This project is intergenerational and designed to access, record and disseminate the wisdom and knowledge of the older members of our extended families and communities across Europe. The project will help our younger generation engage and interact across their family generations in ways which will benefit their own cultural understanding and the appreciation of the culture of their European partners. Developing mutual intergenerational respect and understanding the immense contribution now and in the past all members of our extended families have made will be a key outcome. The focus will also be to collect and combine the wisdom of a generation who have lived through significant historical times and who can pass on knowledge and understanding of how to adapt to changing circumstances in a European wide context.

• Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Economics, Environmental Education, Ethics, European Studies, Foreign Languages, Health Studies, History, History of Culture, Home economics, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Music, Philosophy / Logic, Physical Education, Primary School Subjects, Social Studies / Sociology, Special Needs Education, Technology
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 3 - 20
• Tools to be used: Audio conference, e-mail, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: To harness the wealth of wisdom and knowledge for future generations through the interaction of our students with the senior... read moreTo harness the wealth of wisdom and knowledge for future generations through the interaction of our students with the senior members of our extended families and communities. To support students to fully understand and appreciate the contribution made by members of their extended family to their wellbeing and that of their society now and in the past. To help the senior members of our families and community interact; share and contribute to the future of the younger generations of the wider European community. To enable the students to enjoy, respect and be motivated by the wisdom and knowledge of their extended family and communities. To enable our present students to have access to knowledge not available in written form but which acknowledges the long oral traditions in Europe of sharing culture, knowledge and understanding through stories, discussion and inter generational dialogue as families and communities. To collaborate with students from other cultures and traditions across Europe to record, share and create a repository for the collective knowledge and understanding gained through the inter generational dialogues. hide
• Work process: Short weekly agreed tasks (technology optional to the level available) to engage, record and disseminate to all partners the interactions... read moreShort weekly agreed tasks (technology optional to the level available) to engage, record and disseminate to all partners the interactions and responses of the inter generational activities. Evaluate, review and amend the tasks and develop new ones as suggested by the students and/or families. Each partner school will engage to the level they feel comfortable with relative to their needs and cultures. Students will be active in the tasks agreed, taking responsibility for the engagements with their extended family and/or community. Teams of students will construct and coordinate the knowledge and understanding gained through the Europe wide intergenerational engagements in modern 21st Century formats. Available time commitment and length of the school year will determine by imput of the partners who join the action. A proposed starter list of engagement topics is available but will be changed and amended by all the participants as the project progresses. hide
• Expected results: A better understanding of family, local community and European culture for all the students involved. A positive engagement across the generations,... read more A better understanding of family, local community and European culture for all the students involved. A positive engagement across the generations, strengthing bonds and respect in families and communities as well as across the wider European Diasporas. A return to the oral traditions and intergenerational dialogues but with dissemination through 21st century tools to a wide European community of students and young people. To have fully engaged in motivational and interesting ways with the curriculum outcomes identified in the project activities. Other unspecified results which will emerge through the student’s interactions in this intergenerational action and will be determined by the participants themselves. A meaningful and motivational engagement for students to become creators of content as well as consumers, based on the knowledge, skills and understanding from across the generations. To have created a shared online resource, combined and created by the students themselves to make available the understanding, knowledge and wisdom they acquired, and fun they had in order to share ‘Granny’s Gifts’. hide

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