SECOND INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

ON THE ACTIVE AGEING INDEX

27–28 September 2018, Bilbao

PROGRAMME

VENUE:

Bizkaia Aretoa UPV/EHU,

Avda. Abandoibarra, 3, 48009 Bilbao

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Thursday, 27 September 2018

08:30 – 09:30 REGISTRATION and WELCOME COFFEE

(Entrance hall, ground floor)

09:30 – 13:30 PLENARY SESSION (Auditorium Mitxelena, ground floor)

14:30 – 16:30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (second floor)

17:00 – 18:30 POSTER SESSION (Chillida hall, first floor)

18:30 – 19:45 RECEPTION (Chillida hall, first floor)

11:30 – 11:50 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break (Chillida hall, first floor)

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

Friday, 28 September 2018

08:30 – 09:00 REGISTRATION FOR THE SECOND DAY

(Entrance hall, ground floor)

09:00 – 11:00 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (second floor)

11:30 – 12:15 AWARD CEREMONY (Auditorium Mitxelena, ground floor)

12:15 – 13:30 CLOSING SESSION (Auditorium Mitxelena, ground floor)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch (Chillida hall, first floor)

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Thursday, 27 September 2018

08:30 – 09:30 REGISTRATION and WELCOME COFFEE (Entrance hall, ground floor)

PLENARY SESSION: 09:30 – 13:30

(Auditorium Mitxelena, ground floor)

09:30 – 09:45 OPENING BY CO-ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS

09:45 – 11:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Chair: Ana Carla Pereira, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Employment,

Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

Maurizio Bussolo, Lead economist, Chief Economist Office for Europe and

Central Asia, World Bank

Ritu Sadana, Senior Health Advisor, Department of Ageing and Life Course,

World Health Organization

Mark Keese, Head of Skills and Employability Division, Organisation for

Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Asghar Zaidi, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political

Science; Jolanta Perek-Białas, Associate professor, Academic Lecturer,

Researcher, Warsaw School of Economics and Jagiellonian University;

Andrea Principi, Senior Researcher, Italian National Institute of Health and

Science on Ageing (INRCA)

11:30 – 11:50 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

11:50 – 13:30 EXTENDING AND DEVELOPING AAI: CROSS-REGIONAL

EXAMPLES

Chair: Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology, University of Oxford

Doreen W.H. Au, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Extending the Active Ageing Index to Hong Kong using a mixed-method

approach: feasibility and initial results

Johan Fritzell, Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm

University

Developing the Active Ageing Index for the oldest old. An example from Sweden

Javier Olivera, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

Ageing unequally: an application with the Active Ageing Index

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break (Chillida hall, first floor)

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PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: 14:30 – 16:30

WORKSHOP ON SUBNATIONAL ADAPTATION OF AAI

(Room Arriaga, second floor)

Chair: Jolanta Perek-Białas, Associate professor, Academic Lecturer, Researcher, Warsaw

School of Economics and Jagiellonian University

Yolanda González-Rábago, University of the Basque Country

Social inequalities in Active Ageing in the region of Biscay: Does education play a role?

Fredrica Nyqvist, Åbo Akademi University

Active Ageing Index at a municipality-level in western Finland: results from the GERDA study

Luciana Quattrociocchi, Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT)

Employment of older people across Italian regions: an exploration of drivers and barriers based

on the Active Ageing Index

Koldo Cambra, Public Health and Labour Institute of Navarra (ISPLN)

Calculating the Active Ageing Index for the region of Navarra

WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AAI RESULTS

(Room Laboa, second floor)

Chair: Kenneth Howse, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing

Banu Metin, Gazi University

Sweden and Italy in Active Ageing Index: comparative policy analysis within the context

of different welfare regimes

Marcela Petrová Kafková, Masaryk University

The Czech Republic and Slovakia – shared lives with different outcomes

Maria Varlamova, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Active Ageing Index in Russia – identifying determinants for inequalities

Hideko Matsuo, University of Leuven

Life course pathways to healthy ageing based on the analysis of cross-national surveys

(2002-2016)

WORKSHOP ON LINKING AAI TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND WELL-BEING

(Room Baroja, second floor)

Chair: Karel Van den Bosch, Guest professor, University of Antwerp; Expert, Belgian Federal

Planning Bureau

Elena Frolova, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University

Active Ageing Index: subnational study on elderly well-being in Russia

Maryam Tajvar, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Individual-level Active Ageing Index in Iran and Quality of Life of Older People

Maria Letizia Tanturri, University of Padova

Quality of life in older age: does the context matter?

Jürgen Deller, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Extending the AAI to the Organizational Level: First Insights into the Operationalization

of the Silver Work Index

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16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

POSTER SESSION: 17:00 – 18:30

(Chillida hall, first floor)

Conveners: Eszter Zolyomi, Researcher, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

and Robert Anderson, Head of Living Conditions and Quality of Life Unit, Eurofound

With an introductory presentation by Rodney Harrell, AARP

18:30 – 19:45 RECEPTION (Chillida hall, first floor)

Your food in the seminar is prepared by Peñascal Kooperatiba, a social initiative and

non-profit entity, which has been declared of public utility. Born in Bilbao in 1986, its

purpose is the integration into society of people in a situation or at risk of exclusion by

personal, academic or social circumstances.

The cooperative owns several training centres in different areas of the Basque Country

and Navarre. In them, people are vocationally trained to enable their access to the

labour market or improve their work situation.

Because of its commitment to employment, this cooperative has also created and

manages various insertion companies, among which is Peñascal Restoration Services,

offering restaurant and catering services.

Further information: www.grupopenascal.com

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Friday, 28 September 2018

08:30 – 09:00 REGISTRATION FOR THE SECOND DAY (Entrance hall, ground floor)

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: 09:00 – 11:00

WORKSHOP ON METHODOLOGICAL PAPERS (Room Laboa, second floor)

Chair: Asghar Zaidi, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

Judite Gonçalves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Inequalities in healthy and active aging across Europe

José Antonio Ortega, University of Salamanca

Separating the active and the aging in the Active Aging Index

Éva Berde, Izabella Kuncz, Corvinus Univesrsity of Budapest

Active Ageing Index, new emphasis within the same methodology

Ivana Đurović, University of Belgrade

Customisation of ageing policies using the machine learning algorithms

WORKSHOP ON USE OF AAI FOR POLICYMAKING (Room Baroja, second floor)

Chair: Bernhard Marin, Director, European Bureau for Policy Consulting and Social Research

Maria Pilar Serrano Garijo, Madrid City Council

AAI as a tool for the evaluation of Action Plan of Madrid Age-friendly City

Ayelet Berg-Warman, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute

Active Ageing in Israel: Gaps between the centre of the country and the periphery over the past decade

Anna Ermolina, Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

The link between comprehensive employment, health care, pension, social policies and active

ageing potential in Russia and EU countries

Wouter De Tavernier, Aalborg University

Active Ageing and the legitimacy of unemployment benefit obligations for older people in Europe

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break (Chillida hall, first floor)

PLENARY SESSION: 11:30 – 13:30 (Auditorium Mitxelena, ground floor)

11:30 – 12:15 AWARD CEREMONY

12:15 – 13:30 CLOSING SESSION

Chair: Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, Chief of Population Unit, UNECE

Sergio Murillo Corzo, Director-General for Personal Autonomy Promotion,

Department of Social Development, Biscay Provincial Government

Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary General, AGE Platform Europe

Giovanni Lamura, Senior Gerontologist, Italian National Institute of Health and

Science on Ageing (INRCA)

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch (Chillida hall, first floor)

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