Senior Club Litoměřice

For active lifestyle, you need to be healthy, and for maintaining health, regular exercise is necessary. The Municipality of Litoměřice knows that for sure. They organize regular events like: Reconditioning exercise under guidance of professional trainer (every Monday and Thursday, from 8 to 9am). They also prepare singing lessons every Thursday from 2pm, and borrow some books to people. On Monday 20th of January, there was also a trip called „Travelling in Cyprus“ and on 27th of January Memory training event.

As you can see, there are plenty of events for our ACTIVE seniors in Litoměřice. It only remains to go to one of them.

Link to Litoměřice websites (in Czech):

http://radnice.litomerice.cz/dokument-1120888.html

Sedukon o.p.s.

SEDUKON o. p. s. was established in Ostrava as a non-profit company in 2001. Company SEDUKON is reserve as a non-profit organization, while the scope of the organization in Ostrava extended to Prague. Our activities are focused primarily on:

·         Education and vocational courses with emphasis on the development of innovative educational methods.

·         Education and personal development of differentiated groups of disadvantaged people with regard to the needs of their integration into the socio-economic environment of the Czech Republic.

·         Initiation, implementation and collaboration in projects co-financed by the European Union, both at national and international level.

·         Organizing courses, workshops and providing employment advice.

·         Cross-border cooperation and networking.

The company is one of the major regional non-profit organization focusing primarily on education and follow-up activities. SEDUKON, through cooperation with foreign partners and implementation of international experience, contributing substantially to better and more successful form of education in the Czech Republic.

Projects aimed at seniors:

Competencies for Seniors in Action

The project aim is to create strong partnership ready to efficient an offer of the solution for qualification and competences by expansion of the capacity a work structure of older people, to create considerable activities in their communities at European level.

Project partners:	XIBO Center (Romania)
	SEDUKON, o. p. s. (Czech republic)
	LEAM Développement et Gestion de Projets (France)
	Hungarian Telecottage Association (Hungary)
	AGORA – Associazione Culturale (Italy)
	Joniškio rajono švietimo centras (Lithuania)
	Krośnieński Uniwersytet Trzeciego Wieku (Poland)
	Akdeniz Üniversitesi Elmali Meslek Yüksek Okulu (Turkey)
	Arber Enterprises Ltd. (Great Britain)

Project description:

Ageing has a significant impact to the social perception of human, despite of this older people are still placed in a disadvantaged positions. In their effort to keep a balance for the situation, the NGOs which assumed missions on this matter have to face the lack of funds and the isolation from other contacts that could nurture their need of learning and exchange experiences

The project aims creates a strong partnership to offer solutions to building up capacities of the organization structure and achieving a higher activity and efficiency of elderly person in their communities at the European level.

The target group members are employees of non-governmental organizations working with elderly people. Target group contains of NGOs or other structures working with older people.

Activities/Outcomes:

·         Training PC courses, fundraising, writing and implementing project (introduction of the Grundtvig Programme) and foreign language courses.

·         Stimulate the cooperation between the target organizations: participation in the international meetings and workshops organized within the project – opportunities to establish contacts, discover cultural values, define common domain of interest, identifying a team building and sharing experiences.

·         The main project result shows the draft of a new international project created by the target groups, underlying the force of involvement of older people in community-level actions and wider.

Program 50+

Sedukon company project. in order to increase the employability of people over 50 years.

Project description:

The project is focused  at increasing employment and employability of persons older than 50 years in the Moravian Region.

Goal of the project is an individual approach to provide advice and support to 28 selected participants of the project - 16 candidates and 12 interested for jobs over 50 years.

The project will contribute to addressing the specific situations and problems of project participants in the labor market through:

-       -      Providing individual support and motivation of the target group (work, balance diagnostics, consultations, individual job counseling)

-       -      Raising the skills of the target group through the courses:

1)     Master in production

2)     Welding course

3)     The driver of the lorry

4)     Salesman

5)     Worker in banking

-       -      Support the creation of new jobs

ACTIVE SENIOR 2012 PROJECT 

is already past half-way.

Our Finnish group has been quite active both locally (learning the subjects included in the project programme) and internationally in taking part in the project meetings in Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Greece.  The project, and especially the meetings in other countries have been very interesting for our members.  We have learned a lot about the culture of other partner countries and have enjoyed the
trips and the hospitality of the host organisations very much.  The travels have also inspired us to find out new ways of activity within our group here in Finland.

Reflexology for Mirja in Athens

Finnish group at the European Fair

Miikka, Eero and Tauno on the Acropolis

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We are almost 40 active seniors.  We have a general meeting once a month.. Additionally we arrange different events.  In November we made a tour to Tampere, about 200 km from Kouvola.  We saw a theater performance-  The name of the play was "My heart hurts".  It was a partly humorous story about ageing and the problems with the cervices in health care.  Afterwards we had a lunch and visited an exhibition on Chinese Terra Cotta soldiers from the time of the first Chinese Emperor in 220' s B.C.
Before Christmas there was a Christmas party at a Club House in a museum area in Verla village.
Our group entertained the inhabitants of a sheltered home.  There were Christmas Carols and plays.
At our December meeting rice porridge, Christmas pastries  and coffee were served.   In addition to other points Christmas music was on the agenda.   Meeri and Eira presented  the idea of reflexology, and how it helps.  Other things that we learned in Athens were dealt with at our previous meeting in November.

Lesson on Reflexology 

Rice porridge is a typical food at Christmas