The project started run in August 2008 and will end in July 2010.

  Adult educators and older learners from each country are involved in the planning, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of outcomes. 

  The main aim of Aurora Polaris project is to build a learning partnership across Europe that can share its expertise and skills through work with older learners to create a range of educational resources as a legacy from IYA2009.

  Partners met in Greece in Sept/Oct 2008 to identify existing outreach models, new opportunities provided by IYA2009, the varied special needs of older learners and to agree the evaluation methodology.

  Each country will then develop its first educational resource. These will be exchanged with partners at the second transnational in Poland in Feb/Mar 2009. Preliminary findings will be circulated via email within two months of the meeting – each partner will evaluate resources in their own country with their identified groups.

  Each country will then develop a second educational resource. These will be available for the third transnational in Slovakia in Sept/Oct 2009. Discussion of the first set of resources will occur. Partners will again have two months to evaluate the new resources in their own country and circulate findings by email.

The main purpose of the project is to pilot up to eight educational resources for IYA2009 with older learners and to create ten talking tactile overlays for visually impaired learners – in both English and at least one other partner language.