HOMeAGE

Marie Curie Doctoral Network - HOMeAGE Training Event 2
2024-04-10 | Online event, Ancona, Italy
The next HOMeAGE Training Event will take place in Ancona, Italy between 9th and 12th April 2024.
As a part of the second HOMeAGE Training Event we will be making some of sessions on April 10th open to the public.
To join us for these public session please click the link below.

The programme for the Public Sessions is available here

Marie Curie Doctoral Network - HOMeAGE Training Event 3
2024-10-09 09:30 - 17:45 (Europe/Helsinki) | PEG Building, Campus Westend, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
The next HOMeAGE Training Event will take place in Frankfurt, Germany between 8th and 11th October 2024. As a part of the third HOMeAGE Training Event we will be making some sessions on October 9th open to the public.
Home & Belonging in Place
Background and purpose: Research demonstrates the importance of a sense of home and belonging for later life identity and wellbeing in place. However, with more diverse residential life-course trajectories, the multifaceted impact of globalisation, environmental change and digitalisation, and the continued institutional segregation of some groups, links with place can be more tenuous. The risk of older people becoming disembedded from localities, or failing to embed at all, may as such be that much greater. Drawing on contributions from international scholars and practice experts, this lecture and training event will explore challenges and opportunities in fostering home and belonging amongst diverse older populations, in diverse contexts.
The public session programme is available here
Register to attend here

Marie Curie Doctoral Network – HOMeAGE Training Event 4
2025-04-09 09:15 - 17:30 UTC | Open Universiteit Utrecht Campus, Vondellaan 202, Utrecht, Netherlands
The next HOMeAGE Training Event will take place in Utrecht, Netherlands between 8th and 11th April 2025. As a part of this fourth HOMeAGE Training Event we will be making sessions on April 9th open to the public.

HOMeAGE Public Lecture and Training Sessions on Ageing in Place: Rights and Voice

Background and Purpose – Current European and national policies often fail to sufficiently represent the voice of older people and address their right to age in place. There is an absence of multistakeholder integrative frameworks for the development of equitable and effective policy, leading to weaknesses in holistic responses, ageist discourses, and threats to rights (dignity; freedom; equality). Existing approaches homogenise older populations across policy areas such as digitalisation, care and social inclusion, neglecting the diversity of where they live and the needs, agency and rights violations of those in different social groups. Drawing on contributions from international scholars and practice experts, this lecture and training event will explore challenges and opportunities in relation to supporting the rights and voices of diverse older populations, in diverse contexts.
Link to the Public Programme is here
Register for the event here

Marie Curie Doctoral Network – HOMeAGE Training Event 5
2026-02-05 09:00 - 15:30 UTC | VUB Main Campus in Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium
The next HOMeAGE Training Event will take place in Brussels, Belgium between 3rd and 6th February 2026. As a part of this fifth HOMeAGE Training Event we will be making sessions on February 5th open to the public.
Background and Purpose: Research on ageing and place is highly needed, but without a focus on translating findings into real-world change, scholars miss important opportunities for meaningful impact. Drawing on contributions from international scholars (e.g. Prof. Tannistha Samanta, FLAME University & Prof. Laurent Reyes, UC Berkeley) and practice experts (e.g. Dr. Claudia Mahler, Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Persons & Alice Pittini, Housing Europe), this public lecture and training event will discuss potential pathways for fostering impact through engagement with the UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, strengthened collaborations between researchers and policymakers in tackling the housing crisis, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives and decolonial approaches in ageing research. The event is intended for researchers, as well as practitioners and policymakers who are looking to collaborate with the academic sector to increase impact.
Link to the Public Programme is here
Register for the event here
