What does it mean?

WISE - Working through
Intergenerational
Senior
Empowerment

What is it about?

Older people - especially after retirement - are at risk of feeling redundant and useless, that could lead to the deterioration of their physical, psychological and mental health. We are looking for practices that help prevent this process by enabling seniors to play an active part in their community.

Our main aims are to:

1. Explore and promote practices that:

• enhance activity, self-determination and community participation of seniors; 
  
• create connections between people of different generations (instead of isolating seniors in separate groups);
  
• enhance the contact and collaboration across different cultural borders within our societies, contribute to the construction of a multicultural European identity. 

2. Involve seniors in the exploration and evaluation of the presented best practices 
3. Examine the transferability of the studied methods into the partnes' countries
4. Lay down the foundation for future international joint projects
5. Disseminate the presented best practices and project ideas in the local and wider life long learning communities

The partnership consists of the following non-profit organisations:

• Elan Interculturel (France), http://elaninterculturel.com/
  
• AKUT Foundation (Hungary), http://www.akutfoundation.org/
• The Academy for Sustainable Local Development  (Poland), http://azrl.org/
• NVCF (Romania), http://negruvoda.ro/
  
• DEMÀ (Spain), http://www.dema.cat/, https://sites.google.com/site/demaproj/

The project has been funded with the support of the Grundtvig Program of the European Union.
This blog reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 

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The picture that can be seen in the letterhead is a picture of Frida Kahlo: My Grandparents, My Parents and I (Family Tree). 
Source: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/images/mexic_kahlo.geneal.lg.jpg