Paulina Mucha, a graduate of the Faculty of Political Science at the Warsaw University with a major in European Studies, holds the Diploma of European Political Science of the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg.   Since 2005 she worked in the Polish Ministry of Regional Development in the Department for ESF Management. She is actively involved in the preparation of strategic documents for 2007-2013 financial perspective in Poland. As a senior expert, she focuses on the labour market and social protection issues in the ESF co-financed programmes. Since 2008 she is a member of the governmental working group dealing with the situation of older workers on the Polish labour market, responsible for elaboration of the strategy “Solidarity of generations” aimed at increasing the level of vocational activity of older workers.