Creation POP: A creative social prescription approach: promoting wellbeing of persons of older age through creativity-based intergenerational activities
Golas
- Provide new, innovative ways of social inclusion for the elderly through creative arts (theatre).
- Raise awareness among younger generations and among elderly as well, that they have a lot of experiences that can be shared with younger generations and that their voices are important and that they should express them.
- Develop theater activities that produce a safe space for expressing and challenging age-related stereotypes.
- Improve the competences of educators and other adult education staff and improve the availability of high quality learning opportunities for adults that will enable them greater social inclusion.
Activities
- Development of 5 key project results (needs analysis of elderly, study of intergenerational teaching and learning activities, Creation POP methodology and toolkit, online platform).
- 5 transnational project meetings.
- 5 multiplier events.
Results
- Report on understanding the needs of persons of older age and how to support their social inclusion.
- Study of intergenerational learning activities for social inclusion of persons in older age.
- Creation POP methodology.
- Creation POP Toolkit.
- Creation POP platform.
Impact
- Greater awareness about the social issues (ageing) and the need to look for and provide systematic approaches to the issue.
- Greater awareness about the importance of providing activities for persons of older age and their social inclusion.
- Raised awareness on the benefits of intergenerational learning for all generations involved.
- Greater sense of belonging in society of the participants, leading to healthier communities with greater understanding across and among different age group.
Partners
- Gerontološki raziskovalni inštitut (Slovenia, coordinator)
- IC Geoss
- Dublin City University (Irland)
- LAUREA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY (Finland)
- Associacio La Xixa Teatre (Spain)
- CESIE (Italy)
Project duration between 1. 2. 2022 and 1. 8. 2024. It is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.