The European Commission has on September 6, 2010 proposed that 2012 be designated as the “European Year for Active Ageing”. We want to contribute to this event with our “Age on Stage” project by promoting later and intergenerational learning in nowadays society and its relevance for a positive development in Europe. For many years now, later learning is on the agenda of many EU and national education policies and it also became a specific objective in the Lifelong Learning Programme. One of the main reasons for its exceptional position is the belief that continuous and successful learning in later life in one of the most promising “weapons” in combating the problems and challenges of an over-aging society. However, there are still many obstacles to be overcome such as: - Europe’s adult education community is still quite on the beginning to explore this special field of pedagogic and to come up with reliable and successful concepts and learning methods- There is still little awareness towards this issue throughout Europe, especially within the main target group of senior citizens itself- Most of the initiatives and projects already working on this issue are not in contact with each other and can therefore neither learn nor benefit from each otherIn the “Stage on Age” project we develop a methodological approach and we implement several activities helping to improve the situation of later learning in Europe. The main activities are:- Development of a criteria catalogue and a screening instrument to identify best practice projects dealing with later learning from different perspectives and funded by different EC programmes (LLP, Europe for Citizens, Progress, Health etc.); selection of 30 best practice projects- Organisation and implementation of a thematic conference and several workshops about later learning in Graz in 06/12- Publication of a magazine promoting later learning in Europe, the selected 30 best project s and the outcomes of the Graz conference