The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) organised and International Seminar "Building an evidence base for active ageing policies: Active Ageing Index and its potential". The seminar brought together 150 participants including researchers, policymakers and civil society representatives from all around the world. This allowed for rich and active discussions throughout the event.
The seminar started off with the presentation by Francesca Colombo, OECD, highlighting inequalities in ageing experiences both within the current generation and in comparison to future generations. Milorad Kovacevic, UNDP, continued the session explaining the value and advantages of composite measures for policymaking based on the long history of use of the Human Development Index. Asghar Zaidi, Southampton University, presented the overview of the trends in the AAI results over a period 2008-2012. An analytical report on the latest AAI results and the trends is available below.
The seminar was structured around five principal topics - use of AAI for policymaking; subnational adaptation of AAI; comparative analysis of AAI results; methodological aspects of AAI; use of AAI int the non-EU countries and regions. On each topic a workshop was held, where the authors of papers, submitted under a call for papers launched in June 2014 and selected by an Evaluation board, had an opportunity to present and discuss their findings. Presentations given at the seminar are available below.
Fourteen posters were presented during a poster session on 16 April covering all the five above-mentioned topics and going beyond.
