Inaugural SI Focus Group Meeting

The inaugural meeting for the SI CINAGE Focus Group took place on Friday, 14^th February 2014 at Slovenian Third Age University. Meta Žgur presented CINAGE project, explained objectives and the role of Focus Group. She also presented all twelve movies and showed the CINAGE website.

Participants were invited to introduce themselves and give the reasons why they decided to be part of the Focus Group and what European film means to them.

Doc. dr. Dušana Findeisen explained the six key competences of active ageing. At this point the questionnaire was checked by participants and CINAGE partners in the case of some obscurity. Meta Žgur explained to the Group how they should complete the Focus Grid Forms after viewing each film. The Focus Group Grid forms were sent to the each participants by e-mail.

At this point, Good to go, one of the SI selection of three films and the first film of the 12 that the Focus Group will be asked to watch and consider, was screened. After the screening there was a discussion with the Group being asked to think about six competencies and their realistic, honest and informative representation. The group was asked to share their opinion on active ageing, experiences. The group was asked to give critical look on film, its story and characters.

Participants were each given a copy of the nine films. Each participant of the Focus Group will be sent copies of the remaining six films as soon as possible.
The participant of the Focus Group expressed pleasure with meeting and they expressed wish to meet more times for watching films together and discus it together. Especially discussion was very important for them.

It was agreed that the final SI CINAGE Focus Group meeting will take place on 13^th March 2014.