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(27.10.2010)
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Useful links with special focus on mature@eu partners countries:
Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and United Kingdom
other useful links:
EU Projects, International Project, European Institutions, International Institutions
Austria
Arbeit und Alter
Initiative of the Austrian social partners on the theme of age appropriate work organisation. Background information on demographic change and its influence on the world of work. Database with project examples.
WAGE - Winning age - getting future
ESF Article 6 project of Upper Austrian's Social Partners on the issue of demographic change and age management; funded by the Province of Upper Austria.
U-Turn
The EQUAL project concentrates on the labour market situation for people over 45. The participating organisations are developing and testing innovative strategies to support older works accessing the labour market.
Service Arbeit und Gesundheit 40+
The aims of the project are to support companies employing workers affected by health problems over the age of 40 and to support these employees keeping their jobs.
Vienna Institute of Demography
The Vienna Institute of Demography strives for the combination of scientific excellence with proactive relevance in analysing and projecting demographic trends and in evaluating the social and economic consequences of population ageing.
TEP_EQUAL_ELDERLY
This is a joint EQUAL-EP of all Austrian Territorial Employment Partnerships (TEPs). Goal of the EP is to recognize, appreciate and advance the potential of elderly workers, to identify adequate instruments and methods and to provide relevant societal institutions and organizations, companies, advocacy groups and social partners with know-how essential for practical implementation.
Fundament - Generation45plus
A private initiative of and for older job seekers. The website serves also as information portal around the issue ageing workforce.
seniorweb.at - GEFAS
The association for promoting gerontoloy and the studies of senior citizens GEFAS-Styria was founded by senior students in 1991. The society is a non-profit organization. The aim of the association is to encourage participatory action of elderly women and men. The basis for this work is the honorary commitment of about 30 elderly women and men.
Bulgaria
Transnational Exchange for Active Ageing
The Bulgarian NGO Anti-Poverty Information Centre is partner within this EU project aiming to exchange best practice examples regarding active ageing.
Bugarian Association for Human Resource Management and Develpment
The Bulgarian Human Resources Management and Development Association (BHRMDA) is a non-governmental organization established to support and develop professionals in the human resource management and development area and to raise the status of the profession as a whole.
Usability Research Laboratory - New Bulgarian University
The Usability Research Laboratory is specialized in e-learning systems development, assessment and implementation in the educational programs in NBU and other educational institutions.
Czech Republic
Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs
Beside others, the institute's research activities focus on seniors´ living conditions in a context of ageing population and on inter-generation solidarity, including services for seniors.
Ageismus.cz
This website is intended as a source of information for all those interested in the issue of age discrimination and at the same time as a space where to exchange opinions on the subject of ageism.
Diskriminace.cz
A Counselling Centre for Citizenship, Civil and Human Rights, combing legal and social support, striving to achieve system improvements by means of monitoring and by publicizing the situation in media or by means of legislation change and attaining precedence decisions.
Germany
Initiative IT 50plus
IT 50plus is a joint initiative of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) and the trade union metal (IG Metall).
Demotrans Öffentlichkeits- und Marketingstrategie
This webpage provides current studies with the topic demographic shift and workplace, good practices and sectoral information.
Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft
The Social Science Information Centre offers information with commented online sources.
German Centre of Gerontology
The institute for scientific research and documentation process knowledge on the circumstances of ageing people.
Wegweiser Demographischer Wandel - Bertelsmann Stiftung
The directory provides data, population forecasts and concepts.
Ältere Arbeitnehmer und berufliche Fortbildung - Weiterbildung in Baden-Württemberg
This website provides information about older worker and professional training.
INQA - The New Quality of Work Initiative in Germany
INQA, the German government's action group 'New quality of work', was established to find pragmatic solutions for enterprises which help in everyday working life. The website provides an download area with material on the topic of the demographic change and employment.
Erfahrung ist Zukunft
This website is supported by national key stakeholders to improve the awareness of the ageing society.
Perspektive 50plus – Beschäftigungspakte für Ältere in den Regionen
An overview of all "ageing" projects funded by the German labor agency.
Greece
Institute of Human Resources Management
The aim of the activities of the Institute of Human Resources Management is both to serve the scientific and professional interests of its members and the improvement of the work environment and competitiveness of businesses and organizations active in Greece.
