3 December, 2017
Ljubljana

A social innovation that combined wisdom and youth and showed that intergenerational cooperation is the way of the future, it engaged more than 20,000 people in computer workshops.

The story of computing has been given a sustainable story through the Intergenerational Centre, the Symbiosis Schools and the Symbiosis Masters project. Simbioza is also spreading internationally and taking Slovenia’s good name to the wider world. The founders of Simbioza believe that it is right to keep the positive energy of the weekly campaign alive. They want to create a society where young people learn about the wealth of wisdom hidden in the elderly and where the elderly believe in the future, thanks in particular to the young people who offer a hand of solidarity during the week in October. With the SIMBIOZA GIBA project, they want to be an example for the whole of Slovenia. They want to bring to their feet all those who have been waiting for the right moment. It will be a week that could change many lives. It will be a week that will wake up the younger generations and remind the older ones that there is something that unites them. That they can always and everywhere speak the same language. A language of health, of right living, of happiness, of moments and of functional bodies that do not know or recognise the years. A language that does not need words to express and communicate itself. A language we call movement.

The Government of the Republic of Slovenia has adopted the National Programme on Diet and Physical Activity for Health, which provides opportunities to promote active lifestyles for all generations and which also covers the concept of the Symbiosis of Movement. The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Health and is part of the Dober tek Slovenia effort to promote more exercise and healthier diets, and the project partners are the National Institute of Public Health and the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana. In six years, Simbioza has connected more than 70,000 older people and young people across Slovenia in a nationwide computer and internet literacy campaign and in the Simbioza Giba campaign. Simbioza has developed a model of computer workshops for the elderly, where they learn from young people and learn the basics of using a computer in one week. The workshops are free of charge and based on intergenerational cooperation and the transfer of knowledge from young people to the elderly.

Address: Dunajska cesta 22, 1000 Ljubljana
Tel: 040 336 311
E-mail: info@simbioza.eu
Web: http://www.simbioza.eu
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Simbioza.eu

The project is part-financed by the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund.

EU funds

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is supported by: