Learning from European Lives: the development of country and context specific learning methods for biographical exploration of persons 60+ (LeuLiv), No. 2024-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000251727

Project title – Learning from European Lives: the development of country and context specific learning methods for biographical exploration of persons 60+ (LeuLiv)

Project Value – 400 000 Eur

Project duration – 2024-11-01 2027-10-31

Project number – 2024-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000251727

Project implementer –Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe (Germany)

Project partners: Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania); University of Lodz (Poland), Alma Mater Europaea (Slovenia); Academy WSB (Poland).

Project Leader at MRU: Dr. Irena Žemaitaitytė

Project Objective:

• Development of innovative learning programs and interventions to learn from older people and help them see their life memories as a resource in the present.
• Teaching students theoretical knowledge and practical experience with biographical interviews.
• Promotion of intercultural and intergenerational understanding and biographical learning in Europe.
• Building a database of at least 80 biographical interviews for the further development of learning programs and research.

Project Summary: This project is unique in its partnerships (Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Lithuania), the combination of diversity and synergy in the project’s concept and the fact that it encompasses four dimensions of biographical learning: the personal, inter-personal, social/societal and transcultural.

Students from a variety of different academic and professional backgrounds in the partnership countries will learn the the-oretical basis of biographical exploration with a focus on autobiographical memories as a resource in the present and conduct an interview with an older person (aged 60 or older).

Project results: include the creation of teaching manuals and innovative learning programs as well as a multi-lingual, multicultural biographical databank with 80 plus interviews to be used by the participating partners for future research and course development.

The project is funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education program.