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1. ForAge International Conference, Budapest Hungary, 30 September-1 October 2013: Programme and Abstracts
2. ForAge International Conference, Limassol Cyprus, 8-9 October 2012: Programme and Presentations
1. ForAge International Conference, 'The Future of Learning for Older People in Europe: Learning from Experience', Budapest Hungary, 30 September-1 October 2013: Programme and Abstracts
To coincide with the United Nations International Day of Older People on 1 October, the ForAge Grundtvig Multilateral Network held a Pan-European Conference 'The Future of Learning for Older People in Europe: Learning from Experience'. The conference aimed to examine trends and developments in learning in later-life and what can be learned from the experience of European initiatives in this field.
The programme included the following topics:
- The context for later-life learning in 21st Century Europe and the role of ForAge
- Improving the quality of training of those trying to reach potential older learners
- The benefits of later-life learning and the supporting evidence
- Experiences of other European networks as information sources andinfluencers as well as providing expert opinion about future actions
- Perspectives from international adult education organisations
- Emerging issues and the further development of later-life learning
- Older learners’ perspectives
- Oral and poster presentations of European Projects on later-life learning
Keynote speakers included:
- Zoltán Loboda, Head of Department, Educational Authority, Legal and Admininstration Department, Department of International Relations, Hungary
- Zsófia Pusztai, MD, Office Leader of the World HealthOrganisation’s Hungarian Office, Hungary
- Bálint Boga, MD, Hungarian Hospice Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
- Professor József Jászberényi, PhD, King Sigismund College,Director of Research Center for Gerontoeducation, Hungary
- Dr Alan Tuckett OBE, President of the International Council forAdult Education (ICAE), Untied Kingdom
- Dr Michael Sommer, Infonet coordinator, Akademie Klausenhof, Germany
- Professor Franz Kolland, University of Vienna, Austria
- Professor Ionut Popa, Asociatia ‘EUROED’, Bucharest, Romania
- Ildikó Laki, doctoral candidate, researcher, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Sociology, Department of Research on Social Inequalities, Hungary
- Katalin Vámos, tourism and marketing specialist and senior fitness trainer, www.50felettfitten.hu, Hungary
For the full conference programme, biographies of speakers, and abstracts please click here
2. ForAge International Conference, Limassol Cyprus, 8-9 October 2012: Programme and Presentations
Conference programme, Cyprus 2012
Video presentation made up of photographs and presentations from the ForAge International Conference held in Limassol Cyprus, October 2012 (14 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fv6TB00tGGQ
