Date/time
Date(s) - 01/02/2024 - 31/12/2024
All day
Project type
Selected participants
Digital Youth (in senior age) is a project focused on the digitalization of seniors who are not completely at home in it (i.e. digital youth) and are vulnerable on the Internet. We therefore implemented a series of workshops on a regular basis (1x per month in each facility = 5 workshops per month) in CSS, nursing homes and day care centers – which step by step led to reasonable use, use for a higher quality of life, critical thinking, avoiding fraud, but also improving the use of digital technologies for leisure activities (e.g. we showed seniors meaningful games, watching documents, reading news and verifying their veracity), or online courses. We also showed them applications that will simplify their lives or sites where they can legally read books and watch movies.
In our organization, we perceive that the quality of people at this age is important and digital skills can help with this, and if caution, critical thinking and fun are added, nice meaningful moments will come out of it.
The project goals were:
– To involve 60 seniors from homes in a series of workshops that will strengthen their digital skills and critical thinking and expand their opportunities to spend their free time and education.
– To reduce disinformation among seniors thanks to a series of workshops that will show them how to verify information and what are the signs of trustworthy sites and articles.
– To prevent theft of seniors (within the digital world) from homes, to whom we will provide a series of workshops.
– To find and train at least 1 volunteer for each of these homes/facilities, who would continue our task with our help even after the end of the project.
