How seniors learn digital skills in the Nordics and Baltic?: Norwegian Experience (June 2021)

Online seminar on the 29th of June

This event is part of a Nordplus project NPAD-2020/10169: How seniors learn digital skills in the Nordics and Baltic?

The aim of this project is to share good practises about the topic, how seniors learn digital skills in the Nordics and the Baltic. Beside of that we learn, how digitalization and continues learning are seen in different countries. The event is hosted by the Seniornett Norway, which is an association helping and educating seniors, who have f. ex. problems and questions with digital devices, apps etc.

All people interested in the followed program are welcome to join our online seminar. It will be carried out in Zoom. You'll find the link for registration in the right column of this page.

Program (tentative)

Time	Topic
10:00-10:15	Welcome to Oslo and Norway	The mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen, welcomes partners and participants of the conference to Oslo and Norway.
10:15 – 10:20	Welcome words on behalf of the host	President of Seniornett, Karin Moe Røisland, welcomes participants to the conference.
10:20 – 10:35	Another way of learning digital skils: Digital training with personal trainer Nina Matre.	All participants are asked to participate. Seniornett offers digital training in small groups to members once a week. Take/wear some loose clothes.
10:35 – 10:50	Presentation of the host organization Seniornett	CEO of Seniornett Kristin Ruud
10:50 – 11:00	“Datastuer” – a joint project between Seniornett and the Norwegian association for seniors	Project manager Helge Selstø
11:00 – 11:15	Tea/coffee break
11:15 – 12:00	Older adults and digital everyday life	Prof. Astrid M. Sølvberg, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
12:00 – 12:15	Seniornett’s hotline for support to members	Volunteer coordinator Roar Kristiansen CEO of Seniornett Kristin Ruud
12:15 – 12:45	Lunch break
12:45 – 13:30	Digital skills amongst Norwegian seniors – and ways to upskilling	Senior Adviser Hanne Størset Department of Analysis and Digitisation, The Norwegian Agency for Skills Policy
13:30 – 13:45	Gaming for oldies – presentation of a project where we will use gaming as a tool for building digital skills among seniors in Norway	Project manager Joop Cuppen, Seniornett
13:45 – 13:55	Tea/coffee break
13:55 – 14:30	Seniors and critical media literacy	Director Mari Velsand The Norwegian Media Authority
14:30 – 14:55	Group dicussions
14:55 – 15:00	Closing up	Vice president of Seniornett, Sturla Bjerkaker

End of the program at 15:00. All times are in Norwegian time (UTC+1). Difference f. ex. to Eastern European time (UTC+2) is -1 hour.

We keep the right for any changes in the program and all changes will be updated at this page

Registration

You can join our meeting free of charge.

To get the invitation link for Zoom and other information before the meeting, please registrate yourself here.

Registration periode ends on the 27th of June.

Contributors

	President of Seniornett, Karin Moe Røisland
	Vice president of Seniornett, Sturla Bjerkaker
	CEO of Seniornett, Kristin Ruud
	The mayor of Oslo, Marianne Borgen
	Personal trainer Nina Matre
	Project manager Helge Selstø Seniornett
	Prof. Astrid M. Sølvberg, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
	Senior Adviser Hanne Størseth Department of Analysis and Digitisation, The Norwegian Agency for Skills Policy
	Project manager Joop Cuppen Seniornett
	Director Mari Velsand The Norwegian Media Authority