Programme/activity name Active Ageing Festival

Lead organisation

Sports Union of Slovenia

Country Slovenia Period

Since 2016

Objective

Programme, activities, events

Stakeholders and roles

Promoting HEPA among older adults and strengthening cooperation between sport organisations, senior organisations, and health stakeholders.

A national network of one-day events for older adults. The local event includes a short lecture about the benefits of HEPA for older adults, and organised physical activities for older adults.

Sports Union of Slovenia, local sport clubs, daily centres for the elderly, local associations for retired people, and homes for the elderly. Co-funded by the Foundation of Sport and Ministry of Sport.

Barriers

Outcomes

Principles for behaviour change

Tips & tricks

Never enough funding available. Difficult to find volunteers. Logistics.

2022: 1736 participants, 52 local events, 14 local sport organisations, 24 towns, 73 staff involved

Regularity. Support at the beginning. Interesting activities. Promotion through channels for older adults. Adjusting to the target group.

Promotion with addressing the emotions. Doctor’s advice. Support at the beginning. Interesting activities. Promotion through channels for older adults. Adjusting to the target group. Empowerment of staff.

Other information

Source

N/A https://www.sportna-unija.si/?t=9110000074

Programme/activity name Odysseia – Youth and Senior Integration Through Diverse Sport Events

Lead organisation

Youth DRPDNM

Country Slovenia Period

Objective

Programme, activities, events

2019-2021

The aim of the project is to popularise sport and active lifestyle among young and seniors.

ODYSSEIA – Youth and Senior Integration Through Diverse Sport Events is the initiative of Polish, Slovenian and Lithuanian organisations. The aim of the project is to popularise sport and active style of life among young and seniors. ODYSSEIA project has been founded with support from the European Union within Erasmus+ Program 2014-2020, Action: “Small Collaborative Partnerships in the field of Sport”.

Stakeholders and roles Coordinator: Centrum Kształcenia Ustawicznego w Sopocie / The Centre for Continuing Education: together with Sopocki Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku / Sopot Third Age University, Poland

Partners:

BLASK – Sport Club, Lithuania

YOUTH DRPDNM, NGO, Slovenia

Barriers

Outcomes

Principles for behaviour change

Tips & tricks

Other information

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Healthy socialisation, strengthen relationships increased self-confidence, discipline, teamwork

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Project Results: https://odysseiaproject.eu/results

Source https://odysseiaproject.eu/

Programme/activity name Funmilies

Lead organisation

Slovenian Third Age University

Country Slovenia

Period

Objective

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022

The project aims to address the challenges of loneliness, isolation, as well as the problems related to sedentary life and lack of movement of older people (65+) in Europe through the promotion of active and healthy ageing. It intends to encourage participation in sport and physical activity.

Programme, activities, events

Stakeholders and roles

The partners will first do field research, then they will develop a Capacity Building Program and pilot Intergenerational Sports Events in sports clubs. Finally, they will develop an online platform.

ANCE (Athens Network of Collaborating Experts); ABS (Active Bulgarian Society); BAIS (Budapest Association for International Sport); SCS Danilo Dolci; Slovenian Third Age University.

Barriers

Observed barriers: Intergenerational sporting activities are not part of the sports systems, neither are they conceptualised. There is little provision and little awareness of the existence of intergenerational sporting activities and their formats, contents and functions.

Outcomes

Key findings:

1. Women, be they under 25 or over 65, are more open to new experiences including intergenerational sports.

2. Intergenerational sports can be attractive for heterogeneous groups with quite different educational backgrounds.

3. The educational gap between younger and older people will continue widening.

4. Younger people under 25 and older people over 65 are in the same state – liberated of the constraints of numerous and demanding social roles.

5. Being married or in a couple may diminish the desire to be included in intergenerational sports.

6. Older women over 65 are more eager to participate in all sorts of social activities than men who have a tendency to be idle relying on their wives’ emotional support.

Principles for behaviour change

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Tips & tricks According to this Funmilies Survey Research (2021), younger and older respondents tend to look at sports in a similar manner. They all consider sport as a pleasurable, healthy, community activity that brings people together. In the eyes of the respondents in all targeted countries, sports are more associated with moving, pleasure and game than with negative phenomena such as doping, fraud or pain and suffering. The majority of the respondents think it is a recreation and leisure-time activity and not a professional and competitive one.

