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2023-10-18

Creativity S.O.S: IAL FVG successfully implements two face-to-face and T&V presentation sessions of the OER Platform and Training and Tools SOS Session with a group of dynamic seniors from the Pordenone foothills in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy)

On September 12 and 19, 2022, IAL FVG organized two sessions presenting the SOS Platform and its face-to-face PR in Cavasso Nuovo, a small municipality in the mountainous area of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

In these isolated areas, the elderly, i.e., the majority of the resident population, are in dire need of digitization both to avoid isolating themselves and to protect their health and economic well-being. This need was especially evident during the COVID 19 period, when it was difficult/impossible for the elderly to relate to others, to book medications or doctor's visits, to shop in person, and to participate in cultural activities in order not to fall into depression.

The SOS project was seen as a solution to the problems that emerged at that time and still exist.

The meetings were carried out with the cooperation of the "Simpri Giovins" (Always Young) Association with a registered office in the small town of Pordenone.

The data collected were useful to schedule 6 face-to-face T&V sessions of each of the two days of ME.

The T&V program consisted of 6 appointments.

12.09.2022 >>> (with 13 attendees)

19.09.2022 >>> (with 18 attendees)

26.09.2022 >>> (with 18 attendees)

03.10.2022 >>> (with 17 attendees)

10.10.2022 >>> (with 11 attendees)

17.10.2022 >>> (with 8 attendees)

The topics covered were respectively:

It is never too late to... spend money on culture, comfortably seated on the armchair

Online booking, home-banking, online security

Basics of digital technology

Developing digital content

Cultural opportunities online

Online economic transactions

The meetings were a great success for IAL FVG and for SOS CREATIVITY in general: The hardy seniors confirmed their willingness to continue with other training days similar to the ones held.

We promised that we will accommodate them shortly.

2023-02-25

S.O.S Creativity – Seniors Online Security for Creativity Promoting a project online after Covid-19: It's still possible

E-Seniors recently shared the results of the Erasmus + project at two online events. While it may be easier to set up an online event and save the logistics of meeting face-to-face, these online events are also great opportunities that can sometimes bring better results.

Many people agree that our lifestyles have changed since the Covid-19 and the successive lockdowns that shook Europe. We have learned to appreciate the comforts of our homes, whether for work or for pleasure. We are perhaps less willing to leave them now.

We have experienced this at E-Seniors, but we also face another difficulty specific to our target group, seniors. Senior citizens are sometimes less willing to leave their homes or are wary of their health. For a long time, they were told that it was safer to stay at home and be safe from Covid. E-Seniors decided, as part of this project, and in order to reach a larger number of people, to use its skills and experience to promote the project directly online, through two events.

The first event was a webinar organised by a Greek partner with whom the organisation works, on the theme of ageing well, on 25 January 2023. This webinar was attended by more than 60 people and gave E-Seniors the opportunity to present, in English, the project as a whole, the partners, the results and to present the platform set up and all that it offers to its users.

E-Seniors also organised an online multiplier event on 23 February 2023 with 15 people, in addition to the two E-Seniors organisers, present, mainly aimed at French seniors who have already had contact with the association. In addition to the presentation of the results, the association was able to organise two virtual tours available in the digital library of the platform:

The Lascaux Caves (France)
The cultural heritage of Tryavna (Bulgaria)

These online presentations allowed the participants to see directly the remote opportunities offered by this project and this content by experiencing it directly with our guidance.

2023-02-13

SOS CREATIVITY Erasmus + IWS Multiplier Events - Beyond expectations

IWS with its associate partners network (ICTs no- profit NGOs and community centre for elderly) organized 5 Multiplier Event in Málaga (Spain) to maximize the impact and visibility of the project and its results, between June 2022 and February 2023.

In total more than 65 attendees were reached, out of the 20 approved in the original form and ME plan approved.

The great success of this outperforming lies on the word of mouth among participants attending the activities of the Senior Centre &ldquoCentro Social Puerta Blanca&rdquo in Málaga.

For example, on 7th June 2022, IWS organized the first SOS CREATIVITY Multiplier Event, arranged all logistics and chose the most appropriate media format to make the most of this event and boost the dissemination of all project deliverables.

Participants were amazed by all the free resources and the project itself that asked for other Multiplier Events.

The direct target of the events were ate digital adults interested in culture and creativity resources, disadvantaged adults facing economic, social, educational and geographical disparities. IWS also invited culture operators and trainers, elderly care assistants, Adult Education Training operators, stakeholders and local / regional / international representatives.

To engage audience, previous targeted-dissemination took place and the gamification methodology was applied. Practical activity with the digital activity book followed as the event also contributed to generating trust among the participants, enhance networks and promoting Erasmus+ among citizens and generations providing a sense of social Inclusion.

