Danube-Networkers

Learning Partnership – „Danube-Networkers“

August 2008-July 2010

The goal of the learning partnership "Danube Networkers" is to create through joint activities of older adults from the neighbouring states along the river Danube an intercultural network of older adults and to make them into networkers in the way of the European idea. The learning partnership should make civil participation and determination processes possible, it should open them to this target group.

The partnership will act in a parallel way to the contacts created in the area of economy and culture (Danube offices) along the Danube and should provide foundations for a larger European "Danube Networkers" project.

In the sense of activating seniors'education, seniors'groups developed in the participating organisations will work together on jointly selected themes about the river Danube.

Through texts and images they will document their personal relationship to the river, and also the importance of this river for their country. Examined and presented in a creative way will be historical, cultural, geographic and economic aspects of the Danube.

Getting to know each other in the partner meetings on international level, transnational virtual communication and cooperation, creative writing and time witness work, text and image processing on computer, activation of knowledge of foreign languages, in-process-development of a website with the groups' work results  and at the end the creation of a printed brochure and a CD-ROM are the most important activities.

Aspired will be intergenerational dialogue in the form of cooperation with pupils and youth groups concerning text work and translations.

The project is coordinated by the ZAWiW of ulm university.

The project Danube-Networkers is supported by the European Commission and the ASKO EUROPA-STIFTUNG.