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The 'Internet goes countryside' (Internet goes Ländle, in German) project aims to provide training seminars to elderly people living in particular in the rural areas of Baden-Württemberg (south west of Germany) on how to use the Internet services, such as online banking, online purchasing of medication, etc. for their benefit.
Within the framework of this project, the 'Senior-Internet-Carers' (Senior-Internet-Helfer/-innen - SIH, in German) are qualified volunteer trainers who pass on their IT skills to new SIH-Trainers, who are in turn able to teach the elderly people. The areas of training include teaching methods, IT applications as well as technical and organisational information.
For this purpose, various training seminars and workshops are taking place across the Federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The train-the-trainer concept will be developed in two SIH multi-day training seminars (with the first one having already taken lace in November 2009 and the second one coming in the winter/spring 2010) and in one-day decentralised workshops.
Funded by the Ministry for Agriculture and Rural Areas of Baden-Württemberg, the project was initially launched on 16 November 2009 and is expected to end on 30 September 2010. The project consortium consists of the public innovation agency for ICT and Media (MFG) in Baden-Württemberg, the Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education (ZAWiW, in German) of the University of Ulm and the Network for Internet initiatives for the elderly - Baden-Württemberg.
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