Participants showed interest in the Digital Activity book, designed to simulate real-time cyber-attack attempts in everyday situations when making online payments, detecting fake news, smishing attempts via sms and phishing via email.

The events, organized in detailed, contributed to generate trust among the participants, enhance networks and promoting Erasmus+ among citizens and generations providing a sense of social inclusion to seniors.

2023-02-01

“Guidelines for future training” Available now!

S.O.S Creativity Guidelines represents manual for the Project S.O.S Creativity products use, referring to both practical and organizational aspects as well as issues of educational-pedagogical approach and content.

This document is aimed at project target groups representatives (ICT low-skilled adults, elderly people faceing an increasingly demanding online world, members of the &ldquoadult education ecosystem&rdquo, AE providers (formal and non-formal), general public interested in digital inclusion, digital skills and competences, etc.) helping them to use the S.O.S Creativity learning resources both in an efficient and effective way. Guidelines for future training are based on the activities during Project implementation and findings from the S.O.S Creativity IO4 Pilot and Validation activities, conducted by the S.O.S Creativity consortium.

S.O.S Creativity &ldquoGuidelines for future training&rdquo and summaries in all project&rsquos languages are now available and ready to be downloaded on the OER platform:

S.O.S Creativity &ndash Guidelines for future training

S.O.S. Creativity project is supporting the development of IT key competences for adults, to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online in a safe, effective and efficient way. S.O.S Creativity&rsquos training modules are categorized in 5 thematic areas: Cultural and Media Literacy, Personal data protection, Economic Transactions, Online security, Digital Identity.

For more information about S.O.S Creativity, please visit the official project website:

https://www.soscreativity.eu

2023-01-23

S.O.S Creativity presents the ‘Hangman’. Gamification and Digital Inclusion: Key Components for a better society

SOS CREATIVITY Hangman is a tailored game-style mechanics to incentivize seniors engagement that promotes both the glossary learning and the users&rsquo awareness in the training process.

At the top right-hand corner, each training module has a button with a direct link to the SOS CREATIVITY game: https://www.soscreativity.eu/ficha.php?id_ficha=4

How to play?
Click on the game botton
Read the definition
Click on the letter you think you need guess the words
You have only 7 attempts!
Enjoy

Gamification and digital inclusion are key components for creating a more inclusive and equitable society. In facts, by making technology more accessible and engaging, seniors can learn new skills, solve daily problems and contribute to a better society. By promoting digital inclusion for seniors, SOS CREATIVITY consortium can empower older adults to stay connected with friends and family, access essential services and information, and pursue new interests and opportunities. Digital inclusion can also play a critical role in reducing social isolation and promoting mental and physical well-being.

"Gamification is a fun and engaging way to promote active aging and support seniors in their golden years," said Roberta Albertazzi, SEO of Internet Web Solutions and coordinator of the project.

"By incorporating game-like elements into everyday activities, we can make learning and engagement more fun and rewarding, while also promoting health and well-being."

2022-12-01

Sharing knowledge to connect society

From Arrabal-AID we are determined that change is possible, and with the SOS CREATIVITY project we are proving once again that by combining resources, experience and knowledge, entities and organizations can help society.

Our multiplier events have stood out due to the closeness of the people that we had attendees, we did not want it to be a session where they listened to us talk about our results, but rather that they participate, interact and give us their opinion.

This was the case with the group of users of the El Embrujo Women's Association, an entity that develops initiatives to work for equality and the role of women in society. The members and users of El Embrujo, were immersed in an Internet security course, to learn to function calmly through their computer or telephone. We had the opportunity to participate in the course, giving a workshop with the resources we have on our SOS CREATIVITY website, specifically focusing attention on the modules on "Online safety and creativity, what's up?", "Threats and challenges in social networks: what to do and what not to do&rdquo, &ldquoHow to identify incomplete information and false news online in a relevant cultural context&rdquo. The attendees were surprised by the camouflaged dangers that can be found every day, Remedios, the president highlighted &ldquothe website is very useful and the detailed explanation comes. Other times we find resources that require further training to understand what they want to explain.&rdquo

In a more educational forum "Educational innovation in Spain",We shared our project with international teachers, whose objective was to learn about non-formal actions in terms of innovation in education. They were surprised, on the one hand, by the group of entities that we had created SOS Creativiy, they applauded the variety of entities and the talents that each participating partner brings, and they admired working together and the merit of working remotely to obtain such a good tool . Analyzing the contents, as teachers, the possibility of downloading the materials in different formats was interesting, &ldquomany times we find useful resources but it is impossible to use them due to copyright or because when downloaded they are not in a suitable format for printing. SOS Creativity documents are accessible and transferable, it saves us a lot of time,

