11 Fev 2021
Empowering Older People for the Digital World – ICTskills4All Event Report
At the project closing event titled “Empowering older people for the digital world through intergenerational and peer learning” on 10 February 2021, more than 100 delegates heard from a panel of experts and the project partners about the issues and approaches surrounding this topic. Delegates learned about the project, its methodology and findings, as well as heard from older people themselves through a video.
Blogue Post // uniteIT
24 Nov 2020
Computer skills among the community – Dwelling 55+ European Population
Older adults are facing an increasingly technological society which can make them feel excluded. This work aims to evaluate computer skills of Europeans within the age group of 55+, using data from the SHARE project.
Blog post // UCIBIO REQUIMTE
26 Out 2018
Elísio Costa coordinates ICTskills4All project to improve digital skills of the senior population
Elísio Costa, UCIBIO researcher from the Biochemistry Lab at Faculdade de Farmácia – UPorto, is the coordinator of the ICTskills4All project, a Strategic Partnership for adult education…
Blog post // Envelhecer
22 Out 2018
Digital competences amongst the elderly
The University of Porto is lauching this friday the ‘ICTskills4All’, a project which aims to ‘increase digital competences among the older population…’ ”
Online news // Público
22 Out 2018
University of Porto lauches project to increase digital skills amongst the elderly
Financed by the Erasmus+ programme, this project is ocurring in four more european countries and will host 160 older people over 55 years of age, 40 of whom are portuguese.
Online news // Diário de Notícias
22 Out 2018
University of Porto lauches project to increase digital skills amongst the elderly
The University of Porto (UP) is lauching “ICTskills4All” this friday, a project which aims to “increase digital competences of the older population”…
11 Fev 2021
Older people are excluded from digital education, but fun can help bring them in, AGE says at conference
AGE participated in the final conference of the ICTSkills4All project, an Erasmus+ project focussed on developing digital skills of older people. During the event, we discussed with the Vice-Chair of the Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament, a representative of the Commission’s unit working on eHealth and Ageing and a representative from Microsoft.
Blogue Post // uniteIT
10 Nov 2020
Working with the elderly in Covid times – the UPorto sessions experience
Throughout the last months, ICTskills4All has faced major challenges to conduct project activities without exposing the elderly to risks. Portugal officially started social isolation in mid-March 2020. The scheduled face-to-face sessions were thus postponed to July, when the health authorities were ab le to cointain the threat and authorized the reopening.
Online news // PortugaliNews
22 Out 2018
University of Porto wants to increase the digital skills of the elderly
Empowering old adults Citizens for a Digital world, is a project which aims to improve confidence, online security and digital competences among older adults.
Online news // Vida Extra – Expresso
22 Out 2018
University of Porto is lauching a project to enhance digital skills among older adults
Minimizing isolation and segregation is the objective of the project ICTskills4All which will be lauched this friday.
Online news // Sapo
22 Out 2018
University of Porto lauches project to increase digital skills amongst the elderly
“We are facing major social and technological changes and, as a matter of fact, 35% of older population, in Portugal as well as in the rest of Europe, has no digital competences…”
Blogue Post // uniteIT
06 Jan 2021
ICTskills4All treinee from Poland shares her experience
Jadwiga from the city of Lodz, Poland, made the first steps in using smartphone and gained some basic skills how to operate computer and internet as part of the ICTSKills4All project raining.
ICTSkills4All is an Erasmus+ Project that aims to explore and test innovative practices and effective approaches for educational programme design and delivery, to support the acquisition of digital skills among 55+ aged citizens who have limited or no digital knowledge. Pilot training activities were happening during 2020 in Latvia, Poland, Portugal, and the UK in different circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic – some managed to still do it face-to-face, others had to move all the training online.
21 Fev 2019
The ICTskills4All website is now online
The ICTSkills4All’s project website is online and it is now available in English. Soon it will be made available in Portuguese, Latvian, Polish and French.
TV
7 Nov 2018
ICTskills4All
Empowering old adults Citizens for a Digital world, is a project which aims to improve confidence, online security and digital competences among older adults.
Blog post // All Digital
26 Out 2018
University of Porto lauches project to increase digital skills amongst the elderly
A new 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 project, called ICTSkills4All – Empowering old citizens for a digital world kicked off on 26 October 2018 at the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)…
Online news // O Jogo
22 Out 2018
University of Porto lauches project to increase digital skills amongst the elderly
The University of Porto (UP) is lauching “ICTskills4All” this friday, a project which aims to “increase digital competences of the older population”…
Newspaper // Destak
Out 2018
Giving digital competences to the elderly
The University of Porto launches this friday the ICTskills4All, a project to enchance digital competences amongst the older population, minimizing isolation and segregation.