Sustainable Ageing

The Working Group on Sustainable Ageing aims to focus on these overarching questions, analysing the potentials and the challenges of ageing at the individual, family,and society levels.The outputs will be discussed vis-à-vis their policy implications in a comparative perspective across European countries but also in an intersectional approach that accounts for variables such as gender and socio-economic status.

The Working Group also aims to favour a debate on Sustainable Ageing between researchers, stakeholders (e.g. NGOs) and policy makers.

Organisation

The activities of the group are coordinated by a Steering Committee formed by Valeria Bordone (University of Vienna, Austria), Bruno Arpino (University of Padua, Italy), and Pearl Dykstra (Erasmus University, The Netherlands).

As a main activity, we plan to meet in a pre-conference workshop at the European Population Conference. In between EPCs, hybrid workshops will be organised at our institutions. All EAPS members as well as scholars from other disciplines who work on aspects related to sustainable ageing may join the Working Group and participate in its events. Representatives of NGOs and other organisations are also welcome to attend. Joining the group’s events usually is free of charge while participants are expected to cover their own travel and related costs. Hybrid events are however foreseen. Furthermore, the steering committee maintains a mailing list, through which all members of the group can communicate e.g. to announce their related publications or inform on related scientific events and job offers.

For information contact the members of the Steering Committee. This group is also actively collaborating with Population Europeand the Joint Programming Initiative More Years, Better Lives (JPI MYBL),which will facilitate dissemination of activities and involvements of stakeholders and policy makers.

Members

Giorgio di Gessa (UCL, UK), Emily Grundy (University of Essex, UK), Hans Hämäläinen(University of Turku, Finland), Karsten Hank (University of Cologne, Germany), Luule Sakkeus(Tallinn University, Estonia), Elizabeth Wilkins (INED, France)

Events

We are very pleased to invite you to the first event of the Sustainable Ageing Working Group, which will be a side meeting at the European Population Conference (EPC) 2024 in Edinburgh on 12 June 2024 at 15:00-16:30.

The event will begin with an introduction to the group and its aims, followed by short input-talks on intergenerational relationships and climate change, technological change across age and cohorts, and on making sense of science for policy. The event will conclude with a group discussion and a brainstorming on collaborations for the study of sustainable ageing.

Joining this first event is free of charge while participants are expected to cover their own travel and related costs. All EAPS members as well as scholars from other disciplines who work on sustainable ageing may join the Working Group and participate in its events, that are coordinated by the Steering Committee.

Those interested to participate should register on https://forms.gle/43CJZgRe6hT9rL7X7. Please note that the room has a limited number of places and the registration works on a first-come-first-served basis. A confirmation of your registration will be sent when registration closes.
The steering committee maintains a mailing list, through which all members of the group will be informed about future events. For information, please contact the members of the steering committee.

Steering Committee

Valeria Bordone (valeria.bordone@univie.ac.at)

University of Vienna, Austria

Bruno Arpino (bruno.arpino@unipd.it)

University of Padua, Italy

Pearl Dykstra (dykstra@essb.eur.nl)

Erasmus University, The Netherlands