In the period 8. – 12th of May 2013 took place in Ruse the final partner meeting of the project Danube Stories (DASTO). The book “Danube Stories” had been created with the help of all the groups involved as a symbol and summary of the work done within this project.
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Following positive experiences from the pilot project DASUN (Danube Seniors Universities) www.dasun.eu, the University of Belgrade and the University of Arts in Belgrade have organised for the second time an “Academic Week” for older adults that included lectures and interactive workshops, presentations and exhibitions on topics related to adult learning, aging and third age. The “Academic Week” took place in the period 19-23 November 2012 in the rooms of the faculties involved. The program was attended by a total of 139 participants.
The mobile exhibition reached after Croatia and Serbia also Romania. On the 25th of April 2013 was the public opening of the mobile exhibition “Danube-Networkers on Tour” at City Hall Galery in Timisoara. The City Hall announced the event in their online monitor.
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The Danubeoffice Ulm / Neu-Ulm and ZAWiW organise together with partners from Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, an international online lecture “Changes of Perspectives – Intercultural Exchange between Generations und Cultures along the Danube” on the topics of tourism, demographic change, and old and young. The Project DALEC2 is funded by the BW Foundation.
More information and the lectures as video under homepage of Donaubüro Ulm/Neu-Ulm
On the 14th and 15th of March 2013, representatives from education organizations in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany had met at Ulm University for a kick-off meeting of a research project „Older Adults’ Lifelong Learning and ICT Use in the Danube Region”.
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Second “Academic week” at Belgrade University, Serbia
Following positive experiences from the pilot project DASUN (Danube Seniors Universities), the University of Belgrade and the University of Arts in Belgrade have organised for the second time an “Academic Week” for older adults that included lectures and interactive workshops, presentations and exhibitions on topics related to adult learning, aging and third age. Continue reading “Second “Academic week” at Belgrade University, Serbia”
The Learning Partnership Danube-Networkers (2008-2010) has received two awards. It was selected as one of the best learning Partnerships Europe-wide in the frame of the conference “Age on Stage: Conference at a glance” on 21.6.2012 in Graz.
Link to the conference
In November 2012 the Austrian National Agency awarded it with the national 1st prize.
On Saturday, the 11th of November 2012, 10.30-18.00, the fourth “Balkansalon” took place in the Donaubüro (Danube Office) in Ulm. The aim was getting to know in the playful way of a European Role Play the decision-making processes and difficulties on the way to common Europe.
This mobile exhibition intends to familiarize public with the idea of Danube Networkers, a network of people and institutions which aims to foster social participation of older citizens and intergenerational dialogue in the Danube region.
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On 11th of October 2012, a group of 7 local government politicians, lord mayors and heads of town councils, from various municipalities in Bulgaria accompanied by Dr. Gabriele Thoens and Asparuch Panov from the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Berlin, visited ZAWiW of Ulm University to inform themselves about scientific and pedagogical initiatives for the promotion of intercultural cooperation in the Danube Region and about the activities of the network Danube-Networkers.
The European expert conference Active Ageing and Intergenerational Dialogue – a Challenge for the Danube Countries in a Common Europe”, Ulm/Neu/Ulm, took place on 8-10 July 2012 in the Congress Centre Edwin-Scharff-Haus, Neu-Ulm in the frame of the 8th International Danube Festival Ulm/Neu/Ulm and the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity. It was the 6th conference of the European Network „Learning in Later Life“ (LiLL) and the first conference in the which currently initiated network “Danube-Networkers” introduced itself. Over 200 scientists, representatives from the fields of culture, adult and seniors’ education as well as seniors with disseminator function from 24 countries focused on the subject “new directions in seniors’ education” handled in lectures, workshops and a poster exhibition from intergenerational and intercultural perspectives.
Recent demographic data shows that in the future, there will be many very old people, mainly women, in all European societies. There is a lack of role models for an active old age, seen as something positive in spite of crises and existing constraints.
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In four national and two cross-national forums a lively exchange of views took place between experts and older citizens about important issues concerning the whole Danube-Region. Furthermore, the project promoted the idea of lifelong learning and civil participation of older people in this European area leading to important steps in the project partners’ institutions to initiate structures providing target-group related education and other related activities. The project was closed by a conference in Freiburg, Germany, where a resolution was formulated by the project groups.
The DANET-Statement (PDF, 60 KB)
A video documentation of the final meeting (also available in other project partners’ languages)
For results and further information please see the project website
Active Ageing and Intergenerational Dialogue – a Challenge for the Danube Countries in a United Europe. 8-10th of July 2012 – A European conference within the 8th International Danube Festival in Ulm/Neu- Ulm and the European Year of Active Ageing.
Since 2008 the Centre for General Scientific Education (ZAWiW) of Ulm University is a drving force in building a network for institutions of cultural and educational work for older adults, the network “Danube-Networkers”. The goal is to strengthen seniors’ education as well as intergenerational cooperation in the Danube Region. The special edition of danube connects document the experiences made in ththe project DANET and further Danube projects.