It provides training courses with the aim of making older people aware and capable of their educational role. With the Great project, funded by Erasmus+, we want to enhance and promote their competences and foster their social inclusion and active ageing through engagement within their own household, but also outside it, supporting single parents and children’s homes.

The birth of a grandchild has beneficial effects on grandparents’ health and lifestyle. Interacting with children encourages a new projection into the future in the elderly, reopens the space for play and imagination.

The grandchild drives away loneliness, isolation, stimulates creativity, encourages the activation of potential and memories, makes them rediscover moments of joviality and light-heartedness.

And the elderly also represents an important resource for the young in organizational, relational, affective and creative terms.

This continuous and valuable exchange, however, lives with balances, constraints and limits that both older and younger people must overcome in order to meet each other.

The project therefore intends to enhance active ageing and support the development of educational skills in adults, involving them in innovative non-formal learning paths to stimulate their creativity, their lateral thinking, support the relationship with their grandchildren and the new generations, looking at creativity as a skill able to build and maintain an effective relationship.