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Ageing

Gerontological Interdisciplinary Conference

Held biannually in the Czech Republic since 2012. The conference tradition was founded by Hana Georgi (previously Stepankova), a geropsychologist who has worked at several research and academic institutions through her career.

A close co-operation has been established with the Alzheimer’s Foundation (AF), and its director, Šárka Kovandová. AF supports the conference and also the competition within the conference. The organizing committee includes Jindřiška Kotrlová and Marta Vaňková.

In the history of the conference, we have co-operated with institutions that supported the event: Prague Psychiatric Centre, 3^rd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, 2^nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and Teaching Hospital Motol, Neurotrend, and Prague College of Psychosocial Studies.

All interested parties - researchers, academics, and practitioners, students, and other professionals and the general public are welcome to participate actively or passively.

Active participants are invited to submit full-texts of their contributions (in Czech, Slovak, or English) to the peer-review process, and the successful ones are then published in the conference proceedings. So far, the Ageing 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 conference proceedings have been indexed on Web of Science.

Conference objectives:

• To gain an overview of current topics related to the specifics of education of older persons;
• To gain useful knowledge directly transferable to the practice of education and activation of older people;
• Establishing contacts and cooperation, the possibility of building interdisciplinary teams;
• Getting an overview of the activities of Czech and Slovak researchers in the field;
• Achieving higher competitiveness in research activities.