Continuing in our purpose of reaching more people, the next event &ldquoEducational Resources for Adults&rdquo, which we organized, was open to all citizens and public authorities. We had the presence of Pedro Antonio Ramírez, from the Junta de Andalucía, and Francisco José Martín, from the Malaga Provincial Council Delegation for the Elderly, Third Sector and International Cooperation, who supported the continuation and dissemination of projects in education and digital inclusion like SOS Creativity. After the presentations, we had the opportunity to network, and get to know the closest vision of the attendees, who congratulated us on the work and insisted that they would use the resources both individually and professionally. Even after the event

"In the field of Permanent Education to which I am currently dedicated, what is popularly known as adult centers, SOS CREATIVITY constitutes a very interesting material to work on the plan of "Information and communication technologies" that is dedicated precisely to technologically literate the adult population. The groups tend to be mainly middle-aged people with little or no knowledge on the subject or groups of older people, mainly women and in most cases with a very basic level of literacy. For this last group it may be too complex a material, but for the first it is an ideal material that I am sure many teachers will use if they have knowledge of it&rdquo

2022-11-24

30 seniors from the south italian city of Mesagne tested the “SOS Creativity platform”

For the testing and validation phase of the SOS Creativity platform and its contents, the italian partner Società Cooperativa Fuori Dal Sommerso involved 30 seniors from the city of Mesagne, inviting them one by one at the organization office. The sessions were organized between april and may 2022. Each senior was guided through the platform with the support of the organization facilitators and prompted to try one or more of the original training contents developed during the project by all consortium partners.

The testing experience was overall very satisfactory both for the seniors who had quite some fun exploring the website sections or by trying the self-assessment tool, and for the staff of Fuori Dal Sommerso who had the chance to provide an innovative interactive experience to the organization&rsquos users.

At the same time the facilitators had the chance to collect valuable feedbacks from the testers on the usability of the platform, the quality and completeness of the training materials. Among other comments, mostly very positive, seniors asked also for more interactive contents like games and videos. The feedbacks collected will be used by the project consortium not only to fine tune the platform itself but also to deliver a document containing guidelines that can be used by any practicioner, teacher of facilitator when using the platform with seniors in the future.

2022-10-29

S.O.S Creativity – Seniors Online Security for Creativity IO4 – Pilot Validation with 180 Target Group representatives

S.O.S. Creativity Erasmus+ Project is designed to support the development of IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online.
The Project is providing easy-to-assess and ready-to-use capacity building material that can help targets in acquiring new knowledge and competences to browse the web safely, effectively and efficiently. S.O.S Creativity&rsquos training modules for the digital skills of low-skilled adults are categorized in the following 5 thematic areas: Cultural and Media Literacy, Personal data protection, Economic Transactions, Online security, Digital Identity.
In the past period, the project partners worked on the implementation of the intellectual output 4: Pilot Validation with 180 Target Group representatives IO4 represents the final version of S.O.S Creativity based on test and validation activities includes the Guidelines on the future use of the paths created on Online Cultural and Creative resources and Digital Awareness.

Created deliverables were tested with the project target groups (online and face-to-face) in the project partners respective countries. This activities allowed partners to test and validate the content, the structure, the versatility and relevance of the learning materials created in IO3.
Thanks to the feedback and results obtained in the piloting activities, the partners will further fine-tune S.O.S Creativity contents and materials.

In the final version of S.O.S Creativity based on test and validation activities Guidelines on the future use will emerge from the paths
created on Online Cultural and Creative resources and Digital Awareness. The guidelines will refer to both practical and organizational aspects as well as issues of educational-pedagogical approach and content.

S.O.S Creativity Guidelines for future use will be uploaded to the OER platform to further promote the dissemination and exploitation of online cultural resources and digital awareness training to all stakeholders, interested parties and general public.

To stay updated with our progress, please visit the official project&rsquos website: https://www.soscreativity.eu

2022-10-27

Polish Seniors appreciated the results achieved during the Project SOS Creativity implementation

On October 27, 2022 at Senior Club name &rdquoKamyk &ldquo in Kielce ( Poland ), the Multiplier event of the Project SOS CREATIVITY was organized.

In the event, addressed to senior adults who need support in IT development and awareness of usage of the net and its resources, including eventual potentials and risks, participated 21 seniors.

After the welcome and Circle Foundation presentation, Katarzyna Turzanska and Karolina Kowalska illustrated SOS Creativity project consortium, Project objectives and goals and achieved results.

The main part of the ME was dedicated to the presentation of the OER platform in order to explain how to use it, its benefits and make it more familiar to the seniors.

At the end of the presentation, the SOS Creativity meeting in Malaga ( Spain ) video was shown as explanation of the international collaboration and great success of the project in other European countries.

