broadening people`s mind in ageing warm welcome to the third project meeting october 14 – 17, 2009...
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Broadening People`s Mind in Ageing
Warm Welcome
to the third project meeting
October 14 – 17, 2009
Gdansk, Poland
Meeting AgendaThursday, October 15, 2009
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome, Introduction, Agenda09.30 – 11.00 PRO-MED presentation: best practice11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break11.30 – 13.00 Good practice – what´s that?13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break14.30 – 16.00 Market place of good practice examples (1 per
partner)16.00 – 16.30 Break16.30 – 17.30 Group work: good practice18.00 – 19.00 Koscierzyna UTA visit19.30 Dinner in Hotel Posejdon
Meeting AgendaFriday, October 16, 2009
09.00 – 10.30 Skills and experiences11.00 – 14.00 Visit to the old city of Gdansk, including lunch14.00 – 15.00 Travel to Gdansk University of Technology15.00 – 17.00 Meeting with members of the Seniors Club at GUT17.00 Retourn to Hotel Posejdon19.00 Dinner in Hotel Posejdon
Meeting AgendaSaturday, October 17, 2009
09.00 – 09.30 The EuBiA output – EuBiA Guide
09.30 – 10.30 Where to find good practice, how to adopt / adapt
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.00 EuBiA – where do we go?
12.00 – 12.30 Evaluation, Closing up the meeting
13.00 Farewell lunch
Project overviewAims
• Networking• Exchange good practice and know how• Strenghten existing skills and strategies• To adopt and adapt good practice• Exchange of our experiences in the field of advocacy and
participation of senior learners• Do develop a guide to give direction for a successful coping with
older learners
Project overviewActivities
• Networking• Adress and discuss the subjects
- Networking - Good practice and effective strategies - Advocacy and participation of older learner
• Development of a signposting guide• Including older people in our discussions
Project overview:Outcomes
• A signposting guide – The EuBiA Guide• Networks
Project duration• 24 months: August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2010
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Workpackages WP 1 - August 2008 – October 2008:
Developing project structures
WP 2 – November 2008 – March 2009: Networking
WP 3 – April 2009 – October 2009:Good practice and effective strategies
• WP 4 – November 2009 – March 2010:Advocacy and participation of older learners
• WP 5 – April 2010 – July 2010: The EuBiA Guide
Workpackage 1August 2008 – October 2008
Developing project structures
Activities
• developing project structures
• detailed working plan including tasks
• evaluation design
• communication design
• project webpage
• kick off meeting
Outputs
• developed project structures
• developed working plan
• developed evaluation design
• developed communication design
• project webpage online ☺
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First meeting
• establishing the consortium• presentation of all partners• teambuilding• agreement of project structures• agreement of work plan• distributionof project tasks• discussion of dissemination
• agreement of webpage
• agreement of project leaflet
• getting to know organisations in the
field of senior education
• detailed plan and tasks for the next
working package
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Workpackage 2November 2008 – March 2009
Networking
Activities • creating a first draft of the sign posting guide (index of contents ....)
• creating and extending a network on European level
• preparing one part of the sign post: Networking
• preparing, realising and documenting the 2. project meeting
• creating of project leaflet
• updating the webpage
• dissemination and evaluation
Outputs
• project leaflet in all project languages
• index of contents for the sign posting guide
• part of the sign post: Networking
• documented and evaluated 2. meeting
• evaluation of WP 2
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Second meeting
• agreement on the index of contents for the sign posting guide discussion points:
• Learning in Senior Age, Networking, partnerships, good practice
• getting to know organisations in the field of senior education
• detailed plan and tasks for the next working package
• involving senior learners
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Workpackage 3April 2009 – October 2009
Best practice and effective strategies
Activities
• preparing one part of the sign post: Best practice and effective strategies
• finding improved practice in senior education
• collecting previous EU projects for learning for seniors
• 3. transnational meeting
• updating the webpage
• dissemination and evaluation
Outputs
• part of the sign post: best practice and effective strategies
• documented and evaluated 3. meeting
• evaluation of WP 3
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What we have already done …. Project structures, project handbook
Project webpage
Project flyers
Networking
Exchange of experiences (GOOD PRACTICE) in the field of networking
UKUniversity of Leicester, LillFirst steps Women´s UK - CentreWEA NI
GermanyVHS- Hamburg
Austriabia-netUniversity of GrazMunicipalty of GrazFH-JOANNEUMEFOS Europe
Portugal AidLearn
PolandPRO-MEDStarostwo Koscierzyna DistrictKashubian Institute for Development
SlovakiaForum pre-pomoc starsim
Czech RepublicMETER SILESIASlezká Universitá v OpaveInstitut pro zeny o.s.REKVAL, s.r.o.
