1st National Seminar “LISA Presentation” – 3rd December 2002

In the first National Seminar it was presented the LISA project, namely the objectives, partnership, tasks involved. The work team was established and it was emphasized the cooperation work between the national teams that are participating in this project, because the main objective of LISA is to create Learning Region in each country.

Participants:
Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale to Tejo (Lisboa e Vale do Tejo Health Regional Administration), Centro Regional de Segurança Social de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (Lisboa e Vale do Tejo Regional Social Security Centre), Câmara Municipal de Almeirim (Almeirim City Hall), Centro Paroquial de Bem-Estar Social de Almeirim (Almeirim Parochial Centre), Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almeirim (Almeirim Well Care Instituition)

2nd National Seminar “How to Establish a Learning Region” – 17th December 2002

In second National Seminar it was discuss the Learning Region concept and defined the aspects of our Learning Region. It were identified the institutions in the geographical region that were important to have in the Learning Region and the best strategy to start and continue working together to offer learning opportunities to Seniors in Almeirim region.

Participants:
Universidade Senior de Almeirim - USAL (Senior University of Almeirim) and Câmara Municipal de Almeirim (Almeirim City Hall)

3rd National Seminar “How to elaborate Interviews and Questionnaires Scripts” – 21st April 2003

In third National Seminar it was presented the methodological aspects of elaborating questions to interviews and questionnaires scripts, specially targeted to Portuguese Seniors group.

Participants:
Centro Paroquial de Bem-Estar Social de Almeirim (Almeirim Parochial Centre) and Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém (Santarém Education High School).

4th National Seminar “Application of Questionnaires” – 5th May 2003

The fourth National Seminar was focused in the application of questionnaires rules, namely how to reach the seniors, what information should be given to them before present the questionnaire and how to help the questionnaires fulfil.

Participants:
Centro Distrital de Solidariedade e Segurança Social (District Social Security and Solidarity Centre) and Centro Paroquial de Bem-Estar Social de Almeirim (Almeirim Parochial Centre).

5th National Seminar “Application of Interviews” – 19th May 2003

The fifth National Seminar was focused in the application of interviews rules, namely what information should be given to them before start the interview, how to conduct an interview, how to conduct a group interview and to register the important information.

Participants:
Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural – COFAC (Cultural Animation and Training Cooperative) and Universidade Senior de Almeirim - USAL (Senior University of Almeirim).

6th National Seminar “Transcription and Typing the Recorded Group Interviews” - 22nd September

The sixth National Seminar was focused on how to make the transcription and typing of recorded group interview.

7th National Seminar “Content Analysis of Open-Ended Questions”– 17th November 2003

The seventh National Seminar was focused on how to make the content analysis of open-ended questions, namely how to create categories and to analyse the information.

8th National Seminar “Content Analyses of the Interviews” – 15th December 2003

The eighth National Seminar was focused on how to make the content analyses of the interviews, namely how to analyse the information in thematic areas.

9th National Seminar “Validation and Enrichment of the Obtained Data with Seniors”– 12th January 2004

The ninth National Seminar was focused in the validation and enrichment of the obtained data with seniors, namely after the content analyses of the information obtained the preliminary report was elaborated and discussed in the National Seminar with the seniors, to confirm the obtained information.

10th National Seminar “Validation and Enrichment of the Obtained Data with Actors of the Learning Region”– 26th January 2004

The tenth National Seminar was focused in the validation and enrichment of the obtained data with seniors, namely after the content analyses of the information obtained the preliminary report was elaborated and discussed in the National Seminar with the actors of the Learning Region, to confirm the obtained information.

11th National Seminar “How to Write the Report - Seniors Training Needs Diagnoses of Almeirim Learning Region” – 26th April 2004

The eleventh National Seminar was focused in the elaboration of report, namely structure and how to present the contents inside each part.

12th National Seminar “How to Work in Transnational Teams”– 12th May 2004

The twelfth National Seminar was focused on how to work in transnational teams, namely preparing the seniors to actively participate in the last LISA meeting and helping them to prepare their speech.

National seminars for the endusers

R3L is a budget line which shall help to establish and continue learning regions. It is the aim of GEFAS Steiermark to integrate life long learning in the post-professional phase. This approach is new and innovative and that is why the project LISA – Learning in Senior Age – was considered eligible by the EU commission. Any new idea has to overcome obstacles until it becomes established. Even though GEFAS Steiermark found transnational partner organisations who deal with similar issues, the new task was a kind of unknown territory. That is why we felt obliged to make available all our knowledge and experiences to all our partner organisations. This means that GEFAS Steiermark involved endusers in the development of the project right from the beginning.

In Graz, Styria, pilot seminars with an intergenerative approach were offered in order to gain experience for building up learning regions for older people. These experiences served as tools to help our transnational partners.

