U3A WEBINARS 

With the suspension of in-person activities from March 2020 as a result of Sars Cov2 virus  Pandemic U3A groups moved events/meetings online using a number of different virtual meeting/events platforms.    

A number of webinars were also organised and you can view such meetings/webinars on the individual U3A websites.   In addition Age Action U3A facilitated our U3A meetings via Zoom events.  

These were recorded and members can play back if they missed these events or had technical issues joining on the day.    These can be viewed on  Age Action's You Tube video.

This is the link to Age Action's channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/AgeAction

for instance Nov 2020  Zoom event 'In conversation with author Ronnie Doyle can be viewed on this channel as well - or click on 

In Conversation with Roddy Doyle 

Another  example October 2021 UCC School of Applied Social Studies and Age Action hosted a webinar Involving Older People in Community Research as part of Community Week in UCC. 

This can be viewed on Age Action website or the following link 

U3A Age Action Event Oct 2021 or  https://youtu.be/l-2Z1EA8ZCI?t=2

Other U3A groups within Ireland hosted online events with guest speakers.    One such group is U3A Brayheads and their video recording of these events can be viewed by going to their website on this link  

https://www.thebrayheadsu3a.ie/zoomvideos/zoomvideolist.php 

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Since April 2020 members have joined the IFA Global Cafe weekly events where we discussed a whole range of issues relating to older adults with experts and others from around the world.    This was a great forum and happens every Friday .   Go to the following link to see the range of topics discussed. 

https://ifa.ngo/ifa-global-cafe/ 

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There were great learnings and opportunities following  significant number of doors being opened to us that may not have been opened.      We all came together at a local, national and international level. 

As we move forward in the Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021 - 2030 we expect that the future will by a hybrid model i.e. a mix of face to face and virtual events with our own members, local, national and international speakers.