WORKSHOP 7: Adult learning for active citizenship, social cohesion and solidarity between generations

ROOM: BELLEVUE I (Floor C)

Chair:	SAlan Smith, European Commission, DG Education and Culture
Rapporteur:	Social inclusion: Marie-Pierre Degive, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency Active Citizenship: Radu Székely, Västra Nylands folkhögskola, Finland Active Ageing & Intergenerational solidarity: Jim Soulsby, University of Leicester, UK

14.00	Welcome / Short Introduction and Overview by the Chair:
	SESSION 1 Session 1: Promoting social inclusion and active citizenship: The role of adult learning
	Social inclusion: the role and potential of adult learning Kursat Levent Egriboz, UK National Agency, Lifelong Learning Programme Prison education – an example of adult learning for social inclusion Anita Wilson, European Prison Education Association EPEA Adult learning for Active citizenship: challenges, problems, potentials Georg Pirker, DARE Network: Democracy And Human Rights Discussion
14.40	Discussion in small groups
15.35	COFFEE
15.45	SESSION 2 Adult learning, the ageing society & intergenerational solidarity
	The demographic challenge of the ageing society, and the European Year of Active Ageing 2012 Detlef Gerhardt, DG Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities, European Commission Active ageing – what is expected of adult learning? Elizabeth Mestheneos, AGE Platform Europe European projects on older citizens' issues messages for the future Jim Soulsby, University of Leicester, UK Intergenerational learning Teresa Almeida Pinto, Intergenerational Valorisation & Active Development Association, Portugal
16.30	SESSION 3 Discussion in small groups
17.30	Conclusions
18.00	Close