Establishing a learning region for older people is inseparably connected with the end-users and their ideas of what and how they want to learn. Following this condition the coordinating organisation GEFAS Steiermark, who is responsible for carrying out and conceptualising LISA – Learning in Senior Age – has offered a series of seminars by and for older people right from the beginning in September 2002. This means that the lecturers are also persons in their post-professional phase. The seminars offered comprise the following themes.

Seminars for education in senior age – vivid learning

- Health prevention project in rural and urban areas (giving an impetus on various topics, individual realization) Branka Bräunlich, Christa Wascher, Gudrun Wrentschur
- Talking health (“Comprehensible Medicine”) Gertrud Wilfing
- Movements – learning at new places – Martina Stattegger
- Movements – everyday culture and tradition – “Walking through the City” Ingrid Skarlin
- Intergenerative, social learning as shown in “Festival of the Generations” (passing on knowledge, coaching; its realization is result oriented) Emmy Mautner, Helga Richter, Edda Krobath, Mag. Günter Abraham
- Intergenerative learning – ICH AG (I am a valuable resource) Elfriede Grohs
- Education for women 50plus (AGE – Aktivität, Gesundheitsbildung, Empowerment / Activity, Health Education, Empowerment) Mag. Eva Wagner, Dr Rosemarie Kurz
- GeFACETTEN – learning easily how to live – for young and old people – Barbara Schnepf
- Changing our lifeworlds (planning advanced age) Gabriele Fresner
- Creative design for all occasions (discovering talents) Marianne Höber
- Media Short Cut (How to write a newspaper article; how to organise a presentation; presenting myself; making contacts …) Christa Wascher

Older men and women were invited to use these offers and to actively participate. They were asked to question the content and methods and to contribute their personal wishes and ideas. By using this method, these courses and seminars carried out by GEFAS Steiermark changed during the EU project LISA. The seniors were asked to suggest organisations they considered worth being part of the network education. By this participatory method valuable impulses were contributed to the project LENA – Learning in the Post-professional Phase. This project will follow up LISA and the application for this project has already been submitted. LENA will develop a curriculum for learning in the post-professional phase.

The lecturers who can be considered end-users themselves and the course participants were in permanent contact with the project management of LISA. By means of questionnaires and interviews the endusers were requested to suggest important themes and point out organisations that should be involved in the project. Furthermore, it was necessary to find out which learning methods the seniors either preferred or rejected.

Summary:

Interactive learning, which crystallized during the pilot project, was discussed by the transnational project partners in order to achieve the aim of the project, namely establishing a learning region “Education and Getting Older” and to overcome any possible national obstacles.

Evaluation of the LISA pilot education offerings

Currently concomitant education programmes are mainly used by women in the age group between 50 and 70. Only ten per cent of the course participants are men.

A survey shows that education and continuing education is equated with activity, agility, training and broadening one’s interests and mind. About 90 per cent of the participants consider education and continuing education important or very important. The participants are mainly interested in already existing education programmes on health, solidarity between generations, education of women, gender, planning advanced age and PC/internet.

Personal development and enjoying to learn something new are the main reasons for attending courses. The greater number of participants is willing to invest five per cent of their income and two to four hours a week into continuing education.

Two third of the group asked for their opinion use the new methods and prefer them to other methods.

Meetings of the national network in Austria

In Austria we held 7 national seminars and workshops with members of different organisations in Graz to create a learning region Graz. In the following you see a short overview about the contents and the participants of the meetings. Fotos from all meetings are on the CD-Rom (2.10).

1st National Seminar – October 10th 2003

During our next national seminar Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johann Götschl from the Institute of Philosophy and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science of Research at the University of Graz made a speech about Learning in Senior Age. Afterwards there was an interesting discussion about this topic.

Participants:

nowa – Netzwerk für Berufsausbildung, Mag. Ulrike Drescher
Rotes Kreuz, Landesverband Steiermark, Ulrike Hiebl
Seniorenbüro Graz, Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle
COMPASS – Institut für Sozialforschung, Mag. Nadja Gentile
Senior, Ing. Kurt Schnaubelt
GEFAS Steiermark, Renate Höhn
GEFAS Steiermark, ÖH Uni Graz, Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
GEMA Generationen miteinander, Mag. Erika Sammer-Ernszt
VHS Graz, Mag. Roswitha Huber
Seniorenfachstelle, Caritas Graz Johanna Mayer
Frauengesundheitszentrum Graz, Mag. Sandra Jakomini
GEFAS Steiermark, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger
ASKÖ Graz, Mag. Günter Abraham

2nd National Seminar - January 12th 2004

During our third national seminar there was a workshop to work out new inputs for learning in senior age and for the planned Summer Academy 2003. Participants:

