Today, we held a preliminary online meeting for the Erasmus+ project Seniors’ Media Awareness & Resilience in the Digital Age (SMART-AGE).
Although the project officially starts in December, today’s meeting was an opportunity for all partners – Bildungshaus Retzhof (Austria), POU Čakovec (Croatia), Ljudska univerza Ormož (Slovenia), and Institut für Demokratiepädagogik (Belgium) – to gather after a short summer break and define the initial project steps.
The SMART-AGE project aims to enhance media literacy and digital resilience among older adults, with a special focus on those in rural areas, to address the challenges of disinformation and AI-generated content. The main goal is to equip senior learners with the key skills needed to navigate the digital space confidently and safely.
To achieve this, the project will develop a comprehensive micro-credential-based curriculum, aligned with the DigComp 2.2 framework, focusing on topics such as fact-checking, recognizing algorithmic bias, and digital privacy. This curriculum will then be transformed into an accessible, multilingual Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) designed for self-paced learning.
Key activities include curriculum development, MOOC creation, pilot testing with older adults in the four partner countries (Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Belgium), and broad dissemination through multiplier events and a social media campaign. The expected outcomes are a high-quality, competence-based curriculum and an interactive MOOC, which will enable older adults to obtain a certificate recognizing their digital skills, thereby fostering greater digital independence, civic engagement, and social inclusion.
Stay tuned for more updates!
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