Week schedule | CityLAB XII: Age-Friendly Cities | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University

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Monday 29 June 2026 | Setting the scene

08:45 - 09:00: Registration with coffee and tea
09:00 - 09:15: Welcome by the organisers
09:15 - 10:00: Getting to know each other – moderated by Pieter Cools (AP University College)
10:00 - 11:30: Lecture 1 (keynote): Reimaging age-friendly cities: Urban ageing and spatial justice - Tine Buffel (Manchester University)
11:30 - 11:45: Coffee break
11:45 - 12:15: Introduction to assignments
12:15 - 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 - 14:15: Lecture 2: From Lived Experience to Local Action: Co-Creating Age-Friendly Cities with Older Adults and Municipalities - Isabel Margot-Cattin (Haute école de travail et de la santé Lausanne / University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland / BOPALIM Cost action network).
14:15 - 14:30: Coffee break
14:30 - 16:45: Excursion: walks with ageing suits - Sofie Vermeiren (AP University College) & Pieter Cools (AP University College)
16:45 - 17:45: Work on assignments
19:00 - : Dinner

09:00 - 11:00: Working on assignments
11:00 - 11:15: Introduction by chair - Sofie Vermeiren (AP University College)
11:15 - 12:30: Lecture 1: Ageing and transport justice - Thomas Vanoutrive (University of Antwerp)
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch break
13:30 - 14:45: Lecture 2: Mobitwin: a voluntary based DRT system for less mobile people - Tjalle Groen (Mpact)
14:45 - 15:00: Coffee break
15:00 - 16:15: Lecture 3: The older adult in urban mobility policies - Wouter Verheyen (University of Antwerp) & Ülkü Tanriverdi (University of Antwerp)
16:15 - 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 - 17:45: Lecture 4: Rethinking urban safety through the perspective of pavements: can roads protect us? - Christina Makoundou (University of Antwerp)

08:45 - 09:00: Coffee
09:00 - 09:15: Introduction by chair Pieter Cools (AP University College)
09:15 - 10:30: Lecture 1: Ageing well in the right place: importance of housing - Liesbeth De Donder (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
10:30 - 10:45: Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00: Lecture 2: Beyond ageing in place: community-based housing alternatives and spatial justice in ageing cities - Luise Stoisser (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
12:00 - 13:00: Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:15: Lecture 3: “Housing as Social Infrastructure: Living Together in Later Life” Insights from small-scale co-housing within social housing - Liese Herdewyn (PSC Open Huis vzw)
14:15 - 14:30: Coffee break
14:30 - 15:45: Lecture 4: Food Accessibility in an ageing society - Jeroen Cant (University of Antwerp)
15:45 - 17:00: Working on assignments
17:30: ASWU Reception at Antwerp City Hall

8:45 - 09:00: Coffee & tea
09:00 - 09:15: Introduction by chair Wouter Verheyen (University of Antwerp) + Welcome at Zorgbedrijf
09:15 - 10:15: Lecture 1: Everyone in: building inclusive and caring communities - Sam Vanhuynegem (Association of Flemish Cities and Communities, VVSG)
10:15 - 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 - 11:45: Lecture 2: Care challenges and vulnerabilities related to ageing - Sofie Vermeiren (AP University College)
11:45 - 13:00: Lunch
13:00 - 14:15: Lecture 3 - From Hospital to Home: Understanding and Designing Integrated Care for Older Adults - Maarten Wauters (ALTRIO Home Nursing)
14:15 - 14:30: Coffee break
14:30 - 15:45: Interactive dialogue with older adults
15:45 - 18:00: Working on assignments

9:00 - 10:30: Finalise assignments
10:30 - 11:30: How to turn Mechelen into an age-friendly city? Round table with Rina Rabau Nkandu (Mechelen Alderman for seniors, social exclusion and social affairs)
11:30 - 12:30: Lunch
12:30 - 13:30: Final preparations for presentations
13:30 - 16:30: Presentations of group projects
16:30 - 18:00: Wrap-up & reception