New
citizens for Europe - demographic changes and impacts on urban policy
fields
Conference, 26 - 28 September 2005
This conference is co-funded by the European Commission
Presentations can be downloaded as pdf-files by clicking on the title of the presentation or the name (some have a size of several MB)
Monday, 26 September 2005
09.00 - 09.10 Welcome
Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler, European Academy of the Urban Environment,
Berlin
09.10 - 09.30 Opening
of the conference
Monika Helbig, deputy minister and State of Berlin representative
to the Federal government; Berlin EU representative, Senate
chancellory of Land Berlin
Prospects of demographic developments: a challenge and potential for local authorities
09.30 - 09.50 Demographic
change in the European Union: EU Green Paper on confronting
demographic change: new solidarity between generations
Julius Op de Beke, European Commission, DG Employment, Social
Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Brussels
09.50 - 10.10 Migration
and integration in the USA: which lessons can be learnt in Europe?
Professor Phil Martin, University of California, Davis, USA
10.10 - 10.30 The urban dimension of demographic change: ways to
model the ‘City 2030’ - approaches, scenarios and concepts
Dr. Albrecht Göschel, German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin,
Germany
10.30 - 10.50 Demographic
change: perspectives and approaches exemplified by the city of Berlin
Thorsten Tonndorf, Berlin Regional Ministry for Urban Development,
Germany
10.50 - 11.20 Discussion
11.20 - 11.40 Coffee
Life-long learning: integration of young people and older employees into work - potential and challenges
11.40 - 12.00 An
ecological training and education centre for disadvantaged young
people: Lasker Höfe, a model project
Gudrun Laufer, Gesellschaft für berufsbildende Massnahmen (Agency
for vocational training measures), Berlin
12.00 - 12.20 Improved
integration in the labour market for older employees
Erik Simonsen, Danish Employers' Confederation, Copenhagen, Denmark
12.20 - 12.40 Discussion
12.40 - 13.45 Lunch
Enabling elderly people to self-sufficient living in existing urban quarters
13.45 -14.05 Experiences
in re-modelling buildings and establishing networks to provide
services for elderly people in their local area (2.4MB)
Danielle Harkes, Arcares, Kentniscentrum Wonenzorg, Utrecht,
Netherlands
14.05 - 14.25 The
Meinolfstrasse Nachbarschaftszentrum (neighbourhood centre) - pioneers
in self-sufficient living in an urban quarter (1.2 MB)
Thomas Möller, Housing Association 'Freie Scholle eG', Bielefeld,
Germany
14.25 - 14.45 Discussion
Site visits / excursions
15.00 Leave for various site visits:
site visit 1:
Visit to Lasker Höfe
in the Berlin Urban District of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (1.0
MB)
Gudrun Laufer,Gesellschaft für berufsbildende Massnahmen, Berlin
site visit 2:
‘Living together’: supportive and community services network for
elderly people based on local and volunteer commitment in the Berlin
Urban District of Hohenschoenhausen-Lichtenberg
Gudrun Hirche, ‘Miteinander Wohnen e.V’, Berlin
site visit 3:
Visit to the completed ESF model project BEST - Berlin Development
Agency for Social Enterprises and Economic Activities at District
Level
representative to be named, Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin e.V.
for 18.00 Return to the Academy
Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Migration, integration and demographic change: future challenges for cities
09.00 - 09.20 Migration
to European cities - an overview
Julia da Lima, DMO Welfare, City of Utrecht, the Netherlands
09.20 - 09.40 Strategies
for occupational integration of migrations
Dr. Hilde Hansen, BGZ - Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale
Zusammenarbeit mbH (Berlin Development Cooperation Ltd.), Berlin
09.40 - 10.00 Discussion
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee
10.30 - 10.50 Innovative
measures in social inclusion of elderly migrants: experience derived
from a European project
Dr. Elke Olbermann, Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen
und Beratung (Institute for social science analysis and consultancy),
Cologne/Leipzig, Germany
10.50 - 11.10 Inner City Religious Council (ICRC): a forum of
different faith communities working for regeneration, neighbourhood
renewal and social inclusion at local level
David Rayner, ICRC Secretariat, Office of the Prime Deputy
Minister, London, United Kingdom
11.10 - 11.30 Discussion
Final discussion and summing up
11.30 - 11.45 The
future European city in the light of demographic change - challenges,
opportunities and perspectives
Dr. William J. V. Neill, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast,
United Kingdom
11.45 - 12.30 Discussion
12.30 - 12.45 Summing up of the conference
12.45 Conference ends