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| Fundecyt and the Junta de Extremadura | European Commission - DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities |
SEN@ER - Silver Economy Network of European Regions |
Fundecyt and the Junta de Extremadura together with the European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, the Committee of the Regions, the Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing (North Rhine-Westphalia) and the "Silver Economy Network of European Regions (SEN@ER)" (www.silvereconomy-europe.org) - would like to invite you to the "Regional Strategies on Active Ageing" workshop.
Typically regions in Europe lack strategies tackling the issues of demographic development and ageing. Mostly they still see both as a threat rather than an opportunity which – if taken as the latter – offer options for new service and product development which can help to better position regional service providers and their service more appropriately helping them to gain competitive advantages against competitors in other regions and eventually creating new jobs and employment. It is against this background that the SEN@ER partners are showing an interest in exchanging experiences in this area to learn from each other. Some of the member regions have (partial) strategies developed and in place from which others can learn. In addition a joint effort for tackling open issues seems to be more promising and likely to lead to successful results and achievements for all regions. Some SEN@ER regions can be seen as leaders in the field of regional strategy development in this area and have implemented these differently ranging from dedicated support and funding programmes set up in this area for example in Gelderland, to dedicated policy programmes in regions like Limburg, Limousin and Extremadura and the dedicated "Senior Economy" initiative in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Against the background of the upcoming European Year for Active Ageing & Intergenerational Solidarity 2012 the workshop objectives are to
At the workshop we will also introduce you to relevant funding programmes of the European Commission. These offer opportunities to different types of institutions in the regions for obtaining funding for a variety of different activities in the topic areas 'Silver Economy', and 'Regional Strategies on Active Ageing' which they would like to carry out with partners from other European regions.
The invited participants are kindly asked to submit to the SEN@ER Secretariat their points for discussion, ideas and proposal outline papers and projects they plan to present at the workshop ideally already before the workshop which will allow us to speed up the discussion and the decision making processes at the workshop.
The workshop is recommended for representatives from regional authorities, regional development agencies, universities and research institutions, city / municipality authorities, expert networks, associations and federations of different type but also individuals and organisations with concrete ideas and interests for European projects in the topic area with and without experience in EC funding programmes.
The presentation language will be English.
Date: |
23 September 2010 |
Time: |
13:30 – 18:00 h |
Location & Venue: |
EU representation of North Rhine-Westphalia Rue Montoyer 47, 1000 Brussels Chairpersons: Dr. Claus Eppe, Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
13:00 – 14:00 |
Welcome and Introduction Round |
David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) |
13:40 – 13:50 |
Introduction of the topic |
Claus Eppe, Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
13:50 – 15:10 |
European Commission policies on Active Ageing and the European year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity 2012 |
Sven Matzke, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities |
Spain: Extremadura Active Ageing Policies and Initiatives |
Juan Carlos Campón, Regional Goverment of Extremadura. Director General of The Extremadura Service of Promotion of Autonomy and Attention to Dependence, Badajoz (Extremadura) | |
Spain: "Active Ageing. White Book of Andalusia" |
María José Castro Nieto, Director General of Older People in the Autonomuos Region of Andalusia (Spain) | |
Germany: Regionale 2013 – A regional development support model from North Rhine-Westphalia |
Dirk Glaser, Director of Südwestfalen Agentur and Regionale 2013 | |
Germany: Regional strategy on 'Demographic Change' of the Verband Region Rhein-Neckar |
Maren Schmidt, Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, Unit 'regional development projects' (Mannheim) | |
15:10 – 16:00 |
Presentations by stakeholders on current activities, interests, plans in their regions |
All workshop participants Chairperson: David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) |
16:00 – 16:15 |
COFFEE REAK |
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16:15 – 16:45 |
European funding opportunities and Committee of the Regions / AGE European funding instruments overview |
Werner B. Korte, SEN@ER European Secretariat and David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) |
16:45 – 17:45 |
Discussion and agreement on topic(s) and partners for cooperation at European level |
Open Discussion |
17:45 – 18:00 |
The next steps and outlook |
Chairperson: David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) & Claus Eppe, Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
18:00 |
Closing of the day |
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Click here for: Invitation and Agenda for download
| Introduction of the topic | Claus Eppe, Ministry of Health, Equalities, Care and Ageing of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) | PDF 453KB |
| European Commission policies on Active Ageing and the European year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity 2012 | Sven Matzke, European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | PDF 140KB |
| Spain: Extremadura Active Ageing Policies and Initiatives | Juan Carlos Campón, Regional Goverment of Extremadura. Director General of The Extremadura Service of Promotion of Autonomy and Attention to Dependence, Badajoz (Extremadura) | PDF 945KB |
| Spain: "Active Ageing. White Book of Andalusia" | María José Castro Nieto, Director General of Older People in the Autonomuos Region of Andalusia (Spain) | No Slides |
| Germany: Regionale 2013 – A regional development support model from North Rhine-Westphalia | Dirk Glaser, Director of Südwestfalen Agentur and Regionale 2013 | PDF 1.5MB |
| Germany: Regional Strategy on 'Demographic Change' of the Verband Region Rhein-Neckar | Maren Schmidt, Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, Unit 'Regional development projects' (Mannheim) | PDF 348KB |
| European funding opportunities and Committee of the Regions / AGE European funding instruments overvie | Werner B. Korte, SEN@ER European Secretariat and David Carmona, Director Fundecyt (Extremadura) | PDF 537KB |
Please find herewith a description template which we kindly ask you to download and complete providing information on your organisation, current projects and ideas and outlines of European proposals you are interested in and searching for partners. Please e-mail the completed document to the SEN@ER Secretariat: werner dot korte at empirica dot com.
Description Template for download: doc 55 KB
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