The meeting was concluded with a session of questions and answers.

The presentation, project concepts and live discussion were welcomed with great enthusiasm by participants. The whole event became a success as mentioned by participants reviled to many of them new or barely known topics.

Positive feedback was given about presented SOS creativity platform, its easy accessibility, easy and clear language and as highlighted, online support free of charge.

The interest in other courses and trainings was expressed by many participants.

2022-09-28

SOS CREATIVITY EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM GATHERS FACE-TO-FACE IN MÁLAGA TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES OF THIS SENIOR DIGITAL INCLUSION 2-YEAR PROJECT

Since March 2021, S.O.S. Creativity Erasmus+ project supports the development of IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online, while boosting their level of consciousness toward the potentialities and the risks of the net such as phishing, fraud, fake news, invasion of privacy, defamation etc.

To this end, a consortium of 8 partners from Spain, France, North of Macedonia, Poland and Italy has run a high-quality mapping of Cultural and Creative Resources and Digital Skills to perfectly tailor the training modules to the users&rsquo prospective. In addition to this, a never seen SOS Self-Assessment Tool has been created to enhance ICT and Cultural literacy in seniors, opening to them a wonderful world of arts and creativity resources that could cheer their lives up.

All the resources, available in the multilanguage mobile friendly OER Platform https://www.soscreativity.eu/, also address the needs of a variety of adult education professionals working in international settings to foster seniors&rsquo social participation.

Innovation in the project relies on the fact that SOS CREATIVITY is one of the few European projects that provides practical ICT solutions for seniors to spend actively their free time online.

A comprehensive and challenging dissemination program has been undertaken and the training units have been piloted in all project&rsquos countries through a wide variety of media, with online and face-to-face seminars, international Multiplier Event (still ongoing) with adult learners and stakeholders, e-mail campaigns to UE Member of Parliament, social media posts, conferences etc.

The impact and feedback provided at the end of the meeting are highly-motivating with the potential to transform and even revolutionize the way seniors are trained at all levels. There is clear opportunity for all who work in the adult education to be excited by what the project has produced, and exploit the materials created to enhance their digital skills and their ability to advance in the cybersecurity.

2022-09-22

SOS CREATIVITY partners celebrate the great results of the project in Málaga

SOS Creativity project consortium met face-to-face to celebrate the dedicated jointly work and committment of partners from Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Noth Macedonia, Belgium in the project meeting in Málaga (Spain) after two years of online conferences due to Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions.

SOS Creativity co-founded by the European Commission addresses issues that fully respond to EU transnational perspective in relation to Seniors social inclusion and welfare, and hence could not be undertaken in the isolation of an individual national context. Moreover, this project aims at developing skills and competences in adults to support creativity and its exploitation, in a non-formal education to reinforce cross-sectorial cooperation.

We are excited about future cooperation among partners and remain motivated to support Seniors social inclusion and welfare in Europe through our SOS CREATIVITY approach.

Thanks to Juan De Lucas from Arrabal-AID, partner in the consortium for the amazing video and for the great welcome!

Visit the OER Platform: https://www.soscreativity.eu

2022-07-29

SOS Creativity: Empowering Seniors’ Digital Literacy In preparation of the Guidelines for future Use…

Since March 2021, the SOS Creativity&rsquo strategic partnership &ndash an international consortium represented by eight organisations from six Member States &ndash is collaborating to develop new training resources and methodologies for the empowerment of seniors&rsquo ICT skills and proficiency. So far, the implementation of the project lead to the following results &ndash concrete deliverables of the project that are available for free consultation via the official Open Education Resource Platform: https://www.soscreativity.eu/index.php

The set-up of the very website of the project: digital repository of news, material and training resources delivered by partners throughout implementation. The access to the platform does not require any log-in credential, so as to ease as much as possible the usability of the content within, and project&rsquos digital identity among relevant stakeholders and groups of interest. Each upload is translated into all official languages of the Countries represented by participating organisation, in order to facilitate the browsing experience even of non-proficient ENG speakers.
The SOS Self-Assessment tool: a tailored-made algorithm which calculates the level of IT risks awareness of target group users in the field of online cultural resources available. The IT index will be an instrument that allows adults to assess their awareness in the domain of IT risks related to cultural offers. The SOS Self-Assessment Tool will not be a statistical index, but an operational tool to support the development of targeted-training solutions for adults.
The SOS Cultural Resources Mapping: an international assessment of free cultural resources and creativity tools already available online in each partners&rsquo countries aiming at extrapolating and intercepting those digital skills and competences that late digitals might need to make the most of them and have an in-depth analysis of the phenomenology on the degree of digital gap among ICT-low-skilled adults.
The SOS Training Curricula on basic IT skills for digital tardive: a total of 12 training modules, designed and conceived to trigger&rsquos few essentials learning outcomes as identified per project proposal:

Essentials of cultural and media literacy
Personal Data protection and Online Security
Economic transactions
Digital Identity

Each of the training module is tailored to provide for easy-to-assess and ready-to-use capacity building material that can help targets in acquiring new knowledge and competences to browse the web safely, effectively and efficiently.

