20 August 2009

Greetings from Scotland

I'm Andrew, from Scotland, and I am very much looking forward to meeting everyone and participating in this excellent workshop. My thanks also to Teresa for all the hard work she has put into the organisation, never an easy task.

My background is in Widening Access for adults through the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAPWest), a forerunner of the European Lifelong Learning Programme and I have been involved in Access Programme management for several years.

I hope to learn a lot from our host and all the participants in facilitating engagement strategies and activities for our older learners and will share with everyone our experience through SWAPWest.
I did like the suggestion of individual presentations and I will be happy to give one.

As a footnote I will be on holiday 21-30 August followed immediately with a conference 31 August - 5 September but I hope to be accessing my emails whenever possible.
Best wishes to everyone and will see you all soon.
Andrew

workshop contents

Dear Friends

Thank you very much for using this space (even on vacations :)

I myself I’m on vacations (only 90%) so today I will email you some first guidelines to the workshop.
As far as possible I would like to build a final programme that meet the expectations of the participants … a hard task!

I also would like to request your interest and willing, to share with the other some method/technique/information that you find particularly relevant in the organization/development of Intergenerational Activities.

I wish you a nice vacations of just a nice summer time
Kind regards
Teresa

17 August 2009

From Barcelona

Hello, dear friends.
My name is Joan Font. For ten years, I coordinate projects in the association DEMÀ (Departament d'Estudis dels Medis Actuals), in Barcelona.
We work in adult education, especially in young-adults and in elderly people.
We also develop actions in studies and actions on the social insert of sectors in exclusion risk.
During years we work in different European projects.
I hope to be able to share experiences, opinions, ideas and sensations during the workshop in Porto.
I hope also to see you in september.
Best wishes for all.