With our operational work, in our networks and with cooperation partners, we face the current challenges of our society.

With our “Age and Demographics” area, we meet the challenges of an ageing society in Germany. In our nationwide projects, and together with responsible partners from local authorities, technology and associations, we work to ensure that cities and communities become more age-friendly and that the digital transformation also offers participation and social involvement for older people. We look at the potentials of old age and present role models for new images of old age - with projects and events. And, with our KörberHaus location - an open place of encounter and participation for all generations and cultures, we ourselves create an exemplary framework for active participation and co-determination for older people.

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Gut alt werden mit Technik. Das Ageing with Tech Festival feiert die Chancen von Zukunftstechnologien für das Alter. Die jährliche Konferenz bringt Akteure aus den relevanten Sektoren zusammen und greift aktuelle Technologietrends und Debatten rund um altersgerechte Digitalisierung auf.

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How can you make your own city demographically stable and age-friendly? The City Lab offers mayors and key players in the administration of demographic change and ageing an opportunity to participate in a three-part workshop series. In a small and exclusive circle, the City Lab focuses on experts, good practice, networking and collegial exchange.

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With the Age & City Expedition, we invite you to explore age-friendliness beyond national borders. Mayors and demographers from municipal administrations travel to European towns and cities to learn about age strategies and age-friendly practices.

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The Körber Symposium on Demographic Change invites all those who bear responsibility for the issues of demographic change to be inspired to new ideas by national and international thought leaders and proven good practice projects. The project focuses on the opportunities of demographic change, and aims to contribute to ensuring that our communities will continue to be places worth living in in the future.

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Must people adapt to technology, or do we adapt technology to people? A rapidly digitalising society needs citizens who can competently use the opportunities of progress and master its risks. This also applies to older people. With the “Logged in!” week, we make visible the initiatives and actors who are advancing the digitalisation of older people. Together with local partners in various towns and cities, people over 50 are invited to discover their enthusiasm for surfing, blogging or gaming, and to immerse themselves in the digital worlds of older age.

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Improving society is possible at any age. With the Zugabe Prize, we honor founders 60plus every year. The award, which is endowed with 60,000 euros each, recognizes three individuals who have found solutions to the social challenges of our time using entrepreneurial means and successfully built up a company or social enterprise to do so.

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Involving people, protecting democracy, strengthening communities - these are the aims of our work in the “Democracy and Cohesion” area. We bring citizens together with government decision-makers to improve local life. We support elected representatives in their commitment to democracy, and promote respectful interaction with one another. And we give a voice to people in exile who are campaigning for freedom and democracy. Our programmes focus on dialogue, understanding and joint action in order to strengthen cohesion and democracy.

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The Days of Exile are a programme of audience-oriented events and encounters in Hamburg and other cities in Germany. It gives people in exile a platform, builds bridges between the present and the past and encourages dialogue and understanding between old and new citizens, thus contributing to better cohesion in the city.

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The Engagierte Stadt ( Engaged City) is a network of 113 towns and cities in which engagement offices, volunteer exchanges and similar organisations organise and support the voluntary work of citizens. The sponsors exchange information among themselves, and identify common themes in order to strengthen the municipal infrastructure for commitment and participation in Germany.

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What does working a journalist in exile mean? How is the German media landscape changing against the background of migration and globalisation? And what role does digitalisation play in this? The Exile Media Forum explores these questions.

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“Making Germany better - with the future-proof city” brings together mayors, administrators, civil society and citizens to work together towards a sustainable and liveable future in towns and cities.

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The increasingly harsh tone in society extends to the councils or assemblies of municipalities and cities. Councillors who experience assaults or verbal transgressions often feel left alone. The project "Respect in Municipal Council" is dedicated to improving the culture of discussion in municipal bodies. We want to initiate a process of self-understanding in the councils that will lead to a cross-party agreement (code, guidelines) for a good culture of discussion.

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People who assume political responsibility for their community are increasingly becoming victims of insults, threats or attacks. And this is despite the fact that many of them work purely on a voluntary basis. The portal Stark im Amt (Strength for office-holders) offers concrete help to all municipal officials and elected representatives in Germany: Information, support services and tips on prevention as well as the study "More respect please".

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