Age-friendly Cities - International Conference in Essen and Mülheim from 11 - 13 June 2007

The main objective of the international conference is to establish and build a dialogue board for the regional partners of the WHO-project "Age Friendly Cities" (AFC). The conference will offer the participants a chance to exchange their experiences and best practice and to get into dialogue with partners from other regions of the WHO-Initiative.The main focal points of the conference are:

security and independence: housing and home based services
health (especially prevention and health promotion);
participation
culture and education in age.

For further information please visit www.seniorenwirt.de or contact:

Angelika Koopmann
Institute for Work and Technology
Munscheidstraße 14
45886 Gelsenkirchen
phone: +49-209 / 1707163
email: koopmann@iat.eu

or:

Carsten Tum
Regionalverband Ruhr
Regional Association of the Cities of the Ruhr Area
email: tum@rvr-online.de

or:

Dr. Claus Eppe
Ministry for Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
email: claus.eppe@mgffi.nrw.de

or:

Dr. Louise Plouffe
World Health Organisation
email: PlouffeL@who.int

The number of participants is limited to 130 persons. Therefore we ask you to registrate, please contact koopmann@iat.eu until June 4th or use the registration form and send it to the mentioned address.