Memories, a Bridge towards Intergenerational Learning!

AbstractAged people are a very heterogeneous group because of their learning interests and their educational background. At this age, seniors are still willing to learn and moreover eager to transmit whatever their memory collected. Their motivation for learning relates both with their educational background and with the possibilities they have in the community to be active and useful. Therefore the activities offered to the seniors by various stakeholders from the community must meet their needs and expectations by providing them professional teachers and a wide range of innovative activities. The sharing of memories could be a contact and dialogue starting point and could also help seniors to step forward from isolation in order to become actively involved in a European society. The qualitative research carried out within the SEMBET project framework reveals the common ways seniors from rural and urban area are actively involved in the community and also the ways in which intergenerational learning is happening in both living areas.In a society that sees an increasing number of elder people and at the same time a widening gap between generations, the risk to lose the family and local memories should be prevented. This survey is the starting point for the creation of a new work methodology for Sharing European Memories BETween Generations (SEMBET)