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An educational tool for ethical, transparent, and safe activities in adult education, targeting the digital inclusion of older persons in Europe.

Course on Digitalization and Older Age

During spring 2025, the St@ndbyMe project launched their first MOOC course about digitalization and older age from a human rights perspective. The course is aimed at professionals working in adult education, healthcare, as well as care and social work.

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The course is free of charge and currently available only in English. The educational material includes lectures (audio files), short films, and texts, designed for self-study.
Link to the course: St@ndbyMe - An educational tool for ethical, transparent, and safe activities in adult education. We would appreciate it if you could provide feedback after completing the course.

What is a MOOC?

MOOC is short for Massive Open Online Course, and is an opportunity for anyone who wants to learn new things via a digital platform at their own convenience.

About the StandbyMe project

St@ndbyMe (An educational tool for ethical, transparent, and safe activities in adult education, targeting the digital inclusion of older persons in Europe) aims to support practitioners in the field of adult education (i.e., teaching older persons the use of ICTs) and long-term care in building their capacity on how they can help older persons to meet their potential in digital participation, while protecting their rights to health, autonomy, independence, and privacy.

The project will introduce a rigorous human rights framework within training activities for practitioners in adult education and care, working in formal or informal settings. The proposed actions include a variety of training activities for practitioners, educational material that can support their work, an enhanced community of practise, field-testing resources to older persons, as well as the promotion and dissemination of the project results at the European level.

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Report

Digital Human Rights Best Practices

The project published a report 2024:

For the digital inclusion of older persons: a “digital rights” approachapport.

Finance and more information

About St@ndbyMe

The idea has been designed and developed by a group of organisations based in several European countries and include the University of Linkoping (Sweden, acting as coordinator), Frankfurter Verband (Germany), 50plus Hellas (Greece), The Association of Social Service Providers (Czech Republic), CollectiveUP (Belgium) and Tree Agency (Estonia).

The project has been accepted for funding by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ funding programme and it will run until December 2025.

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Project

The project has been accepted for funding by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ funding programme and it will run until December 2025.

Projcet

Funded by the European Union

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Project group

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George Pavlidis

Assistant Professor

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Axel Ågren

Associate Professor

IKOS

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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