Scientific coordination

a) To identify and help implement common research strategies that generates critical mass and added value from European biogerontology research.

b) To establish a process that helps bring new researchers into the field from new geographical regions within the wider European community.

c) To establish a process that brings new researchers into the field from other research areas within life sciences and health of relevance to ageing and longevity.

d) To establish a framework that allows effective integration of research on different species to maximise the opportunities for synergy and interaction between researchers working on such species.

Technical coordination

a) To establish a category of associate membership of LINK-AGE for those wishing to make connections with the field.

b) To use the membership structure to draw into the membership of LINK-AGE researchers from diverse geographical regions within Europe, particularly those previously disadvantaged in access to scientific research support.

c) To develop and support a series of LINK-AGE, conferences, and summer courses to address the scientific objectives.

d) To establish an organizational framework for LINK-AGE to meet its scientific and technical objectives and to validate the concept of a distributed network of excellence in biogerontology research across Europe.