Each of these modules has been delivered in piloting version and the overall curricula reached a cohort of 180 people, representative both of final users and STKHs in general (i.e., professionals operating in the domain of Adult Education).

Results emerging from the validation cycle (i.e., impression of learners and participants) have been collected by all partners after conclusion of the training sessions and shared with the whole consortium for assessment and stock taking of lessons learnt.

These inputs will flow into the SOS Guidelines for Future Use: this document will guarantee transferability as they will be a tool to guide Adult Education teachers and operators who intend to engage in a process of raising awareness and training late digitals on a more conscious use of cultural and creative resources in general and on Internet and social media risks and opportunities as a side effect.

The guidelines will refer to both practical and organizational aspects as well as issues of educational-pedagogical approach and content. These will be of great use to encourage the introduction of SOS Creativity training courses in elderly centres or organizations.

2022-06-22

S.O.S Creativity run a successful face-to-face T&V session with a group of sprightly seniors in Málaga

On June 7th 2022, Internet Web Solutions run a face-to-face Test&Validation session in Málaga, testing the module titled &ldquoONLINE SECURITY AND CREATIVITY: WHAT&rsquoS UP?&rdquo tailored to seniors in order to provide them with practical skills to avoid scams specific to the cultural world (fake tickets, hacking or phishing). A group of active seniors with pens and notebooks, curious to learn on how to recognise fake news on the web actively took part in the session.

After the official greetings from coordinators, each participants introduced her-himself in a brief presentation. The mayor part admitted they had been victim of phishing or scams and that they learned everything they know about internet alone.

This Erasmus+ project will give the opportunity to 8 partners from Spain, France, the Republic of North Macedonia, Belgium, Poland and Italy to develop free and user friendly deliverables to enable seniors to benefit from online cultural and artistic contents, resources and activities in total security being aware of the risks of navigating and downloading such resources.

Great success of this T&V session for Internet Web Solutions and for the SOS CREATIVITY in general as the project is in the core of IO4 in which partners will test courses among at least 180 representatives of SOS Creativity target group, through the testing of educational modules and information materials created in the consortium's reference countries, both online (disseminating and testing online courses) and off-line (through face to face modalities).

2022-05-18

SOS CREATIVITY Dissemination Event in France

About the Project: S.O.S. Creativity presents Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission. The project is being implemented in 6 countries Spain, France, North Macedonia, Belgium, Poland, Italy by eight partners. The main goal of the project is skills development and inclusion through creativity and arts in order to enable seniors to make use and benefit from online cultural contents and resources provided in the field of creativity and arts.

News: On 13th of May E-Seniors have promoted the project S.O.S. Creativity at the event organized by the associated organization E-Juniors. The event was open to seniors and juniors, the leaflets of the S.O.S. Creativity were disseminated.

On May 5th and 10th 2022 S.O.S. Creativity consortium celebrated the ninth anniversary of World Password Day and Europe&rsquos day.

Current affairs: S.O.S. Creativity consortium moved to the implementation of the Intellectual Output 4 (IO4). The partners are organizing training sessions with the seniors to pilot the developed training materials and validate them for further use. The final target is to reach 180 trained participants. The following upcoming tasks are planned: (1) Deploy, test and validate with 180 target groups, (2) Collect Feedback and fine-tune final version, (3) Preparation of the pedagogical guidelines.

2022-04-19

S.O.S Creativity III Project meeting held online

On April 19th 2022, the SOS CREATIVITY consortium joined the III Transnational Project Meeting, a 24-month Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission with Internet Web Solutions from Spain as coordinator.
Indeed, partners from Spain, France, the Republic of North Macedonia, Belgium, Poland and Italy participate in this Erasmus+ project targeted to seniors and adult tardive digitals.
After the official greetings from coordinator, the OER Platform (https://www.soscreativity.eu/ ) with an overview of all Intellectual Outputs developed so far and availble in 6 languages (EN, ES, ITA, MK, PL and FR) were presented along with the Dissemination actions implemented at a local, national and European level.
The core of the meeting was the presentation of the Test&Validation Plan, part of the Intellectual Output n.4 in which the consortium will provide free and user friendly training sections to enable seniors to benefit from online cultural and artistic contents, resources and activities in total security being aware of the risks of navigating and downloading such resources. Testing and validation will be held in collaboration with associated partners so they will integrate S.O.S. Creativity training into their regular activities and thus promote social and cultural inclusion. Each partner will collect and analyse feedbacks with comments and aggregated data. These feedbacks will form the basis for the next activity of fine-tuning and guidelines for future use.
A massive and genuine enthusiasm in this project that aims to support seniors in a Covid-19 post-pandemic era, in which Internet has a bigger impact even on personal relationships.

