Ageing workers
Continuing earlier activities on ageing workers and lifelong learning, this project aims to increase understanding of and provide new insights into ageing and work through new research. Its purpose is to support evidence based active ageing policies in the context of widespread population ageing in many western societies. [more]
Contact Details:
Jasper Van Loo 
Related Themes
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- Equity in and through Education and Training: Indicators and Priorities (17/04/2012) new
- New website promoting Health Ageing (29/02/2012)
- Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2011 (17/02/2012)
- Cedefop presents its findings at opening conference of European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (17/01/2012)
- Active ageing is about getting more out of life as you grow older - at work, private life or in the community. Cedefop studies how guidance and training can encourage older people to stay on at work - and how the workplace can make the best use of their skills and experience. It is presenting its findings at the Danish Presidency conference launching the Year of Active Ageing on 18-19 January.
- Eurobarometer survey on Active Ageing (16/01/2012)
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- Opinion of the EESC on ‘EU crisis exit strategies and industrial change: more precarious or sustainable jobs?" (09/11/2011)
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- Managing demographic challenges through better reconciliation of work and family life - Council Conclusions (04/10/2011)
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- Press release - The right approach to training can help companies get the best out of an ageing workforce (22/09/2011)
- Music and arts classes have been shown to improve wellbeing and life satisfaction at an older age. Yet formal training does not have the same effect. What is formal training doing wrong? Is it ill adapted to the needs of older workers? An international seminar takes a close look at what is needed to make the best use of an ageing workforce.
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- Investing in an ageing workforce – why and how? (19/09/2011)
- Few companies are adapting their human resource practices to the ageing of the workforce. What can policy-makers do to encourage workers, employers and educators to take action? Last week's international seminar in Brussels, jointly organised by Cedefop and the European Commission, examined the impact of investing in an ageing workforce.
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- Decision on the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity (2012) (04/08/2011)
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- Call for papers: Learning later in life – uncovering the potential of investing in an ageing workforce, Brussels, 21-22 September 2011 (19/05/2011)
- Cedefop and the European Commission are jointly organising a two-day international seminar on learning later in life and the impact of investing in an ageing workforce.
- Ageing workers, changing demands: skills for silver workers (05/11/2010)
- The rising median age of the workforce and the mismatch between the demand and supply of skills are two issues of particular concern for the European labour market. But are people’s skills more likely to be mismatched as they age?
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- Rising importance of guidance for ageing workers (05/10/2010)
- Spirited debate on an issue that is of critical importance to Europe’s labour market was the hallmark of Cedefop’s workshop on guidance for ageing workers (September 30-October 1). The workshop aimed to identify the best ways to offer career guidance to ageing workers, who constitute an increasingly important share of the workforce.
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- 2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing (15/09/2010)
- Exploring working and ageing: new publication and forthcoming workshop (20/08/2010)
- Are there differences in how older workers learn? What are their best strategies of keeping up with changes in their job, or taking up a new job? And what can employers, governments and the world of training professionals do to encourage successful active ageing?
A new Cedefop publication - and a forthcoming workshop – seek answers to these questions.
- 3062 EN 2011 Free of charge
- Working and ageing
- Guidance and counselling for mature learners
- 5508 EN 2010
- The right skills for silver workers
- An empirical analysis
- 3053 EN 2010 Free of charge ()
- Working and ageing
- Emerging theories and empirical perspectives
- 5178 EN 2009 Free of charge
- Innovative learning measures for older workers
- 3045 EN FR 2006 Euro 25
- Promoting lifelong learning for older workers
- An international overview
