NextGen-GP – Next Generation Grandparents
Welcome to NextGen-GP – Next Generation Grandparents, an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership project that strengthens the bond between grandparents and grandchildren through creativity, technologies and sports.
The project brings together partners from Spain, Greece, Belgium and Poland to turn everyday childcare time into shared learning, play and connection across generations.
About the Project
Across Europe, working parents increasingly rely on grandparents for informal childcare. NextGen-GP supports seniors aged 60+ and adult educators with a new methodology that transforms passive babysitting hours with children aged 5–12 into active, co-creative and skill-building experiences.
By combining creative arts, accessible technology and physical well-being, the project helps grandparents and grandchildren learn from each other while building confidence, digital skills and stronger family ties.
Objectives
Strengthen the bond between grandparents and grandchildren
Reduce the digital and social isolation of seniors
Build seniors' digital, creative and health literacy
Equip adult educators with practical intergenerational learning tools
Create open educational resources and an accessible digital hub
Why This Project
Many older adults experience social isolation, low digital skills and anxiety about technology, while children and seniors often struggle to find common ground. Family history and traditions are easily lost between generations.
NextGen-GP responds with activities that are free, locally accessible and adapted to different ability levels, helping seniors become active role models and custodians of family and community stories.
Activities
Mapping intergenerational care models in southern and northern Europe
Creating an accessible Digital Hub
Developing an educational toolkit with 24 activity cards across three modules: technology, creativity and well-being
Staff training events for adult educators
Local piloting in four countries with 120 seniors and children
Four local multiplier events and a Final European Conference in Brussels
Welcome Home International leads the project's dissemination and quality assurance, develops the Digital Storytelling & Creative Expression module, and will host the final conference in Brussels.
Results
The project will deliver:
An intergenerational educational toolkit with 24 activity cards, available in five languages as an open educational resource
An interactive digital hub
16 adult educators trained in family-learning practices
120 seniors and children directly benefiting from the activities
Less digital anxiety among seniors, and greater empathy and family history awareness among children
Partners
TeneLearning, S.L. (Spain – Coordinator)
OIKANOS Social Cooperative Enterprise (Greece)
Welcome Home International (Belgium)
Fundacja Eurointegracja (Poland)
Project Details
Programme: Erasmus+ KA220-ADU
Project Number: KA220-ADU-67C9B79E
Duration: September 2026 – August 2028
Budget: €120,000