European University Association

University of the Third Age
The BUT University of the Third Age (“U3A”) entered into its fourth year in 2003. In 2003, the first 108 students of the 3rd year completed their studies at University of the Third Age in 8 specialized courses of a discipline-based programme of study. In the first and the second year of the basic course (141 and 142 students respectively), one lecture (two hours) per week for a period of 26 weeks is given. Because of the number of students in the third year of study (49), two specialized courses were offered (Current TV Technology and History and Theory of Graphic Art) and the students were expected to take a very active role. The interest in complementary courses in computer use necessitates the opening of six parallel courses per semester, with a total number of 172 students. The fourth-year courses for selected students opened for the fi rst time in 2003 and are attended by 83 students.
Collaboration with other cities and countries developed successfully. “The Internet in Practice”, a video-conference between senior citizens attending computer courses and students of computer courses at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University was held in the presence of the international project EuCoNet coordinator. In February, the 2nd strategic meeting of seniors from the Socrates Grundtvig 2 project, the European Competence Network for making the Internet accessible to senior citizens, was held at BUT.
Third-year students collaborating in the EuCoNet project took part in the 3rd and 4th strategic meetings of senior citizens in Vincenza and Glasgow in 2003.
In 2003, BUT hosted the secretariat of the Association of Universities of the Third Age. Besides two meetings of the board of the Association of U3A, the General Assembly of the Association of Universities of the Third Age took place at BUT on 13 November 2003. Detailed information on the activities of the Association of Universities of the Third Age can be found at http://www.vutbr.cz/AU3V.
Aktivity v celoživotním vzdělávání jsou dlouhodobě podporovány pomocí rozvojových programů ministerstva – viz Append, table IV -6 and Append. IV-8.