Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie ladet alle Sektionen der ÖGS, ihre Mitglieder und alle interessierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen ein, Vorschläge für Sessions im Rahmen des kommenden ÖGS-Kongresses „Alles im Wandel? Dynamiken und Kontinuitäten gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften“ zu machen. Die Sessions sollten einen Bezug zum Rahmenthema aufweisen und müssen offen für Einreichungen von Vortragsvorschlägen im Rahmen eines Calls for Papers sein.

The CARESS Erasmus+ project is a unique endeavour to improve vocational education and training in the field of home care. For three years, educational institutions and other partners from Finland, Spain and Italy have sketched out the main needs in the sector in order to create specific and common learning modules and launch a Virtual Community of Practice to help professionals sharing their practices.

The EU-funded MobileAge project, in which AGE is actively involved, is getting close to an end. During its final conference on 10 October, the project partners presented a first list of outcomes, including a series of policy briefings addressing key issues for inclusive digital services: co-creation tools, digital divide, accessibility, loneliness and social isolation, the GDPR and the access to free services.

On the occasions of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, AGE wished to remind decision-makers about the increasing precariousness and social exclusion of the most disadvantaged and invisible older people, leading to the violation of their right to live in dignity and fully participate in society.

AGE joined other civil society organisations in order to bring attention to the challenges faced by older women in accessing social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure.

Together with representives of major stakeholders in the social, health, education and housing sectors, AGE co-organized a conference on “Social Infrastructure Investment, from local innovative ideas to InvestEU project funding” in Brussels on 18th October.

On October 26, COST Action IS1402 on Ageism, AGE Platform Europe and the Committee of the Regions organized an international event to advocate for a future world for all ages, in which age is no longer a barrier. This event summarizes the work done on the topic of ageism by more than 200 researchers and policy stakeholders from 35 different countries, as part of a COST Action on ageism.

This call aims at supporting the management of health and wellbeing while empowering the participation of citizens and facilitating the transformation of health and care services to more digitised, person-centred and community-based care models, thereby enabling better access to healthcare and the sustainability of health and care systems.