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Fulvio Pacitto started working at the age of 15, out of the great passion he had for boats, which was transmitted to him by his maternal grandfather, Ferdinando Carboni; his grandfather was part of the old crews of risicatori, the boys who earned their living racing to be the first to reach the merchant ships arriving at the port, gaining the right to unload the goods.

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MAD for Europe is extremely glad to take part in this KA2 project for helping seniors artisan and facilitate their participation at European level.
In fact, after the KOM meeting of February, we organised on 07th March an internal meeting with our staff members, volunteers and 2 artisan from Madrid.

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One of the most important lesson learnt during COVID-19 crisis was the importance of ICT skills and the necessity of a wider scale virtual connection among people all over the world.

Unfortunately, the technology advances much faster than the capacity of human being to adapt to its requirements.
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On 10th December we had the kick-off meeting at the level of Pro Xpert Association, hosted by one of our partner in Râmnicu Vâlcea. It was a very shiny winter day and we were glad to be together.

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The project results are connected to the project aim and specific objectives as follows:

OS1. enhance the professional development of 154 adult educators by equipping them with important knowledge, improved abilities and behaviours needed to make them more flexible in adapting their educational tools to the need of a resistant and Euroscepting generation of senior artisans – we will develop an attractive on-line interface that will include the three intellectual outputs.

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The main innovative aspect of this project is the strong learner-centred approach that explore the need to access the upskilling pathways in entrepreneurial and ICT competencies, at the level of senior artisans. These needs were strongly emphasised by the actual crisis that underlines the importance of ICT skills for seniors that need to stay isolated at home and for artisans that need to move on-line their businesses (based mostly on direct contact with customers in small shops or itinerant fairs and markets).
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The COVID-19 crisis we are still facing with bring into light many individual and collective fears and vulnerabilities, and our project addresses to 3 of them:

1. our seniors are very fragile and we need to take care not only of their health and wellbeing but also of the priceless heritage they possess (from life stories to arts, crafts and mysteries) that could be forever lost after their dying

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One of the most important lesson learnt during COVID-19 crisis was the importance of ICT skills and the necessity of a wider scale virtual connection among people all over the world.

Unfortunately, the technology advances much faster than the capacity of human being to adapt to its requirements.
(more…)