A successful 4th European „Silver Economy in Europe 2010“ conference was held in Limoges (France)

The fourth European “Silver Economy in Europe” attracted more than 200 participants from all over Europe to Limoges (France). The event followed the successful European Silver Economy conferences in Bonn (Germany) in 2005, Maastricht (Netherlands) 2006 and Sevilla (Spain) 2007. It was hosted by the SEN@ER partner Conseil Régional Limousin from 29 – 29 January 2010. The conference included a roundtable on "Regional silver economy and ageing strategies - examples and lessons learned" with experts from different European regions and a series of parallel workshops followed by site visits and a public debate on the second day which took place in the Hotel de Région.

As part of a Silver Economy Good Practice Competition three applications received a good practice award which was awarded by Jean-Paul Denanot, the Président du conseil régional du Limousin. In the category A 'Strategies for ageing in the area of employment and voluntary work' the award went to the University of Strathclyde, Senior Studies Institute, Glasgow (Scotland) for their “Realising Your Potential (RYP) Project”. The category B 'Ageing well and wellbeing" price was awarded to the Caisse Primaire d’Assurance Maladie de la Creuse (CPAM) with their "Des Ateliers Equilibre à un programme évolutif de prise en charge globale du bien vieillir". The category C 'Local strategies for independent living' winner comes from Sweden and is the Blekinge Institute of Technology with its 'SeniorForum'.

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Further information can be obtained from the website of the Conseil régional du Limousin:

website of the Conseil régional du Limousin

 

2010 Silver Economy Summit

May 13-14, 2010
World Trade & Convention Centre Halifax, Nova Scotia

The 2010 Silver Economy Summit will challenge conventional attitudes toward aging. The aging population has far-reaching implications for our economy and society... matched by positive opportunities.

At the 2010 Silver Economy Summit in May 2010 in Halifax there is the possibility to meet people who are adapting and thriving within the Silver Economy. The 2010 Silver Economy Summit will be the first event of its kind in North America.

The Silver Economy Summit will gather international, national and provincial perspectives on the economic and societal changes that arise from an aging population. Join 350 Summit delegates from a wide variety of social and economic sectors. Make connections, and share opportunities and information that will help your organization further your mandate and interests in today's and tomorrow's Silver Economy.

 

For More Information:

www.silvereconomysummit.ca
silvereconomysummit@gov.ns.ca

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Call for papers: http://www.silvereconomysummit.ca/pub/CallforpapersSES.pdf
Programme at a glance: http://www.silvereconomysummit.ca/pub/ProgramataglanceSES.pdf

 

4th European Silver Economy Conference to take place in Limoges (France) from 28 – 29 January 2010 – Online Registration is open NOW

After the successful European Silver Economy conferences in Bonn (Germany) in 2005, Maastricht (Netherlands) 2006 and Sevilla (Spain) 2007, the 2010 conference will be hosted by the SEN@ER partner Conseil Régional Limousin from 29 – 29 January 2010 in Limoges.

The conference will include amongst others a roundtable on "Regional silver economy and ageing strategies - examples and lessons learned" with experts from different European regions and a series of parallel workshops on

• WS1: "Strategies for ageing in the area of employment and voluntary work",
• WS2: "Ageing well and well-being" and
• WS3: "Local strategies for independent living"

The Good Practice Competition is also now open and interested parties are asked to submit their applications online.

Conference website:
http://www.region-limousin.fr/4e-conference-Silver-Economy   

Good practice competition application form for the submission of good practices:
http://www.region-limousin.fr/4e-conference-Silver-Economy  

Online registration:
https://regionlimousin.wufoo.com/forms/registration-form-4th-silver-economy-conference/

For more information please contact:

Antoine Mathieu: a-mathieu at cr-limousin dot fr

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European Commission, DG ECFIN Communication explicitly refers to SEN@ER as an innovative approach and European network

Bonn, 07 July 2009 - In a recent Communication on “Dealing with the impact of ageing population in the EU (2009 Ageing Report)” of 29 April 2009 the European Commission explicitly refers to SEN@ER where European regions work together to promote the development and marketing of innovative products and services aimed at older consumers. The European Commission Communication takes an in-depth look at the economic and budgetary impact of an ageing population over the long-term until 2060 and calls for a renewed strategy to tackle Europe's demographic challenge. It clearly states that governments have a window of opportunity before the baby-boom generation retires to tackle the challenge. But the policy measures taken must be compatible with the need to support the economy at this juncture, as recommended in the December European Economic Recovery Plan. Ageing will already start affecting most EU economies in the coming decade.
ec.europa.eu

 

SEN@ER partners have been successful with a bid for an EU service contract and have started a project on “CULTUREMAP - Study on the mapping and evaluating of existing platforms (websites) within the cultural sector aimed at stimulating debate and cross border exchange of matters concerning European culture"

Bonn, 07 July 2009 - The study will be carried out for the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (European Commission DG Education and Culture) coordinated and run by partners from NRW (empirica, IBK Remscheid) together with partners from the age-culture.net (SEN@ER Special Interest Group “Culture and Ageing”) and a further partner from Spain
The objective of this project are to map and analyse existing websites in Europe which are used as a means for exchange of information and debate on culture, artistic expression and as a space for an exchange of opinions on the European project, with a view to proposing recommendations on how to enhance the use of the internet as a means of information exchange and debate at the European level on cross-sector issues in the field of culture and artistic expression.

