Carmen STADELHOFER

Carmen Stadelhofer, Academic Director (ret), President of the International Association "Danube-Networkers for Europe(DANET) e.V."

Carmen Stadelhofer is a Pedagogist, Romanist and Germanist. She worked from 1984 until her pension in the end of 2012 at Ulm University, since 1994 as Director of Zentrum für Allgemeine Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Universität Ulm (ZAWiW, Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education at Ulm University). Her main task was being responsible for the coordination of research projects (action research) on regional, national and international level. Research focus: Life Long Learning for Older Adults, intergenerational learning, and new media in general adult education. In her work time at ZAWiW, she had been a member of theAIUTA board, for many years as the Vice-President for Europe (www.aiu3a.com) She initiated in 1995 the International Network "Learning in Later Life (LiLL)" (www.lill-online.net), and in 2008 the Educational Network "Danube-Networkers"; in this frame she was responsible for different educational projects along the Danube. In March 2014 she founded with colleagues from different Danube countries the International Association "Danube-Networkers for Europe (DANET). Network for Learning in Later Life, Social Participation and Intergenerational Dialogue (DANET). (www.danube-networkers.eu).

Nowadays she chairs the "Institut for virtual and face-to-face learning in adult education at Ulm University (ILEU) e.V.", founded in 2002 (www.ileu.net), she is the President of DANET e.V. and a member of the board of the Danube Civil Society Forum (DSCF) in the frame of the Danube-Strategy of the European Commission for the Danube Region (EUSDR) (www.danube-region.eu)

In November 2013, she initiated and since then has coordinated the very successful Danube project "Die gewollte Donau/The wanted Danube" (www.thewanteddanube.eu) where until July 2014 more than six thousand individuals of all ages and ethnical and social backgrounds together with a lot of organisations participated in eight Danube countries. The project is going on under the Title "The Danube moves us"

For her professional achievements, she received the "Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany "and she is "Honorary Citizen of the City of Ulm".

Contact:
Carmen Stadelhofer, ILEU e.V., Olgastraße 109/9, 89073 Ulm
Carmen.stadelhofer@uni-ulm.de
Tel: 0049 (0)731 5026691, Mobil: 0049 (0) 171-1904099