Sharing beyond borders – New ways for care, communication and cooperation of older people along the Danube and in Europe in times of COVID-19

10.07.2020: Online conference.

The extensive programme includes lectures, a panel discussion with European politicians and experts in the morning, workshops in the afternoon. Within the framework of the social evening winners and contributions of the CODANEC competition and the collection of contributions/short stories „Living in the time of Corona“ will be honoured.

11.07.2020: Presentations and exchange of good practice between civil society organisations along the Danube and in Europe

The conference language will be English, translation support in other languages will be given as far as possible. Registration is required. The programme and registration information will be published soon on the website codanec.eu. The virtual conference and partner meeting is supported by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg within the framework of the project CODANEC.

More information on our project website and our conference webiste will follow!

 Living in the time of corona – My personal experience

…to include short stories, poems, notes, reflections, anecdotes, interviews, photographs, caricatures and drawings

Click here for more information!

The Danube-Networkers in Ulm encourage people to join the COME TOGETHER session by video conference to enjoy the community and culture. We sing, make music or present lyrics as listeners or active participants.

Check out more about how we connect cultures, how we strengthen solidarity and how we like to meet each other even in times of the corona crisis.

The sessions take place regularly!

The sessions are organised by the Ileu-Team in Ulm, coordinator of the  educational Network Danube-Networkers and office of DANET e.V.

Click here on the link for more information: http://codanec.eu/come-together/

Link to the game: www.danube-excursions.eu

The online game Danube-Excursions has the goal to attract young and old to impart basic knowledge about the ten Danube countries in a playful way and encourage the players to talk about these countries.
A Memo, a Quiz and a Knowledge section are the three main elements.  Through a combination of pictures and questions the players are challenged to find interesting information on selected country-specific phenomena from the fields of nature, culture and everyday life. The game is available in 6 languages (German, English, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian). There is also a download area for different materials.
Danube-Excursions can be played with the family, with senior citizen groups, school classes and intergenerational groups.

by Dusana Findeisen, Slovenian Third Age University

The Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy within Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana is offering a new master study programme in older adult education. Nives Ličen, once a student volunteer supporting the establishment of Slovenian U3A has proposed and co-developed this new study programme premised upon the tenets of a number of disciplines and study fields.; sociology, psychology, geography (local communities), geragogy, studies in education of older adults, cultural studies etc. Students are also presented with the endeavours made in EU projects- among which SPIDW- and the field of methods (BBE) as well as visual literacy of older people (CINAGE and RefugeesIn). A lot of research work is being done by the students in co-operation with Slovenian Third Age University particularly as concerns socially engaged education of older students, their expansive / exploratory learning/ creating new social practices, etc. The programme is the first of its kind in this part of Europe.

The 10th Newsletter (October 2019) of the “Danube-Networkers for Europe (DANET) e.V.” is now online!

To the newsletter: https://en.danube-networkers.eu/newsletters/10/

Date: 1-3 May, 2019

Location: University of Ruse, Bulgaria

Club Ruse of the international women’s organisation Soroptimist International is a host and organiser of an international conference Soroptimists along the Danube stand up for Europe by Networking, which will be held at the University of Ruse on 2-3 May, 2019.The conference is co-organised by the long-term partner club SI Ulm-Donaustadt, Germany and unites more than 40 representatives of the Soroptimist organisation from Germany, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Belgium.

At 2nd of May guests and plenary speakers at the conference will be Ms. Gerda Rosiers, Chair of the Extension Committee of SI Europe and member of SI Visé, Belgium, and Prof. Rumiana Stoilova from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.They will present to the delegates some historical milestones from the development of the women’s movement in Europe and in the Danube region, as well as talk about the equal rights of women and men in all professional and life situations today which face our communities in all countries, and the opportunities to overcome discrimination through active social inclusion and mutual support.

After the plenary session the work will continue in working groups, where the opportunities for collaboration in the fields of Social welfare and Health, Environment, Culture and Education will be discussed.In a special workshop “Europe”, a statement will be developed on behalf of the participants in support of united Europe and the Europe Elections in May 2019.

The second day of the conference will start with a Round table Plea for Europe: Why a common Europe is important for women and why it is important to vote in the European Elections on 23 – 26 May 2019. After approval, the common Appeal will be disseminated by the delegates in their respective clubs and communities.

At the end of the conference, the delegates will visit one of the projects of SI Club Ruse “Bread connects our memories and our dreams”, implemented in partnership with Association DANET, academic student club “Young social pedagogue” with the University of Ruse and the Centres for work with children in the street and for family type accommodation.

Carmen Stadelhofer

People of all generations and ethnicities from all Danube countries participate in the project “Bread connects”. For this commitement the Danube-Networkers were awarded in December 2018 with the 1st Place of the “Civil-Society” Price from the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

Nominated with 5 other European projects, the project “Bread connects” and President of DANET e. V. , Carmen Stadelhofer, and Vice-President of DANET e.V.  Emily Velikova, were invited to Brussels to recieve the award. The final placement of each project wasn´t made plublic before. The joy was overwhelming when it was finally anounced, that “Bread connects” recieved the first place of the “Civil- Society”- Price.