Our partners
Austria - Austrian Red Cross
The Austrian Red Cross is responsible for the coordination of the SLIC-project. It is a non-profit organisation based on the ideal of selfless charity. The Austrian Red Cross is active in the field of ambulance services, health and social services, blood programmes, disaster relief, tracing services, education and training, humanitarian law, youth work and first aid. Within the field of health and social services it is also actively involved in home care, visiting services as well as in education and training of older people. The Red Cross has a long tradition of working with volunteers and also strongly promotes the concept of active ageing and volunteering of older people.
CONTACT
Charlotte Strümpel, Cornelia Hackl
charlotte.struempel@roteskreuz.at
cornelia.hackl@roteskreuz.at
ADDRESS
Wiedner Hauptstraße 32, 1040 Wien
www.roteskreuz.at
Austria - Research Institute of the Red Cross
The Research Institute of the Red Cross is a national non-profit institution which provides practical research results for the health and social sector. It works in four research fields: (1) rescue and emergency care, (2) labour market, employment and volunteer services, (3) health promotion and prevention, and (4) health care. With its team of sociologists, social workers, pedagogues, and project managers it conducts research projects and develops solutions for pressing societal problems. In the SLIC project it is responsible for coordinating the first work package on research. This work package forcussed on developing a guide for group discussions and interviews with older learners, writing national reports and writing a European overview report.
CONTACT
Katharina Resch katharina.resch@w.roteskreuz.at
Erentraud Lehner erentraud.lehner@w.roteskreuz.at
ADDRESS
Nottendorfer Gasse 21, 1030 Vienna
www.wrk.at/forschungsinstitut
Austria - Ring Österreichischer Bildungswerke
Ring Österreichischer Bildungswerke (RÖBW) is a national umbrella organisation for voluntary educational and cultural work. Many large Austrian educational organisations are among its members. The RÖBW organises nationwide educational events on key questions in many important fields of society, such as development and renewal of local and regional communities, politics, arts, culture, media and education. In total the RÖBW’s members encompass 900 local organisations with 1.683.000 individual members, which means that it is represented in a third of local Austrian communities. The educational work in RÖBW’s member organisations is mainly carried out by volunteers: 6.000 volunteers plan, manage, guide and evaluate various processes of education on a local level and are supported by a pool of 800 part time experts. The RÖBW supports these activities on a local level through experts, coaching, public relations, quality management as well as by offering further education and assistance for the volunteers. The RÖBW has long standing experience in the area of valuing informal learning. Its consulting role is to bring in its expertise in all phases of the SLIC-project.
CONTACT
Wolfgang Kellner
w.kellner@volksbildungswerke.org
ADDRESS
Heinrichsgasse 4 / 2 / 8, 1010 Wien
Tel. +43 1 5336547
www.ring.bildungswerke.at
Finland - City of Helsinki Adult Education Center
The Finnish Adult Education Centre of the City of Helsinki was founded in 1913 by the decision of the City Council. Among the 250 adult education centres in Finland, the Adult Education Centre of Helsinki is the largest with over 90 years of experience in liberal adult education. The emphasis within liberal adult education lies in general education and in non-formal, leisure and self-development studies. The curriculum includes general interest courses on skills and knowledge that help adults cope with everyday life; courses in foreign languages (19 different ones), information technology, social skills and self-enhancement. Non-formal, leisure and self-development studies provide adults an opportunity to deepen their knowledge and skills in a particular field, such as arts and crafts, music, literature, self-expression, dance, home economics, navigation and physical exercise. Social and environmental studies and lecture series aim at encouraging people to become an active member of the society.
Meeting the challenges of ageing of the population is one of the main strategies of the Centre. 22 % of the students are 65 years or older and the Centre has for years organized senior citizens study circles in different subject areas. There are yearly over 400 courses designed specially for elderly people. The Centre has also a volunteer computer buddies programme for elderly and a project to motivate and encourage senior citizens, immigrants and unemployed in ICT skills. It also organizes courses on voluntary work together with the Social Office and NGOs
CONTACT
Pirjo Halla, Elisa Tan
pirjo.halla@opisto.hel.fi
elisa.tan@opisto.hel.fi
ADDRESS
Stoa, Itäkeskus, Turunlinnantie 1
PL 5370, 00099 Helsingin kaupunki
www.hel.fi/tyovaenopisto
Hungary - Budapest Cultural Centre
Established in 1979 by the General Assembly of the City of Budapest, the Budapest Cultural Centre is the professional service institution of the community cultural institutions, civil organizations and communities of the city. Its services are offered to a wide professional audience as well as to the general public.
With respect to adult education we cooperate with numerous adult education institutions, universities, colleges and NGOs by developing and launching various training programs together. To date, our institution offers up to 40 types of courses for adults.Since 2001 BCC has gradually become integrated into programs that support the training of older people. We have developed courses based on the needs of the age group, participated in international projects, and facilitated voluntary work.
