How can generations grow together? Intergenerational Learning

The Global Intergenerational Week, an annual worldwide campaign that encourages everyone to embrace intergenerational practice and relationships, takes place between 24 and 30 April. 

As part of the event, Places to Grow* is hosting an online collective learning event to introduce intergenerational learning to Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practitioners and NGO staff who are new to intergenerational learning and would like to incorporate it into their work. 

Within this session, we will have a chance to exchange with Giulia Cortellesi and Margaret Kernan from ICDI, international coordinators of TOY for Inclusion and the TOY Project. TOY is a knowledge platform about intergenerational learning involving young children (0-10 years) and older adults. 

Intergenerational learning activities in TOY are friendly and informal social encounters, where children and adults can equally partake as the learner and the teacher. Such learning can take place in a range of non-formal and formal ECEC settings such as play and learning hubs, family centres, kindergartens, primary schools, libraries and community centres.

The session will include space for questions and answers, as well as insights from research and practical tips from the new Handbook for Intergenerational Practitioners and Trainers, ‘Generations Growing Together’.

Please note that the event will be recorded.

The event is open to all and is hosted by Holis as part of the Places to Grow Project.

*Places to Grow is a catalyst for excellence in early childhood development, education and care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, aiming at strengthening relationships between organisations active in social services, education, advocacy and research. Find out more at www.placestogrow.eu.