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12/11/2012
Mario Galea hands out the Senior of the Year Award 2012 in Malta
"The Senior of the Year Award is an opportunity to change the image we have of ageing and to celebrate the values carried by seniors which serve as a model to us all”, said Mario Galea, Parliamentary Secretary for the Elderly and Community Care, during Malta's Senior of the Year Award ceremony on 13 October in Mosta.
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12/11/2012
TechnolAGE study identifies 20 best practices of ICT solutions for ageing well around Europe
The TechnolAGE project has just published the “Study on business and financing models related to ICT for ageing well”, which identifies and analyses the business and financing models of 20 European best practices of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) that have a high proven relevance for the ageing population.
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09/11/2012
The closing ceremony of the European Year 2012 in Austria invites to continue building on active ageing awareness
"Active ageing means more than just working longer”, remarked Rudolf Hundstorfer, Federal Minister for Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, at the closing ceremony of the European Year 2012 in Austria. Held on 7 November at the Odeon Theatre in Vienna, the event was attended by 200 guests, who expressed their hope that the promotion of projects and policies related to active ageing will continue far beyond this year.
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09/11/2012
Closing conference of the European Year 2012 in Slovenia
The closing conference of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations in Slovenia took place on 5 November in the Congress Center Brdo pri Kranju.
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07/11/2012
My Grandparents are Cool! intergenerational story-telling events in Romania
Young and old from the village of Heresti, Giurgiu, met on 20 October to celebrate an intergenerational story-telling event, organised in partnership with the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, and the Association for the Older People's Rights.
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05/11/2012
The European Commission publishes ´The EU Contribution to Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations´
The European Commission has published the brochure "The EU Contribution to Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations", a comprehensive document which sets out what the European Union is doing to encourage active ageing.
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30/10/2012
Seniorforce Days staged in 25 countries across Europe to celebrate the power of senior volunteering
European Seniorforce Day events were staged across all Member States around October 1, the International Day of Older Persons, as a way to engage and harness the power of senior volunteers.
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29/10/2012
Age friendly goods and services - an opportunity for social and economic development (Poland)
The scale of demographic change facing countries across the EU is unprecedented. The number of people aged 60+ is increasing at a rate of approximately 2 million per year and the result is a rapid increase in the dependency ratio; while in 2010 there were four people of working age for every person aged 65+, this number is projected to halve by 2060.
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29/10/2012
European Public Employment Services study in Germany models to encourage the hiring or retention of older workers
Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Public Employment Service (PES) of Germany, hosted a Peer Review on Public Employment Services and Older Workers on May 10-11 in Nuremberg. Following this encounter, several European PES expressed an interest in a visit to the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, to gain practical insights into their experience with measures to encourage the hiring or retention of older workers.
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29/10/2012
Workshops in Greece and Romania to celebrate the European Seniorforce Day
Greece celebrated a Seniorforce Day on October 24th in Athens. During the event, teenagers, university students and older people cooperated in the framework of interactive creative workshops and discussions with the aim to stress the importance of youth volunteer work for dialogue and intergenerational solidarity.