27/03/2013 - Projects
Athens, March 2013: Meeting of the European Project Robgap
Reading time: 1.5 minutesRobgap - Robots For Inter-generational Gap. The project „Robots for intergenerational gap” lays on the involvement of senior people, grandparents and parents from any social groups trained to be technologically advanced to stay with their children nice and mediating educational contents like maths, science, dynamics, geometry to children using the robots.
Robgap - Robots For Inter-generational Gap
The Project “Intergenerational Gap” Robgap is a Learning partnership project supported by the European Commission through the National Agencies within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme. It foreseens the involvement of senior people, grandparents and parents from any social groups the involvement of senior people, grandparents and parents from any social groups to be trained and to be technologically advanced to stay with their children, mediating educational contents like maths, science, dynamics, geometry using the robots. The project will contribute to social inclusion / valorization of the competencies , acquisition of new competencies, and active participation of senior people in the educational process, promoting a new role and mediating through this role new learning process of ICT world. The project therefore aims to make grandparents knowledge technologically advanced to re-qualify their role with nephews and children, teaching them hot to program robots and how to use robots for educational motivation and involvement with children. It also aim to develop the target group skills and competencies such as communication, ICT literacy, robot programming, maths, science and geometry subjects / topics. The project model could be embedded to ensure long-term sustainability of the self-support and competence development activities. They also will be implemented during the series of structured activities taking place in certain priority and ensuring involvement by each partner organization and targeted group: it will start from the target group investigation (expectations, demands for skills, competencies, topics of interest); deduction of the most appreciated topics, to providing them all the information required for a modern and dynamic contexts like robotics (lego) and educational contents for children.
The project will contribute to social inclusion/ valorisation of the competencies, acquisition of new competencies, and active participation of senior people in the educational process promoting a new role and mediating through this role new learning process of ICT world.
The project aims to make grandparents knowledge technologically advanced to re – qualify their role with nephews and children, teaching them how to program robots and how to use robots for educational motivation.
Objectives of the partnership:
- to train adults to use robots, to feel active in the educational contest of a society, to be supportive in time sharing with young generations (children) and to motive them in this way to acquire skills and competencies such as on-line communication, ICT literacy, cross – cultural knowledge, foreign language skills, maths, science, geometry and programming language:
-to establish a website for the project contest with video and material of the educational strategies with robots (instructions on use), exchange of target groups opinion, needs, contents and dreams related to a possible new active role in the society;
-to provide good practices, and training course modules for other adult education providers in Europe in a booklet and CD – rom.
Home page: http://robgap.europole.org/lv/