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The largest EU-funded network of organisations of and for older people in Europe. Join us in combating ageism: support #AgeingEqual and our mission to build a society for all ages!

Visit our website: https://www.age-platform.eu
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Watch the interview w/Nena Georgantzi to better understand why this Convention matters for all generations, and how it can help ensure that we can all age with rights 🤝🌍

🎥 www.age-platform.eu/nena-georgantzi-interview-on-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-older-persons-spanish

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"This Convention will change this perspective by ensuring that rights - all rights - are fully recognised at every stage of life." - Nena Georgantzi, Human Rights Manager of AGE Platform Europe
January 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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We kicked off 2026 with a meeting with Commissioner @hadjalahbib.bsky.social on the next steps EU can take to make ageing w/ rights a global standard.

"You can count on me to be strong advocate for women and men of all ages!"
EU Commissioner Lahbib

We look forward to continuing our collaboration!
From left to right: AGE Platform Europe's Secretary-General, Maciej Kucharczyk, EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, AGE Platform Europe's President Heidrun Mollenkopf, and AGE Platform Europe's Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi From left to right: AGE Platform Europe's Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi, AGE Platform Europe's Secretary-General, Maciej Kucharczyk, and AGE Platform Europe's President Heidrun Mollenkopf From left to right: EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, Member of its Cabinet, Halliki VOOLMA and DG JUST Policy Officer, Michal WIKTOROWICZ All Meeting Participants seated at the table: AGE Platform Europe's Secretary-General, Maciej Kucharczyk, EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, AGE Platform Europe's President Heidrun Mollenkopf, and AGE Platform Europe's Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi From left to right: AGE Platform Europe's Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi, AGE Platform Europe's Secretary-General, Maciej Kucharczyk, and AGE Platform Europe's President Heidrun Mollenkopf, EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib, Member of its Cabinet, Halliki VOOLMA and DG JUST Policy Officer, Michal WIKTOROWICZ
January 13, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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🆕 #GOLDProject Update: Inspiring practices

AGE as one of the partners, participated in mapping the key legal and policy frameworks on ageing and disability.

We also conducted 40 interviews with ageing persons with disabilities, professionals, and family carers.

🔗 gold-project.eu/an-interacti...
Getting Older With a Disability
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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🏆 AGE Member CTAO Wins the Human Rights Award 2025

Congratulations to our member CTAO on receiving this award, in recognition of its contributions to advancing the rights of older people in Cyprus and at EU level 👏

🔗 Find out more:
www.age-platform.eu/age-member-c...

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AGE Member Cyprus Third Age Observatory Wins the Human Rights Award 2025
January 6, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Violence against older women is often hidden - but it’s real. During #16DaysofActivism, the #MARVOWProject conference, a project AGE is partnering in, shines a light on this abuse and empowers communities to take action.

👉Be part of the change: marvow.eu/events-train...

#ViolenceAgainstOlderWomen
"Gender-based violence does not stop with a certain age. Yet, gender-based violence against older women remains largely invisible and overlooked in policymaking" "Let's not forget older women. Let's call on the European Commission to create an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 that combats gender-based violence against ALL women." "Older women face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that accumulate over the lifetime, all of which create specific situations of vulnerability to abuse and neglect"
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📝 On 3 Dec 2025, the EMPL Committee adopted its position on the upcoming EU #AntiPovertyStrategy, urging a comprehensive, ambitious and well-funded plan with meaningful targets.

We call on MEPs to uphold this ambition in January’s plenary vote. 🗳️
🔗 Read more: www.age-platform.eu/european-par...
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MUST STRONGLY SUPPORT AN AMBITIOUS EU ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY. We urge MEPs to back the EMPL Committee report at the January plenary. This first-ever Strategy must be comprehensive, ambitious, and equipped with meaningful targets to eradicate poverty.
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🔜𝗨𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

Join us on 3 Feb 2026 in Brussels for the #MARVOWProject 2.0 conference, a project AGE is partnering in.

