Growing older in rural areas: framework conditions, resources, spatial references

Annett Steinführer, Thünen Institute (for conference participants on request by e-mail)

Collective Singular: Participation and Part of History - Memory and Cohesion in Rural Areas

Jens A. Forkel, HS Neubrandenburg

Villages in Responsibility - Ensuring Equal Opportunities in Rural Areas

Uwe Fachinger, University of Vechta

Caring Community and Mental Space: Discoveries in a Rural Region of East Germany

Heidrun Herzberg, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg (for conference participants on request by e-mail)

"It takes a whole village..." Self-organisation and co-responsibility of older people in rural areas

Martina Ritter, Monika Alisch, HS Fulda

"Providing regionally, eating with pleasure..." Transparency and (digital) networking as an opportunity for rural areas

Stephanie Hagspihl, Catherina Jansen, HS Fulda (for conference participants on request by e-mail)

Forum 1: Potentials and limits of regional catering concepts in rural areas

Input: Anja Nitz, Barbara Pfindel, HS Fulda

Co-speaker: Brigitte Kram, Municipality of Ebersburg

Forum 2: Participation of socially disadvantaged older people

Input: Roger Glaser, Yonne Rubin, HS Fulda

Co-speaker: Christina Kühnemund, HS Fulda

Forum 3: On the relationship between self-organisation and public services of general interest

Input: Barbara Solf-Leipold, HAW Munich

Co-speaker: Bianca Fischer-Kilian, Senior Citizens' Community Kronach

Forum 4: Food poverty in old age: implications and challenges for rural areas

Input: Bérénice J. Barg, HS Fulda

Co-speaker: Jana Rückert-John, HS Fulda