SILVER STORIES is a partnership of 9 organisations from 6 countries. It combines expertise in digital storytelling, education, and community engagement to train professionals who work with community groups and older people. It flows from EXTENDING CREATIVE PRACTICE and comparable activity demonstrating digital storytelling efficacy in engaging older people and marginalised groups in using ICT.

SILVER STORIES trains professionals, not community groups. During the project in Portugal, several older adults living in the community and in institutions produced and edited their stories on video.

The aims of the project are to:

– Adapt and transfer learning methods from ECP across the partnership, extending it to two new countries, and work to provide VET for a new target professional group – i.e. trainers and employees working in the caring professions across the partnership.

– Establish a means for Digital Storytelling to be incorporated into the ongoing training of professionals in all the partner countries. 

Principal Investigator: Maria dos Anjos Dixe (maria.dixe@ulo.pt)

Research Team

• University of Brighton (Coord.), UK
• Digital StoryLab, Denmark
• Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
• Trapezio
• The Progress Foundation, Romania
• Mitra, Slovenia
• Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)
• Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
• DigiTales, UK

Duration: 24 months (2013 – 2015)

Reference

• Project No. TOI 637
• No. UK/13/LLP–‐LdV/TOI–‐637

Funding: European Commission’s Learning Programme, under the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong