Danet is a network for Learning in Later Life, Social Participation and Intergenerational Dialogue along the Danube DANET initiates local, regional, and transnational educational and learning activities and projects supporting the development of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). It is meant to promote new impetus to the development and implementation of common European policies on social development, social participation, learning, education and intergenerational dialogue. More
DANET focuses on:
- providing access to learning opportunities and general education based on the transfer of innovative practices and dissemination of current scientific findings and theories
- implementing and disseminating new approaches and innovative methods
- enabling universities and other types of educational organizations to provide and improve accessibility to both formal and non-formal education for older and younger generations
- providing grounds for highly professional national and transnational cooperation
- supporting senior citizens in Europe, particularly those in the countries of the Danube Region, to be active in civil society
- promoting cross-cultural dialogue in Europe, particularly in the Danube Region, as a must for mutual understanding and respect
- supporting older people in integrating their knowledge, skills and competences into new, mostly collective tasks, civil activities and actions, thus contributing to reducing and/or solving social and economic difficulties
- enabling and encouraging older people and other generations to preserve natural resources
- promoting access to a wide range of new technologies for citizens in Europe, particularly older people, young people, women, people with disabilities and people living in rural areas
