Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoff, Professor of Social Gerontology and Director of the research institute "Health, Ageing, Work, Technology" (GAT), is a visiting professor at the University of Granada in the southern Spanish province of Andalusia from May to July 2022 at the invitation of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. He was welcomed by the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Mariano Sanchez Martinez, on 4 May. Prof. Hoff's research in Granada focuses on intergenerational relationships, in particular the interaction between older and younger people. During his stay, he had the opportunity to visit the Centro Intergeneracional de Referencia (CINTER) of the Spanish charity Macrosad https://macrosad.es/ in Albolote near Granada. Macrosad pursues an innovative approach: here, the kindergarten and care home are run together, in two adjacent buildings on the same property - the older people and the children spend time together under professional supervision, playing and cooking together.

With this research stay, Prof. Hoff also began a new research project on "Researching the development of intergenerational relationships in climate change". He is investigating questions such as:

• Are the generations affected differently by climate change?
• Do they have similar or different perceptions of climate change?
• What ideas do the younger, middle and older generations have about our future society from 2030?
• Do these differ between Spain and Germany, between Andalusia and Saxony?

He presented his conceptual and research methodological considerations to the faculty public in a lecture on June 28, 2022.

MA Social Gerontology students at the HSZG are carrying out a research internship on these questions. There are plans to hold a workshop in June 2023 on the consequences of renewed structural change in Lusatia as a result of climate change and the end of coal mining with those affected from the region.

The research topic of "climate change and older people", which has received far too little attention from researchers to date, will in future be part of the GAT Institute's research portfolio and one of the topics taught on the Social Gerontology degree course.