• January 2025: The “Age-Friendly Cities and Communities’ Manifesto. CONNECTED Generations, CONNECTED Cities: The Age-Friendly Vision.” (main output of WP4)
Drawing on data from the surveys held in 4 cities (The Hague, Wroclaw, Krakow, and Bucharest) AFCCQ and photographic data collected through a geoportal, the City&Co project developed this manifesto in a co-creation workshop with older adults and policymakers from four cities held in October 2024 in Bucharest.
This Manifesto is a programmatic document that can be used to empower local and national organizations, municipalities, and policymakers to create age-friendly urban environments, where older adults feel welcomed and enjoy a better quality of life. The Manifesto outlines 10 key points that underpin older people and policymakers’ views on the age-friendly cities and communities’ framework, as stated by the World Health Organization (2007).
The manifesto can be downloaded from the World Health Organization's
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Romanian• The project outputs of Krakow city have been realized by the team of Jagiellonian University: Milena Maj, Aleksandra Trybalska, Natalia Krygowska-Nowak, Paulina Skórska, Tomasz Rębkowski, Joanna Kwinta-Odrzywolek and Anna Urbaniak
• 15 October 2024. Third WP4 co-creation workshop with older citizens and policy makers from the four cities, for example representatives from the City of Kraków, including Plenipotentiary of the Mayor of the City of Kraków for Older Citizens’ Policy Ms Okońska-Walkowicz and Ms Bożena Opach from the City Hall. In co-creation policy makers and older adults developed an age-friendly city manifesto, which aimed to define key actions and strategies for enhancing the quality of life for older adults in the city.
• 14-15 October 2024. Fourth Mutual Learning Visit & Annual Consortium meeting, organized by SNSPA in Bucharest, Romania. The results of WP3 were shared, including for example presentations of the four university partners about the flashcards, surveys and testing of the application of the geoportal. In addition, at this meeting the 3rd WP4 co-creation workshop was held, where policy makers and older adults from Kracow, Wroclaw, Bucharest and The Hague have co-created together a policy plan for the age-friendly and community agenda. A draft of the Manifesto (a programatic paper) has been created after the workshop gathering the participants efforts and the inputs from the project.
• 5 August 2024. In Krakow the first two WP4 co-creation workshops were conducted with 14 older citizens. Older adults who particioanted in WP2 and WP3 have discussed the data collected in the project and feedback has been provided. The maps (examples) resulted from the hotspot analysis and sentiment analysis have been presented and discussed with participants
• 17 July 2024. In Wroclaw the first two WP4 co-creation workshops were conducted with 12 older citizens. Older adults who particioanted in WP2 and WP3 have discussed the data collected in the project and feedback has been provided. The maps (examples) resulted from the hotspot analysis and sentiment analysis have been presented and discussed with participants
• 11 July 2024. In the Hague the first two WP4 co-creation workshops were conducted with 9 older citizens. Older adults who particioanted in WP2 and WP3 have discussed the data collected in the project and feedback has been provided. The maps (examples) resulted from the hotspot analysis and sentiment analysis have been presented and discussed with participants
• 22 April 2024. In Bucharest the first two WP4 co-creation workshops were conducted with 15 older citizens. Older adults who particioanted in WP2 and WP3 have discussed the data collected in the project and feedback has been provided. The maps (examples) resulted from the hotspot analysis and sentiment analysis have been presented and discussed with participants
• 16-17 April 2024. Third Mutual Learning Visit, organised by UJ in Krakow, Poland
• 16 January 2024. Two training sessions took place in Bucharest with 12 and 13 participants who will take part in the photo production study of WP3. The aim was to explain the study, to support in adding the link to the mobile app of the geoportal on the mobile phones of the participants, and to practice with using the mobile app. In total at least 25 older people from each city will take part in this part of the project.
• 5 January 2024. Published report on the experienced Age-friendliness of Kraków for the City Council of Kraków (in Polish language)
[link]• December 2023 - the WP2 Scientific Report (Romania) has been submitted and approved
[.pdf]• November 2023 - January 2024. Three training sessions and several individual meetings took place in The Hague with in total 12 participants who will take part in the photo production study of WP3. The aim was to explain the study, to support in adding the link to the mobile app of the geoportal on the mobile phones of the participants, and to practice with using the mobile app. In total at least 25 older people from The Hague will be enrolled this month in this part of the project.
• 28 November. Two training sessions took place in Wroclaw with 9 and 11 participants. The aim was to explain the study, to support in adding the link to the mobile KOBO Toolbox application of the geoportal on the mobile phones of the participants, and to practice with using the mobile app. In total 30 older citizens were invited who will use the mobile KOBO Toolbox application.
• 20 and 30 November 2023. Two training sessions took place in Krakow with 7 and 8 participants who will take part in the photo production study of WP3. The aim was to explain the study, to support in adding the link to the mobile KOBO Toolbox application of the geoportal on the mobile phones of the participants, and to practice with using the mobile app. In total 30 older citizens were invited who will use the mobile KOBO Toolbox application.
• November 2023 - May 2024. Continuous two-weekly monitoring reports are delivered by UPWr about the data collected in the four cities in WP3 during the period November 2023 and May 2024
• November 2023. The translated report on the perceived age-friendliness of the Age-friendly City of The Hague (WP1) by older adults in 2022 has been published on the Extranet website of the World Health Organization
[link]• October 2023. WP1 report for Netherlands has been submitted and approved by the municipality.
[.pdf]• December 2022. WP1 report for Romania has been submitted to UEFISCDI
[.pdf]• November 2022 – March 2023, 12 co-creation sessions were organized with about 30 older citizens from the four cities to design of the geoportal based on user’s needs and wishes (WP2). In each city three consecutive sessions were hold with participants aged 65+ years and living in various neighbourhoods. In the first session participants shared their perceptions and needs concerning facilities in the city and co-created a prototype of the geoportal. In the second session they discussed the first concept of the geoportal app developed at UPWr (colours, letter type, format etc), and in the third session participants tried and discussed the app on a smartphone and discussed issues related to the use of the app.
• April 2022, Milena Maj started as a PhD-candidate on the City & Co project, being part of team of Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Kraków, Poland. Welcome Milena!
• 18 March 2022, Kick off meeting and official start of City&Co, online meeting with the four University partners and AFEdemy. Presentations on general overview of the project by J van hoof, overview of deliverables and milestones by L de Wit and work plans for WP1 by J Kazak and WP2 by J Dikken, followed by discussions and questions
• March 2022, Operationalization of Research drive, the online shared storage environment to securely store (sensitive) research data and project documents