Cooperation is the voice of U3A UK's 'International U3A' subject network. We provide discussion, international communication, news and the opportunity to take part in worldwide projects. We invite you to learn more about us, or to join us, by clicking on the button on the right.....
 
We ask U3As to send us news of their own international links, whether these are visits, home-stays, correspondence, exchanges or other links. Please keep to the following layout.

1. Your U3A name and the country you linked to
2. Name of the link organisation and a brief description
3. What kind of link? How was it set up?
4. The highlight of the events
5. Your short message

 
Where did you grow up? Tell us about that, and describe a childhood incident that still brings a smile whenever you think of it. Have you been back to see that place and what sort of changes did you find? (This is on a private U3A website and you will need to request a password to read previous entries).
 
 
Paro is a therapeutic robot, designed to help people suffering from dementia. It was developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and has undergone extensive trials. Read about it here and send your thoughts to project coordinator Jean Thompson for later publication.
 
What did you eat yesterday? And how did you eat it? Fork? Spoon? Fingers? Standing? Sitting? During February 2006 that question was put to 50 members of U3A around the world as part of an email project with Chaitanya School in Hyderabad, India. They were 'twinned' with a small group of children at this progressive English-medium school. Places were limited to 50, and the school plotted our responses on a world map. Press the button now to learn more.......
 

This is an invitation from Julie Bochanova, coordinator of the U3A Group at the People's University in Zelenogorsk, Siberia to take part in their email project on the 50th anniversary of the first artifical satellite and the 45th of the first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin. Also taking part are students of the Space Exploration School of this town. Please click on the button to learn more.....
 
 

It is difficult to understand people of other countries; and even more difficult to want to understand. But sometimes an event, a book, a painting, an everyday experience, a film,breaks through this barrier of misunderstanding, so that we see the people of another country in a new light. Click-on the button above to learn more about this new project, and the one on the right for some responses....
 

'Advice' was an interesting exercise in creative writing and also part of some research being carried out by Exeter University. Now completed and some early results can be found here.

 

Our very successful project - 'My U3A' - for U3A/UTA members around the world, is still being added to by groups outside the UK and Australia. Click on the button to see examples.....

Here are the headings;
1. Name and location of my U3A
2. How many members?
3. Range of Activities
4. What I like best about my U3A
5. My personal message

  • Just write as much or as little as you like and send your answer to jean.thompson@pop3.hiway.co.uk
  • Valentina Saenko, our partner in Russia, will be collecting her messages from a U3A in Siberia and we'll arrange for you to read them all -if you wish.
  • Please pass the message to your fellow-members so we get as wide a representation as possible.
 


During May 2005 U3A Zelenogorsk, Siberia, and U3A International, UK, ran a major English-language email project 'A World Without Fear'. Please click on the button on the right to learn more. You can also see some of the responses we received if you click on the 'Answers' button.
 

Starting in January 2005, we ask you to submit a short (one A4 page) description of where you were and what you were doing on the day you learnt that World War 2 had ended. To learn more, click-on the button to the right. This is now completed.
 

Our first email project was with an Elementary School in Denmark - Solbakkeskolen where the teacher, Jane Hansen, invited third-agers from around the world to write to her students about their breakfast. This is now completed.

 
Last update was 24th January 2006
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