Silver Stories
SILVER STORIES is a partnership of 9 organizations from 6 countries. It combines expertise in digital storytelling, education, community engagement, and education to train professionals working with community groups and elderly persons. It flows from EXTENDING CREATIVE PRACTICE and comparable activity demonstrating digital storytelling efficacy in engaging older people and marginalized groups in using ICT.
SILVER STORIES trains professionals rather than community groups. During the project in Portugal, several elderly persons living in the community and institutionalized 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
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
