activity:

Inclusion of participants - plays (3 hours)

Motivational training (exercise) (8h)

Introduction to the issues related to the Internet (Internet language, instant messaging, social networking sites, blogs and microblogs) (3h)

Communication skills (10h)

Use of the Internet - basic skills: use of browsers, setting up an e-mail, create and send a message with an attachment (attachment types) and receive mail. (3 h)

Introduction to social media - workshop on social platforms, setting up a profile, create groups of interests and community gathering -Copyrights (uploading music files, graphics, photos) -Netiquette Afternoons will be spent to look for interesting topics to publish on the Web - starting field.
Workshop Organiser: Ad Infinitum
Contact details: Sobieskiego 27

40-082 Katowice

PL-POLAND

E-mail: [e-mail]

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-PL1-GRU13-28425
Venue: Krakow - Poland Date of the Workshop: 13/05/2013 - 17/05/2013

Make friends with your own memory - workshop for seniors.

Subject area: Intergenerational learning / learning in later life / senior citizens
Working language(s): EN
Target Group + Translation:
Make friends with your own memory” – is a workshop addressed to senior citizens from all over Europe who are older than 55, have at least an intermediate command of English and the desire to use the workshop for their personal development.

Main activities Programme + Programme translation:
The workshop topic is learning in later life and it focuses on various innovative methods for supporting and developing memory in later life. These will be extracted from various sources including scientific research, personal experience, literature and art , “folk knowledge” and so on. Each day will include morning and afternoon sessions, held both in the classroom and outdoors. For the fieldwork we will use various historical, cultural, social and natural environments of the city of Krakow, to illustrate, expand and train the knowledge acquired in the classroom. The program will include topics such as: - general information about the functioning of memory, especially in later life - supporting the memorization process: concentration and attention, rules for memorizing, the role of senses and the body - recalling information and memories – rules and techniques, the construction of memories - the influence of lifestyles, attitudes to and perceptions of one’s own memory, on memory functioning - a role of the “art of memory” in the culture and art development - how to use cultural, environmental and personal recourses to support and develop one’s own memory - a construction of personal strategies for aiding and developing one’s own memory based on available local resources. Classes will be organized in a highly interactive way, using various methods, techniques, and exercises designed especially for the workshop. We are going to use personal experience shared by the participants to combine it with contemporary knowledge, the rich experience we already posses and also tracks of the “art of memory”, both historical and modern. We will use diverse and innovative teaching means, engaging not only the brain, but also emotions, senses and the entire body.
Workshop Organiser: Stowarzyszenie Akademia Pełni Życia im. Joanny Boehnert
Contact details: ul. J.Lea 5a/4

30-046 Kraków

PL-POLAND

E-mail: [e-mail]

www.apz.org.pl

Workshop Reference number: 2012-1-PL1-GRU13-28502
Venue: Kraków Date of the Workshop: 22/04/2013 - 27/04/2013