Be part of shaping safer futures for older women!

🔗 More info: marvow.eu/unseen-no-mo...

#16DaysofActivism #ViolenceAgainstOlderWomen
Marvow 2.0 Project Conference - Unseen No More: Protecting Older Women from Violence
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities!

How can an EU Action Plan to combat ageism help safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities?
👉Find out more here: www.edf-feph.org/blog/closing...

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#IDPD #IDPD2025 #ageism #disabilityrights #DisabilityVoice
"Older persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected by poverty, exclusion, and discrimination. (...) A robust action plan to combat ageism would fill this gap, building on the Disability Strategy while ensuring that ageing policies work for older persons with disabilities too." Nena Georgantzi, Human Rights Manager of AGE Platform Europe
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🤝Join us this #GivingTuesday to support age equality.
Your support helps us push for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons and fight all forms of ageism.

👉Every contribution makes a difference: bit.ly/DonateAgeEquality

#AGEPlatformEurope #AWorldforAllAges #AgeingEqual #Ageing
Giving Tuesday - Donate - Support our mission to create a society for all ages
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🤝 Thanks to our Members for contributing to the #AGEBarometer2025!
This edition reflects a shared effort by the AGE Employment and Participation Task Force and our wider network. Thanks to our Members, we gathered key insights into the challenges facing #olderworkers.

📥 bit.ly/age-barometer-2025
Group photo of the AGE Task Force on Employment and Participation
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🆕 The #AGEBarometer2025 is out now!
How are #digitalisation, the #GreenTransition and persistent #LabourShortages affecting #OlderWorkers?

Discover inspiring practices gathered by AGE members that promote inclusion and support quality working lives.

📥 Download now: bit.ly/age-barometer-2025
New launch AGE BAROMETER 2025 Older workers and the future of work: Navigating digitalisation, the green transition, and labour shortages Download
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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🔜 Join the upcoming EU Health Policy Platform webinar, co-organised with Hearing Health Forum EU, to explore how a life-course-informed, rights-based approach to hearing care can promote active and healthy ageing.

🔗 Register here: www.age-platform.eu/event/beyond...

Don’t miss out!
Beyond Ageing: A European Hearing Health Agenda for Inclusion and Economic Participation - Webinar
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🆕Our President, Heidrun Mollenkopf, is representing AGE and BAGSO at the #WorldSocialSummit in Doha.
𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁. She will emphasise the importance of building a society for all ages.

🎥 Watch her statement ⬇️

#EuropeforAllAges #AgeingEqual
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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How can policy help societies adapt to demographic change and strengthen bonds across generations?

Our Sec. Gen. Maciej Kucharczyk joins the #FutuRes project debate.

👉 Register: www.age-platform.eu/event/panel-...

Join the debate and help shape EU’s resilient future. 💬
“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁” at the final stakeholder conference of the FutuRes Policy Lab – Towards a Resilient Future of Europe project.
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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As part of the 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆, AGE is calling for a strategy that tackles root causes, like discrimination and lack of access to rights, and includes the perspectives of older people.

➡️Read our statement here:
www.age-platform.eu/eradicating-...

#EndPoverty
Coalition for an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Eradicating Poverty by 2050: More Than Words, a Comprehensive EU-Wide Strategy Is Needed Ageism perpetuates discrimination and deepens socio-economic inequalities in old age. The strategy must also reflect the lived experiences of older persons.
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🆕 The EU Parliament Intergenerational Forum has officially been launched!

Led by MEPs @idoiamendia.bsky.social and Michał Szczerba, the event featured Commissioners Glenn Micallef and Dubravka Šuica, and AGE members.

This Forum aims to shape the upcoming EU Strategy on Intergenerational Fairness!
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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📢 Our Sec. Gen. @mjkucharczyk.bsky.social will join the panel
on “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁” during the final stakeholder conference of the #FutuRes project.

