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29/03/2024

https://hbr.org/2024/03/why-we-need-intergenerational-friendships-at-work

Managers today are leading up to five generations at the same time. And that brings with it a new challenge: Poorly managed generational differences between employees can be damaging, resulting in age bias, negative impact on job attitudes, dysfunctional team dynamics, and even lower levels of overa...

26/03/2024

Φίλες και φίλοι από Ελλάδα και Κύπρο, όσες/οι εργάζεστε σε υβριδικό εργασιακό περιβάλλον και είστε στο χώρο του HR ή έχετε την ευθύνη υβριδικής ομάδας μπορείτε να συμβάλετε σε αυτή τη σύντομη και ανώνυμη Ευρωπαϊκή έρευνα με τις απόψεις και αντιλήψεις σας.

Για το ερωτηματολόγιο της Ελλάδας:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y4PiyRQDvAQJWldCeUyN0Ziw4c0gjeFb_ib86yVQdqw/viewform?edit_requested=true&pli=1

Για το ερωτηματολόγιο της Κύπρου:
https://forms.gle/depaeE1PC2uub6PE8

Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ εκ των προτέρων για τη συμβολή σας στο ερευνητικό έργο τα αποτελέσματα του οποίου θα συνεισφέρουν στη δημιουργία εκπαιδευτικού υλικού για managers και HR professionals.

STAY CONNECTED - Fostering Digital and Social Inclusion in Hybrid Workplaces EU Project number: 2023-1-BG01-KA220-VET-000153460 Dear all, We would be grateful if you could spend 10 minutes to complete this anonymous questionnaire in the framework of the STAY CONNECTED project. This research is condu...

19/01/2023

🎥Sit back and relax for 1 min and enjoy the final project video that summarizes the two years of work of great international partnership and high quality outputs of the LearnGen project.
And don't forget to SHARE and visit the project website:
https://learngen.eu/

19/12/2022

The winter holiday season is upon us in Europe. ✨ And in many cases it's the time for company parties and celebrations.

How can your company festive or teambuilding event celebrate diversity? Get inspired in this article from teambuilding.com.
Do you know how to play DIVERSITY BINGO?

👉And feel free to share with us your own tips in the comments.

Team LearnGen wishes everyone a happy, safe and inclusive winter holidays! 🌟 🎉

https://teambuilding.com/blog/virtual-diversity-inclusion

A list of virtual games, activities, and event ideas to promote diversity and inclusion in online offices.

29/11/2022

The Cyprus LearnGen multiplier event was carried out last night in Nicosia with great success at CARDET 's new Education Hub! The interested participants (managers, HR professionals and mentors) who had the opportunity to exchange experiences and views on the topics of , , and in the workplace left with very positive feedback.

25/11/2022

It's always lovely to meet project partners face to face! Another European project opened an opportunity for an unplanned bilateral meeting in Cyprus. Representatives of Motion Digital Eu and Institute Of Development CY exchanged ideas arising from the LearnGen project implementation and discussed upcoming tasks.
If you haven't checked the project opened learning resources yet, follow this link: https://learngen.eu/e-learning/

On the platform you will find learning modules and other supporting materials about intergenerational learning and mentoring in English, Czech, Greek, Portuguese and Bulgarian.

18/11/2022

When considering what older generation can learn from the youth, one of the first things that comes to mind is technology. While that's certainly true, this article also points out that older people can learn - or be reminded - to PLAY!

Read all 5 tips in the article below. Do you have any other tip yourself? Share it with us in the comments 👇

As children, we climb, swing, jump, and play in the yard. Young adults like to climb mountains, ski, and spend time in the garden. Adults chase around their little ones and make efforts to stay in shape. Unfortunately, many seniors lose this desire for movement as it starts to become difficult. Seni...

16/11/2022

National Conference dedicated to LearnGen project, supported by Erasmus+ program, was held in Ruse, Bulgaria, with the participation of National Employment Agency, business supporting organizations and leading companies.

The project leader Desislava Pencheva from Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry / BRCCI , presented the project result by focusing on the useful resources of the LearnGen e-platform.

The participants discussed how the project results could be used by entities and namely those implementing various projects under EU programs related to human resources development, youth employment, intergenerational mentoring, etc.

You can see more details about the conference at the BRCCI website.

Програмите за финансиране на бизнеса в началото на новия програмен период, човешките ресурси в компаниите и наставничеството между различните поколения бяха акце...

09/11/2022

The Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry / BRCCI, lead partner in LearnGen project, supported by Erasmus+ program, invited teachers from Ruse to attend the National Conference on the intergenerational mentoring in work places.

The results of the project, and namely the platform, were presented during the conference, followed by a discussion about reverse mentoring in the Bulgarian schools.

You can see more details about the conference at the BRCCI website
https://brcci.eu/learn-gen-final-event

08/09/2022

Whether you're perfecting your free throw or picking up a new language, you need to form new pathways in your brain in order to learn anything. The scientific term for this process is called plasticity: your brain’s ability to create and strengthen connections between neurons.

For many years, scientists thought that the brain was fixed and couldn’t adapt or change after childhood but advances in fMRI scanning have shown that this could not be further from the truth.

We can now see that our brains change and adapt every day, regardless of our age. Every time we learn something new, we are harnessing the power of neuroplasticity.

What is Neuroplasticity and how does it help us to understand the learning process?For many years, scientists thought that the brain was fixed and couldn’t a...

01/09/2022

LearnGen Team wishes everyone a Productive and new Academic Year!
📅 Throughout your life, this has also been a time of change. The end of summer has signaled things like the change to new schools, moving on to further or higher education and for graduates, it tends to be the end of the student period and the start of the focus on the rest of your life.

The end of the summer is a great time to be thinking about what you want and where you want to go with your career.

20/07/2022

Age bias is more often a belief that can easily be corrected than a real thing.

Let’s disrupt ageism with this expressive, funny and enlightening video!

What age do you consider to be old? We posed that question to millennials in this social experiment and asked them to show us what “old” looks like. Then we ...