The main aim of the project is to improve senior citizens' knowledge of energy efficiency practices and schemes. The training materials developed will promote techniques and changes that can be adopted to make senior citizen dwellings more energy efficient. Care homes, private homes, residential villages and social clubs will all be included in the learning programme.

 

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More than 500 delegates will convene in Belfast from 6-8 June for the 23^rd EFC Annual General Assembly and Conference to debate foundations’ role in achieving peace through social justice. Northern Ireland’s capital, which has emerged from thirty years of conflict to establish itself as a prominent destination, provides an apt location for lively conference debates and discussions on an issue that still resonates to the core of the city.

 

Healtour project is based on one hand on the previous Calypso preparatory studies that delivered concrete information on social low-season tourism exchanges in the EU and will benefit on the other hand from studies and expertise delivered by the already implementing Calypso 2010 projects such as SOWELL and URTS.

 

Healtour will continue and complete the previous Calypso research on the financial and normative local conditions (in the territory covered by the partners) under which trans-national exchanges may take place and will provide insight on the feasible models of low-season economical exchange (social public policy co-financing, private operators involvement, etc.).

 

The last meeting of the network supporting the Route resulted in the agreement that a file should be prepared in order to apply for the label 'European Cultural Route' given to those routes and paths that meet a series of requirements. With this label, the Council of Europe undertakes to protect European cultural values, to promote new forms of exchange between young Europeans, enhance unappreciated cultural and artistic heritage and develop transnational cooperation programmes.

 

The group, made up of experts in economic, legal, medical and demographic subjects holds regular meetings in different parts of the Spanish geography to analyse, discuss and make proposals regarding socioeconomic matters. This time they gathered at the Royal Monastery of Yuste, headquarters of the European Academy of Yuste Foundation; the Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting and Regional Minister for Public Administration of the Government of Extremadura, Antonio Fernandez, discoursed on the economic situation in the region, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cologne and member of the Salvador de Madariaga opinion group, Juergen Donges, talked about the reform of European economic governance, and the wishes and realities related to it.

 

Six schools in the region, three from the province of Cáceres and three from Badajoz, participate in the III Regional Secondary Schools PPT Contest on Prevention of Drug Use in Leisure Time. The competition is organised by Navalmoral de la Mata City Council and the European Academy of Yuste Foundation (FAEY).

 

The Civil Society Platform to promote Multilingualism was launched by the European Commission in October 2009. Since then 29 selected member organisations*, active in the fields of culture, non-formal and informal education systems and media, interested in issues connected to multilingualism with a trans-national or European-wide dimension have delivered a set of recommendations to EU policy makers in order to improve multilingualism policy on EU, Members State and regional level.

 

The ongoing EC co-funded Poliglotti4.eu project, to which nine of the platform members have committed, is intended to set up an online Language Observatory until December 2012.