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Conference – ‘Room for more: How do we make Germany more family-friendly?’
26 October, 2024 | 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

INTERGENERATIONAL CONFERENCE
Saturday 26 October 2024, from 10,00 to 16,30 – Youth Hostel at Möhnesee
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Programme
- from 9:30 a.m. – Arrival of families and welcome coffee
- 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. – Opening with words of welcome
- 10:15 – 11:15 – Keynote ‘Mental health of children in multi-child families – an opportunity for them to grow up and for society’, Dr Inés Brock-Harder [Chairwoman of the Federal Association for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy bkj, Halle/Saale]
- 11:15 – 12:15 –
1. ‘family friendly municipalities: the European perspective by the example of Trento (Trient). The better future festival project’, Regina Maroncelli [President European Large Family Confederation / ELFAC , Italy]
2. ‘Housing and neighbourhood development: best practice examples’, Gerd Schreiner [Architect, KRFD AK Housing]
3. ‘Family centres – from the perspective of local politics’, Dr. Clemens Götz, [Former Mayor of Althengststetten, Baden-Württemberg] - 12:15 – 12:45 – Q&A session with moderation
- 12:45 – 13:30 – Lunch break with snack and group photo and individual portraits of employees/LVs/families …
- 13:30 – 14:00 – Presentation of the study ‘Family friendliness in Germany’, Family Monitor No. 45 by Claudia Siebner, M.A. (Mainz)
- 14:00 – 15:00 – ‘World Café’ 10 minutes each accompanied by a BV:
- “Family friendliness and family3plus – there’s more to it: What do the what do the rich say …?”
- Housing and infrastructure (Dr Clemens Götz)
- Social security (Annika Kröller)
- Reconciling family and career (Dr Laura Schlichting)
- Education and childcare (Uta Baumann-Giedziella)
- Leisure and culture (Katrin Konrad)
- Society (Katharina Spieth)
- 15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee break and opportunity for the regional chairpersons to meet with their members
- 15:30 – 15:45 – Presentation of the results of the ‘World Café’
- 15:45 – 16:00 – Closing speech and words of thanks
- 16:00 – End
Programme for children (up to 10 years)
- Creative activities
- Movement games
- Climbing from 8 years (separate registration required, limited number of places)
Programme for teenagers (from 11 years)
- Building nesting boxes
Programme schedule family camp (25.-27.10.2024)
- Friday:
- from 3 pm Arrival
- Family coffee to get to know each other
- Move into rooms and parallel games for the children
- Dinner together
- Games evening and campfire
- Saturday:
- Breakfast
- Participation in the family conference
- In the evening, storytelling cinema for the younger children and games evening for the other children
- Sunday:
- Surprise programme with excursion
- Lunch together
- Departure afterwards