News and Events

  • SLIC 2 has started

    SLIC 2 - Valuing older people's skills and experience - has started. Find out more about the new project.

  • SLIC wins Lifelong Learning Award

    The SLIC-project won the Lifelong Learning Award in the category "Products and Results" which was awarded from the National Agency for Lifelong Learning on November 29 in Vienna.

  • 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.

Project

Aims of the project “SLIC II - Valuing older people’s skills and experience. Training peer facilitators” are:

• Training peer facilitators to run SLIC-workshops
• Trialling SLIC-workshops run by peer facilitators
• Designing the workshops to fit the needs of specific target groups (migrants, recently retired people, disadvantaged older people, …)
• Creating a stronger focus on community involvement
• Improving the process of accompanying participants after the workshop (guidance)
• Exploring how the workshop can be embedded  in organisational policy on older volunteers
• Networking and cooperating with other organisations

The main products of the project will be:

• A six day training for peer facilitators
• A toolkit for peer facilitators available on CD-Rom
• Workshops run by peer facilitators with a specific focus
• An international meeting for peer facilitators to exchange experiences
• A summary for policy makers and organisations working in this field