Become a member

To register as a member, please use the membership form below. If you have any questions about the membership, check our membership Q&As.

Membership Benefits

Free participation in:

Our annual conferences
Webinars and online colloquia on conceptual and methodological issues in Socio-gerontechnology

Opportunities to be active in the organisation, including:

Voting in elections for the SGN board
Serving on SGN committees
Running for SGN office

Community & Networking:

Participation in the SGN online community
Timely access to all SGN communications (including the bi-monthly newsletter listing curated calls for papers and positions)
Opportunities for joint publications and conference presentations

Future Initiatives:

In the future, we also aim to offer travel grants and small funding awards for early career researchers.

Enhancing Your Research Profile and Impact

As a member, you gain access to an automated, login-free portal designed to increase the visibility of your work in the field.

Visibility: Submit your latest published research references to our database
Academic Linking: The platform automatically connects your publications directly to your professional member profile, making your work discoverable to global peers and institutions.
Elevating the Field: By contributing to this collective repository, you actively help establish our platform as a hub for Socio-gerontechnology literature.

Membership Fees

The standard membership fee is 40 EUR per year.

A reduced fee of 20 EUR per year applies for students (including PhD students), un/underemployed scholars and scholars from non-OECD countries. Please follow your own judgment if you fit in this category.

Values and privacy

Beyond, members need to be willing to agree to our value statement and to our privacy policy .

Members of the Socio-Gerontechnology Network are billed once every year for their membership. The membership period is 1st of October to 30th of September the following year. Invoices are distributed via e-Mail to each member in October every year. Members who sign up during the year receive free membership until October that year and will not be billed proportionately.

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Values

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