AGE Platform Europe

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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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Your experience. Your voice. Better housing for all. Contribute to the EU Study on equal treatment in housing.
“Lead with us” – Turning 25 Years of Advocacy into Action ​for the Rights of Older Persons 9 June 2025 | 9:15 – 13:15 (CET) | Hybrid – Online and Leuven (Belgium) Discover how the UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons will be shaped and how it will deliver real change in practice.
New EU Anti-Poverty Strategy An important step forward: it explicitly recognises old-age poverty as a priority.
EU Day of Solidarity between Generations 29 April 2026
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Cyprus: New Law Protects Older Drivers Following AGE Members’ Advocacy AGE Members from AGE Platform Europe PA.SY.D.Y. Pensioners’ Union Cyprus Third Age Observatory
𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 – 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 project. Ageing with a Disability: Challenges, Practices & Policy Perspectives 23 March 2026 10:30–13:00 CET Online
AGE Platform Europe proposal for an EU Action Plan to Combat Ageism
Age friendly Conversations Poster - 26 March 2026 - 15:00–16:30 CET - Featuring our Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi
Your opinion matters
AGE Secretary General, Maciej Kucharczyk, AGE Head of Advocacy, Nena Georgantzi, and Slovenia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, H.E. Ms. Anita Pipan.
UN Convention on the Human Rights of Older Persons - First Working Group in Geneva
We call MEPs to adopt the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Report! The European Parliament must send a strong message to the European Commission: the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy must be comprehensive, ambitious and well funded.
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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
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
Getting Older With a Disability
AGE Member Cyprus Third Age Observatory Wins the Human Rights Award 2025
"Gender-based violence does not stop with a certain age. Yet, gender-based violence against older women remains largely invisible and overlooked in policymaking"
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.
Marvow 2.0 Project Conference - Unseen No More: Protecting Older Women from Violence
"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
Giving Tuesday - Donate - Support our mission to create a society for all ages
Group photo of the AGE Task Force on Employment and Participation
New launch AGE BAROMETER 2025 Older workers and the future of work: Navigating digitalisation, the green transition, and labour shortages Download
Beyond Ageing: A European Hearing Health Agenda for Inclusion and Economic Participation - Webinar
"We, older people, are more than just older workers on the one hand and old people in need of care on the other (…) but a 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀 (…) who contribute actively, each in our own specific way, to the development and cohesion of the generations, and are thus an 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆."
“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁” at the final stakeholder conference of the FutuRes Policy Lab – Towards a Resilient Future of Europe project.
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.
The New Intergenerational Contract - final stakeholder conference of the FutuRes – Towards a Resilient Future of Europe project
Photo Group of AGE Members at the WHO Europe in Copenhagen
Workshop "Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing", co-organised by WHO Europe and AGE.
It's the International Day of Older Persons! Check our Proposal for an EU Action Plan to Combat Ageism
“If you had to choose one word to describe a world where old age is met with respect, not barriers, what would it be? And why?”
EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Coalition Working across different sectors united by one goal: A strong, ambitious, and coordinated EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
Poster of the webinar "Global Voices on Ageing: An irish Perspective Ageing with Dignity" International Day of Older Persons
Climate change was behind most of the estimated heat deaths in European capital cities this summer
Group Photo with THINK CARE Project Participants and AGE Staff
AccessibleEU Event - Enhancing an Accessible Educational Ecosystem AccessibleEU is hosting a workshop ahead of the 18th International Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE) at the European University Cyprus.
Photo of the co-chairs of the Interest Group "Europe for All Ages", Members of the European Parliament, Idoia Mendía and Michal Szczerba, with Secretary General of AGE Platform Europe, Maciej Kucharczyk
Victory for Equality: EU keeps anti-discrimination Directive
"Solidarity is a precondition for our society, for living together, for cohesion and for mutual support. But we are living in and experiencing a segregated society and communities. We have to create more space for the exchange of our experiences, fears for the future and positive experiences." Dr. Heidrun Mollenkopf - President of AGE Platform Europe
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"Solidarity is about embracing everyone (...) By focusing exclusively on fairness, the upcoming EU intergenerational fairness strategy risks reinforcing the assumption that individuals or groups of people are motivated by self-interest (...)" Maciej Kucharczyk, AGE Secretary General
Endorse our call for an EU Action Plan to Combat Ageism "To build a society that values every person and generation and protects human rights from birth to death, AGE Platform Europe calls for an EU Action Plan to Combat Ageism (...)" - AGE Platform Europe
“Digitalisation must be human-centred, based on trust, communication and shared goals” Julia Wadoux and Vera Hörmann - AGE Platform Europe
"Why human rights philanthropy needs an ageing lens" By Nena Georgantzi and Rhiannon Murgatroyd of AGE Platform Europe"
AGE Members gathered for the General Assembly held in Leuven
"We have a lot of experience with older persons using the technologies, including artificial intelligence in several projects. And from those projects, we know that older persons are not against technologies or any use of artificial intelligence, but it is difficult for them to use it and to understand it and to be sure and certain about its use." Dr. Heidrun Mollenkopf President of AGE Platform Europe
Session "A place of belonging: Why do happiness, environmental performance and social policy matter for communities?" ILC Europe Network's Conference "Addressing the age gap: how do we create a Europe that's fit for the future?"
Joint Letter and Meeting request – Safeguarding Civil Society: Concerns on Co-Funding Rates and Restrictions on Advocacy Work
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Things that are hard to see
AGE Reaction - Council Conclusions on Supporting Older People in the Labour Market EPSCO Council on 19 June 2025
EP policy breakfast organised by the “ #EuropeforAllAges” Interest Group.
Maciej Kucharczyk | Sec. General of AGE