The Ciutadella Campus has hosted a follow-up meeting of the FLECSLAB project leaders from EUTOPIA on Tuesday and Wednesday. About twenty project members, Expert Committee, and Advisory Committee members, as well as teachers and technicians from the EUTOPIA Office, have participated.

The main objective has been to monitor the project through various meetings, round tables, and presentations, as well as to address the administrative, communicative, and economic management of the project in which UPF participates and is coordinated by the University of Ljubljana.

The project, which began in January 2022 and will end by the end of 2024, involves the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, CY Cergy Paris University, University of Gothenburg, University of Ljubljana, and University of Warwick, in addition to UPF.

FLECSLAB will document the business cases for a broad sample of lifelong learning (LLL) scenarios. A final and critical stage is about translating the FLECSLAB experience to policy guidelines for academics, industry and public sector partners. The project team will produce a series of resources that help HE practitioners and policy makers in developing LLL pedagogies (WP1: The Lifelong Learning Toolbox) and sustainable offerings (WP2: The Lifelong Learning Business Model).

During the meeting, the latest project activities were reviewed, especially those related to lifelong learning. At UPF, a project has indeed been launched to train seniors to detect fake news, led by professors from the Department of Communication in collaboration with the fact-checking association Verificat.cat.

The initiative is also part of the SUM project (Seniors United against Misinformation), which designs specific tools for adults and seniors, as well as their environment, so they can regain trust in the face of the excess of information found on the internet and social networks.