Social Platform is carrying out a survey among its members and members' national members to gather relevant information on the different forms of provision of SSGI in the 27 member states.

This survey is useful to identify specific problems and concrete cases and examples at grass-root level which can provide evidence of the trends detected, as well as examples of national legislation that could serve as good practice. The results will be discussed in the next SGI WG meeting on November 22.

CEDAG members can download and fill in the questionnaire with information on national contexts and send it to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   by 5th November.

The European Commission has declared 2012 European Year of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity, and, as with the current year of volunteering and the previous year against poverty, a group of interested civil society organisations is forming to support the actions in the year, and push for their vision of the theme to be listened to. The European year creates a certain amount of visibility and momentum for the theme in question and can be a good opportunity to lobby and build partnerships at national level. 

CEDAG attended the 14th September meeting of the burgeoning coalition of European networks for the Year  2012, organised by Age platform which is coordinating the coalition. We attended this meeting as an observer organisation in order to gain information to allow the CEDAG membership to decide whether they wish to join the coalition.

At the meeting, the European Commission first presented its ongoing preparations for the Year 2012, in particular with the national coordinating bodies. In most countries this is housed within a government department, but it is hoped that the ministries will try to construct a structure of stakeholders to support them. If your organisation or your members are involved in any aspect of active ageing or solidarity between the generations, and you wish to be involved or informed, you can find out the contact details for your country here.         (Photo: taoty)                                                                                                                                                                                             

 We would be very interested to know if you are getting in contact, and what level of involvement your coordinating body allows you.