This document describes the ALICE project, which aims to promote intergenerational learning through creative experiences between adults and children. The project will train adult educators to use creative languages like art, storytelling, and games to engage in dialogue with children and help adults acquire key competencies. It involves several phases, including training adult trainers, implementing learning events, and evaluating their impact on intergenerational understanding and lifelong learning. The goal is to make better use of informal learning situations to involve more adults, including those furthest from education systems, and to foster social cohesion across generations.

1. Adults Learning
for Intergenerational Creative Experiences
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ALICE TEAM

2. Visit us at www.alice-llp.eu

3. Adults Learning for Intergenerational Creative Experiences
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4. Project’s Background
 Learning and Educating
in times of crisis (LLP
presentation 2012)
 Complex social tissue,
where cohesion depends
on the interdependences
and differences
(EU2020)
 Intergenerational
learning (IL) bring to the
fore the question of
“differences” that enrich
(ET2020)
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5. In the context of European Policies
 Developing the adult learning
sector – currently the weakest
link in the LLL chain
 Renewed focus on increasing
participation, especially of those
furthest from learning
 Reinforcing the role of adults’
learning institutions
 Qualifying Trainers of Adults
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6. ET2020 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
 Lifelong learning and learning
mobility
 Improved quality and efficiency
of provision and outcomes
 Promote equity, social cohesion,
active citizenship
 Enhance innovation and
creativity including
entrepreneurship
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7. Promote equity, social cohesion, active
citizenship
 Second chance opportunities aimed at:
 Improving adults’ literacy, numeracy and
digital skills
 Acquiring new forms of basic skills for active
participation in modern life and society
 Strengthening social inclusion & Active
community participation through adult
learning
 Improving access to learning for
migrants, Roma, disadvantaged groups
 Active ageing: learning opportunities for olfer
adults
 Responding to the learning needs of people
with disabilities or in specific situations of
exclusion
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8. Contribution of GRU projects to ET2020
 Development of adult learning practices
 Testing, innovation and quality for AL
prvision in formal and non-formal
learning across Europe
 Development of teaching and learning
methods and materials
 Development of European dimension of
AL providing opportunities for
transnational cooperation
 Development of innovative ways to
enhance learning opportunities for
marginalised adults
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9. ALICE Project’s Outline
IL can be a twofold purpose
process, that improve
dialogue among
generations through civic
participation in common
social and institutional
spaces,
while at the same time enacts
processes of informal
learning towards the
achievement, both by adults
and children, of key
competences for lifelong
learning
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10. Aims
 To help adults, senior citizen and volunteers to reflect
and acquire competences necessary to become
effective educators, and the impact their actions can
have on future learning of children.
 To provide adults, senior citizen and volunteers with
creative languages to generate “zones of proximal
development” for intergenerational learning;
 To train adult's trainers to adopt ALICE
methodological approach, becoming aware of the role
that adult's as educator can have on social
cohesion, and hence, re-considering the value of
adult's training institutions.
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11. Objectives (1)
 To improve knowledge on cultural diversity and
values of European patrimony, as the base of
creative languages, with impact on adult's
acquisition of Key competence (KC) 8 “cultural
awareness and expression” .
 To favour sharing of creative experiences among
generations, as spaces of reflection, awareness and
learning on otherness towards commitment and
solidarity, with impact on adult's acquisition of
“social and citizenship KC6”
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12. Objectives (2)
 To develop knowledge and skills for using art as
creative language to dialogue with children with
impact on adult's the acquisition of KC 5 (learning to
learn), KC7 (sense of initiative and entrepreneurship)
e KC8
 To develop knowledge and skills for using storytelling
as creative language to dialogue with children with
impact on adult's the acquisition of KC 5 (learning to
learn), KC7 e KC8
 To develop knowledge and skills for using games and
social media as creative language to dialogue with
children with impact on adult's the acquisition of KC 4
(digital competence) and KC5
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13. Objectives (3)
 To empower alliances among local government,
school, elder people centers, cultural associations,
