Covid19 pandemic will increase the number of older people using digital technology. Senior citizens may have difficulties to activities of life as usual. They need to find adaptation and new ways of life. The U3As Universities for the Elderly will play a new role to reach these new expectations from seniors. They will need to adapt to train seniors to digital technology in particular true to retired living alone. International cooperation will play a great role to disseminate the best practices on this new mission for U3As. Universities for the elderly will not be still the house of seniors for social activities, culture, sport and fun, it will be the place for education for all the life focusing on specific training on digital technologies. It will be the place to learn for senior adaptation to artificial intelligence. AIUTA the International Association of the University of Third Age will help all U3As and seniors to reach this new challenges providing international cooperation on education and research.
  
*U3As Objective to Digital technologies 
Covid19 pandemic increase the number of older people using digital technology. Most of seniors are alone in their home during the pandemic time in a lot of countries. Senior citizens may have difficulties to do the usual activities of life. Some of them become ill and depressive. A large number of them are not still in capacity to use digital connectivity in a correct and productive way.
 
Seniors need to find adaptation and new ways of life. The U3As Universities for the Elderly will play a new role to reach these new expectations from seniors. They have the capacity to implement new training programs on digital technology to train seniors.
  
*U3As Digital training strategies 
Universities for the elderly are the house of seniors for social activities, culture, sport and fun. But now it is not enough. U3As need to reach new expectations to upgrade elderly education for all the life focusing on specific training on digital technologies. U3as will be the place to learn for senior adaptation to artificial intelligence. To reach this objective, the University of Third Age need to adapt and set up scientific research programs on artificial intelligence for elderly.
This is a great challenge. An important goal will be to adapt artificial intelligence to all seniors including the oldest. Artificial intelligence will need to be adapted to seniors that cannot move and must stay at home.
 
The University of Third Age requests professors and young specialists from different disciplines to teach and deliver lectures, using classrooms and amphitheaters, equipment to teach training programs and IT facilities. For this reason U3As are the best tool to provide specific seniors programs on digital connectivity.
 
The digital training strategy is to reach all seniors including the oldest :

• Specific training programs to seniors in capacity to attend class : These programs will be deliver in the U3As using IT facilities to mix technical and practical digital connectivity and new technologies.
• Specific training programs to seniors on situation of handicap : Health condition cannot allow these seniors to move to the U3As to attend classes. It is a need to reach them and train them to digital connectivity. U3As must organise “Mobile Digital Education Teams” to reach the oldest seniors, providing digital facilities to be connected on new technologies. These relevant tools will benefit to senior students to fight against major illnesses affecting the elderly like Alzheimer’s.

*U3As Digital inter-cultural programs  
 
AIUTA goals are to initiate new cooperation program between U3As to spread innovations on digital technologies and artificial intelligence for seniors life long learning education such as :

• The BALL program « Towards a Dynamic Third Age » founded by the European Union with AIUTA U3A such as Alicante (Spain), Lublin (Poland) Reykjavík (Iceland) and EFOS 
• The  booklet « Learning not lonely » program founded by the United Kingdom Trust Age U3As with Commonwealth U3As.
• The new book « The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing » with U3As from Malta, France, Germany, Australia, New Zeland, South Korea

 A new programme will be set up : « The Archeological Road and U3As” 2020-2025
based on digital coonectivity in cooperation with

•  Valencia – Alicante U3As SPAIN
•  Toulouse – Narbonne U3As FRANCE
•  Naples – Benevento U3As  ITALY
•  Plovdiv -  U3As BULGARIA
•  Byblos – Baalbek U3As LEBANON
•  Kiev – U3As UKRAINE
•  Luoyang, Xi’an, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang U3As CHINA

*AIUTA Digital International Cooperation  
The International Association of the Universities of the Third Age brings together Universities of the Third Age from around the world. AIUTA encourage U3As to implement education on digital new technologies and artificial intelligence best practices
 
AIUTA new objective, regarding Post COvid19 time, is to develop new fields of cooperation between U3As on life long learning and senior tourism to provide guidelines on best practices for education for seniors students and train them to digital connectivity. AIUTA supports new international initiative linking universities of third age on the international cooperation to develop new U3As.
 
AIUTA help support local U3As to interact with different institutions and bodies take part in developing global awareness of the opportunities and issues concerning the elderly through a virtual network of U3As to establish exchanges with U3As of different countries. Implementation will be based on :

•  U3As Innovation on digital education for seniors
•  U3As Intergenerationnal actions on artificial intelligence
•  U3As Digital inter-cultural programs
•  U3As Senior Training Tours on digital good practices

 
Innovative development of U3As means Integration of senior in the society.  AIUTA holds Integration of the seniors in the society experience in Portugal, Brazil, China and Canada

• Organizing international seminar and conference such as in Lublin, Poland on “Third Age Students: A New Generation Students “.
• Participating to International Workshop and to the development of the U3As Research Center in Shanghai U3A on initiative from CAUA
• Sharing with U3As such as  Sherbrooke UTA, Quebec, Canada, an international programme on “Education innovation and U3As”

 
AIUTA will innovate in cooperation with  the World Senior Tourism Congress WSTC. WSTC according to the recommendations of the UNWTO.

• WSTC brings together all public and private sector stakeholders, associations and tourism firms, Universities of the Third Age as well as seniors domestic and international travelers. The aim is to promote senior tourism worldwide by developing responsible and innovative products that allow people to travel at each stage of their lives.
• Now seniors tourism must add a different way for seniors travel : “Senior Learning Tours  on digital good practices and artificial intelligence guidance” will be the new challenge for senior tourism.
• Senior will travel for training on practical ways. It is needed to develop new packages based on these new tourism ways integrating senior travelers up to 71 and up to 89 years +

 AIUTA encourage U3As to implement education on digital new technologies and artificial intelligence best practices
Implementation will be based on :

•  U3As Innovation on digital education for seniors
•  U3As Intergenerationnal actions on artificial intelligence
•  U3As Digital inter-cultural programs
•  U3As Senior Training Tours on digital good practices