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Active and healthy ageing - can the EU deliver?

Feb 28, 2011

Annika Hedberg

Senior Adviser on climate and sustainability

In this Policy Brief Annika Ahtonen considers the challenges on the way and suggests how the newly launched European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing could deliver on this aim.

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