Pre-retirement courses in Denmark

Retirement is one of the most difficult changes and transitions in a life time, and is often not very well known and prepared. Counselling and the collective support of other seniors can make it easier to overcome the challenges of age stereotypes and also achieve active ageing more quickly. A pre-retirement course aimed at providing […]

Center of Lifelong Learning in Prague and its volunteers

The Center of Lifelong Learning in Prague represents a new model of an intergenerational, non-vocational education for all ages.It is bringing together programs that have succesfully existed for more than 15-20 years as independent educational projects and offering new ways of activation as well. It is a source of mental, physical and social activity for […]

LARA

LARA stands for Learning a Response to Ageing. It is a Grundtvig multilateral project funded by the European Commission´s Lifelong Learning programme. The project ran from December 2008 to November 2010. Its aim was to develop training for adult educators on the theme of ageing and learning. Interim milestones were: the conduct of research; the […]

P.E.O.P.L.E. – Exchange and best practice network to support older workers in the EU

The Pan European Older Person’s Learning & Employment (P.E.O.P.L.E.) network funded by the EU Leonardo Da Vinci programme held its first meeting in Paris on 26-27 October. The objective of this project is to develop a best practice network, research, education and communications system between EU partner organisations who are addressing the issues of ageism […]

Active Ageing in the Community

O40: Older People for Older People O40: Older People for Older People is a Northern Europe Periphery Programme Project, which concluded in 2010. Its goals are to assist older adults living in the far-north regions of Europe, where smaller population numbers may make it more difficult to receive social and health services. By working with […]