EFOS has the following aims:

• Promoting high level education of older people alongside younger students or at special academies/universities for older people

• Fostering of joint projects for older students throughout Europe

• Fostering and securing the access of older people, including those without formal qualifications, to education at the highest level
  
• Representing the interests of academic education for older people in politics and society
  
• Fostering of autonomous national organizations with similar goals
  
• Identifying possibilities of using the skills and expertise of older students for the benefit of science and society
  
• Cooperating with other international organizations that support lifelong learning (LLL)

EFOS has the following aims:

• Focal points of EFOS in the forthcoming years

  Following the right of older persons to have access to education it is very important in the EFOS framework:

  - to protect the interests of older students in the studies at the institutions concerning the elderly within Europe;

  - to secure the open education tailored to the needs of individual adults;

  - to cooperate with universities and their students on a national and European level;

  - to exchange information about the study institutions including the possibilities for continuing education for elderly learners;

  - to exchange the life experiences of seniors from their universities, communities, own families, cities and countries;

  - to research on the topics of senior´s education in the European framework;

  - to follow the EFOS traditions and directly involve the elderly students in the EFOS activities;

  - to encourage participation of senior students at EFOS meetings to assure meaningful discussion on important topics; and give them possibilities present their own activities and experience;

  - to recruit new institutions that focus on elderly learners and education. Extend EFOS membership to European countries that are not yet represented;

  - to propagate senior education in an active way. React to documents and politics of the EU and participate in national and international committees (Committee for Ageing in Vienna, etc.);

  - to build the image of EFOS in one's own country as well as abroad (by attendance of international meetings and conferences);

  - to keep continuity in the EFOS membership in one's own institution and find new responsible persons (successors) for the continuity of the membership.