GIRDA: Gameplay for InspiRing Digital Adoption is funded by Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership
GIRDA is a transnational project with partners in UK, Austria, North Macedonia and Slovenia and runs from 2016 to 2019
The project proposed a novel approach to digital education for older citizens. The approach used touch table and touch tablet games to introduce older citizens to digital interaction.
The aim was:
Using large touch screens and tablets provides an innovative environment in which to explore Games as a fun, low-risk activity where learners can develop basic skills and understanding. At the same time those helping them have an effective way of passing on their own expertise (however modest that may be). Those who help can be professional tutors, those who work with older people, volunteers, friends or simply family members. Our project aims to provide insights and advice for those people to help them play an effective role in whatever setting they find themselves.
Working with our partners in a transnational project our objectives are:
At the conclusion of the project the results are being disseminated as best-practice through its relationships with practitioner organisations established at EU level and in the partner countries (UK, Austria, Slovenia, and North Macedonia).
Each country has hosted a multiplier event intended to engage at the national level to promote the findings of the study to individuals and groups involved in bringing digital skills to older citizens.
This picture was created by one of our participants from Austria using an iPad