Last but not least - Photos by Gabor

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Gabor

It's only words?

Text created after the 35 words, chosen by Dial-up participants, to define intergenerational activities/relations.

Start an Intergenerational Plan it’s a Journey and we should be Open mind for Discovery. If we have enough Motivation, we should start Planning. Set the Goals and ask for the Collaboration and Contribution of the Community, Neighbourhood and above all, the Younger and the Older people. The Intergenerational Plan should Strength the Connection, Understanding, Comprehension, Respect, Esteem and Tolerance of all involved. Use all Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity. Be Timelessness, when Listening, to improve Communication and Intimacy. We should be aware of the Risk, because by Sharing skills, we may Learn, about Diversity and Solidarity.
An Intergenerational Plan it’s a Journey. We may be Surprise, on how much Fun, Confidence and Love we will receive back.

The words:
Solidarity
Fun
Love
Open mind
Diversity
Neighbourhood
Listening
Respect
Communication
Understanding
Comprehension
Collaboration
Esteem
Contribution
Motivation
Panning
Tolerance
Connection
Confidence
Community
Imagination
Goals
Timelessness
Fantasy
Intimacy
Risk
Sharing skills
Younger
Older people
Discovery
Journey
Surprise
Learning
Strength
Creativity
Please feel free to create a new text, after this words, or improve this text.

Together and Linked

Power of Imagination - Petra and Stephan from Cologne

Hello everyone,

both, Stephan Geffers and Petra Eickhoff, are looking forward meeting you in Porto.

My name is Petra.
I have my degree in business management. I was born in East Gemany, lived, studied and worked there on different places. Nowadays I live in Cologne.
I´m the Managing board of an association for processes of democratic future creation. Skilled as a systemic coach I have experience on several issues like: women return to work, also young people without graduation getting in work.
I train and facilitate seminars and trainings with several methodologies of participation.

I´ll bring a task to porto: How to arrange art in participation processes beetween elder and young people as contribution to significant results. I want to organise (still a dream) a Meeting of all Generations working together in the setting of "Power of Imagination Studio".

Both, Stephan and I, work together with one focus: the future workshop concept. Have a look at www.future-workshops.eu

Here I am. Stephan.

I work as freelance facilitator for municipalities and non-profit organisations, consult processes of urban development and change in organisations.
I have my degree in computer science and live in Cologne, my hometown.
Experience with children, young people and senior people. I prefer to participate those who are said to be marginal and who thinkabout themselves having no future.

In the DIAL-UP-workshop I wand to explore new insights to basic structures of intergenerational communication.

If you would be here (in Cologne) you should take part of our FufureCafé this afternoon.
But no panic we´ll bring documents and our Power to porto and if you want a presentation following the future workshop concept.

Best regards and see you soon

Petra and Stephan

4 days to go!

Hi everyone!

I don't know about all of you, but I'm getting a bit excited after reading all of Teresa's schedules, its not long now and I've not started packing yet!

This is only my 2nd day back in work after my holidays and I'm looking forward to meeting you all and getting on with this workshop next week!

Teresa, I hear that the Cellars district where they blend Port wine are well worth a visit (and a tasting or two) from a friend who hails from Porto - I hope that your an expert in this field also?

Ciao
Darren

Hotel, Weather and Weekend Informations

Dear Friends

Thank you for your participation and enthusiastic words!

To those of you that already thinking about practical aspects of your trip, here are some useful information’s:

Weather: I will give you an updated Weather report Friday 4th of September. But so far the weather it’s quite unpredictable. This week we have some rain, 27 degrees of temperature and some “regular days”, that means sunshine and 27 degrees of temperature. The Portuguese forecaster can be accessed here: www.meteo.pt

Hotel: The Hotel Amadeos is a nice 3 starts hotel. placed in Matosinhos: Conde Alto Mearim, 1229 - Matosinhos. The Metro stop it’s in the other side of the street and it’s very easy to get anywhere. They don’t have website but you can see pictures at: eurobookings.com http://www.eurobookings.com/matosinhos-hotels-pt/hotel-amadeos.pt.html?SID=840549994694487b0054fc730bab1d8b&label=gg_en_bh_40604-portugal-matosinhos-hotel-amadeos&filter_offset=1&gclid=CMWTveqCwpwCFc0B4wod318WnA&form_type=remember

The Hotel has wireless internet connection, free. I only need to bring the PC or similar device. Friends from UK, please don’t forget to bring the electricity adapter.

Weekend (12-13th September): Those are free days, and Porto is hosting the Red Bull Air race www.redbullairrace.com and the city will be crowded: last year they receive 800.000 participants. Id you not fans of this kind of activities we advice for some other less stressful activities.

Tomorrow I will sent you the pré-programm of the workshop.

Kind regards
Teresa

Greetings from Bulgaria

Dear ALL,

My name is Vanya and I come from Sofia, Bulgaria. I am happy and grateful to do my first intensive steps with all of you in a sphere of work that is relatively new for me. Being an oral history trainer for both young people, teachers and adults, Intergenerational dialogue is important for me but I have never explored it deeper up to now. I am curious to learn and link it with what I already have as experiences.

The last five years I have worked for the regional office of dvv-international in South Easter Europe (SEE), based first in Sofia, Bulgaria and after that in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where I was managing a History project ( http://www.historyproject.dvv-international.org ). The project inspires for better understanding and reconciliation in SEE through teacher trainings in interactive methods of handling the recent history of the Balkans.

