Together Old & Young to Build All Age Friendly Communities!

Through sharing experiences young children and older adults have fun, learn from each other and develop meaningful relationships

Professional Development for Intergenerational Learning

Building the capacities and skills of early childhood and social care practitioners to design intergenerational activities

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TOY facilitates and stimulates learning and exchange on intergenerational practice in Europe and beyond

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Together Old and Young – TOY: young children and older adults learning together

The TOY project was initiated and is promoted by International Child Development Initiatives - ICDI.

The purpose of the TOY Programme is to promote intergenerational learning and create new possibilities for senior citizens and young children to learn together and benefit from each others’ company. We believe that this is more important than ever before across the world. People are living longer but older adults and young children are having less and less contact with each other. Parents and grandchildren are migrating to cities and countries far away from grandparents. >> read more

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Intergenerational learning about, in and for the place – an Irish initiative

“Before the programme at my school I thought my place was pretty boring, I didn’t know a lot about nature but now I think differently. I think my place is amazing and I’m lucky to live here”. These are the views of one of the young participants in the Burrenbeo initiatives.

Based on the west coast of Ireland, Burrenbeo Trust is an independent charity which aims to connect all of us to our places and help to identify our role in caring for these places.

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Sharing beauty: Intergenerational theatre during COVID in Italy

How can creative workshops involving lots of play and physical contact between young and old be reimagined for COVID times? This is exactly what PER TERRA IL CIELO (the sky on earth), an intergenerational theatre workshop project in the North of Italy, has achieved over the past 6 months. The theatre workshop is the creation of actor Anna Fascendini.