Week schedule

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Setting the scene

Confirmed speakers: Tine Buffel (Manchester University), Isabel Margot-Cattin (Haute école de travail et de la santé Lausanne / University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland / BOPALIM Cost action network).

• Registration with coffee and tea
• Welcome by the organisers (for UAntwerp: Business and Law Research Group & the Urban Studies Institute, for AP University College: Stadskracht)
• Getting to know each other – moderated by Pieter Cools
• Lecture 1 (keynote) about ageing in urban environments
• Introduction to assignments
• Lecture 2 about methodologies for co-creative research and interaction with older adults environments
• Practice exercise: experience cities with ageing suits
• Work on assignments
• Social activity: Reception organised by the Antwerp Summer and Winter University (tbc)

Mobility, transportation and urban infrastructure

Confirmed speakers: Thomas Vanoutrive (University of Antwerp), Tjalle Groen (Mpact), Wouter Verheyen (University of Antwerp), Christina Makoundou (University of Antwerp).

• Working on assignments
• Lecture 1: Ageing and transport justice (user perspective)
• Lecture 2: Accessible mobility services (provider perspective)
• Lecture 3: The older adult in urban mobility policies (policy perspective)
• Lecture 4: Resilient asphalt for reducing injuries (infrastructure perspective)
• Dinner

Housing

Confirmed speakers: Liesbeth De Donder (SARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Luise Stoisser (SARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Jeroen Cant (TPR, University of Antwerp).

• Working on assignments
• Lecture 1: Ageing well in the right-place
• Lecture 2: Rethinking community-based housing for older adults
• Lecture 3: Food accessibility in the suburbs: a factor of concern in local public health and active and healthy aging
• Practice exercise

Community support and health services

Confirmed speakers: Sofie Vermeiren (AP University College)

• Lecture 1: Overlapping (care) challenges and vulnerabilities related to ageing
• Practice exercise: exchanging questions and ideas with older adults
• Lecture 2: TBA
• Lecture 3: TBA

Integration and Presentations of Group Projects

• Round table sessions with policy makers, providers, and civil society
• Presentation of group projects (assignment)
• Wrap-up and reception