The CENIE Logbook: recording today what will be tomorrow’s legacy

There are projects that not only communicate, but endure. In 2025, the CENIE Logbook has consolidated itself as one of those spaces: a navigation notebook for the transition toward long-lived societies, a place where science, reflection, and community meet to ask — and answer — how to live better in a changing world.

 

When it was inaugurated, its purpose was simple and ambitious at the same time: to open a sustained conversation about longevity. Not a technical bulletin nor a conventional outreach medium, but a forum where a broader perspective could be adopted on what it means to “live many years.” Today, that conversation has already taken shape. Each article published in 2025 has contributed to expanding public understanding of longevity, that complex phenomenon which now shapes demographic, social, and economic reality.

 

A year of voices, ideas, and compasses
 

In its most recent journey, the Logbook has published texts that cover all the major axes of CENIE’s action: from the “Economy of Care,” which highlights the social value of care as an economic and ethical pillar, to “Healthy Life Expectancy,” which teaches us to look beyond chronological age and attend to real wellbeing. It has also addressed challenges such as community action against loneliness, innovation in longevity, the role of technology in long life, the meaning of work in societies that live longer, and culture, bonds, and the city interpreted through the lens of long duration.

 

The authors who have participated come from varied profiles: researchers, economists, philosophers, health professionals, young doctors, and also older people who share their life experience. This plurality gives the Logbook a character of collective and purposeful voice, rather than institutional monologue. It is, to a large extent, the great virtue that makes it a valuable resource both for the scientific community and for society at large.

 

A collective voice with purpose
 

The CENIE Logbook does not have a single signature nor a single tone. Its texts are born from the dialogue between the scientific knowledge generated by CENIE and the need to translate it into accessible, fluid, and mobilizing language.

 

More than a logbook of data, it is memory and compass: it gathers what we learn and points toward what we must understand. Its virtue lies in the fact that the topics addressed do not expire with the year, but accumulate as layers of a conversation that advances without haste, but with direction.

 

Readers have also understood this: the Logbook has managed to attract researchers, students, professionals, policymakers, and citizens interested in rethinking long life. They do not seek headlines alone, but understanding. They do not want to escape aging: they want to learn to live with it with more intelligence, more community, more meaning.

 

Conscious Longevity: the perspective that unites us
 

At the root of everything CENIE writes and publishes beats the same idea: Conscious Longevity.

 

It is not an abstract concept, but a way of understanding our time. It means looking at extended life not as an inevitable biological fact, but as a cultural and ethical possibility. It means recognizing that living more years does not guarantee, by itself, living better; that the true achievement lies in learning to give meaning to that added time, to turn it into wellbeing, knowledge, and connection.

 

From that perspective, the CENIE Logbook has become a space of shared thought where longevity ceases to be a topic and becomes a conversation. A conversation that includes health, economy, care, science, education, culture, and coexistence, but above all deals with the way we want to live together.

 

Conscious Longevity invites us to anticipate the future instead of fearing it; to care for older generations while preparing the wellbeing of those to come; to combine prevention and purpose, knowledge and sensitivity. It is an ethic of shared responsibility that runs through every CENIE project and every text in its Logbook.

 

That is why, more than a communication medium, the Logbook is a space of collective awareness: a place where reflection becomes action and words become care. In each publication beats the will to understand that longevity is not a problem to manage, but an opportunity to learn to inhabit.

 

Science, culture, and society
 

The value of the Logbook lies not simply in its literary or scientific quality, but in its ability to weave connections. Between disciplines, generations, territories. It is the meeting point between CENIE’s projects — such as IBERLONGEVA, the Economy of Care, SOLiEDAD, Healthy Longevity — and the society that makes them possible.

 

Through its articles, scientific findings find emotional and social resonance: they are transformed into narratives that guide public debate and enrich collective understanding.

 

In this way, the Logbook fulfills a fundamental function within CENIE’s ecosystem: giving soul to data, translating research into conversation, statistics into story, evidence into purpose.

 

A legacy in progress
 

Every logbook is, at its core, a form of memory. But also of future. The texts we have published this year are the record of a time that will not return and the seed of one that is yet to come.

 

They serve as testimony of a community that thinks, feels, and acts upon the new era of longevity. And at the same time they serve as an archive available to future researchers, policymakers, and citizens who want to learn what it means to live longer.

 

The CENIE Logbook is not just a digital archive: it is a living construction, a space where each article leaves a mark, and where words become tools of transformation.

 

And in 2025 it has shown that writing is also a way of caring. That understanding is a way of preventing. That conversing — freely, serenely, and deeply — can be a way of building collective health.

 

In that sense, more than a year’s closure, this publication is a starting point. Because recording today what we live is, in reality, preparing tomorrow’s legacy.