Good practice Imported

Silver Surfers

· Belgrade, Serbia · National

The project Silver Surfers aims to promote the importance of digital literacy and bring modern information-communication technologies closer to older people. Besides the project directly focusing on providing digital literacy to vulnerable groups with the purpose of bridging and

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Seniors completing IT workshops

Details

Maturity: Pilot
Promoter: IAN International Aid Network — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Elderly people
People reached: 300
People targeted: 300
Period: 2011-01-01
Keywords: senior citizens, digital inclusion, silver surfer, inter-generational

Context

Silver Surfers (Serbia), funded by the Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society and the EU, ran basic IT workshops for people over 55 in eight towns, plus a grandparent-grandchild online quiz competition pairing seniors (55+) with grandchildren (under 13).

Results

115 seniors from eight towns completed the IT workshops, and about 200 people over 55 took part in the project overall.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

Cite this

Evidoria. Silver Surfers. Persistent ID: 622cd845-964b-41d3-b616-7de512498d43.

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