2022-03-09

SOS Creativity Project mitigates the effect of COVID-19 on older people

A recent Report from Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, has analysed the effect of COVID-19 on the lives of elderly people in Europe.

&ldquoCOVID-19 and older people: Impact on their lives, support and care&rdquo captures the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the quality of life of older citizens, including that on their well-being, finances, employment and social inclusion.

The Report provides for a comprehensive overview on health and well-being, social interaction, paid and unpaid work, finances and deprivation, support for ad hoc needs resulting from lockdowns, healthcare and long-term care.

A specific focus is dedicated to the potentialities of ICT in ensuring the provision of healthcare to citizens, especially elderly. According to the Report, e-healthcare (e-consultation, e-prescription, etc.) facilitated access to healthcare, but 56% of people aged 50+ who needed a consultation had a face-to-face consultation because they preferred it to the available e-healthcare options. The role and potentiality of e-care depends very much on the capacity of policy makers to facilitate the use of ICT for all people possibly involved, from elderly to professional carers.

SOS Creativity aims at provide seniors with the right tools to make a good use of technologies, increasingly important in everyone&rsquos life.

To stay updated with our progresses, please feel free to visit the official project&rsquos website: https://www.soscreativity.eu

2022-02-08

SOS Creativity Project supports the Safer Internet Day

On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, the 19th edition of Safer Internet Day will take place across the globe. With a theme of "Together for a better internet", the day will call upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all. The Safer Internet Day has grown beyond its traditional geographic zone and is now celebrated in approximately 200 countries and territories worldwide.

From cyberbullying to social networking to digital identity, each year Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness of emerging online issues and current concerns.

S.O.S. Creativity Erasmus+ Project is designed to support the development of IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online. The Project aims to support this initiative as it is extremely in line with its objectives and target needs as it boost the seniors&rsquo level of consciousness toward the potentialities and the risks of the net such as phishing, fraud, fake news, invasion of privacy, defamation etc.

The Safer Internet Day encourages everyone to join the movement, to participate and to make the most of the internet&rsquos potential to bring people together. With a global, community-led approach, Safer Internet Day encourages everyone to come together and play their part.

SOS Creativity&rsquos training modules for the digital skills of low-skilled adults, in particular, represent a valid support for this initiative. The modules will be categorized in the following 5 thematic areas: Cultural and Media Literacy, Personal data protection, Economic Transactions, Online security, Digital Identity.

To stay updated with our progresses, please feel free to visit the official project&rsquos website: https://www.soscreativity.eu

2022-01-24

Children and Teens, the best grandparents’ digital tutors: a good practice from Italy

Società Cooperativa Fuori Dal Sommerso from Italy participates in the Erasmus+ programme with the project SOS Creativity, Seniors online security for creativity.

Who could be among the most suitable tutors to accompany the over 60s in the world of internet and digital skills? According to some of the most interesting Italian initiatives to promote digital culture among senior citizens, it is precisely primary and secondary school students.

The research carried out by the partners of SOS Creativity for the production of the IO2, in particular with respect to the activity of beanchmark and identification of good practices in place in the respective countries on the promotion of digital culture for adults, has highlighted some instructive methodological experiences.

For example, in the Italian context has emerged an initiative promoted by the &ldquoMondo Digitale&rdquo foundation, called "Nonni su Internet" (Grandparents on the Internet), in which groups of students from elementary to middle school, within the schools and with the support of a teacher expert in information technology, guide the elderly along a path of digital literacy and the use of technology to take advantage of the telematic services of the public administration or to access cultural resources for pure entertainment. The initiative's website includes an educational kit with all the useful resources for carrying out the course.

Curious about other similar best practices? Browse through our national reports.

External link

https://www.terzaetaonline.it/

2021-12-13

SOS Creativity Empowering Seniors’ Digital Literacy

Since March 2021, the SOS Creativity&rsquo strategic partnership &ndash and international consortium represented by eight organisations from six Member States &ndash is collaborating to develop new innovative solutions for the empowerment of seniors&rsquo ICT skills and proficiency with digital means as a new concrete way to support their active citizenship and socio-economic inclusion.

SOS Creativity is tailored to provide for easy-to-assess and ready-to-use capacity building material that can help targets in acquiring new knowledge and competences to browse the web safely, effectively and efficiently.

