Focus area 03 / Generations
Learn from those before us.
Listen to those coming next.
Bring young people and older adults together to share experience, open opportunities and build relationships where both have something to teach and something to learn.
Explore actions01 / The relationship we want to nurture
Young people and older adults in family, work and community life
What separates us
Young people may find few opportunities to get started. Older adults may feel excluded or see their experience lose recognition. Collaboration becomes harder when each generation only listens to its own.
What we want to build
Create reciprocal exchanges that strengthen independence, access to opportunities and recognition of each generation’s contributions.
Who can take part
Young people, older adults, families, schools, universities, employers, community centers and professionals willing to share knowledge.
Our guiding principle
The future needs experience. Experience needs a future.
Every person has their own abilities and needs. Design an intergenerational project by asking both parties what they want to learn and contribute, without assuming one always teaches and the other only receives.
02 / From conversation to practice
Practical ways
to come together.
These are possibilities to develop with the people involved. Every action should be adapted to their context and include their participation.
- 01
Two-way mentoring
Exchange professional experience, digital skills and everyday learning around shared interests.
- 02
Opportunities at different stages
Create first-job, knowledge-transfer or second-career initiatives with clear goals.
- 03
Memory and community life
Bring together life stories and form teams of different ages to address a local need.
03 / A practical example
A craft and a new tool.
Young people interested in a craft and older adults with experience want to organize an exchange.
- The shared action
- Agree on sessions to share craft techniques and useful digital tools, respecting each participant’s pace.
- How to follow up
- Record the learning each person identifies, whether encounters continue and the projects they choose to undertake together.
For a clearer understanding
Questions that matter.
Who teaches and who learns?
Both parties can do both. Experience is not determined only by age, and familiarity with a tool should not be assumed either.
Does it have to be an employment program?
It can also be cultural, educational or community-based: learning a skill, gathering stories or improving a shared space.
04 / Generations
Let’s take
the first step.
Think of a relationship around you that needs attention. You can propose an action, work through your organization or contribute your voice and experience.
More than one way to come together