Lebanon

The University of the Third Age (U3A) is an initiative targeted at individuals over 60 years of age who are eager to engage in different courses for the sake of personal development. It emerged in the second half of the twentiethth century, beginning in France and spreading, first across Europe and, eventually, Asia (Formosa, 2000). Lebanon became a host to the only U3A in the Arab world – the University for Seniors (UfS) at the American University of Beirut (Chahine and Sibai, 2019).