I present and I am a member of the Association "Historian Club - Veliko Turnovo", this is the ogranization of the history teachers in the beutiful city of Veliko Turnovo. This group consists of highly reflective teachers doing innovative history teaching based on interdiciplinary approach and multiperspectivity approach.

Passionate about finding out more about making meaningful conncetions among people, generally the process of learning and how the past affects the present, I am eager to contribute to bringing the generations closer together as one of the keys for prosperous lives.

Wishing you joyful summer days and see you soon,

Vanya

Greetings from Hungary

Dear Colleges,

My name is Judit Farago from Budapest, Hungary. I am very glad to join this international working group.

I work for a non profit organization (Inforum) dealing with closing the digital gap between social groups such as age groups. We have been running an intergenerational project, the Grandparents-Grandchild Competition of Informatics since 2003. The owner of the project idea is my partner (both in work and private life) Gabor Dombi who is also attending to the workshop.

I look forward to meeting all of you soon!
Judit

Introduction to Helena Gillis

Thank you to all the other delegates for providing some information on their work, as background to attending the conference - it has been good to hear from you all. Here is a little introduction to myself: I am Helena Gillis, and I work for Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), which is a membership organisation for more than 340 museums in Scotland. As a Learning and Access Manager at MGS I support members to provide access and learning opportunities for a wide range of audiences, including inter-generational groups.

Museum collections really come to life, and the stories about the objects and associated people are discovered, when intergenerational groups are involved in working with them. I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of some of the intergenerational learning work in which MGS members have been involved. This has included the TPYF (their past your future) project which is a national project, through which reminiscences from war veterans are being collected on a dedicated website, for use as a classroom learning resource (http://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/the-programmes-2/tpyf-scotland-phase-2/). Another project is the Borders Textile Towerhouse film project (http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/pdf/25187.pdf) which has included a film project by high school students to film ex-textile mill workers, to enable them to understand more about their textile past, and to encourage students to participate in the local textile industry. The films are now accessible through the Hawick archive, and a sample are on permanent display in the Towerhouse museum.

I hope to bring to the workshop my knowledge of intergenerational work involving museums in Scotland. I am also keen to learn from the experience of other delegates. This is my first ever blog, so I hope it has worked.

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

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.

Hello from Sunny Blackpool! My name is Andrea Howard and I am really looking forward to attending the Intergenerational training in Porto. I currently run a project called Echoes of the Past which is a project involving children from a local school taking part in interviewing the older residents of Blackpool about their own childhood memories.
Blckpool is a seaside resort with a large transient population and lots of social problems. We are hoping to improve peoples perceptions of community and belonging and develop a deeper understanding of the generations.
I also am on holiday until September 2nd but will be checking the blog when I can. I look forward to meeting you soon! Andrea

Hello from Wales!

Hello everyone!

My name is Darren Jones, from Blackwood in the South Wales valleys.

I am very pleased indeed to be a part of this exciting workshop and am looking forward to meeting you all on the 6th!

I work for a community organisation that aims to tackle poverty and deprivation in some of Wales' most deprived communities and am hoping that this workshop will help me to develop new ways of bringing together and engaging with young and old(er) people within the villages where I work.

I've seen the participants list and its great to see the number of different countries represented!

Well, I'm one of those vacantioners Teresa mentioned, so I'll not be posting now until a week on Sunday, apologies Teresa!

Bye for now.
Darren

Presentation

It will be nice to get little presentations from each other before the meeting.
Concerning my person, I am 68 years old. With my husband Michel, who will participate in the workshop too, we are living in Ulm, in the south of Germany. Since we are retired and our four sons are living by their own, we do a lot of volontary work, with younger and with elderly people. We work with different institutions, especially with the Senior's University at the University of Ulm. We look foreward to the workshop to learn more about intergenerational projects and to meet nice people with similar interests.
Many thanks to Teresa for this wonderful organisation.
Many greetings to all participants
Brigitte and Michel from Ulm

A good idea

I entry today in this blog, and I thinks that is a good idea for a workshop participant's communication. Many thanks for Teresa.
I waiting the arrival a Porto and I hopa a good work together.
Best wishes from Barcelona

Welcome Dial-up blog!

This blog will be a private meeting point for all participants of Dial-Up workshop. Later, if we all agree, it could become an area open to public.
Please feel free to present yourselves, share your ideas, publicize information, or just express your daily feelings, before we meet together at Portugal.
I hope this can be the beginning of a very successful partner-friendship.

To all of you on vacation, or not, I wish a FUNtascic Summer.

Teresa Almeida Pinto

Dial-Up Short Resume

Main Goal: Participants will learn or improve their skills, how to plan, develop and evaluate intergenerational activities at local level.

Methodology: The sessions will focus on the needs of participants and their questions / issues. Besides the theoretical knowledge they will gain experience in applying the instruments (questionnaires to identify the interests of different generations, guidance on how to involve them in activities, etc.), and a guide with many examples of activities that may be adapted to the reality of their institutions or the community in which they work

Sessions include:

• Some brief theoretical presentations and active discussions on how to bridge generations;
  Hands-on exercises: each participant will draw a Plan to implement and evaluate intergenerational activities with local resources, available in their own community / country;
• Role-play activities: simulation of the elder’s difficulties when addressing the youngest;
• Conference / Forum: public debate with local professionals
  

Accommodation:
Hotel Amadeos *** Matosinhos

What expenses are covered by the Project?
Airplane tickets, transfer from/to airport and transport to activities place, 9 nights of accommodation, 9 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 7 dinners, coffee-breaks during activities, insurance during activities, all material required to performed the activities. Personal costs and meals during the weekend are not covered.