AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy

Today, December 3rd, is the UN International Day of People with Disabilities. A day to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities and care needs. 👩🦯 👨🦽 We would like to take the opportunity to highlight the need for inclusive age-friendly environments that are accessible to all people. That is what we as #AFEdemy strive to accomplish. 🏙️ However, the environment alone cannot fulfil all needs. It’s the people that are in it that really make a difference. So, as an extension, we would like to emphasize the amazing role that informal caregivers have in providing love, care, and support to individuals with disabilities and care needs. ❤️ Being an informal caregiver can be challenging and demanding. Project #YoungCare therefore aims to promote strategies for relieving the situation of informal caregivers and people in need of care in the age of 18-65. This will be done by giving a voice to informal carers and care receivers, by raising awareness on their position, and by co-creating an online platform with information, links, and tools to help their situation. Find out more here: https://youngcare.eu/ https://www.afedemy.eu/ https://idpwd.org/ AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy | Willeke van Staalduinen, Bart Borsje, Jonas Bernitt SHINE 2Europe | Inês Saavedra, luis dias, Carina Dantas ISIS-Sozialforschung Paritätische Projekte gGmbH | Katrin Fröhlich Cadiai | Michela Patuzzo Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas | Rasa Naujaniene

Today, December 3rd 2024 it is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The theme for this year is "Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future". We believe that we need strong leadership of the people with disabilities since they can help to make our public space, our shops and for instance restaurants accessible for all by testing them and giving advice what is needed to change the current situation. In the picture is shown that there are still situations that are not accessible for everyone. This is just one of the many examples that people with disabilities face every day. Together with our partners Stichting Voorall and Dito vzw and their engaged people with disabilities we develop a toolkit and training for testing the accessiblity of the public environment in our project #Testteams4ALL. Join us and follow our project. We aim to have an international workshop about the toolkit and training in September 2025. Willeke van Staalduinen Bart Borsje Charlotte Aelbrecht Wouter Coolen Sophie Beyers Wim Carabain Freek Schuerman Below picture is purchased at Freepik for the project by AFEdemy.

Two weeks ago, the new SACRED project was kicked off in Rotterdam! 💡 Funded by the Erasmus+ programme for higher education, our initiative aims to create an E-Learning Platform for healthcare students and professionals, focusing on caring for older adults with dementia and multiple forms of disabilities (also called multimorbidity). 🎓 As a partner of the project, AFEdemy will be mainly responsible for developing an appealing e-learning platform for imparting knowledge on dementia and multimorbidity care. Moreover, AFEdemy will be involved in the sharing and communication activities. 📲 To stay tuned about the project's progress, you are invited to have a look at the project website, follow its different social media channels, or read the latest news item on our AFEdemy.eu: 👉 SACRED Website: https://sacredproject.eu/ 👉 SACRED Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ek5AZ5Ac 👉 SACRED LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eqjVaY5j 👉 SACRED Facebook: https://lnkd.in/eQuTRuWv 👉 News item on the AFEdemy website: https://lnkd.in/esW_RTvx

📣 For those who have been following the proceedings of the #sireneproject, we have some exciting news to share: the article we've been working on was recently published in volume 63 of Technium Social Sciences Journal! The article focuses on the ‘Transnational Local-sphere Model’; a theoretical framework describing the possible interactions between actors, sectors, institutions, and ecosystems to foster economic and social development. The model is based on previous helix frameworks, but aims to connect a network of stakeholders through existing local social innovation ecosystems. Interested? Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eszBnHSt 🧜♀️ The model derives from research that was done in light of the SIRENE project. SIRENE supports the growth of social innovation actors in eco-friendly and sustainable community-based services for SHAFE implementation in Europe, by providing a workable framework for investment. Find out more on the website: https://sireneproject.eu/.   🙏 Many thanks to all who collaborated in the SIRENE project for making this possible and for ensuring the success of the project in general! AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy | Willeke van Staalduinen, Dieuwertje van Boekel, Javier Ganzarain, Bart Borsje SHINE 2Europe | Carina Dantas, Miriam Cabrita TECNALIA Research & Innovation | Silvia Urra Uriarte ECHAlliance - The Global Health Connector | Dimitris Georgoulis Francesca Masiero, Maria do Rosário Cabrita

