Danube Networkers at work

Welcome to the website of DANET!

Gabriela Körting — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:33:40 +0000

Welcome to the website of the project DANET – Danube Networkers at Work.
On this starting page you will find short reports and news about current project actions in the partner countries. For information about the respective national panel activities and the related web-based discussions please click on the panel titles in the horizontal menu: “Active Ageing”, “Identity”, “Migration” and “Ecology”. An overview of all current discussions is provided under the menu title “Discussions”. To visit the project partners’ pages that describe their activities in their national languages, click on the national flags in the field NATIONAL VERSIONS on the right side of the website.

Media Booklet with DVD published by ZAWiW of Ulm University

Gabriela Körting — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:21:50 +0000

A Media Book in English and German with a DVD with subtitles in languages of all project partner organisations documenting some of the highlights of the project DANET had been published by ZAWiW of Ulm University.

Download the Media-Booklet

2nd Panel : Sustainability of cultural heritage / National and European Identity

Gabriela Körting — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:48:21 +0000

Each partner designs and conducts lectures and citizens panels on a local level, discusses the subjects with their groups and presents the teaching resources and outcomes of the discussions in the project website. Each partner aims at establishing cooperation with other organisations on local and international level and their participation in the project discussions andevents. Encouraged are discussions of the selected themes in Internet-national and based cross-national citizens’ panels.

This panel took place between 1.3. and 31.3.2011

3rd Panel : Migration as a challenge / Minorities as a chance

Gabriela Körting — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:45:41 +0000

This panel took place between 1.4. and 8.5.2011.

Results of DANET presented in an international web-based conference

Gabriela Körting — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:59:37 +0000

On the 30th of November, in the frame of a web-based conference of the project Danube-Networkers Lectures (DALEC), the DANET partners Alexandru Strunga from the University of Craiova, Romania and Emilia Velikova from the University of Rousse, Bulgaria, presented the final results from the project DANET that ended at the end of November. Both Mrs Velikova and Mr Strunga spoke about the far-reaching effects that the project DANET had on their organisations as well as the field of seniors’ education in general.
Taking part in the web-based conference were representatives from the Christian University College of Teacher Education in Vienna, from the Andrassy University in Budapest, from the University of Belgrade and the Association for Humane Ageing in Belgrad, the members of the Pensioners’ Association in Rousse, the members of the Donabüro Ulm Neu/Ulm and ZAWiW of Ulm University and the senior participants of the Grundtvig Workshop at Ulm University “The Use of the Internet for Seniors- Creative, Cooperative, Europe-wide” from Poland, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Germany.

1st Panel: Active Ageing in Europe/Solidarity between the generations

Gabriela Körting — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:09:59 +0000

Each partner designs and conducts lectures and citizens panels on a local level, discusses the subjects with their groups and presents the teaching resources and outcomes of the discussions in the project website. Each partner aims at establishing cooperation with other organisations on local and international level and their participation in the project discussions and events. Encouraged are discussions of the selected themes in Internet-national and based cross-national citizens’ panels.

This panel took place between 15.1.-28.2.2011

CROSS-NATIONAL PANEL

Gabriela Körting — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:53:07 +0000

Three day meeting with 5 older citizens plus 3 coordinator/ interpreter per national group, invited experts (EU-representatives, experts in thematic areas addressed in the workshop, etc.).

The cross-national panel discusses the themes already handled in relation to the individual regions and aims at finding common issues that concern the whole of the Danube Region and its future.The key contents/outcomes are documented in text/photo/video and subsequently presented in the project website. Continuation of the discussions in Internet-based forum.

Final meeting and conference

Gabriela Körting — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:11:43 +0000

The final conference took place on the 6-11. November 2011 in Studienhaus Wiesneck near to Freiburg. This occasion provided an opportunity for the 45 participants from all partner countries to exchange their experiences and discuss on a cross-national level the results of their activities that took place in their home country.
The participants took part in lectures and workshops, evaluated their projects in small national and transnational groups and made short advertising spots for the project DANET, etc.
The European role game was one of the most popular items on the program, whereby the participants got to know the institutions and decision making processes of the European Union.
The highlight of the week was an event at the University of Education in Freiburg. On this day, after introducing the senior students of the University of Education, a video conference took place with three Members of the European Parliament (Elisabeth Jeggle, Michael Theurer and Silvia-Adriana Ticau).

A video documentation of the final meeting

You can find our program here

Final Resolution from the project here

Press release here

4th Panel: Ecology and Environment

Gabriela Körting — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:42:04 +0000

This panel took place between 9.5. and 17.6.2011

Working Group Environment

ccsapo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:05:33 +0000

Ecological education and awareness

Empowerment of the elder generation, eg. in public open universities
International exchange and cooperation of adult education within all Danube Region
Raising capacity on methods, eg. role models

Inter-generational communication

Every young generation needs to be sensibilised for nature and sustainability:

Elderly people support the youth to develop relation and respect towards the nature, eg. showing the beauty of local nature by common walks
Know-how transfer from old to young on the local nature and changes of the environment
Explaining the risks of hazardous technologies to the youth, eg. nuclear power

Getting active on local level

Elder people bring in their experience in their environment:

Engagement of elderly people in ecological projects, eg. community gardens, separation of waste
Citizens´participation in Local Agenda 21 helps to raise the motivation with elderly people to take responsibility for their personal environment and move political decisions
Analysing of the needs in the local environment, strengthening of the social community
Reflect the personal way of mobility – adapt related to the different needs and environmental aspects, eg. Car-sharing

Implementation of sustainable development to public life

The elder generation expects clear perspective and responsibilities for a natural and save future for their children and grand-children:

Consequent securing of water resources in public hands
Raising awareness for the limited availability of resources
Developing hydro-power only by innovative engineering solutions (eg. pump-storage-plants) with little negative effect on eco-systems and not huge dam constructions along theDanubeand the tributaries with strong negative climate and eco-system effects
Step-by-step reduction of nuclear power in all Danube Region within 20 years – no more investment and substitution by renewable energy sources (solar, wind, water…)
No abuse of south-easternEuropefor the ongoing increase of energy use in central European countries
Establishing of state-of-the-art Environmental Impact Assessments
Adapt the public traffic in a flexible and innovative way in regions to keep up or develop cost-effective high quality – eg. national wide tickets for all traffic companies, adapting bus size…

Foster natural and regional food production

In the upcoming programs on the Common agricultural policy (CAP) the following aspects need to be taken into account with priority:

Regional, organic food is a main pillar of a healthy natural life style – it needs to raise the level of information for consumers to seasonal changes in the availability of products
Fair trade is a minimum standard for superregional products – eg. From southern countries
Decentral production secures the small scale structure of agriculture in Europe and reduces traffic – to develop the next period of support systems in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) it needs to integrate the ecological footprint of production and the farm size as factors
Securing the system of decentral agricultural production in the property of farmers
There is no acceptance for genetic modified organisms (GMO)