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Nominations for the Brabazon Award for Evaluation Research in Intergenerational Programs

Location: International Its not to late to submit nominations for the Brabazon Award for Evaluation Research in Intergenerational Programs. Deadline is this Friday (February 28, 2015). More information about the award: Generations United will be presenting the Brabazon Award for Evaluation Research for the fifth time during the Generations United 18th International Conference, “Intergenerational Action … Read more

Registration now open for EUCIS-LLL Policy Debate “Intergenerational learning for inclusive societies - Brussels, 31 March

BLocation: Belgium The population ageing trend will require some considerable societal adaptations regarding work, family life and social protection. Research and practices show that intergenerational learning has a huge potential in Europe and it can be a strong boost for improving learning take up and attainment as well as a sense of solidarity. It is … Read more

One learns best, when one shares one’s knowledge: ECIL presented in Ljubljana

Location: Slovenia Jan 25-27th, 2015 - Ljubljana, Slovenia This three-day course, Digital Slovenian Third Age University, was offered in the framework of the ERASMUS+ programme and the K1 project Digital Danube. It was supported by European Union. The staff of the partner organisations – Croatia, Germany, Slovenia- were introduced to various intergenerational programmes currently run … Read more

Summer school on life-course and intergenerational transmissions of poverty

Location: Germany The summer school “Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Poverty” combined intensive morning lectures given by distinct senior poverty researchers with practice sessions and participants’ presentations in the afternoon. It focused on three different but closely interlinked thematic fields within poverty research. On Tuesday, Prof. Dr. Leen Vandecasteele lectured on poverty across the life-course, … Read more