 

“INDEPENDENT - ICT Enabled Service Integration for Independent Living” project proposal with SEN@ER participation submitted to the CIP programme

Bonn, 07 July 2009 - The proposal submitted is a CIP ICT PSP Pilot Type B proposal addressed to ICT PSP Objective identifier: 1.3 ICT for ageing well / independent living. The SEN@ER partner involvement includes Unitary Authority, Kingston upon Hull City Council and University of Hull, Institute of TeleHealth and Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Limited from Yorkshire and empirica from NRW.
The INDEPENDENT project will define, deliver and pilot a digital infrastructure supporting coordinated cross-sector delivery of timely support to prevent older people from slipping out of safe independent living, maintaining quality of life. The infrastructure enables support services to overcome limitations of sectoral telehealth and telecare and empowers informal carers and the voluntary / third sector to participate in delivery of support, thus radically improving efficiency

 

“eSESH - Saving Energy in Social Housing with ICT” project proposal with SEN@ER participation submitted to the CIP programme

Bonn, 07 July 2009 - The proposal submitted is a CIP ICT PSP Pilot Type B proposal addressed to ICT PSP Objective identifier: 4.1: ICT for energy efficiency in social housing. The SEN@ER partner involvement includes the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure, Housing and Transport of Extremadura, Regional Ministry of Industry, Energy and Environment of Extremadura; Distribuidores de Energía Eléctrica from Extremadura, Spar- und Bauverein Solingen eG, Ingenieur- und Planungsgemeinschaft ENVI-GmbH and empirica, all three from NRW.
The project proposal addresses the need to reduce energy consumption of the residential sector in Europe by a very significant amount to meet overall emission reduction targets. Building on first generation services today providing feedback on energy consumption to social housing tenants, advanced Energy Awareness Services (EAS) will be provided delivering tenants with direct timely and comprehensible feedback on the impact of their energy behaviour on a full range of energy types, thereby enabling tenants to help us all save energy and themselves avoid fuel poverty.

 

“LOWCARBON - Low Carbon Knowledge Work: Exploiting the Potential of eWork and eCollaboration to Contribute to Energy Efficiency” project proposal with SEN@ER participation submitted to the IEE programme

Bonn, 07 July 2009 - This is a IEE Intelligent Energy Europe proposal addressed to the “Energy in transport” programme. SEN@ER partner involvement includes partners from different partner regions.
The project will spread know-how and good practice about how ICT-based forms of flexible work, namely telework (eWork) and virtual collaboration (eCollaboration, incl. virtual meetings), can be used to effectively decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by knowledge work, namely by commuting and business travel.
The online tools to be adopted from existing tools will include an online application for the self assessment of current eWork and eCollaboration implementations as to their ecological but also economic and social sustainability and provide further online learning material and guidance on how to improve work processes and work organisation.

 

SEN@ER newsletter No. 10 published: Updates on SEN@ER partner region projects and proposals

Bonn, 03 March 2009 - The 10th issue of the the newsletter has been published today. It provides the information in html format with links to further information an contacts. Amongst other - the latest version describes results and achievements from SEN@ER projects ad new proposals submitted. As always, the newsletter als refers to relevant events to come and reports about others which took place recently. The newsletter is available for download in the 'newsletter' section.

 

“Senior Enterprise” proposal submitted to Interreg IV-B NWE by SEN@ER network partners coordinated by the Mid-East Region Ireland

Bonn, 03 Octover 2008

The SEN@ER partner regions have successfully submitted a proposal on "Senior Enterprise" to the recent call for proposals under Interreg IV-B NWE. This proposal was successfully developed under the coordination of the Mid-East region Ireland together with 9 partners from 6 SEN@ER regions in 4 countries. The regions include North Rhine-Westphalia, Yorkshire and Humber, North West Region, North East Region, Gelderland and Lower Saxony.
The project objective is to increase the proportion of older people engaging with enterprise through different means:

• Starting and Partnering
• Acquiring and Investing
• Innovating and Advising

The partners will develop a co-ordinated programme, which engages with a variety of players and stakeholders, will be tailored to specific regional requirements and tested through a variety of means in several regional contexts. The fully tested initiative will be transferable to other regions and ready to attract further funding.
"Senior Enterprise" one of 25 applications submitted to the recent call for proposals which are in total applying for a total of almost EUR 90 million of ERDF funds.

Contact: John Byrne: mera at eircom dot net or SenWiNet at empirica dot com

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