UnfOlding / conscious ageing and conscious living in a digital society

To equip for conscious ageing and conscious living in a digital society

The UnfOlding project has distinct focuses:

• Creating a dedicated community of adult learners from The Netherlands and Hungary, fostering ongoing dialogue, long-term community learning, and co-creating progressive community initiatives.
• Strengthening the strategic cooperation between Hekate Conscious Ageing Foundation and Jánoshida Municipality in promoting conscious ageing and living, ensuring inclusivity for all members of their respective communities.
• Supporting ageing individuals and communities in enhancing their digital skills, digital literacy, and digital wellness to enable active, healthy, and independent ageing.
• Establishing a practical and down-to-earth network for exchanging knowledge between a central country (The Netherlands) and a semi-peripheral country (Hungary).

About the project:

The UnfOlding project provides unique learning opportunities for its target groups in The Netherlands and Hungary, focusing on conscious ageing, conscious living in a digital world.

Participants in the inter-regional learning communities will have the chance to engage in direct conversations about conscious ageing and living with citizens from central and semi-peripheral nations, gaining insights into their daily lives, social and personal challenges, and needs.

For the village of Jánoshida*, the project offers an invaluable opportunity to build inter-regional cooperation with a European nation like The Netherlands, accessing and benefiting from existing knowledge, experience, and processes related to healthy, active ageing and living in a digital world. Additionally, it allows the village’s citizens to experience tangible benefits and understand the EU’s values more concretely.

Through this project, we aim to contribute to European cohesion and integrity by establishing and expanding an inter-regional network of European citizens and organizations interested and involved in healthy, active, and conscious ageing and living.

The project’s target groups in The Netherlands include:

• Low-income pensioners and individuals near retirement age seeking affordable life solutions for their older years
• People with heavy care responsibilities, such as sandwich family members and women
• Low-income women
• Public service workers responsible for improving living conditions and elderly care
• Middle-aged individuals interested in conscious ageing and living
• NGOs, charities, and SMEs working on community living solutions

* You can read more about Jánoshida here.

UnfOlding is a project funded by the European Union.