The overall outline of the training curricula looks into the following learning outcomes:

Cultural and Media Literacy which is the ability to identify and use different types of online cultural resources, creativity tools and media.
Personal data protection which will provide end-users with effective tools, guidelines, clear explanation to protect and promote the safeguarding of the personal data and rights of Data Subjects when surfing the Net, using cultural contents, from mobiles or laptop or using apps.
Economic Transactions which will provide end-users with strategies to preserve them when performing an economic transaction online and make them aware of potential risks and unclassified attacks on their computer and other digital devices.
Online security which will develop core concepts needed to assess, and protect information security systems to make late digitals aware of the potential scams of fraud they could meet on the web while using or searching for cultural resources.
Digital Identity and online reputation which will provide does and don&rsquots.

These five dimensions, touch base with skills gaps identified throughout implementation of an in-depth analysis carried out with the aim to consolidate the most critical areas of intervention and needs to be addressed.

Moreover, relevant to mention is also the fact that the SOS Creativity&rsquos curricula is consist and coherent with key digital competences as identified by DigComp 2.1, the official framework developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission for EU citizens&rsquo education and training on digital skills.

DigComp 2.1 lists 21 competences, distributed across five training areas of reference:

Information & Data literacy
Communication and Collaboration
Digital Content Creation
Safety
Problem Solving

SOS Creativity&rsquos curricula stems and takes inspiration from all of these five areas, but relates very closely in particular to 1, 2 and 3, as representing the very essentials for the scale and scope of the overall project.

To remain updated with our progresses, please feel free to visit the official project&rsquos website: https://www.soscreativity.eu

2021-11-30

SOS CREATIVITY DIGITAL SKILLS MAPPING AGGREGATED REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE

The aim of SOS CREATIVITY Intellectual Output 2 is to map free cultural resources and creativity tools already available online in Spain, Italy, France, Poland, North Macedonia and Europe in general, as well as to define those digital skills and competences that late digitals might need to make the most of them in order to have an in-depth analysis of the phenomenology on the degree of digital gap among ICT-low-skilled adults.

The aggregated report and summaries in all project&rsquos languages are now available and ready to be download in the OER Platform https://www.soscreativity.eu/

For each country, partners created an updated short report based on existing data regarding actions taken to tackle the issue of digital skills related to culture in Adult Education (AE) in their homeland.

2021-11-30

SOS CREATIVITY DIGITAL SKILLS MAPPING AGGREGATED REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE

2021-09-06

SOS CREATIVITY consortium partecipated in an online Transational Project Meeting

SOS Creativity European consortium (8 partners from Spain, Italy, Beligum, France, Poland, North Macedonia) took part in the first project meeting, after the Kick-off held in April 2021. The meeting, originally planned in Bruxelles, has been run in an online mode (due to Covid post-pandemic restrictions) on the basis of an agenda developed and pre-agreed among partners.

Soon after the friendly greetings from coordinator (Internet Web Solutions from Spain) partners focuses on the state of development of the Open Educational Resources platform that is already online at: https://www.soscreativity.eu/ (which, among other things, is already on page 1 for the open search: Senior Online Security).

Furthermore, IWS presented the state of art of the backoffice platform where the Cultural and Creative mapping repository is already available (a total of 810 are available in all languages (EN, ES, FR, MK, IT, PL from Intellectual Output 2) and the draft version of the IO2 Self assessment tool (SAT). The SAT is the innovative core of the project as it defines questions with 3 possible answers each addressing 3 different levels of proficiency in that particular topic/skill. At the end of the self assessment, according to answers given, the SAT will be able to
assign different courses organized according to different thematic areas to users.

In the coming months the work will be focused on the development of Training contents to be loaded on the platform in order to offer non-formal education courses on ICT skills related to culture addressed to IT low-skilled adults, but also to trainers that provide courses to seniors in order to boost their social inclusion and promote digital skills when navigating through cultural contents.

Dissemination plays a big role in communication of all outputs and deliverables and partners showed a genuine enthusiams towards all online and offline initiatives proposed in the meeting in the 2- years of proyect and beyond to ensure sustainability of results.

There is a quote that says:

&ldquoGive a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime&rdquo.

SOS Creativity project, co-founded by the European Commission, strives to provide IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online, while boosting their level of consciousness toward the potentialities and the risks of the net such as phishing, fraud, fake news, invasion of privacy, defamation etc.

2021-07-01

Press release July 2021, Paris, France

S.O.S. Creativity presents Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission. The project is being implemented in 6 countries Spain, France, North Macedonia, Belgium, Poland, Italy by eight partners. The main goal of the project is skills development and inclusion through creativity and arts in order to enable seniors to make use and benefit from online cultural contents and resources provided in the field of creativity and arts.

