Workshops

• Workshop1: Ageing Policies and the Public Role of the Elderly

Summary Description and Key Questions:
What forms of stuying and what kind of tasks are suitable to achieve self-fulfilment and social integration of the the elderly (late employment, volunteering, hobbies, sports)?  Is there a conceivable way of political intervention to support these processes?

Head start presentation:
Dr. Regina Claussen, Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women und Youth, Sect. 3: Senior People, Working Group 303 Z: Active Ageing, Participation, Societal Coherence

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Centre for Globalisation and Governance, University of Hamburg

• Workshop 2: Relevance of the Elderly for Scholarly Activities and Societal Performance - Knowledge Transfer

Summary Description and Key Questions:
Can knowledge transfer be considered and developed as a new voluntary and honorary task for the elderly? How can the intellectual potentialities of the elderly be utilised for shaping the future? How is a voluntary "know ledge stock exchange" to be initiated, organised and made sustainable? Could the elderly function as mediators between theory and practice? Is "Youth research - elderly research" - to be considered a viable dualism?

Head start presentation:
Dr. Daniel Meyen, consultant and scholarly adviser to EFOS and Deniss

Chair:
Prof. Dr. Erich H. Witte, Chair for Social Psychology, University of Hamburg

• Workshop 3: European Learning, Teaching, and Research Projects for and by the Elderly

Summary Description and Key Questions:
What can elderly people in Europe learn from one another? Which patterns of mutual exchange of concepts and ideas can be identified? To what extent do elderly people share comparable patterns of participation, social integration and more or less active ageing in different European countries? Examples of successful projects and partnerships, including their respective sustainability impacts will be presented and discussed.

Head start presentation:
Peter Hug, Vice President of EFOS, European Union of Senior University Students

Chair:
Gabriele Wesemann, Group for Promotion of Stdies for Older Students as part of Unitrain-Society for scienfic education

Invited Statements:
"Life-long Learning for Active Ageing - Concepts and Experiences in Hamburg's Sister Cities' universities"

• Dresden: Eveline Rudolph, managing director of the Dresden Senior Citizens' Academy for Art and Science

• Prague: Dr. Martin Solc, head of the project "University in the Third Age Level", Karl's Univiersity of Prague

• Marseille: Prof. Philippe Cassuto, Coordinateur Académique et Régional de la Formation Continue das l`Enseignement Supérieur Université den Provence (Aix-Marseille)

• Hamburg: Karin Pauls, Stefanie Woll, Kontaktstudium für ältere Erwachsene, University of Hamburg

• Workshop 4: Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Research on University Level

Summary Description and Key Questions:
Universities as institutions inter-generational education? Learning, teaching and research in an inter-generational dialogue? Academic teaching programmes for intergenerational learning in and for society at large?

Head start presentation:
Dr. Andrea Waxenegger, director of the Centre for Further Education, University of Graz, Austria

Poster Presentation of selected examples of intergenerational learning, among others:

• Project of the Senior Academy of Groningen, Netherlands, in which by support of senior students scientific experiments were developed, by now being set up in a bus and, accompanied by senior students, being sent from school to school.

• Presentation of the results of a literature survey aided by a questionnaire, conducted by a working group of senior students of the University of Vienna and distributed among Viennese schools.
• Ms.Ingrid Dummer, leader of the VECU working group of older contact students at the University of Kiel, presents the results of a questionnaire on the topic "traditions and customs in the area of Kiel" showing the successful cooperation between students of a high school in Kiel and younger and older students at the University.

Chair:
em. Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Wilfried Hartmann, professor for comparative educational science and former Vice President of the University of Hamburg

• Workshop 5: Institutional Integration of the Elderly into Universities

Summary Description and Key Questions:
Do study programmes for elderly people need a faculty or their own? Can and/or should they run on the basis of self-organisation and -administration? Are there steps and patterns of their integration within the university at large, on faculty or departmental levels as a (semi-)independent academic association ("club"), based on a trust fond or even as a limited liability corporation. What is to be considered the purpose of and/or demand for a self-sustained Senior Academy? Shape and contents for elementary versus advanced courses for senior students in different (inter-)disciplinary settings, their relative position with respect to basic, advanced, and further education in the respective fields of study and their interrelations to life-long learning patterns. Financing schemes for life-long learning

Head start presentation (1):
Dr. Beate Hörr, director of the Centre for Academic Further Education, University of Mainz

Head start presentation (2):
Dr. Karl-Heinz Höfken, Chairman of DENISS - German Network of Senior Student Syndicates

Chair:
Wolfgang Poppelbaum, Chairman of the Contact Study Syndicate at University of Hamburg