| The Final Closing Conference and the meeting were hosted at the International Innovative Centre of Outdoor (El Anillo), Extremadura, Spain. (www.elanillo.org). The Final Conference was held on Monday 28/03/2011 and the partner meeting on 29/03/2011. The audience of the conference was composed by experts of the Region in physical activity, researchers, coordinators of the best practices, experts in health, high representatives of local and regional level and senior citizens. All the partners involved in the project attended to the meeting excepted representatives of E- Medine and CONI due to other commitment already arranged before fixing the date. The first day the Regional Minister for Youth and Sports Opened the Conference, he talked about the believes of the Regional Government of Extremadura on sport and physical activity as an agent of change, development and social cohesion. The General Director of Sports talked about the Project Senior Sport, once the Project was presented, it was the time for talking about specific experiences and cases in relation to healthy aging, TAMK explained the methodology used for the selections of the good practices. After that, all the partners introduced themselves and their own organizations to the audience. Also, some of the best practices were presented. Afterwards, the Model was explained by Mr. David Hooper, professional of the University of Kent and developer of the Model S2-PORT Methodology. The second day, it was a conference composed just by the partners of the Project, themes about the last aspect of the project as the closing of the Final Report, challenges, recommendations, and next steps…were treated during this day. |







