To empower the less developed countries to cope with the challenges of the consequences of mass longevity in the next decades by building capacity for them to be able to educate and train their own personnel to formulate and implement their own appropriate policies;

To help establish regional training centres for this purpose in the less developed countries and regions by training and educating key personnel in different aspects of Ageing, including Social Gerontology; Health and Longevity; the Economic and Financial Aspects of Ageing; and Demography of Ageing, both by means of international training programmes and in-situ training programmes to provide the foundation personnel for these centres;

To provide continuing support and continuity to sustain both the individual personnel and the Centres by modern information technology;