SensAge – www.sensage.eu – is a European Network of Networks, Associations and Organisations addressing the issues of enabling ageing people with sensory disabilities – blind/visual impairment, deaf/hearing impairment, and deafblind – to take part in lifelong learning.

SensAge will become the European Reference Point for the gathering, analysis and dissemination of methodologies and materials to enable an active ageing of European citizens with sensory impairments, promoting their autonomy, quality of life and social inclusion.

The Objectives are:

1. To reach a common understanding of what « ageing » means and its link with sensory disabilities; exploring the resulting main challenges (in practice, or in law or in policy making processes); and of discovering potential interactions with other disabilities
2. To create a space for the gathering, exchange and dissemination of practices and materials in this field
3. To contribute to appropriate EU standards of support for lifelong learning for these beneficiaries, and to maximise the impact of the work through political lobbying at European and National Levels 4. To maximise on an ongoing basis, through all appropriate means of dissemination, the impact of the work of the network at european and national levels; and
5. To establish the sustainability of the work of the Network after the completion of the period of EC funding (2011 to 2014).

SensAge Partners:

• Mutualité Française Anjou-Mayenne (Project Manager): France
• Vision Europe Limited: United Kingdom
• NCBI: Ireland
• National Institute for the Blind: Iceland
• Bolu Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü: Turkey
• International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairments (ICEVI): Netherlands
• Royal Dutch Visio: Netherlands
• Oslo Voksenopplæring Skullerud: Norway
• CENTICH: France
• European Ass’n of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities: Belgium
• Association of Deafblind persons DODIR: Croatia
• Servicio Madrileno de Salud: Spain
• Groupe national des Etablissements et services Publics Sociaux (GEPSO): France
• Institut Nazareth and Louis Braille 3rd Country Partner: Quebec, Canada