News & Events

The blog of the Be Smart Seniors project has been launched, which will publish articles on active aging and online services in Hungarian.

The YouTube channel of the Be Smart Seniors project is launched to present the teaching videos created within the frame of the project. This channel is separate from the platform we are developing in the frame project which will take the ergonomic needs of the elderly into account. The purpose of the YouTube channel is to make the results of the project available to a wider audience through the popular video sharing site.

The collection of feedbacks on the teaching videos is closed. Based on the feedback, we will modify some of the completed videos and use the experience gained in the production of future videos. Thank you to all the respondents for their contribution!

The third international project meeting of the Be Smart Seniors project was held from 12 to 13 December 2019 in Maribor. The purpose of the meeting was to review the activities so far and to prepare for the further tasks of the project in the next year.

We have successfully organized the first dissemination event of the Be Smart Seniors project in Budapest, where, despite the summer heat, nearly 30 participants were interested in the results and goals of the project. Our guests were representatives of adult educators, secondary and higher education institutions interested in the project, as well as representatives of institutions and NGOs involved in elderly care. The participants helped our work with useful advice and comments, for which we would like to express our thanks afterward. At our next event, the presentation and testing of the finished training materials will be the main theme, and we hope many will be curious again.

The team of the University of Turku prepared the English version of the “How to teach your grandma” video guide. The purpose of this guide is to summarize in an easy-going cartoon for young people who help their elderly relatives the important information they need to keep in mind when educating an elderly adult. The video guide will also have a printed version and will be translated into the languages ​​of all participating countries.

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The second project meeting of the Be Smart Seniors project was successfully held in Vaduz, on the 5th and 6th of June.

The purpose of the consultation was to finalize the topics and pedagogical and visual elements of the training videos. We evaluated the results of the needs analysis and we also reviewed the next steps of the project and clarified the framework of the video testing.