About SLIC II
The SLIC II project “Valuing older people’s skills and experience: Training peer facilitators” addresses the issue of increasingly ageing societies and the promotion of active ageing. The SLIC II project aims at broadening previously developed SLIC-workshops and by developing a training programme for older peer facilitators to run SLIC-workshops and by trialling workshops run by older peer facilitators.
The SLIC II project builds on the previous SLIC I project (Sustainable Learning in the Community) where an innovative workshop model and a handbook on how to run these workshops were developed. More than 103 older learners from 6 countries took part in the workshops which aimed to help older adults to review their past experience and personal skills and to explore new opportunities for learning and volunteering.
SLIC II is a European project funded within the GRUNDTVIG-programme of the European Commission. SLIC II is coordinated by the Austrian Red Cross. The project is being carried out by 8 organisations from 6 countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the United Kingdom). It has started in January 2011 and will run until December 2012.