GEFAS Steiermark, Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
GEFAS Steiermark, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger
GEFAS Steiermark, Renate Höhn
GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
Steirischer Seniorenring, Dr. Walter Wallner
ÖRK- LV Stmk, Abteilung Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Frauengesundheitszentrum Graz, MMag. Sandra Jakomini
Seniorenbüro der Stadt Graz, Mag. Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle
Compass - Institut für Sozialforschung, Mag. Nadja Gentile
Kath. Bildungswerk Stmk, Johanna Mayer
Nowa-Netzwerk für Berufsausbildung, Mag. Ulrike Drescher
GEMA - Generationen miteinander, Mag. Sammer-Ernszt

3rd National Seminar - Workshop – February 2nd 2004

During this national seminar we repeated the workshop from the third seminar with the endusergroup of the seniors and members from organisiations.

Participants:

Frauengesundheitszentrum Graz, MMag.a Sandra Jakomini
ÖRK- LV Stmk, Abteilung Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Verband der Akademikerinnen Dr. Gerhild Hansen
Senior, Wilhelm Schober
Senior, Erika Fischer
Senior, Ing. Kurt Schnaubelt
Europazentrum Graz, Willibald Richter
GEFAS, Marianne Höber
GEFAS, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger
GEFAS, Dr. Rosemarie Kurz

4th National Seminar – February 10th 2004

During our fourth national seminar we made again a presentation with powerpoint to present the project LISA and the planned follow-up project LENA. There were some new participants and the content of the projects was not really clear. Besides we gave out the questionnaire about the learning needs of seniors to all participants with explanation about what it is and with the request to distribute it under the customers of the organisations. We discussed the possibility of the info/meeting point in the main street of Graz and made a workshop again for the detailed planning for the general conditions and the content of the Summer Academy.

Participants:

GEFAS Steiermark, Doris Hoffmann
Amt der Stmk. Landesreg., FA 12C Sport, Peter Bergmann
Seniorenbüro Graz, Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle
ÖRK LV Stmk, Abt. Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Erwachsenenbildnerin, Erika Lackner
Verhaltenstrainer, Wilhelm Schober
GEFAS Steiermark, Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
GEMA Generationen miteinander, Mag. Erika Sammer-Ernszt
VHS Graz, Mag. Roswitha Huber
Seniorenfachstelle, Caritas Graz, Johanna Mayer
GEFAS Steiermark, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger

5th National Seminar – March 16th 2004

During this national seminar we worked for the Summer Academy 2004. All organisations, which are participants of the learning region Graz , offer two hours senior education during the week of the Summer Academy 2004.

Participants:

Frauengesundheitszentrum Graz, MMag. Sandra Jakomini
GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
GEFAS Steiermark, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger
GEMA Generationen miteinander, Mag. Erika Sammer-Ernszt
Nowa- Akademie, Internetcafe für Frauen, Mag. Ulrike Drescher
ÖRK LV Stmk, Abt. Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Seniorenbüro Graz, Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle
Steirisches Vulkanland, Frauke Bittner
Verband der Akademikerinnen, Dr. Gerhild Hansen
Senior, Wilhelm Schober
VHS Graz, Mag. Roswitha Huber

6th National Seminar – April 15th 2004

During the sixth national seminar we concreted and finalised the week program and all organisational aspects for the Summer Academy 2004. It took place in the week from July 5th to 9th 2004 in the University of Graz.

Participants:

GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
GEFAS Steiermark, Mag. Manuela Hinterberger
GEMA Generationen miteinander, Mag. Erika Sammer-Ernszt
Katholisches Bildungswerk, Johanna Mayer
ÖRK LV Stmk, Abt. Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Seniorenbüro Graz, Dr. Ulla Herfort-Wörndle
Land Steiermark, FA 12 C (Sport), Peter Bergmann
Verband der Akademikerinnen, Dr. Gerhild Hansen
Senior, Wilhelm Schober

7th National Seminar – June 2nd 2004

During this seminar we worked for the corporate image and the model of the “Netzwerk Bildung im Alter” (network learning in senior age). The workshop aimed to answer questions concerning the objectives of the network, what means working in a network, the kind of expectations of the network members, the meaning of learning in senior age etc.

Participants:

GEFAS Steiermark, Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
GEFAS Steiermark, Marianne Höber
VHS Graz, Mag. Roswitha Huber
GEMA Generationen miteinander, Mag. Erika Sammer-Ernszt
Katholisches Bildungswerk, Johanna Mayer
ÖRK LV Stmk, Abt. Ausbildung, Mag. Marianne Dokl
Senior, Maria Spörk
Land Steiermark, FA 12 C (Sport), Peter Bergmann
Senior, Wilhelm Schober