In November 2012 EFOS sent a letter to the EU Commissioner for Education and Culture expressing our concern about the plans for the "Erasmus for All" programme, the successor of the Grundtvig Programm, that is intended to be started in 2014. EFOS is concerned that the financial means for international projects for and with the Elderly are not in corespondence with the importance of these projects for the Elderly and for the society as a whole. 

Read the letter in pdf format.

Thanks to its representation in the Vienna UN Committee on Ageing and the advisory status related to it, EFOS, together with some 120 other NGOs, was invited to participate at the UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing 2012. 

On the first day the NGOs worked out a Political Declaration that then was presented to the ministers on the third day. 

At various stages prior to the conference the NGOs had the opportunity to propose amendments to the Ministerial Declaration. The final version contains several references to the importance of continued learning at later age.

Read more about the conference.