Aims

EFOS has the following aims:

• Fostering of academic studies of older people alongside younger students or at special academies/universities for older people

• Fostering of joint projects for older students throughout Europe

• Fostering and securing the access of older people to academic education including those without formal qualifications

• Representation of interests of academic education for older people in politics and society

• Fostering of autonomous national organisations with similar goals

• Identifying possibilities of using the skills and expertise of older students for the benefit of science and society

• Cooperation with other international organisations that support lifelong learning (LLL)

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EFOS is represented at the UN committee on Ageing in Vienna

Projects

EFOSEC
Comparison of Universities for Seniors and investigation on motivation of senior students 

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