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EU Day of Solidarity between Generations

Join the campaign to promote an age-friendly European Union by 2020!

AGE is 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 between the generations, and to promote active ageing.

This campaign was launched in 2008 and is now supported by a growing coalition of European Organisations active in various sectors and representing different citizens groups ans stakeholders.

Objective of this campaign:

Make the European Union more age-friendly and better adapted to our ageing population, as well as have intergenerational solidarity high on the EU agenda.

Recent and ongoing activities:

In 2013...

The Coalition is encouraging their members and the other European organisations to organise awareness-raising events on the need of greater intergenerational solidarity in an ageing society. Those initiatives are collected every year so as to give them more visibility and inspire further actions/projects.
This year again, the Coalition has sent a joint press release to mark the EU Day and highlight its key message
In 2013, AGE and Eurochild are organising a roundtable at the European Parliament on the topic of Grandparents as carers on 24th April.
The coalition will also promote the European project Generations@school

In 2012...

The Coalition closely cooperated with the European Commission in order to prepare the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (2012). For more information, please click here.
The Coalition published a joint brochure entitled "2012: Everyone has a role to play!" (EN, FR) to invite all stakeholders at local, national and European Year to use the European Year 2012 to promote solidarity between generations.
The Coalition published an EY2012 Coalition Manifesto
The Coalition prepared a roadmap presenting their concrete commitments in the framework of the EU Year 2012

Please click here to see the list of initiatives added since the publishing of the roadmap

What can you do to support the campaign?

Use the logo of the EU Day on your website or on any relevant publication;
Use the banner of the EU Day ( DE, EN, ES,FR,IT) on your websites to mark 29 April 2012;
Send to Anne Mélard, Information and Communication Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of your projects and events aiming at raising awareness on the need of greater solidarity. She will add them to our list of initiatives across Europe;
Help us disseminate our joint brochures as widely as possible.

For more information on the campaign, please contact Alice Sinigaglia, Campaign Coordinator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you wish to share with us your examples of good practice, please contact Anne Mélard, Information and Communication Officer, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

This page has kindly been translated into Croatian by Forum 50+: Center for Quality of life To view, please click here.

1	List of initiatives across the EU in 2013
2	List of Supplementary Initiatives to the EY2012 Road Map
3	List of initiatives and actions across Europe 2012
4	List of initiatives and actions across Europe 2011
5	Best Practice in the Field of Intergenerational Solidarity
6	List of initiatives and actions across Europe 2010
7	Logo "29 April - European Day of Solidarity between Generations"
8	List of contacts
9	Useful links, publications and documents
10	Examples of actions to mark the European Day on Intergenerational Solidarity