Аннотация:One of the priorities of the university in solving the problems of the regional development is the training of educators for the implementation of additional education programs. The current demographic and social situation requires conditions for expanding the range of educational programs for the older people. The university, acting as a centre of regional educational policy, has special potential and resources for developing the concept of continuing education for third age people. The article describes the experience of collaboration between the University of the Third Age and a regional classical university by the example of a program of additional education in foreign languages. Particular attention is paid to the training of teachers for the organization of additional adult education. The idea of the third age education is the positive development of potential of older people. The observations show that people have increased levels of knowledge, experience, and intelligence. The educational process based on the principle of a student's systematic learning and development has created the conditions for the development of the ability to self-study and comprehension of the new in the process of practical activity. The experience of collaboration between a higher education institution and a third-age university has proved to be an effective form of mobilizing society's resources for social interaction and creating various forms of education.