6. LiLL-Conferences

Since the founding of the European Network "Learning in Later Life" (LiLL), ZAWiW of Ulm University as the coordinating organisation of the network organises regularly expert conferences. The goal of the conferences is to provide an opportunity for the members of the network and for other professionals, experts and facilitators interested in the goals and the activities of the network, to learn about current developments in academically-oriented serniors' education in Europe and to exchange experiences. The personal meetings foster the development of ideas for projects that lead to cooperations on a European level.

LiLL-Conference 2007

The European conference web4seniors is the 5th conference of the European Network Learning in Later Life. This year's conference addresses the subject: the new developments in the information and communication technologies and the effect this has on the education of older people in Europe, and the possibilities and challenges that this presents for the educators, the institutions and the senior learners.

Further information: www.web4seniors.eu

Lill-Conference 2005

In the conference "New Methods in Continuing Education of Older People for Strengthening of the European Civil Society" that took place from 25. to 28.11.2005 in the European Academy Otzenhausen in Nonweiler, Saarland, the development of continuing education for seniors during the last 10 years was reviewed and new methods of political education introduced and discussed by over 60 experts and educational facilitators from the whole of Europe.

Further information: LiLL-Conference 2005

SoLiLL Workshop 2001

The LiLL conference 2001 took place in the form of a workshop for facilitators in seniors' education. The conference was organised in the frame of the European Network Learning in Later Life (LiLL) and the European Socrates/Grundtvig project Self-organised Learning in Later Life (SoLiLL). The goal was to inform about aspects of the current learning culture relating to self-determined learning forms. The meeting should provide a platform, where experts from seniors' education as well as active seniors could present their project work, exchange experiences about cooperation in the way of learning through research and explore new possibilities for common activities on a European level. This should intensify Europan cooperation in the development of new learning concepts and European virtual learning projects.

Further information: SoLiLL Workshop 2001

LiLL-Conference 2000

The theme of the(LiLL)conference in June 2000 was "Life and Visions - People over 50 present European issues by means of multimedia". It addressed experts and facilitators in continuing education in the third Age and seniors interested in education and in the subject "Europe" and who wished to present own contributions to life in Europe.

Further information: LiLL-Conference 2000

LiLL-Conference 1998

The first LiLL conference took place in December 1998. The subject was "The Application and the Benefits of the Internet in Seniors' Education in Europe". The goal of the conference was to introduce the new information and communication technologies, that were up to this point largely unknown in the continuing education of older adults, to the European expert public and on the basis of selected examples demonstrate, how their application, especially that of the Internet, could be included in seniors' education and used for the promotion pf self-directed learning.

Further information: LiLL-Conference 1998