Healthy Ageing | Announcement of the results of the Thematic Grants Programme

The Bodossaki Foundation is pleased to announce the projects that have been selected to receive grants in the context of the 3rd Cycle of the Thematic Grants Programme for Healthy Ageing, which is co-funded for 2025-2026 by the Bodossaki Foundation, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, and the TIMA Charitable Foundation.

The programme forms part of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 and is aligned with the Bodossaki Foundation’s Action Plan for Public Health. The aim of the programme is to support initiatives that promote Healthy Ageing, enhance the autonomy of the elderly, and help ensure them a dignified and active life.

The Programme will support 6 projects with an overall budget of €300,000 and grants of up to €50,000 per project selected. The projects will begin in December 2025 and have an implementation period of between 8 and 12 months.

Below is the list of the organisations and projects that have been selected for grants:

1. Centre for Special Education of Children & Adults with Disabilities “Horizons” – Growing older together: Supporting people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers in old age, in collaboration with the MARGARITA Vocational Training Centre
2. Butterfly Bone Health Society – Guide to functional independence and well-being after an osteoporotic fracture, in collaboration with the Hellenic Fragility Fracture Network
3. University of Thessaly, Department of Medicine – OPSIS, integrated digital portable imaging system permitting the provision of equal eye care to the elderly in the Thessaly Region
4. Lesvos Solidarity – FrontiZO – Care Communities for the elderly and caregivers on Lesvos 
5. The Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos – Where Life doesn’t get old: Our stories from Evros
6. Alzheimer Athens – A HEALTHY MIND – Creating and piloting a network of “Memory Gyms”