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Population Europe Event - The Times of Our Lives: Active Ageing and the Redistribution of Work in Europe

Programme Closed Meeting: 14:00 – 14:30 Welcome and Introduction Graziella Caselli, Honorary Professor of Demography, Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza, University of Rome 14:30 – 15:00 Policy Perspective: The European Commission’s White Paper on Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions Fritz von Nordheim, Deputy Head of Unit “Active Ageing, Pensions, Healthcare, Social Services”, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission, Brussels

Programme Closed Meeting:

14:00 – 14:30
Welcome and Introduction
Graziella Caselli, Honorary Professor of Demography, Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza, University of Rome

14:30 – 15:00
Policy Perspective: The European Commission’s White Paper on Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions
Fritz von Nordheim, Deputy Head of Unit “Active Ageing, Pensions, Healthcare, Social Services”, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission, Brussels

15:00 – 15:30
Population Health and the Redistribution of Work
James W. Vaupel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock

15:30 – 16:00
Facts and Figures from the European Labour Markets
Tommy Bengtsson, Director of the Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
 

16:30 – 17:00
Challenges and Possibilities for Pension and Retirement Systems in Europe
Gustavo de Santis, Professor of Demography, Department of Statistics "G. Parenti", University of Florence

17:00 – 17:30
Redistribution of Work from a Life Course and Family Perspective
Francesco C. Billari, Head of the Department of Sociology, Oxford University
President of the European Association for Population Studies

17:30 – 18:00
Conclusions and Final Discussion
Franco Peracchi, Professor of Econometrics, Department of Economics and Finance, Tor Vergata University, Rome

18:00 – 18:30 Break and Refreshments

18:30 PUBLIC DEBATE
Host: Sigrun Matthiesen, Journalist, Population Europe
Prof. Francesco C. Billari
Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, Director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Dr. Lieve Fransen, Director of Directorate D “Europe 2020: Social Policies”, European Commission
Claudia Menne, Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
Rebekah Smith, Senior Adviser “Social Affairs” BUSINESS EUROPE