MEDARDO ČOBOTO TREČIOJO AMŽIAUS UNIVERSITETAS (Medardas Cobotas University of the Third Age) (further MCTAU) was founded in 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is a non-governmental organization, the activity of which ensures a better social integration of seniors into society, promotes their effective, productive and purposeful life and supports their working capacity as well as their physical activity and mental health.
MCTAU currently has over 2500 older adults-students of different nationalities from Vilnius city. The students at MCTAU can choose their learning subjects and lectures from a wide range of programmes offered by 12 faculties of the University such as Foreign languages, Literature, Handicrafts, IT, History, Culture, Artistic expression, Tourism, Health, Music, Social psychology, Politics, Law and economy.
The Faculty of Information Technologies was established in 2015, where ~ 200 students acquire the basics of digital literacy, learn to use the Internet and public e. services. In order to encourage and assist seniors to become equal participants in the digital age, we feel a lack of adaptive curricula, we are looking for teaching methods suitable for older people and for ways to engage and motivate them. In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, our specialists seek to get acquainted with innovative solutions of other countries and plan implement them in university.