TOY PLUS
The seven organisations involved in the TOY-PLUS project had an eventful meeting in Athens hosted by Hellenic Open University, the Greek partner in TOY-PLUS. Over the past year the team has been working hard on the development of the TOY Quality Stamp. This will allow services and organisations to assess and improve intergenerational practice involving young children and older adults. Six dimensions of quality form the basis of the TOY Quality Stamp:
1) Interaction with(in) the community; 2) Social inclusion and wellbeing; 3) Learning environment; 4) Professional development and teamwork; 5) Monitoring and evaluation; 6) Sustainability.
Over the coming weeks and months we will be recruiting services interesting in being involved in the process. If you would like more information about the TOY Quality Stamp please contact us: info@toyproject.net
In Athens, we also filmed the video lectures which will be used in our online course: ‘Together Old and Young: An Intergenerational Approach’. This course will contain five modules:
1) Young and old learning together; 2) Intergenerational learning for social inclusion; 3) How to organize and intergenerational programme; 4) Monitoring intergenerational learning quality; 5) Making intergenerational learning last.
This course will be freely available online from Autumn 2018. We are also busy recruiting practitioners from early childhood education and care and the social care sectors to participate in testing the Together Old and Young online course. If you would like more information about the Together Old and Young online course, please contact us.
TOY-PLUS is coordinated by ICDI and is funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme.
