ForAge Network
The ForAge network has a core group of 16 partner organisations. These partners are members of the ForAge project team who have come together, supported by funding from the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme, to initiate a major European network focusing on later life learning.
The ForAge project began in January 2012 and will come to an end in December 2014. During this period ForAge core partners will seek new contacts and members for the network as part of a longer term sustainability plan.
Each of the core partners has a ForAge network page on their own websites that can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link.
ForAge Project Coordinator
Institute of Lifelong Learning
University of Leicester
128 Regent Road
Leicester LE1 7PA
Telephone: +44 116 2525914
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/lifelong-learning/research/LLAG/forage
ForAge Core Partners
bia-net- NETZWERK BILDUNG IM ALTER
Graz, Austria
http://www.bia-net.org/en/forage.html
Finnish Adult Education Association
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.vsy.fi/en.php?k=14401
50plus Hellas
Athens, Greece
http://www.50plus.gr/?page_id=516
Trebag Property & Management Ltd
Budapest, Hungary
www.trebag.hu
Lunaria
Rome, Italy
http://www.lunaria.org/2012/10/01/forage-2012-una-rete-per-lapprendimento-dei-senior/
The Elephant Learning in Diversity BV
Netherlands
http://www.the-elephant.nl/EU-projecten.html
PRO-MED sp z.o.o.
Gdansk, Poland
http://blanka.moodle.pl/file.php/1/ForAge/about-ForAge-ENG.pdf
http://utw.moodle.pl/file.php/1/ForAge/about-ForAge-ENG.pdf
AidLearn
Lisbon, Portugal
EUROED Association
Bucharest, Romania
http://www.euro-ed.ro/proiecte-in-derulare/forage-24
Association for Education and Ageing
United Kingdom
www.associationforeducationandageing.org
http://www.associationforeducationandageing.org/news-views.html
Comenius University
Bratislava, Slovakia
MERIG
Graz, Austria
The Slovenian Third Age University
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Cordoba University
Cordoba, Spain
http://www.uco.es/intergeneracional/index.php/forage
http://www.uco.es/servicios/comunicacion/component/k2/item/83564-20120510
Age Action Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.ageaction.ie/forage-project
ForAge Associate Partners
As well as the core team, ForAge has a number of Associate Partners who, whilst not being part of the project implementation group, are influential in the development and direction that project work takes.
Age Platform Europe
Brussels, Belgium
BAGSO
Bonn, Germany
Workers Educational Association NI
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Aims and objectives of the ForAge Network
The ForAge project team will develop a single access point for information about later-life learning in Europe, connecting different activities and projects.
It aims to extend recognition of the value of learning for older people as a means of fostering inclusion, participation and intergenerational solidarity in European societies.
The objective of the network is to contribute to the international research and evidence base for later-life learning and to increase access to innovative and progressive ideas and practice in Europe.
Outputs from the ForAge Network
ForAge will promote the value of later-life learning by creating an accessible archive of past projects, research findings, policy statements, statistical evidence, and examples of best practice. Outputs will include:
The ForAge database
Website and newsletters
Reports and commentaries
Annual conferences on later-life learning
Workshops to address priority themes
Glossary of relevant terms
The ForAge team will achieve these outputs through extensive dialogue with, among others, policy makers, politicians, strategic players at national, regional and local level, researchers, practitioners in adult education, seniors, organisations and institutions with real and potential links to later life learning.
As well as sourcing material for the archive, ForAge partners will seek to advocate on behalf of later life learning and to support others in doing so through the provision of a comprehensive catalogue of theory and practice to underpin the promotion and development of later life learning.
ForAge target groups
The ForAge network targets the following groups:
- older people and later-life learners;
- volunteers and organisations involved in lifelong learning;
- teachers, managers and planners in adult education;
- researchers in this field;
- trades unions;
- politicians and policy makers.
