The first step of the GUTS project concerns a research and analysis of the socio-demographic framework of ageing and youth employment over Europe, with a special focus on the areas covered by the partnership. Particularly, all the risk factors leading to exclusion (of daily life and the labour market) will be highlighted and the participation to educational programmes will be analysed. Special focus will be on the analysis of the state of art of co-creative cultural and intergenerational learning processes with older people and youngsters identifying the benefits of participatory learning, not only in terms of increased quality of life but also of reduced psychosomatic issues and problems for participation on the labour market. A high quality and constructive result will be realised by collection and analysis of good practices also at level of policy making towards favouring this learning methodology as a means of social inclusion, employment and active ageing referring to previous projects having as object the learning processes leading to active citizenship and social inclusion, including components such as European citizenship and intergenerational learning (e.g. European projects SMARTE, EDAM, IGLOO, EASY).

 

 

 

The partner countries will organise special evaluation events of co-creative cultural learning for older people and youngsters in the organised learning areas in interaction with the learners and stakeholders. A (scientific) databank of evaluation of the cultural learning with older people and youngsters will be realised. The databank can be used for analysis concerning results, outcomes and needed influential of the learning areas on a European level The main common objective of the events will consist in investigating the communication and needs of the learners and stakeholders and their desired successful results in the realised learning co-creative learning processes in the learning areas. Finally based on the research outcomes an interactive toolbox will be realised in order to provide guidelines and a clear methodology concerning intergenerational and cultural learning for older people and youngsters aiming increase of social inclusion and employment.