The P-AGE project (Pécs* Intergenerational and Age-Friendly Community Platform) has been launched through a partnership between the Hekate Conscious Ageing Foundation and the Pécs Community Foundation.
For the first time in human history, 4-5 generations are living together on Earth. Europe has never had as many people over the age of 75 as it does today. Moreover, due to digital transformation, the worlds of older and younger people might never have been as different as they are now. These ongoing demographic changes bring forth many new challenges and countless new opportunities. To address issues like the massive housing crisis, the growing care crises, and the unstoppable climate crises (just to name a few), we need the knowledge, expertise, creativity, and cooperation of all generations.
While we can certainly find great examples of spontaneous cooperation between generations in our own environments, forming intergenerational cooperation at the community or social level rarely happens organically. It is essential that members of different generations see, hear, and understand each other to break mutual biases. By having common goals, shared places, and engaging in activities together, we can foster open conversations and come together.
The main goal of the strategic partnership between Hekate Conscious Ageing Foundation and Pécs Community Foundation, within the framework of the P-AGE project, is to initiate, support, and strengthen intergenerational dialogue and social cohesion.
Throughout this two-year-long project, an elderly-friendly intergenerational toolkit will be developed, incorporating international best practices. The toolkit will offer a special methodology that focuses on intergenerational cooperation, practical exercises, and an educational-sensitizing board game that can be utilized in various communities.
As part of the project, a group of professionals from Pécs city will be trained to implement the toolkit and the board game. These interdisciplinary experts, including those from civil, health, higher education, research, cultural, municipal, architectural, and equal opportunity fields, will participate in a community-focused but experiential year-long Conscious Ageing training.
The project’s results and outcomes will not only benefit the interdisciplinary experts who use them but also all citizens of Pécs city (of all ages). They will have new opportunities and places to meet, discuss, and get to know people from all generations.
Pécs* (/peɪtʃ/ PAYTCH, Hungarian: [peːt͡ʃ]) is the fifth largest city in Hungary, dating back to ancient times, and settled by the Celts and the Romans. You can read more about the city here.
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The P-AGE project is implemented within the framework of the Erasmus+ program of the European Union, which provides the necessary financial support for its implementation.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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