ItalyGiustino FortunatoCooperativa TulipanoLibera Università Europea terza età CampanieConsorzio Lavoro e AmbienteComune di NapoliConsortio LecoleCentro Europeo Informazionen Cultura Cittadinanza – Comune di NapoliL´AUSER Volontario Napoli CentroSalerno Solidale S.p.A.
Exchanging of experiences
Themes:
Learning in senior age – what´s that? Who is a senior? What do older people need? Organisation´s role The good and the bad of networking How to establish and sustaining effective partnerships? How to exchange know how and experiences Thematic issues: intergenerational learning, active citizenship
Aim of this meeting Find our definition of good practice Find examples of good practice in senior learning Discuss the possibilites of exchanging good practice Discuss the possibilities of adopting and adapting good practice Get to know organisations in the field of senior education Planning the next steps
Topics to discuss Good practice – what´s that?
- Definition - Criterias
Find our examples of good practices
Ways to exchange good practice
Skills and experiences
The EuBiA Guide
Thematic issues:- Intergenerational learning and U3As- Active Citizenship
Good Practice
Process:
1. What makes a project that focus on Senior Education a good one?
2. What makes good learning?
What makes a good project (focus on senior education?)
1. The project arises from the real and perceived learning needs of older adults
2. The project has involved older people in its creation
3. The project has been developed by calling on the expertise of a range of people in order to meet the needs of the end users
4. There is evidence that the project can be transferred and adapted to meet specific needs (individual, local, regional, national)
5. There is evidence that the outcomes of the project can be further developed and sustained in the longer term.
Project market place
please present one successful project for Lifelong Learning for Seniors in the market place
we walk around and find good practice
Good practice examples
Please discuss in a group:
- Good practice examples
- Please use „What makes a good project (focus on senior education?)“
Presentation in the plenum
Working session: Skills and experiences
Please work individually:
- what skills and experiences already exists in your organisation
Please discuss in a group:
- Existing skills and experiences in your organisation
Presentation in the plenum
The EuBiA Guide
We want to deliver
a signposting guide with examples of good practice, strategies to reach and engage older people in learning and a glossary for learning in senior age
The EuBiA Guide Content
Organisation
Language versions
Timetable
Format
The EuBiA Guide A sign posting guide to give answers to questions like:
- What is the good of networking
- How to reach older people, even those who don´t think highly of learning in getting older
- Is there anything like intergenerational learning and what has to be done to make an intergenerative exchange happen
- Do older people feel that they have to be empowered
- What could be done to make empowerment a point for older people
- Where and how do program providers and trainer find good practice
The EuBiA Guide NETWORKING
BEST PRACTICE END EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES
EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF SENIOR LEARNERS
The EuBiA GuideI. Executive Summary
II. Introduction
III. Lifelong Learning
IV. European Dimension
V. Networking
VI. Good practice and effective strategies
VII. Advocacy and participation of senior learners
VIII. EubiA Partnership / EuBiA Network
Working session: Good practice
Please work in groups and discuss
- Where to find good practice?
- How to adopt / adapt good practice – problems and benefits?
Presentation in the plenum
EuBiA – Where do we go?Workpackage 4November 2009 – March 2010
Advocacy and Participation of older Learners
Activities • preparing one part of the EuBiA guide: advocacy
and participation of older learners
• transfer good practice and the EuBiA project to agencies, regions and countries not included in the original partnership
• preparing, realising and documenting the 4. meeting
• updating the webpage
• dissemination and evaluation
Outputs
• part of the EuBiA guide: advocacy
and participation of older learners
• draft of the guide
• documented and evaluated 4. meeting
• evaluation of WP 4
EuBiA – Where do we go?Fourth meeting
In Roccalumera, Sicily, when?
• Discussion on adult education concerning older people: advocacy and participation of older learners
• Preparing the next meeting
• Getting to know organisations in the field of senior education
• Planning the next work package
• Involving senior learners
EuBiA – Where do we go?Fourth meeting
Issues to discuss – Ideas ......
• How the empowerment of seniors in developing their education can be further developed and supported
• Do older people feel that they have to be empowered, what could be done to make empowerment a point for older people
• How to reach older people even those who don’t think highly of learning in getting older
• The challenges facing the development of senior learning arising from the heterogenity of the generations of older people, including issues arising from gender, dissability and ethnicity
• Is there anything like inter generative learning and what has to be done to make an inter generative exchange happen
• How to cope with the fact that there are at least three age cohorts of older people
• How to cope with issues arising from gender, from dissability, from ethnicity
Tasks for the 4th work package
• Writing a short summarising about the prestented projects in the 3rd meeting regarding our good pracice criteria for projects
• Preparing issues for “Advocacy and Participation of older Learners
• collecting previous EU projects for learning for seniors
• Networking
• Dissemination
Thank you!
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