It is known that many seniors and people with disabilities have restricted facilities of information and communication but that they want to have more information and in particular about cultural topics if being also receptive to improve their information and communication skills in order to make their life easier.
The project "Improving social life and communication skills of the seniors and disabled people by using Internet facilities" - ISLACOSADIF- is initiated originally by seven participants from the EU-countries: Romania, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania and the Netherlands, but will be developed in an adapted way however in the frame of a Learning Partnership of only three partners; those from Greece, Lithuania and the Netherlands. The objective of the Learning Partnership is to help seniors with the ailments of old age, such as visual and hearing deficiencies and to learn them how to improve their cultural and social life by using modern information tools particularly the Internet based on their interests and needs.

In the Learning Partnership ISLACOSADIF these aims will be reached by investigating new ways to stimulate the interest of the seniors and disabled people to use the Internet, to share usual information and communicate in order to improve the quality of their lives and to acquire modern citizenship. 

• So, the information needed by the target group and the influence that the social and cultural context have on decisions which seniors and disabled people make in using communication technologies will be analysed. 

• In the next phases of the Learning Partnership ISLACOSADIF informative assistance will be based on the results of the investigations and some general training modules and demonstration courses will be developed on different themes of interest for the target group. 

The main impact of the Learning Partnership on the target group should be increasing the quality of life through developing communication skills, acquiring abilities for using information technologies, rising the level of active participation in the socio-cultural life, enlarging the cultural horizon, rising the well-being. We expect the people in the target group to become active users of the Internet, to become better informed, to become visible on forums, to use e-mail, to create blogs and use all these means for expressing their point of view, for posting their memories, and making their voice heard. In this way, we hope seniors who feel that way, will stop feeling passive, dependent, unemployable, they will stop feeling use- less. We expect also a great impact of this phenomenon to have on the youngsters, being the majority of people who are using internet for communication. The impact of the Learning Partnership on the staff involved in training activities should consist in developing abilities in working with the elderly and acquiring practical abilities in using the software especially designed for people with visual and hearing impairments. The staff directly participating to the Learning Partnership will obtain practical intercultural experience in the field of education, improving their teaching abilities.