Longevity Week Festival in the Baltics – 16-22 September 2025
In September 2025, 2 major regional conferences are taking place in the Baltics:
On September 16-17, “The 3rd International Baltic Conference on Healthy Longevity” in Riga, Latvia, in Riga Technical University (RTU)
and shortly after that on September 19 the International Conference “Towards Healthy Longevity” in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the Lithuanian Parliament – the Seimas.
And following the Seimas conference, several satellite events take place in Lithuania – including a “Longevity Science at the Bar” Meetup in Vilnius on September 20, and a mini-conference on healthy longevity medicine at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) in Kaunas on September 22.
Both main conferences and accompanying events are co-organized by International Longevity Alliance (ILA), Vetek (Seniority) Association – the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life, and Longevity Alliance Baltic (LAB). Both conferences engage the participation of high level stakeholders: in Riga, there will be the representation from the Ministry of Health, OECD, key Latvian and international universities and hospitals. The conference in the Lithuanian Parliament is co-organized by the Seimas Committee on Health Affairs, in cooperation with the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, with the participation of the Minister of Health, Chairman of the Seimas Committee on Health Affairs, Presidential Health Advisor, Head of the National Health Council, and many other key stakeholders and decision makers.
Never before has the subject of healthy longevity promotion received such prominence and such high level support in the entire Baltic region, in fact in the entire Northern Europe. The healthy longevity movement is gaining momentum and impact.
Both conferences emphasize the urgent need to promote healthy longevity by enhancing research, development and education on preventive medicine. Some of the leading longevity researchers, developers, practitioners and advocates, in the Baltic area and internationally will take part, including physicians, biomedical researchers, AI specialists, healthcare and health policy experts.
The conferences will address a critical challenge of the modern world, and of the Baltic region in particular – the need to increase healthy and productive longevity of the aging population, by utilizing new longevity research, development, practices and education.
This challenge is particularly relevant for the Baltic region. With regard to healthy longevity, the situation is similar in Lithuania and Latvia, and it is not very bright. Both in Lithuania and Latvia, the general life expectancy is about 76 years, whereas the healthy life expectancy (the number of years lived without chronic diseases and disabilities) is 64 years (as of 2021, the latest available data from WHO), which are the lower range values in the EU and OECD. During the COVID period, the decline in life-expectancy in Lithuania and Latvia were among the largest in the EU: 2.5 and 2 years respectively. This shows the vulnerable health conditions of the older persons in both countries. At the same time, the rate of decline in the general population and increase in the older population, in both countries, are among the greatest in the EU and the developed world.
As both conferences will emphasize, it is important to rectify this situation by enhancing research, development and education for healthy longevity. Both conferences will advocate that the improvement of aging health status can be accomplished by researching, developing and implementing new medical technologies, diagnostics and treatments designed to prevent aging-related diseases and improve the health of the older people, increase the life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. The research and development of such technologies and treatments will also improve the population resilience and boost the economic and human development, thanks to the burgeoning “longevity science”, “healthy longevity medicine” and “healthy longevity industry”. Developing these fields in the Baltics will also enhance the national, regional and global health care and health research ecosystems.
The conferences are expected to boost the academic, public and policy involvement in these critical issues and thus will establish the groundwork for creating cooperation and support programs to advance healthy longevity in the Baltics and internationally.
