Work, Wellbeing and Wealth: Active ageing at work

Work, Wellbeing and Wealth: Active ageing at work, 26-28 August 2013, Helsinki, Finland

Venue: Hotel Crowne Plaza, Helsinki

This conference is organised by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) in cooperation with the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Eurofound, OSHA, and a number of other organisations.

Objectives

The increasing population of retirees and the rising cost to society are forcing industrialised countries to find new ways to increase production and to extend working life.

Careers can be extended at the beginning, middle or end of the traditional working life. This involves finding solutions to improve the transitions and links between various stages of life, for instance education, labour market, unemployment, disability, private household, and old-age pension.

The programme will include sessions on:

• Psychosocial factors supporting the participation in working life

• Disability prevention and reintegration

• Integration of young people into working life

• Midlife work and old-age

• Age, diversity and management of competencies for more sustainable work

• Economic appraisal of active aging at work

This event will bring together researchers, experts and European networks in the area and to present and discuss the major R&D needs and solutions.

Eurofound contribution

Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director, Eurofound, will chair one of the World Café working groups on the following seminar strand: Discussion on the strategic research agenda on work and productivity, based on the Joint Programming Initiative 'More years, better lives: The potential and challenges of demographic change'

Download the conference programme.