We host and organize a wide range of art programs including conferences, professional workshops and courses of amateur photography, ceramics, folk dance and creative arts for adults and children alike. One of BCC's main fields of activity are to collect, process and publish information on art and community cultural activities. Besides the BCC homepage (www.bmknet.hu), our institution edits several websites on various subjects.
We also organize monthly conference series addressing the current issues of community culture, and we also issue publications. 1999 marks the beginning of international partnerships for BCC, and since 2001 the institution has joined several EU-projects.
CONTACT
Zsuzsanna Brenner
international@bmknet.hu
ADDRESS
1119 Budapest, Etele út 55.
www.bmknet.hu
Germany - ISIS - Institut für Soziale Infrastruktur
ISIS is responsible for the evaluation of the SLIC-project. ISIS is a private social science research, training and consultancy institute, founded in 1991 and based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In our research we have specialised on issues of population groups confronted with higher risks of being disadvantaged, such as older persons, migrants, people with a disability or the unemployed. The improvement of their living conditions as well as enabling equal opportunities and participation in society are a primary topic in our work. This includes analysing situations, identifying problems as well as developing, testing and evaluating solutions.
CONTACT
Karin Stiehr
stiehr@isis-sozialforschung.de
ADDRESS
Kasseler Straße 1a, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
www.isis-sozialforschung.de
Italy - Lunaria
Lunaria is an association which carries out research and offers information, training and action on the social economy, immigration, youth programmes and the promotion of voluntary service for all. Since our founding in 1992, we have been running several European, National and local projects. Between 1996 and 2000, we acted as Technical Assistance Office for the Italian National Agency during the pilot project phase of the European Voluntary Service. In 2004 we started running the youth information centre for the Municipality of Venice. In 2001 under the Socrates program we initiated a project called "Mobility 55" that addressed the potential for involving volunteers over 55 years of age in exchange programmes. Since then we have led and participated in several other European projects in the area of senior volunteering. Our project "Still Active!" was awarded the “golden lifelong learning prize” for best practice of the 2000-2006 Grundtvig programme by the European Commission. Since October 2007, Lunaria has been promoting and coordinating SEVEN (Senior European Volunteers Exchange Network) a Grundtvig network that aims to promote trans-national voluntary service exchanges for older people.
CONTACT
Davide Di Pietro, Sergio Crimi
dipietro@lunaria.org
crimi@lunaria.org
ADDRESS
39, Via Buonarroti, I-00185. Rome
www.lunaria.org
UK - PRIAE - Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity
10 years - Passion, Pride & Progress: PRIAE (pronounced ‘preeya’) is a not-for-profit, independent international charitable Institute, established in 1998 and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. PRIAE specialises in policy, research, service development and practice for the care and quality of life of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) elders and communities. PRIAE has been credited as ‘pioneering’ in the area of ageing and ethnicity beyond service delivery in the UK and across Europe. The Institute works with many organisational partners, policy makers, research bodies and the voluntary sector to effect improvements in UK and European policies and services for minority ethnic communities. PRIAE has since its founding in 1998 pioneered considerable progress in diversity and equality in employment, pensions, health, social care, housing, enterprise, organisational development and leadership.
CONTACT
Ahsan Malik: ahsan.malik@priae.org
Naina Patel: naina.patel@priae.org
ADDRESS
PRIAE
31-32 Park Row
4th Floor
Leeds
LS1 5JD
UK
Tel: +44 113 285 5990
Fax: +44 113 285 5999
UK - The Senior Studies Institute
The Senior Studies Institute (SSI) is part of the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, and is the only organisation of its kind in Scotland. The SSI provides lifelong learning opportunities for people aged 50 and over through its extensive daytime Learning in Later Life programme. It also provides a range of social, volunteering and personal development opportunities. Our classes are open to all older people regardless of previous educational experience and reflect our commitment to sharing the expertise of the University with the surrounding community.
CONTACT
Maureen Marley
maureen.marley@strath.ac.uk
ADDRESS
Senior Studies Institute
3rd floor,
Graham Hills Building,
40 George Street,
Glasgow G1 1QE
SCOTLAND
http://www.cll.strath.ac.uk/ssi.html
UK - INTEVAL
Combating social exclusion-evaluation-research-project management: INTEVAL is a new company, established to further work previously developed by the Combating Social Exclusion Group at the University of Surrey. Nicholas Walters is the Executive Director of INTEVAL.
INTEVAL is working transnationally across the SLIC work packages, with a particular focus on developing the quality and coherence of SLIC’s products. This will include consideration of setting the work in a policy context, so enhancing SLIC’s mainstreaming potential at EU, national and local levels. INTEVAL will have an advisory role and will be supporting and contributing to the project’s theoretical development and to the presentation of its written material.
ADDRESS
INTEVAL Limited (Registration No. 5293402)
9, Valley View, Godalming Surrey UK GU7 1RD
Telephone +44 (0) 1483 415106/+44 (0) 7795571992