Other information e-learning platform: https://funmilies-project.eu/elearning_platform/

Source https://www.funmilies-project.eu/

Programme/activity name SLOfit Students and adults

Lead organisation University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport

Country Slovenia Period

Objective

Ongoing

1) To allow people of different generations to monitor their physical fitness every year and also receive guidance in how to improve things or where to turn for help/exercise;

2) To educate local sport clubs, health institutions and different patient associations to carry out the measurements and use the SLOfit platform for data management and immediate feedback.

Programme, activities, events

First lifelong physical fitness monitoring. SLOfit Students – monitoring system in schools and SLOfit Adults – for adults. “My SLOfit app”, a web-based application which provides smart algorithms for data cleansing, access to personal, and school reports which are provided to different end-users for predicting one’s physical development, health risks and fitness status.

Stakeholders and roles N/A

Barriers N/A

Outcomes

Change: More than one half of the entire population of Slovenia are included, over 8.3 million sets of measurements and over 200,000 measured children and adolescents annually. Physical efficiency index of primary-school children increased from 49.7 in 2011 to 50.5 in 2015 the share of overweight children declined for 1.9 % between 2011 and 2015.

Principles for behaviour change

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Other information

Source

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N/A https://youtu.be/xTYizrkS1zc https://en.slofit.org/

Program/activity name

Ateliers Silver Geek

Lead organisation Laboratory for the Diagnostics of Somatic and Motor Development

Country France

Period Oct 2021 – Apr 2022

Objective

Programme, activities, events

Teach elderly people how to use digital media through an intergenerational program with fun activities (games).

Digital media workshops organised by a group of youngsters (16-25 years old) for around 40 elderly people (65+ YO). 5 workshops organised and animated by a team of 4 youngsters in 5 different municipalities with 8-10 elderly in each group. Each workshop contains up to 20 sessions with various fun activities like video games and tournaments.

Stakeholders and roles Habitat de la Vienne; Unis-Cité; Delphis Habitat & innovation.

Barriers

Outcomes

Competition from structures that offer digital workshops for seniors.

The success of Silver Geek workshops can be explained by several specific characteristics:

1. They are held at regular intervals for several months in the same facilities for seniors, which creates favourable conditions for the acquisition of digital skills and the development of real intergenerational relationships.

2. They are easily accessible, because they are free and “without obligation” for the senior beneficiaries, which differentiates them from more traditional training courses that often include exams to assess the level of mastery of this or that use, which can put off a large part of this population.

3. They adapt to the desires/needs of seniors and young people, alternating between video game practices and discovery/learning of other digital uses, each being a source of proposals in a logic of coconstruction.

4. They allow the elderly to get back into physical activity, through the practice of video games based on movements (exergames), and build loyalty among participants thanks to the dynamics of the Esport competitions “Trophée des séniors Silver Geek”.

Principles for behaviour change

For seniors, autonomy in the use of digital technology but a need to maintain social contact with young people.

For young people, an evolution in respect in community life.

Tips & tricks

Get closer to pension funds to communicate to and reach seniors. Work on creating a local network.

Longer engagement for better results

Other information

Source https://silver-geek.org/nos-actions/les-ateliers/ https://www.delphis-asso.org/articles/2021/09/rendez-vous-jeunes-seniorspour-sinitier-au-numerique

Programme/activity name Grassmoor Allotment Project

Lead organisation

Derbyshire county council

Country England Period 2008

Objective

Programme, activities, events

To improve community cohesion and positive practical action for the prevention of and reduction in obesity in all generations.

Young people start with a nutrition school lesson – after, a getting to know you session with a “willow weaving” activity to enable members of all generations involved to join forces and make a tepee – last step: Working on the allotment once a week. Tend and plant as required younger and elder tend and plant as required.

Stakeholders and roles Schools – Representatives of Derbyshire Intergenerational Strategy (DIgS) – the allotment society.

Barriers N/A

Outcomes

Principles for behaviour change

Tips & tricks

Communities become more tolerant towards each other and contribute to a lifestyle change, improving their health and wellbeing at the same time.

Communities become more tolerant towards each other and contribute to a lifestyle change, improving their health and wellbeing at the same.

The ultimate measurement of success is sustainability of intergenerational activity which will have a longitudinal impact on the relationships between the younger and older members of the community.

Other information N/A

Source http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/helping_all_ages/default.asp