An article about the Final Congress appeared on Reykjavik City homepage on September 15th 2016. The BALL project, the Guidelines and Recommendations as well as the Final Conference is introduced in the article.
An interview with Anna Margrét Guðjónsdóttir, EVRIS, and Jón Björnsson, U3A., in the daily newspaper Fréttablaðið on September 14th 2016. There they discuss the third age, the BALL project and the Final Conference in Reykjavik City Hall.
The final conference of the BALL project took place in Reykjavik City Hall, September 15th. In this conference the BALL consortia presented the work developed by the BALL project. Especially, the partners presented the objectives and milestones, the lessons learned and the results of the project in relation to the Awareness Raising Campaign, the Personal Development Academy and the Warehouse of Opportunities. Furthermore the publication of the projects final guidelines and recommendations, entitled Towards a Dynamic Third Age, was presented and a copy of the publication was formally handed to the Mayor of Reykjavik City.
14th – 15th September Reykjavík City Hall
In this final conference, the BALL consortia are presenting the work developed by the Ball project. Especially, the partners will present the objectives and milestones, the lessons learned and the results of the project in relation to the Awareness Raising Campaign, the Personal Development Academy and the Warehouse of Opportunities.
During the conference, the partners will present the recent publication of the Guidelines and Recommendations of the Erasmus+ BALL Project, entitled “Towards a Dynamic Third Age”.
Link to a program on U3A and BALL broadcast on 22 of March on the Icelandic TV station Hringbraut. Ingibjörg, Jón Björnsson and Hans Kr Guðmundsson were interviewed with pictures and scenes from activities of U3A Reykjavik, BALL meetings and other international issues. All in Icelandic and regrettably no subtitles available.
http://www.hringbraut.is/sjonvarp/thaettir/okkar-folk/thridja-aeviskeidid/
The first Editorial Meeting of the BALL “Be Active through Lifelong Learning” project took place on 5-6 April in Lublin. The BALL teams from UPUA, U3A Reykjavik, Evris and U3ALublin met to work on the final guidelines concerning preparation to retirement.
After 2 days of intense and fruitful work the partners from Spain, Poland and Iceland managed to prepare the first draft of the publication, which is going to present a wide spectrum of recommendations, guidelines and materials helpful in organizing support for people aged 50+, to ensure them further self-development, active presence in the labour market and effective preparation to retirement.
Yesterday, Concepción Bru Ronda, Director of the Permanent University of the University of Alicante, developed a new session of the awareness campaign with members of the institution that belong to different groups: teaching staff, administration staff, trade unions representatives and experts in order to present the BALL project results and to receive the input and suggestions from participants with the aim to implement and transfer to society the research results. The awareness campaign is part of the Ball Project Action Plan.
Last 20th November 2015 the conference of mid-term dissemination of the results and progress of the BALL project took place in Alicante. The Director of the Permanent University and Coordinator of the BALL Project, Concha Bru, presented the project to the attendees, as well as the materials implemented during the research process carried out throughout the first year.
On 27th November 2015 a conference entitled: “Add Life to Age- Go Actively into Retirement” was organized by the Lublin University of the Third Age within the frames of the BALL Erasmus+ Project. Preparation to retirement must be accompanied, on the one hand, by social support, and on the other hand, by a look into one’s self, as everyone has the right and obligation to decide about the later part of life. Research carried out during the first year of the BALL project provided interesting information on the readiness of individuals to prepare to retirement and to lead an active life. A sociologist, Monika Adamczyk, Ph.D., elaborated on the awareness of this problem in Polish society in the light of the research conducted during the BALL mapping and survey. The participants of the conference were handed a book she wrote on those issues “Go Actively into Retirement”.
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