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CompiSternli [Computer Starlets]

· Davos · National

CompiSternli ("computer starlets“) is an intergenerational project from Switzerland that connects two generations: young children and elderly people. Both sides can profit from interactions with each other. On one hand the elderly people get to enhance their media literacy skills

CompiSternli [Computer Starlets]

Details

Promoter
CompiSternli Association — website
Type
Service
Status
Ongoing
Target groups
Elderly people
Period
2016-01-01
Keywords
elderly, digital, skills, literacy, inclusion

Context

The initiative responds to a digital-competence gap between generations: the ease with which young people use modern technology contrasts with older people's more limited, less technology-oriented experience. CompiSternli was designed to bring the two together so each can benefit from the other.

Objectives

Enhance elderly participants' media-literacy skills using tablet computers, while enhancing participating children's social and explanatory skills as they coach the elderly; help older people understand what tablets and the internet can do for them.

Activities

Children, usually from gifted-student classes, are first coached to answer key questions (what elderly people might use tablets for, how to explain the internet clearly, which applications suit older users' interests, and how to adapt explanations for hearing or sight limitations) before the project is launched and run cooperatively with the CompiSternli project group and a team member who accompanies participating teachers and schools until the project ends. Participation is free of charge.

Conclusions

The project is presented as a low-resource method for addressing digital literacy among the elderly while also bridging generational gaps, and as a potential model for similarly structured digital-skills disparities between other social groups.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Explicitly described in the source as a "Low resource method"; free participation for families, delivered through schools and volunteer child-coaches.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — No fixed project end date is given; described as an ongoing school-based programme run cooperatively with the CompiSternli project group each cycle.
Staffing & skills
CompiSternli Association team members, participating schools' teachers, child coaches (from gifted-student classes)

Conditions for success

  • Structured set-up phase where children prepare answers before coaching begins
  • Ongoing accompaniment of teachers/schools by a CompiSternli team member
  • Free participation to avoid financial barriers

Where it fits

Governance type
NGO-led (CompiSternli Association), delivered through schools
Scale
national (Switzerland)
Income level
high-income (Switzerland)

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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