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ASCE Coordination Team AGE Platform Europe 111, Rue Froissart 1040 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 280 14 70 Fax: +32 2 280 15 22 E-mail: [email protected] www.age-platform.eu. Introduction to the ASCE project Name of Speaker Date and place. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ASCE Coordination TeamAGE Platform Europe
111, Rue Froissart1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 280 14 70 Fax: +32 2 280 15 22
E-mail: [email protected] www.age-platform.eu
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens Programme
Introduction to the ASCE project
Name of SpeakerDate and place
• Stand for: – Active : able to get involved, act and react– Senior : our target group– Citizens : member of a state, of a nation, of a
political community– For Europe : our level of action and the support to
a common european project
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide A, S, C, E ?
• Co-Financed by the European Commission – Europe for citizens programme
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide ASCE!
• 10 partners from 8 countries
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide ASCE!
• And many more people involved at local, regional and national level
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide ASCE!
2014 : European Parliament elections (22-25 May)Renewal of the European Commission and of its President
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide Challenges
General context of economic, social and political difficulties everywhere in Europe and for all agesLack of confidence in the European project
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Sample Content Slide Challenges
Give the capacities to older citizens, men and women, to get involved in the relevant European Union activities, and in particular in the European elections
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide Project idea
By: •Explaining how the EU institutions work (Brochure Active Senior Citizens for Europe)•Developing training tools on EU institutions, policies, campaigning, EU funding •Organising meetings at European, national and local levels•Sharing knowledge and practices between countries
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide Project idea
I. EU legal framework and political context
II. EU action to promote older people’s rights
III. The European and international institutions, and decision making processes
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide The ASCE brochure
• Two European Workshops • National trainings• Campaigns for the European Parliament elections
(22-25 May 2014) • A final conference in December 2014 with the
newly elected Members of the European Parliament
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide Activities
• Training modules in 8 languages• Trained older citizens in 8 countries• A campaign and a Manifesto for an age-
friendly European Union with concrete objectives to be achieved by the MEPs
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Sample Content Slide Outcomes
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Sample Content Slide The Manifesto
We call on the candidate MEPs to look to creating an Age-Friendly European Union through ensuring that EU policies and initiatives will:
1.Promote equal opportunities and the realisation of human rights for all2.Guarantee adequacy, fairness and sustainability of Europe’s social protection and social inclusion systems
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Sample Content Slide The Manifesto
3. Ensure universal access to goods and services, in particular to the built environment, ICT, mobility and public services
4. Support the right to grow and age in good mental and physical health
5. Create age-friendly labour markets and economy
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Sample Content Slide The Manifesto
6. Involve older persons in all policy and research processes that concern them
7. Protect older persons’ right to live and die in dignity
AGE Platform Europe calls for the re-establishment of the Intergroup on Ageing and Solidarity between Generations to keep these issues high on the EU agenda.
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide The Manifesto
ASCE project webpage: www.age-platform.eu/age-projects/1767-asce AGE Platform Europe website: www.age-platform.eu Campaign for the European elections blog: towardsanagefriendlyep.com
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens’ Programme
Sample Content Slide More information
ASCE Coordination TeamAGE Platform Europe
111, Rue Froissart1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 280 14 70 Fax: +32 2 280 15 22
E-mail: [email protected] www.age-platform.eu
Funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens Programme
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