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TOY online course starts on 14 October. REGISTER NOW!
Are you interested in bringing older adults and young children together to share knowledge, skills, values and have fun? If yes, then the TOY online course “Together Old and Young: An Intergenerational Approach” is what you are looking for!
The next edition of the TOY Online Course will start on 14 October 2019.
Click here to register now!
For more information about the course, please visit the course page or contact us at info@toyproject.net
DCU presented TOY for Inclusion impact evaluation at EECERA
On August 21, our colleagues of the Dublin City University – Early Childhood Research Centre, Dr Gillian Lake, Prof Mathias Urban, Dr Geraldine French, Fiona Giblin and Therese Farrell, presented the conceptual framework for the impact evaluation of the second phase of the TOY for Inclusion project at the EECERA conference in Greece .
The Storyteller Project and TOY: remote reading aloud sessions
The Storytellers Project is a concept for a new library service connecting a community of senior readers to children and their families for remote reading aloud sessions. Children use the Storybell robot at home to connect with seniors willing to read. The Storybell robot transmits their reading live allowing them to speak as if they were on the phone. >> Read more
TOY for Inclusion inspires participants at the Erasmus+ event
ICDI was invited to present TOY and TOY for Inclusion as a best practice in the field of social inclusion by the Erasmus+ Dutch National Agency this week. The Agency organised a 3-day Transnational Cooperation Activity in Wageningen (Netherlands) with more than 90 participants from 16 EU countries on this topic.
TOY features at ‘Bridging Generations’ Conference in Portland, Oregon
Between 12 and 14 June almost 400 experts in intergenerational practice gathered in Portland, Oregon for the biannual conference organized by Generations United and cohosted by Bridge Meadows Intergenerational Communities,‘Bridging Generations‘, titled The participants– activists and academics, practitioners and volunteers – were mainly from the United States of America.