SOCIALWEB

2020

GZ: 2020-0.006.137

SocialWeb project awarded Best practice by Ministry of Social Affairs, austria

The SocialWeb project achieved five out of five innovation points and is therefore considered "extremely innovative". The combination of an online and on-site course has great potential to reach people who are unable to take part in the project on-site (e.g. due to caregiving or physical limitations). The openness and flexibility of the project together with the type of implementation speak for an innovative project that can be adapted to different settings. The reversal of the typical teaching and learning relationship from the young to the older generation is also evidence of an innovative educational project.

To read more about the project follow the link below

The training of young tutors

On March 9th, the CPR students were trained by the expert Walter Fikisz, in which the students learned a lot about security online and about fake news.

On March 16 and 23, the students were trained by us to hold target group-specific training for older people. We taught them about different aspects of learning in old age, "good" teaching and how to best deal with challenges in teaching. 

The e-learning course with seniors

Our social web workshop was a hybrid workshop with the amazing “Meeting Owl Pro” tool. This simplified our communication with workshop participants, as some of them took part on site in Gramatneusiedl and some participants were connected via Zoom. 

In the first module, on March 19th, Mr. Walter Fikisz gave a specialist lecture on the topic: Dangers and security on the Internet. He pointed out possible sources of danger from the Internet and gave safety tips to watch out for. 

The second module took place on March 25th, 21st. The young tutors Hannah, Katharina and Sofie were able to convey the topics “Video telephoning using Zoom and Whatsapp” as well as “Sending and receiving e-mails” well. The topic block on “Safe online shopping”, whether from a large online dealer or from a local train operator, also met with great interest from senior citizens! 

The third and last module took place on March 26th. The young tutors provided information about the exact functions of Google Maps and about secure online payment using credit cards, PayPal and Klarna. 

Trainings timeline

Timeline training of the students 

• 09.03. - Expert Walter Fikisz on “Security on the Net” and Fake News 

• March 16 and 23 - Training by BildungLab on aspects of learning in old age, "good" teaching, challenges in teaching 

Timeline training for seniors 

• 19.03. - Expert Walter Fikiz on dangers and "security on the Internet" 

• 25.03. - Training by the young tourists on the topics: video telephony (zoom, Whatsapp), e-mail (send and receive), safe shopping on the Internet 

• 26.03. - Training by the tutors on the topics: Google Maps and secure online payment (credit card, PayPal, Klarna) 

SocialWeb 2020 Survey Results

more about SOCIALWEB 2020

‘Digitals’ inspire ‘Silver Surfers’ to using digital media

In times of rapidly developing digital media and technologies it may become difficult to stay up-to-date with the latest tools but also with hidden risks. Younger generations perceive some of it as a challenge themselves, even more so older generations who wish to keep up and often enough feel overwhelmed.

SOCIALWEB 2020 provides a remedy. Based on a newly adapted learning and teaching concept professional trainers and young tutors teach and inspire elderly people to use new digital social networks, communication media and technologies. The tutors and trainers receive a special training for this purpose.

The overall effect is a decrease in biases on both sides between the young and the elderly. This already became visible in a previous project “SoWSkills 2.0”, funded by the European Union and accomplished in 2012. The cross-generational program for dialogues, means and methods for teaching and learning digital social media between the young and the elderly was successfully and effectively implemented in three European countries at the time. Thanks to our development partners https://gemeinsam-in-europa.de  and  http://www.eu-integra.eu.

In 2019/20 the program has been updated and diversified by BildungsLAB under project name SOCIALWEB 2020.