‘I am Svetlana and I came to Poland with my family in 2022, my two daughters and three grandchildren. Their husbands stayed in Kyiv to fight for our country. The journey to Poland was dangerous and we stayed for five days in the basement of an old building. The decision was not easy. Leaving your homeland breaks your heart. We need to build our lives here now…we have to learn Polish to talk with other people and to be able to find a job. For children, this is not difficult, but for me, at the age of 60, it is hard. Here we have some other friends from Ukraine, but we also want to be friends with the local people.’
The above story-testimonial has been the start of this proposal, and the motive is to break boundaries and bring people together by sharing their stories to build a new society, a new EUROPE.
The main OBJECTIVES are:
- To promote access and participation of elderly women (natives, migrant women and women from war or conflict-affected or
high-risk regions) targeted to their needs LLL opportunities - To develop and launch the TALES2SHARE HUBs as an initiative that promotes EU values, civic engagement, respect
and democracy through story-telling where native and migrant women will share their experiences, challenges, difficulties
while breaking down barriers. - To equip older women with personal, social and civic competences, language learning (e.g. storytelling), transversal (eg
creativity) and digital skills. - To upgrade the competencies and practices of Adult Educators with innovative, participatory and creative methods such
as digital storytelling, thus promoting digital transformation and modernisation of their practices, as well as other overall quality of
the Adult Sector - To validate the newly acquired skills based on MICRO-CREDENTIALS promoting transparency, transferability and visibility
- To promote transnational collaboration and the exchange of good practices to address common issues of inclusion of
migrant people in host communities.
The results to be developed are:
- Digital Storytelling tool with guidelines for the recording and sharing of stories
- Professional development course for educators validated through the micro-credentials
- Competence framework for personal, social, digital, and language acquisition supported with a set of new activities based on new
methodologies - Platform with e-learning, e-library, e-community
- Transnational mobilities for educators
- Local workshops for elderly women (natives and migrants)
For more information, you can visit the website https://tales2share.eu/