private sector, University, as spaces of implementation
of creative experiences for intergenerational learning
 To improve the perspective of interdependence
between adult as educator and adult as lifelong
learner, improving the participation of adults to
lifelong learning.
 To contrast processes of exclusion and marginalization
of adults-children at risk because of the low
competences of the former in caring/educating the
latter.
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14. ALICE’s toolkit
 European and non-European cultural heritage:
 art (music/paintings/theatre);
 elder people stories;
 children's literature;
 Social media to promote sharing of learning results -
digitalization of contents created above-
 Games, according to children ages, to stimulate
problem solving, creativity, entrepreneurship.
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15. ALICE’s Phases of Development
1. Train adults' trainers to understand and implement ALICE’s
approach.
2. Trainers will implement ALICE’s approach through an
informal education environment. Different adults could be
engaged: partners, senior citizen, teachers, volunteers.
3. Testing phase where adults will use creative languages with
children. The phase is accomplished with participatory
evaluation (as adults and trainers reflection process) on
impact on intergenerational dialogue.
The project will also implement a strategy of communication to
raise awareness among international scientific community, as
well as local policy makers and adults’ education providers on
ALICE’s strategy and impact, for further adoption of the model
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16. Creating the Space for Educational Innovation in
Adults’ Education
 Adults’ trainers must be able of understanding the
value of informal learning situations, developing skills
to promote events with strategic impact on key
competences.
 It is not enough to promote cultural events: trainers, as
scaffolders of generational dialogue are called to be
aware of the educational impacts of their informal
activities as a way to engage adults that are normally
far from formal (University, Further training) and/or
non-formal (training on the job) in lifelong learning
trajectories
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17. Scaffolders of generational diversity : Building an Zone of
Proximal Development for Intergenerational Learning
 Adults’ trainers must be able of understanding the
value of informal learning situations, developing skills
to promote events with strategic impact on key
competences.
 It is not enough to promote cultural events: trainers, as
scaffolders of generational dialogue are called to be
aware of the educational impacts of their informal
activities as a way to engage adults that are normally
far from formal (University, Further training) and/or
non-formal (training on the job) in lifelong learning
trajectories
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18. Activities
 Production of Specific Modules on Creative Languages
(CL) by Partners
 Selection of trainers tightly connected with realities of
adults’ education
 Training of Trainers to CL
 Trainers produce a “project work” : at least six adults’
learning events as informal education activities
 Trainers, supported by partners, implement their PW
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19. Training of Trainers for implementing A.L.I.C.E. Pedagogical Innovation
(Adults Learning for Intergenerational Creative Experiences )
• A ZPD for
Unit 2 • CL2:
Unit 4 • CL: Digital
Unit 6
IL • CL1: Music Children • CL: Digital Storytelling • CL:
and skills to Literature Storytelling Learning
listen Design
Unit 1 Unit 3 Unit 5
• National Awareness
Sessions • National Closing TT
• The value of IL Local • Strategies for Piloting
Every partner Coaching Every partner
- FTF - FTF
Unit 7: Project Work
(AL Design)
Pilot Implementation
European Value

20. A. Parents’ Education/Family
Learning education
 Aim: Improving
to support parents from
the very early stages of life
(pre-natal) CISRE
 Method: introducing
innovative activities in
ongoing courses by trained
trainers
 CL: Music, Digital Trainers ALICE Hospital
Storytelling
 ALICE’s target group: at
least 30% monoparental
families, migrant families Parents’
The
Association Network
 Children aged -0 / 1 for Hyp A
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21. B. Intergenerational Learning
 Aim: create intergenerational
learning opportunities with
impact on Seniors quality of life
as well as pedagogical CISRE
innovation
 Method: school learning unit
that introduces contact among
Seniors and children Trainers &
Teachers ALICE School
 CL: Social Media and Games
 ALICE’s target group: at least
30% migrant children, Seniors
 Children aged 10-12 The
Seniors
Association Network
for Hyp B
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22. C. Volunteers
CISRE
 Aim: Implementing activities
of training for volunteers that
work with children at risk Trainers
Social
Services
 Method: course for volunteers
associated to activities on the ALICE
territory
 CL: intercultural children’s
literature, digital storytelling Pre-
Local
primary
 ALICE’s target group: at least School
Library
30% families at risk, migrant
families
 Children aged 2-5 The Network for Hyp C
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