Subjects to be adressed

NETWORKING

• The problems of establishing and sustaining effective partnerships and networks 
  • What is the good of networking?
  • Exchange experiences will make advantages and disadvantages of cooperation between organisations of adult organisations visibel
  • Partnership sustainability
  • Strenghen and widen regional and European contacts and partnerships in the field of “Learning in Senior Age”
• Establishing a common understanding of issues and concepts related to senior education across national and linguistic border
  • Developing a common professional terminology

BEST PRACTICE END EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES

• How best practice is to be identified, disseminated and embedded
  • How to exchange know-how and experiences
  • How to strengthen existing skills and strategies
  • How to adopt and adapt best-practice development
  • Discussion about where and how do program providers and trainer find good practice

EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION OF SENIOR LEARNERS

• 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 heterogeneity 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
  • How to cope with issues arising from dissability
  • How to cope with issues arising from different ethnicity