Multidisciplinary collaboration with Korean students

How can you put young and elderly people in contact with each other? And how can ICT help to do that? Windesheim students collaborated on this issue with students from Fontys University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands) and the Korean Konkuk University.

Fun Learn app

In a pressure cooker, ten groups of students (from various study programmes, including Applied Gerontology and ICT) collaborated on 'intergenerational communication' on Wednesday 31 January and devised innovations to connect different generations. The winning idea was ultimately the Fun Learn app: an app that puts young and elderly people in contact with each other. After a day of hard work on ideas, the pitches followed in the evening. Fun Learning won. The students came up with an app that offers various services and products to make contact with others. For example, piano lessons or tutoring by elderly people. Conversely, young people can help the elderly with ICT-related questions, for example. The app can also be used to chat.

Knowledge exchange with South Korea

The pressure cooker meeting was held during a visit paid by students and staff of Konkuk University from Seoul to Windesheim this week. In South Korea, ageing is a current issue. To learn from elderly care in the Netherlands, they visited besides Windesheim also the Care Training Centre, the Health Innovation Park and various residential care organizations. Previously, Windesheim students and staff had already visited Seoul, to learn from Korean technological innovations.