The project started in March 2021. At the first stage, the partners have mapped the Cultural and Creative Resources. This enables the users to virtually travel in the European countries and learn more about culture and history. It is especially useful for seniors and adults who are not able to travel due to the COVID19 pandemic measures imposed by the states.
E-Seniors &ndash project partner from France has contributed to the project by gathering online cultural resources available at SOS Creativity project website.

Up to date, E-Seniors association has disseminated the cultural and creative resources and promote the use of the project website at three events. First, the senior beneficiaries of the organization became aware of the cultural resources, which are safe to visit, click or download.

Second, the participants of the focus groups became aware of the cultural repositories. The information delivered turned out exciting for the seniors who noted the website for future use.

Besides, E-Seniors organized youth workers&rsquo workshops where the use of cultural resources was promoted. The participants stated that this kind of resource is useful in youth work for educational purposes.

Good practice from France: The containment during the COVID19 pandemic created the emergency need for accessibility to the internet and modern technologies. In this regard, one of the cities &ndash Créteil&rsquo s townhall has initiated the project Dipbike, a funny three-wheeled vehicle that takes on board the tools of a small nomadic digital factory (3D printer, electronic kits, vinyl cutter, digital machine, etc.) to help people discover the creative and digital educational opportunities. Besides, the town hall organizes free of charge monthly appointments with those in need of accessing the internet, downloading, printing administrative forms, etc. This service is especially useful for seniors.

Aside from public administrations, business companies seek to promote inclusion and fight against digital illiteracy. Huawei launched a project of DigiTruck. It offers digital training in a container converted into a mobile classroom. The DigiTruck has 20 workstations equipped with tablets, a local Wi-Fi network, a projector, and smartphones. It familiarizes users with digital devices, projectors, and online conference tools.

Contacts:
E-seniors: Eleonore Lehn eleonorelehn.eseniors@gmail.com
E-seniors: Tamar Chapidze-Deschard tamarchapidze.eseniors@gmail.com
Project coordinator: info@internetwebsolutions.es

2021-06-17

S.O.S Creativity, Seniors online security for creativity held the first bimonthly call of the project

On June 17th 2021, Internet Web Solutions run the first bimonthly call of SOS Creativity, a 24-month Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission.

S.O.S. Creativity is designed to support the development of IT key competences for adults to let them exploit cultural offers and artistic contents available online, while boosting their level of consciousness toward the potentialities and the risks of the net such as phishing, fraud, fake news, invasion of privacy, defamation etc. that can arise while navigating free contents website or paying to subscribe to some cultural contents or even looking for books to be read online.

After the official greetings from the coordinators and some points regarding administrative issues, the shared agenda of the call included:

- an update of the state-of-art of the OER Platform (https://www.soscreativity.eu)
- the Intellectual Output 2 tasks made so far and future steps (Mapping of cultural resources and Baseline report and Self-Assessment Tool)
- dissemination status and future Press Releases to be translated and shared in Institutional channels
- discussion about next Transnational Project Meeting in September

This Erasmus+ project gives the opportunity to 8 partners from Spain, France, the Republic of North Macedonia, Belgium, Poland and Italy to develop free and user friendly deliverables to enable seniors to benefit from online cultural and artistic contents, resources and activities in total security being aware of the risks of navigating and downloading such resources.

Internet Web Solutions, the project coordinator together with the consortium showed a genuine enthusiasm in collaborating toghether in this project and for the tasks implemented so far.

2021-04-15

S.O.S Creativity, Seniors online security for creativity Kick-off Project meeting held online

On April 15th 2021, consortium joined the online Kick-Off Meeting of SOS Creativity, a 24-month Project co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission. The KOM, originally planned in Málaga, Spain was held in online mode due to COVID-19 restrictions.
After the official greetings from coordinator, each Institution involved introduced itself in a brief presentation, then administrative aspect were dealt with, the OER Platform which will be available in all project&rsquos languages, an overview of all Intellectual Outputs expected, along with Dissemination tasks to be implemented at a local, national and European level.

This Erasmus+ project will give the opportunity to 8 partners from Spain, France, the Republic of Macedonia, Belgium, Poland and Italy to develop free and user friendly deliverables to enable seniors to benefit from online cultural and artistic contents, resources and activities in total security being aware of the risks of navigating and downloading such resources.

The 2-year project&rsquos implementation will allow partners to share innovative and highquality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults to address common challenges, such as: digital competences for seniors, development and inclusion through creativity and the arts and senior welfare).
Internet Web Solutions, the project coordinator together with the consortium showed a genuine enthusiasm in collaborating toghether in this project that aims to support seniors in a Covid-19 post-pandemic era, in which Internet has a bigger impact even on personal relationships.

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