Self-development in Old Age versus the Challenges of the Information Society: The Polish-Bulgarian-Portuguese Perspective

The paper presents the result of a study to diagnose the level of interest of elderly people in the study of digital skills, and attempts to answer the two questions of whether older people feel the need for self-development in this area and how they find themselves in the information society. The comparative study was carried out as part of the international project Erasmus+ adult Education, titled Silver civic Education (2017-1-pl01-Ka204-038695) implemented in the years 2017-2019. it involved seniors from three partner countries of the project: poland, portugal and Bulgaria, which made it possible both to determine general educational expectations of elderly people and to identify specific issues for each country. Elderly people are a very heterogeneous group, they require educational support in many areas, and especially in the area of new technologies. This can influence maintaining or stimulating their curiosity and self-development, and therefore contribute to raising their quality of life and enabling them to use life to the full.