International Day of Older People: A Europe for All Ages
Event Information: đź“…Wednesday, 2 October 2024 | đź•’ 15h00-17h00 CEST đź“ŤEuropean Parliament | Brussels, Belgium | Registration is mandatory here On 2 October 2024, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), AGE Platform Europe, and its members (over 100 organisations representing and supporting older people across Europe) will gather to promote the recommendations outlined in the […]
European elections 2024
The 2024 European elections offer the opportunity to shape the future of a European Union for all ages. Let’s seize it together!
Solidarity between Generations
Let’s join forces for greater solidarity and cooperation between generations! Since 2008, AGE has been involved in an awareness-raising campaign to attract the attention of politicians at European, national, regional and local levels on how to rethink the concept of solidarity and cooperation between generations and bring more intergenerational fairness and social justice. The cornerstone […]
AGE is an official partner of the “Safe and healthy work in the digital age campaign”
AGE Platform Europe is among the 90 organisations that have teamed up with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) for its 2023-25 Safe and healthy work in the digital age campaign, aiming to “ensure that humans are put at the centre of workplace digitalisation.” We were also involved in their previous […]
The EU leads the rallying for a UN Convention
AGE is part of a global movement in favour of a new UN convention on the rights of older people. While the EU and its member states are global leaders in the defence and promotion of human rights, it is time that they demonstrate in practice their commitment to equality at all ages. ———————————————————————— In […]
European Parliament elections 2019
AGE CAMPAIGN Â Â The European citizens will elect the next European Parliament on 23-26 May 2019. This year again, AGE Platform Europe and its members organisation will mobilise to ensure the MEP candidates and elected representatives take initiatives that will be able to meet the challenge of an ageing population. Read our February 2019 Special Briefing […]
#AgeingEqual defends human rights in old age
Since 2018 AGE has been running a human rights campaign to raise awareness of prevalent ageism and mobilize to take action against it. Support the #AgeingEqual campaign against ageism! > Why is ageism a human rights issue? Ageism is the systematic discrimination of persons on the ground of their age. As other discriminations, it takes […]
EP elections 2014
AGE Campaign for the 2014 European elections Read here AGE Special Briefing on outcome, next steps and AGE future action In the framework of the 2014 EU elections which will define the composition of the new European Parliament and European Commission, AGE is running a campaign to raise public and political awareness of the need […]
European Year 2013
2013 is the European Year of citizens Being an EU citizen has a direct impact on your daily life in providing you with rights, such as moving and staying freely within the European Union, studying or working in another EU country, having access to health care everywhere in Europe or paying less for your phone […]
European Year 2010
2010 European Year for Combating Poverty General information Please find below background information and official documents on the 2010 European Year of Fight Against Poverty and Social Exclusion: Vademecum This note aims to highlight the various ways for stakeholders to get engaged and create synergies with the common European campaign. Please note that this vademecum […]
European Year 2012
EY2012 for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations The evaluation report of the European Year 2012 (released in September 2014) can be downloaded on the website of the European Commission. The final Implementation Assessment Report of the EU Year 2012 can be downloaded on this page This page is dedicated to the campaign that AGE […]
Age-Friendly Environments
Age-friendly environments: key to address Europe’s demographic change In the Social Investment Package, the European Commission addresses future challenges and needs regarding social investment, sustainable welfare states and the ability to strengthen Europe’s competiveness in a global setting. However, social investment should primarily benefit the society; accordingly, a collective benefit for the society must be […]
