ALICE: Creative Intergenerational Learning

Intergenerational learning (IL) aims to improve dialogue among generations through civic participation in common social and institutional spaces, and carry out informal learning of key competences for lifelong learning, both by adults and children. IL has as its goal fostering social cohesion. Contemporary European society needs social cohesion that is built on the basis of a new integrated and complex dimension of social tissue, where diversity (among cultures, age, gender) is considered an opportunity. 

“Adults Learning for Intergenerational Creative Experiences” (ALICE) focuses this idea in a non-traditional way in order to:

-help adults, senior citizen and volunteers to reflect and acquire competences necessary to become effective educators, and the impact their actions can have on future learning of children.

-provide adults, senior citizen and volunteers with creative languages  to generate opportunities for intergenerational learning;

-train adult's trainers to adopt ALICE methodological approach, becoming aware of the role that adult's as educator can have on social cohesion, and hence, re-considering the value of adult's training institutions.
ALICE project is possible thanks to the common work of 6 institutions in 5 countries and the support of the European Commission (Lifelong Learning Programme, subprogramme GRUNDTVIG). See the Website.