The consortium aims at promoting the development of programming skills among 55+ adults. Over the last few months, challenges aiming at developing digital literacy and coding abilities for people over 55 years have been finalized in the context of the SilverCoders Erasmus+ Project. Challenges are a combination of general knowledge of information technology and basic […]
The final results include 32 basic digital literacy and coding challenges, as well as additional educational resources in form of 16 explanatory videos and 10 learning sheets. Coding and programming skills can lead to an effective improvement of creative thinking, math skills and metacognition, along with spatial and reasoning abilities. It has been shown, in […]
Coding has been recognized by the EU as one of the new transversal skills, a language that reinforces and multiplies the effectiveness of specialized abilities. While many seniors recognize the need for active ageing, most choose to do it by pursuing physical activities. However, it is equally important to being involved in mentally stimulating activities. […]
The consortium aims at promoting the development of programming skills among 55+ adults. Over the last few months, challenges aiming at developing digital literacy and coding abilities for people over 55 years have been finalized in the context of the SilverCoders Erasmus+ Project. Challenges are a combination of general knowledge of information technology and basic […]
SilverCoders is approaching its final phase and is coming to an end after 24 months of implementation. Partners met in Uppsala to define following steps and design of additional educational resources and tools such as educational videos and learning material, as well as the training for trainers platform that will be soon made available in […]
During the last few months, challenges aiming at developing digital literacy and coding abilities for people over 55 years have been developed and finalized in the context of the SilverCoders Erasmus+ Project. The challenges are a combination of general knowledge of information technology and basic coding skills, using visual programming to develop games. From October […]
SilverCoders partners met to discuss future steps of the project and the state of the art of finalised activities and dissemination tools. A fruitful and intense two-days session aimed at testing the usability of the contents and subsequently improving the educational materials that will be the core of the innovative learning platform targeted to specialists […]
What will SILVERCODERS do? Silvercoders project brings together a strategic partnership of 6 European organisations from 6 Erasmus+ countries namely Sweden, Portugal, Romania, Italy, Spain and Greece to promote the development of digital skills among older adults, and support this age group (one of the most affected), with a set of tools to make it more adaptable, […]
Partners discussed future steps of the project and the state of the art of finalised activities and dissemination tools. The consortium made decisions for the second output development and moved toward the validation activities to ensure that the training curriculum on programming skills among 55+ adults will eventually meet the needs of the identified target groups in terms […]
SilverCoders brings together 6 European countries to develop an innovative programme that aims to improve the digital skills/literacy of +55 adult learners by enhancing coding skills According to Human Capital and Digital Skills in the Digital Economy and Society Index, 42% of European citizens lack basic digital skills. 37% of the workforce – farmers, bankers, and factory […]