Online webinar: Lifelong learning and well-being at age. Why learning never stops – and how routines can help

The project: “Healthy and digital on site”: Digital health education where people need it – visiting, close to everyday life and sustainable.

The Adult Education Association of Baden-Württemberg (Koordinatior) is working together with the Catholic University of Freiburg, the State Institute for Communication Baden-Württemberg (LFK) and the local adult education institutions to strengthen citizens in their digital health skills and promote the social participation of older people. The aim is to establish and maintain low-threshold educational offerings (e.g. online lectures) that help older people to better understand and independently use digital developments in the healthcare sector – e.g. the e-prescription, the electronic patient record or video talk lessons as well as the training of multipliers.

Target group: The lecture series is aimed at interested citizens. The aim is to provide low-threshold information on health-related topics and to raise awareness.

Topics: Everything about the digitalized health world

Format: online impulse presentations with moderated discussion and audience questions

Scope: Ten monthly events (from January 2026)

Duration: 18:00 – approx. 19:30 (about 1.5 hours)

Webinar: "Lifelong learning and well-being in old age: Why learning never stops – and how routines can help

Speaker: Psychologist Julia Heckmann-Umhau, University of Heidelberg

Learning keeps us mentally fit, strengthens self-confidence and contributes to an active, satisfied life in old age. But how can learning succeed if habits have become established? And what role do routines, curiosity and new experiences play for everyday well-being?

Julia Heckmann-Umhau from the University of Heidelberg shows how the brain remains flexible through lifelong learning, what research on neuroplasticity reveals and how learning routines can have a positive effect on health and joie de vivre. An inspiring lecture for everyone who wants to remain curious and develop their potential even in old age.