1. How seniors learn digital skills in the Nordics and
Baltic?
NPAD-2020/10169
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Professor, Dr.
SVERD, Svenska Riksorganisationen för Distansutbildning
SVERD vårkonferens 12 mars 2021

2. SENIORS
- Who are we taking
about?
A very diverse group

3. Partners in
the project
Jyväskylä Summer University (coordinating
unit), Finland
Leena Meriläinen
Ville Hirvikoski
Seniornett, Norway
Sturla Bjerkaker
Kristin Ruud
Swedish Association for Distance Education
(SADE), Sweden
Ulf Sandström
Ebba Ossiannilsson
MCTAU – Medardo Čoboto Trečiojo Amžiaus
Universitetas, Lithuania (U3A Vilnius)
Laima Tuleikiene
Jurgita Rotomskien

4. Aim of the project
• Aim of this thematic network project is to strengthen and develop co-operation between
Nordic countries and Baltic regions on life-long learning for seniors and to learn and share
ideas of digital skills teaching for seniors in different countries. Each participating
organization organizes a meeting for other participating organizations to introduce its
education, teaching methods and topics of digital skills. These meetings are intended for
pedagogical staff and representatives of adult students (seniors) from each organization.
• Expected outcomes of this project are sharing ideas of teaching digital skills and themes
for new courses. Another important aspect of this project is to find new partners and get
the possibility to continue partnership in the future. Participants are also getting to know
the Finnish Geronet-project coordinated by Jyväskylä Summer University, which aims to
promote seniors digital skills in the whole Finland (funded by the Finnish National Agency
for Education).

5. What are
we doing
during the
project?

6. How we do
that?
Four transnational meetings during the academic
year 2020-2021
A written a memorandum about the meeting and
the most important observations will be written
and shared with the participating organizations.
A final report summarizes four memorandums to
anchorage good practices and experiences
Changes possible due Covid19: first meeting online
organised by SADE

7. What will take
place during a
transnational
meeting?
Introduction to digital skills
education for seniors in the local
organization / country
Conversations and learning more
about the topic, how we learn IT-
skills
The most important thing:
networking with others!

8. Program
• Day 1 : 27 January 2021 time 13.00 -18.15 CET
• 13.00 Welcome Ebba Ossiannilsson and Ulf Sandstrom, Swedish Association for Distance Education
(SADE)
13:30 Introduction Ville Hirvikoski Project Coordinator, Summer University of Jyväskylä, FI.
14.00 Sturla Bjerkaker NO Seniornett, NO
14.15 Jurgita Rotomskiene, U3A, LT
14.40 EC Digital Action Plan
14.55 Futures of education: Learning to become. Swedish examples (among others Digital strategy plan
Sweden)
15.45 Susanne Iwarsson, GenerationTech – Ageing, Technology and Health from a Generational
Perspective. Centre for Ageing and supportive environments Lund University, SE
16.55 Reflections and Discussion
17.35 Mingel Partner meeting
• Day 2 : 28 January time 10.00 -13.00 CET
• 10.00 Reflections from day 1 Partner meeting
10.30 Cecilia Bjursell, Lifelong learning later in life, National centre for lifelong
learning ENCELL, Jönköping UniversitySE
11.00 Ebba Ossiannilsson Digital Immigrants Survival Kit (DISK EU project)
11.45 Ulli Samuelsson To be seen as a learning human and not a technical issue, Jönköping University SE
12.15 Lifelong learning
13.00 Reflections, actions forwards
14.00 Closing addresses, Partner meeting

9. SADE Conf

11. DIGITAL SUPPORT:
Guidelines for
training the trainers
to support seniors
towards making
daily life more
easy in digital world
NPAD-2021/10187
• The aim of this development project is to build on the on-going network project: "How seniors
learn
• digital skills in the Nordics and Baltic?" and as the result of this project to publish a collection of
good
• practices in training and learning of digital competences, especially for seniors, bearing in mind
• that senior is a diverse target group both concerning cohort and period when introduced to
digital
• environments. In addition the group is per se very multi-facetted.
• All participating organisations will describe the best practices from their field of work and in a
• collaborative way work together with other partners. As a final result these best practices will be
• published in a platform, which will be user-friendly, interactive, easy to access, attractive in
interface and
• apply self motivation and self-regulated learning. The suggested guidelines will serve as
benchmarking.
• The aim is that the practices are transferable to all organizations, which provide training or
organize help
• for seniors on digital competences.

12. Thank You!

13. My Footprints
www.i4quality.se
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
info@i4quality.se
THANK YOU!
CARING IS SHARING, SHARING IS CARING