News and Events

  • SLIC-Handbook

    The handbook  is now available in all partner languages. Find out more about the SLIC workshop and tools used.

  • SLIC was awarded a prize

    The Research Insitute of the Austrian Red Cross was awarded a prize for the SLIC-workshop "Orientierungshilfe für freiwillige Mitarbeit" by the Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection. Here you can find more information and some pictures of the awards.

  • European conference in Hamburg

    The topics are lifelong learning, teaching and research for active ageing in the context of demographic change in European societies.

  • Workshops

    for interested learners and volunteers have already taken place in the partner countries. Here you can find pictures and a short overview about the workshops.
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Project

Aims

The aims of the SLIC-project were to:

  • Help older people to become more active in their community
  • Support older people to become more confident and take part in formal and informal learning
  • Increase older people’s self-esteem and feelings of usefulness

Target groups

There were in essence two target groups for the SLIC-project:

  • Volunteers and learners over 50 who are already very active and possible role models for their peers
  • Older people who are not yet engaged in community activity or formal learning but who could be encouraged to become involved

New Approach

SLIC developed a new approach based on the following methods:

  • Two-day interactive workshops
  •  Personal skills profiling with action plans to help participants review their employment, life experiences, interests, and qualifications and use these to make future plans
  • Awarding an informal SLIC-certificate to recognise individual skills and experience
  • Production of a handbook illustrating how to facilitate similar SLIC-workshops

Follow up

As a follow-up of the project it is anticipated that organisations from different sectors will encourage and support older people in peer learning. This means that SLIC-workshop participants will be able to run interactive workshops in their local communities using the SLIC-handbook as a guide.