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13. Say yes!
Opportunities for active citizenship and active ageing between associations in Slovenia
and Germany.
Co-funded under Grundtvig stream of the Life Long Learning Programme, this project offers new
opportunities for active citizenship and active ageing between associations in Slovenia and Germany.
It seeks to increase harmony and understanding through volunteering exchanges that include
intergenerational and intercultural dimensions. The project sees volunteering by older people as
offering good possibilities for all to benefit through the contribution of older people to other age groups.
For Slovenia: www.zni.si
For Germany: www.europabildung.org
14. Learning through Volunteering in Senior Age
Exchange project focusing on enhancing lifelong learning and inter-generational
dialogue.
Co-funded under the Grundtvig stream of the Life Long Learning Programme, this senior volunteer
exchange project between associations in Slovakia and Hungary focuses on enhancing lifelong learning
and inter-generational dialogue. Six volunteers from each country are placed at hosting associations
where they have the opportunity to share their experience with people of different ages. As well as
providing enriching experiences for those taking part, it also seeks to overcome and breakdown any
prejudices on the basis of age or nationality.
For Hungary: http://www.onkentes.hu/
For Slovakia: http://www.dobrovolnictvo.sk/
15. Active European Seniors for Active European Citizenship (AESAEC)
Promoting voluntary work among older people
The main aims of the AESAEC project, which ran between 2008 and 2009, were to
convince more senior citizens in Europe to become more politically engaged at the
EU level by becoming Active European Citizens. www.aesaec.eu
The first project progress report can be found at: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/
llp/project_reports/documents/grundtvig/multilateral_projects_2008/08_2010/
GRUNDTVIG_GMP_141757_AESAEC.pdf
16. Gilde Nederland
Offering consulting services after retirement, on a voluntary basis
‘Gilde Nederland’ is an umbrella organisation based in Utrecht, with approximately 65 local guilds
throughout the Netherlands. People over fifty years old who wish to transfer their knowledge and
experience to individuals, non-profit organsiations, and entrepreneurs can join a local guild and offer
their services as ‘consultants’. Although the ‘consultants’ are not paid, their costs are reimbursed. This
enables volunteers to contribute positively to society, while remaining active and socially involved.
Many guilds organise city and bike tours, which are guided by ‘consultants’. A growing number
of cities have language projects, where guild advisors help non-native speakers learn Dutch by
meeting once a week to speak Dutch in an informal atmosphere (“Samen Spraak” project). In the
‘Coach4you’ project, guild advisors coach children experiencing difficulties with school transitions.
http://www.gilde-nederland.nl/ (In Dutch)
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