Agnieszka Cieśla, PhD, architect and urban planner, lecturer at the Department for Spatial Management and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography Warsaw University of Technology, specialist in issues related to demographic ageing and its spatial consequences (doctoral thesis at the Bauhaus University Weimar), social activist, founder of the “Despite the age” foundation, co-author and co-creator of the first model apartment for the older people in Poland (www.mimowieku.pl), participant in European projects and initiatives (among others: www.hands-on-shafe.eu, NET4AGE-FRIENDLY COST Action, SAFE consortium), member of expert groups in Polish Institute of Silver Economy, Institute for Ageing Policy and Polish Association of Town Planners.

Day 1 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)

16:30 – 18:45
Senior Citizen Symposium – Active Urban Living

TBA

Day 2 (Friday, April 23, 2021)

15:00 – 16:10
Panel #4 – Innovation in safe and age-friendly urban communities

The need for ageing in place and the challenge of long term deinstitutionalisation. The case of Poland.