✅ The Web App Age-friendly City Professional is announced below. Do you want to contribute in the finalization? Please register as a tester and inform the project team about your remarks. ⬇️ See the message of your colleague Willeke van Staalduinen! #AFCToolkit

Just starting in Barcelona our 2 days final Transnational Partner meeting of the INTEGER - Interconnecting 4 Helix Innovation Ecosystems in European Regions project coordinated by i2CAT, and with all partners being represented, in-person and online, AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy, SHINE 2Europe, #URV, F6S, Jagiellonian University, @Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Sozialbehörde and Krakowski Park Technologiczny | Krakow Technology Park.

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar on November 27th at 11:00 CET, where we will provide updates on two exciting Erasmus+ projects. The project AFECO – Empowering older adults to apply affordable eco- and age-friendly solutions to age-in-place (https://lnkd.in/ejEN-dZQ) The project FLOWER - Fostering nature-related competencies with older people (https://flowerproject.eu/) To attend the webinar, please register by November 24th via this link: https://lnkd.in/eeUjPRX2 #Erasmus+ #SHAFE AFEdemy, age-friendly environments academy SHINE 2Europe ISIS-Sozialforschung SHAFE Foundation Dieuwertje van Boekel Carina Dantas Paola Bello Inês Saavedra Oscar Zanutto Francesca Masiero @Adele de Stefanie Jan Kazak J van Hoof Zsuzsu Tavy Rengin Aslanoğlu Jana Eckert Harm op den Akker

Voor het project Testteams4All publiceren we elke maand een bericht op sociale media over wat ons als projectteam bezighoudt. Vandaag stellen we de volgende vraag aan Bart Borsje, projectleider van #Testteams4All: Waarom vind je dit project zo belangrijk? Bart: Toegankelijkheid is helaas niet vanzelfsprekend! Lees Barts volledige reactie: https://lnkd.in/eTzR2Dvc Wouter Coolen Willeke van Staalduinen Wim Carabain Freek Schuerman Charlotte Aelbrecht Sophie Beyers Stichting Voorall Dito vzw #Testteams4All #Inclusie Delen en liken van het bericht wordt op prijs gesteld. Bij voorbaat dank. Onderstaande foto is voorzien van een ALT-tekst. Foto is aangekocht door AFEdemy voor gebruik en is afkomstig van Freepik.

✅ Today (October 29) is the International Day of Care and Support (https://lnkd.in/eebg7xia). 💌 We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the remarkable role that informal caregivers fulfil in our society. In the Netherlands 5 million people provide care for their loved-ones on a regular basis. Unfortunately, support measures for this group of heroes are lacking. As a result, many of our ‘mantelzorgers’ experience stress, burn-outs, and mental health problems. 📢 Project #YoungCare aims to relieve the pressure on informal caregivers by providing a compendium illustrating needs and gaps, an e-learning platform with information and tips, and policy recommendations to improve support systems. ▶️ Find out more on the project website: https://youngcare.eu/. Jonas Bernitt Dieuwertje van Boekel Jana Eckert Karin Stiehr Willeke van Staalduinen Javier Ganzarain Carina Dantas luis dias Joana Vieira Inês Saavedra Juliana Louceiro Natália Machado Ângela Freitas Andrea Marinho Paola Bello Frederico Amaral Rasa Naujaniene Katrin Fröhlich Michela Patuzzo #YoungCare

And so we close our Action... Miss it already? Then see the video we prepared for remembering our Final Event: https://lnkd.in/dVFDrvVF