📅 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 🕕 18:00 (CEST)
📍 Brussels, Belgium

👉Register: www.age-platform.eu/event/panel-...
The New Intergenerational Contract - final stakeholder conference of the FutuRes – Towards a Resilient Future of Europe project
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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✅ We’ve wrapped up the #AgeingisLiving Workshop!

AGE Members were consulted, and one key takeaway is that a meaningful life should be possible at every stage of life, supported by age-friendly cities that are accessible, affordable, and welcoming to all.

Thanks #WHOEurope

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Photo Group of AGE Members at the WHO Europe in Copenhagen
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🔛 We are in Copenhagen for the workshop Shaping the Future of #HealthyAgeing, co-organised by @whoeurope.bsky.social and AGE.

🤝 Our Members are contributing to the future strategy #AgeingisLiving to ensure realities of older persons of today and tomorrow will be represented.

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Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE. Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE. Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE. Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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In celebration of the International Day of Older Persons, EU Commissioner @hadjalahbib.bsky.social shared a special message recognising the potential and contributions of older people as the backbone of our societies and families.

👉 www.age-platform.eu/internationa...

#AgeingEqual #IDOP #IDOP2025
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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👵👴 Today is the International Day of Older Persons!

We’re launching our Proposal for an EU Action Plan to Combat #Ageism: 9 key initiatives to embed age equality across EU policy.

👉 www.age-platform.eu/solidarity-b...

#IDOP #IDOP2025 #AgeingEqual #AgeDiscrimination
It's the International Day of Older Persons! Check our Proposal for an EU Action Plan to Combat Ageism
October 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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💬“If you had to choose one word to describe a world where old age is met with respect, not barriers, what would it be?”

With the International Day of Older Persons just around the corner, we’ve invited our Members to share their experiences.👇

ℹ️More info: www.age-platform.eu/internationa...

#IDOP
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🚨 AGE takes part in the Coalition for an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy

We, a coalition of EU civil society organisations, are calling for a Anti-Poverty Strategy that is:
✅ Ambitious
✅ Comprehensive
✅ Rights-based
✅ Intersectional

👉 Find out more here: bit.ly/coalition_anti-poverty
EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Coalition Working across different sectors united by one goal: A strong, ambitious, and coordinated EU Anti-Poverty Strategy We Work to: - Push for a comprehensive EU Anti-Poverty Strategy - Ensure anti-poverty goals are mainstreamed across all EU policies - Connect poverty with issued like migration, climate, digitalisation, and security - Hold the EU accountable through meetings, joint statements, and work with key allies in the Parliament and Commission Poverty affects 95+ Million People in the EU. But it's still addressed in silos, fragmenting responses and delaying solutions. The coalition is building bridges across sectors and pushing for rights-based, intersectional answers to poverty List of Organisations: AGE Platform Europe | ATD Quart Monde | Caritas Europa | COFACE Families Europe | Emmaus Europe | ENAR | ERGO Network | Eurochild | Eurodiaconia | Equinox Initiative for Social Justice | FEANTSA | PICUM | Save The Children | SMEs-Europa | Social Platform
September 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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🧓👴Ageing with Dignity: Alison Bough, representing Active Retirement Ireland and AGE, will take part in Dublin City University’s webinar to mark the International Day of Older Persons.

📅 22 Sep 2025
🕙 10:00–12:00
💻 Online

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AgeingEqual #EuropeforAllAges
Poster of the webinar "Global Voices on Ageing: An irish Perspective Ageing with Dignity" International Day of Older Persons
September 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🌡️ Heatwaves in Europe: this summer, 85% of excess deaths were among people aged 65+.
#Heatwave deaths are not inevitable. There are solutions that take into account the needs of older people.

📑 Read the full report from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
➡️ bit.ly/3VlIyYY

#EuropeforAllAges
Climate change was behind most of the estimated heat deaths in European capital cities this summer
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM