CROSSING GENERATIONS, CROSSING MOUNTAINS 1 CROSSING GENERATIONS, CROSSING MOUNTAINS Thomas Fischer, MENON Network EEIG With the support of Barbara di Pietro, Gouré, Vanina Stoyanova, Centre for the Development of North-West Bulgaria (CDNWB), Glykeria Thymiakou, Trikala Development Agency KENAKAP & Christina Strapatsa, Trikala Development Agency KENAKAP EDEN Annual Conference, 12 – 15 June 2013, Oslo, Norway – Demonstration Session B4 www.bigfoot-project.eu www.facebook.com/BigFootProject
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Big Foot: Crossing Generations, Crossing Mountains
This presentation describes the philosophy behind the European R&D project Big Foot - Crossing Mountains, Crossing Generations focusing on intergenerational learning for sustainable regional development. It also includes a summary description of the project activities and the achieved results so far. More information can be found at www.bigfoot-project.eu or www.facebook.com/BigFootProject.
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CROSSING GENERATIONS, CROSSING MOUNTAINS
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CROSSING GENERATIONS, CROSSING MOUNTAINS
Thomas Fischer, MENON Network EEIG
With the support of Barbara di Pietro, Gouré, Vanina Stoyanova, Centre for the Development of North-West Bulgaria (CDNWB), Glykeria Thymiakou, Trikala
Development Agency KENAKAP & Christina Strapatsa, Trikala Development Agency KENAKAP
EDEN Annual Conference, 12 – 15 June 2013, Oslo, Norway – Demonstration Session B4
• Mutual and Reciprocal Benefits;• Participatory;• Asset Based;• Well Planned;• Culturally Grounded;• Strengthens community bonds and promotes active citizenship;• Challenges Ageism;• Cross-disciplinary.
Source: Alan Hatton-Jeo, Beth Johnson Foundation in: Almeida Pinto, T. (Ed.) (2009). Guide of Ideas for Planning and Implementing Intergenerational Projects. Together: yesterday, today and tomorrow. MATES Consortium & Association VIDA: Lisbon.
Core Principles of Intergenerational Learning
• Valorizes skills and knowledge of older and younger generations
• Combines in Big Foot traditional knowledge with modern communication tools and expertise in order to enable innovative, creative and productive joint solutions for local sustainable development
• Analysis of local perspectives, community needs and asses of the local environmental, historical and cultural resources
• Bottom-up approach
• Dependent on the participation of the community members
• Should reflect their perception of the endogenous development
• Overview of those learning interventions young and elderly people are interested in, based also on local know-how, which may boost the local development in the long term
Participatory mapping has been used to develop the Learning & Training Interventions in the three Communities:
• a combination of experiential learning and community service opportunities: focused first on the community needs and integrating them with the seniors experience, fostering the dialogue and solidarity among the generations;
• Elderly locals have acted as trainers of younger people, guardians and messengers of traditional knowledge and specific local culture to the younger generations, tourists and interested stakeholders
• Younger participants helped to capture the knowledge electronically online and offline
• Excursions and field trips discovering the surrounding mountains, plant and animal species, learning the names and associated history and folklore, as potential touristic routes and destinations
• ICT courses• Digital Mapping of the
Area
• Learning about local food production and traditional recipes through cooking courses and lectures;
• Storytelling about the traditional intangible heritage of the community;
• ICT courses• Interactive Cook &
Guide Book of the Region
• Special class and visit, hiking trips around four thematic sessions: Traditional local
products and gastronomy;
Culture, folklore and traditional handcraft;
Historical monuments and heritage;
Natural environment and rural tourism
• Digital Guide Book & Map
Intergenerational Experiments
• Training possibilities and thus tested solutions for the elderly and younger inhabitants to be socially involved in mutually beneficial activities;
• A Transferability Tool Kit: transferring the project experience to other rural areas– printed and digital;
• Intergenerational Approach Handbook;
• Project Website, Communities Livelihood Platform and Facebook Page;
• Guides on Intangible Heritage and different multimedia material