{"id":9126,"date":"2026-04-07T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutobeja.com\/relatorio2025\/7-2_laboratorios\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:13:12","slug":"laboratories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutobeja.com\/relatorio2025\/en\/home_en\/laboratories\/","title":{"rendered":"7.2_Laboratories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cInstituto Beja\u2019s Laboratories are intended to incubate collaborative philanthropic projects. It is a space for joint experimentation and development of projects with multiple actors, each contributing their expertise. In this environment, we will test new social technologies, new models of approach, and how we deal with issues within philanthropy. These are actors with different polycapitals, experts in their agendas, with common values, looking at issues in depth over the long term.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Laboratories were the solution found by the Instituto Beja to create spaces for joint experimentation focused on themes and agendas that the Institute considers relevant in the brazilian context, always seeking to reduce inequalities.<\/p>

The Laboratories embody the Instituto Beja\u2019s belief in the power of polycapitals and strategic partnerships, as they enable different actors to come together in a learning environment in order to accelerate, measure, and scale models, test hypotheses, and develop solutions and methodologies, in addition to designing possible paths for transformation, prototyping new social technologies, and, above all, reflecting together on the future and the practice of philanthropy.<\/p>

In 2025, Instituto Beja had three laboratories: New Longevity Lab, Imagination and Innovation in Philanthropy Lab, and Health Lab. Learn more about each of them:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The inversion of the age pyramid is a social and demographic phenomenon that is increasingly attracting attention in Brazil. It is characterized by a decrease in the number of children and young people and an increase in the elderly population, producing, in graphic representation, an inverted pyramid with a compact base and a broad top.<\/p>

In other words, this means that the country is aging. According to data from the 2022 Census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)<\/a><\/b>, the total number of people aged 65 or over in the country (more than 22 million) reached 10.9% of the population, an increase of 57.4% compared to 2010, when this contingent corresponded to 7.4% of the population (or just over 14 million people).<\/p>

Given this context, the Instituto Beja, together with Ashoka, the Ita\u00fa Viver Mais program, and the RD Group, created the New Longevity Lab, inspired by Ashoka\u2019s global initiative, which mobilizes its network of social entrepreneurs and society as a whole to respond to the opportunities and challenges of accelerated population aging in Brazil and worldwide.<\/p>

With the slogan \u201cNew longevity is about aging while transforming the world,\u201d the Lab aims to bring together, in a space for experimentation, actors with different experiences and backgrounds to think together about possible paths for longevity in Brazil, in addition to reinforcing the importance of this issue and awakening public interest in it.<\/p>

More than just creating this space for exchange, Instituto Beja acted as a network catalyst, offering not only physical infrastructure but also institutional legitimacy to bring together diverse actors: academia, the private sector, civil society organizations, social entrepreneurs, and public managers around the agenda of care and health.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cInstituto Beja is a strategic partner of the New Longevity Lab because of its commitment to co-creating spaces for public dialogue capable of advancing, in a qualified and pluralistic manner, the paradigm of New Longevity \u2013 which recognizes and expands opportunities for people to contribute throughout their lives. In 2025, this partnership was central to the maturation of the Lab, especially by enabling the experimentation of formats that connect knowledge, social listening, and collective action.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 2025, the New Longevity Lab continued some of the actions undertaken in the previous year, such as the Mapping of the Social Innovation Ecosystem in Longevity \u2013 launched in September 2024 \u2013, advocacy work on the topic, and coordination to enable media coverage, such as in the<\/p>


Longevity section of Nexo Pol\u00edticas P\u00fablicas<\/a><\/strong> and at the Brasil em Debate event. In addition, representatives from the Laboratory attended national and international conferences and meetings on care, health, innovation, and aging.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The New Longevity Lab participated in the co-creation of a guiding curriculum for the inclusion of older adults, integrating digital inclusion, critical literacy, citizenship, and transformative skills as foundations for active longevity. The year concluded with the completion of the first full version, which recognizes older adults as agents of transformation. The document is currently under review by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and will move to a public consultation phase before its finalization.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Invited by the National Secretary for the Rights of Older Persons, the New Longevity Lab participated in the 6th CONADIPI<\/a><\/strong>, held in December 2025, in Brasilia, with the theme \u201cMulticultural Aging and Democracy: Urgency for Equity, Rights, and Participation.\u201d It contributed to the development of priority proposals under Axis 5 \u2013 Consolidation and Strengthening of the Role of Councils for the Rights of Older Persons as Brazilian State Policy, in Working Group 15, which deals with Education, Citizenship, and Multiple Old Ages.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Instituto Beja hosted the hybrid meeting promoted by New Longevity Lab, which brought together organizations such as Noora Health, Favela Compassiva, RD Sa\u00fade, Family Talks, Observat\u00f3rio de Cuidados da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and UniPeriferias, along with more than 70 initiatives. The meeting aimed to develop diagnoses, commitments, and action fronts through the activation of a permanent collaboration network focused on health and care practices and innovation\u2014a subgroup dedicated to advocacy for the health and care of older adults.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cThe year 2025 was marked by the consolidation of the Laboratory as an orchestrator of the longevity ecosystem through the coordination of networks and the production of collective intelligence, reflected in the expansion of partnerships, participation in decision-making forums, and events. In addition, we strengthened our interface with the media and public opinion with more than 500,000 views between articles, editorials, podcasts, and reports that position longevity as an agenda for democracy, economy, care, and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 2025, New Longevity Lab approached different Brazilian higher education institutions. With the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Getulio Vargas (FGV), it established a cooperation agreement for the development of a New Longevity Hub, in order to train leaders and produce applied evidence on work, organizations, innovation, and intergenerational equity. With Faculdade C\u00e1sper L\u00edbero, it established a strategic partnership to incorporate longevity into education, generate university extension programs, and co-create content on longevity in Brazil, such as the eight episodes of the Podcast on Mapping Social Innovation in Longevity<\/a><\/strong>. With Loughborough University\/ British Academy, it contributed to a multi-territorial research project analyzing how digital inclusion influences contribution, work, health, and social participation in maturity<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cThe partnership with Instituto Beja enabled the Lab to function as a living laboratory, open to designing, testing, and adjusting solutions to complex challenges, such as aging, in a country marked by profound structural inequalities, strengthening institutional and collective learning.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Lab collaborates on the project to develop generational indicators and disseminate age inclusion practices through a partnership with Brazil\u2019s age diversity business collective.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Immersion in social intrapreneurship in health with professionals from Faculdade S\u00edrio Liban\u00eas, connecting innovation, care, and organizational transformation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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By connecting listening and knowledge production with arenas for debate and policy formulation, the Instituto Beja helped the Lab expand its capacity for public advocacy, reinforcing its role as an orchestrator of the ecosystem. Instituto Beja\u2019s experience and track record in advocacy also contributed to guiding the formation of a Working Group working to build a collective agenda aligned with the Brazil Cares National Care Plan<\/a><\/strong>, reinforcing the recognition of caregivers as agents of transformation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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