SEXTANT Group Research and Consultancy
The SEXTANT Group works at local, national and international levels and has increasingly specialised in research, consultancy and evaluation on the ageing of the population and the consequences for older people and health and welfare.
BASE - Building on the Asset of Experience
The BASE Project is funded under the European Social Fund Regulation Article 6-Innovative Measures Innovative Approaches to the Management of Change. The project addresses the needs of the older employees to adapt to the market's new requirements. The approach concentrates on demonstrating and exploiting the 'capital' of these employees (experience and specific skills), in favor of them and of the employers as well.
50 Plus Greece
50+ Hellas is a non governmental organisation, which has as a primary goal supporting the rights of people over 50 years old.
Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility
The "Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility" is a business-driven membership non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote the meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility to both the business community and the social environment, with the overall objective being a balance between profitability and sustainable development.
EMPIRIA
The scope of the project is to assay innovative practical measures and suggest corresponding institutional measures that will contribute to an integrated handling of the active ageing problem, namely the support and sustention of the employment of an older age working population in Greece, with the participation of the most representative social partners and by activating social dialogue procedures.
Hungary
GKIeNET Internet Research & Consulting Ltd.
The main business area of GKIeNET is the analysis of the information communication sector, continuous monitoring of the use of Internet, and identification of trends and expectations in the information communication and telecommunications markets. GKIeNET conducted a survey on mature aged employees in Hungary.
Italy
Osservatorio sul Diversity Management
The Observatory on Diversity Management is a network of companies sharing as a mission the concept and practice of diversity management by gender, life cycle, culture, abilities.
Associazione Lavoro over 40
A non profit organisation, supporting the inclusion and active participation of senior workers in the labour market. Mutual support, self-employment, placement of workers, awareness raising as well as monitoring activities in order to detect and report unlawful age-discriminating employment practices.
Age Management
An EQUAL Project, managed by Confindustria Veneto - Siav, that keeps it updated with information and awareness raising/knowledge transfer initiatives on the issue.
Lithuania
Lygių galimybių kontrolieriaus tarnyba
Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsmen investigates complaints on the backgrounds of all kind of discrimination including age.
Atviri ir saugūs darbe
A knowledge base regarding all kinds of discrimination. It also contains suggestions for employers how to avoid discrimination because of the age.
Lygių galimybių plėtros centras
Center for Equality Advancement, a center connected with equal rights information.
Teisės portalas
Database of legislation including support for people who are discriminated.
Žmogaus teisių svetainė
This site delivers legislative help for people who are discriminated.
Lietuvos žmogaus teisių centras
Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights (LCHR) focuses on human rights education and implemented numerous projects and activities in the field.
Lietuvos suaugusiųjų švietimo asociacija
If you are an adult learner, here you can find advice for lifelong learning strategies.
Latvia
Latvijas Cilvēktiesību Centrs
This Website contains information about Latvian laws refering to discrimination.
Latvijas Republikas Tiesībsargu ievēl Saeima
The website of the Ombudsman’s Office.
Poland
Zysk z dojrzałości
“Profit from maturity” is being implemented by the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy. This website constitutes a source of information on +50 professional activity.
Forum 50+
Forum's mission is to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, it coordinates projects that focus on the activities of mature people with cooperation with different organisations.
Senior.pl
On-line service for mature people
Slovakia
Fórum pre pomoc starším
Fórum PPS is non-profit organization dealing with the protection of older people´s rights, prevention and education of older people, issues concerning application of the elderly at labor market. It cooperates with organisation from Slovakia and foreign organizations.
Slovenia
Office for Equal Opportunities
The focus of this governmental office is ensuring equility of men and women; in the case of complaints, they deal also age discrimination.
Human Resource Development Fund An independent business unit of Economic Institute Maribor. As a non-profit institution it strives for development and training of human resources in the Podravje region and also broader.
Planet GV
Planet GV is the leading Slovenian company for business and legal training, dealing also with age issue in recruiting in the field of business and legal training.
Employment Service of Slovenia
ESS implements programme of "Active Employment Politics"; as part to the programme, it actively encourage employing older persons.
City Union of Pensioners, Ljubljana
This is volunteer humanitarian NGO connecting interest groups, unions, clubs and active pensioners of Ljubljana. The aim of organisation is to represent the interests and rights of older people and contribute to the quality of their lives.
Union of Associations of Pensioners of Slovenia
The aim of this volunteer humanitarian non-party organisation is to satisfy interests of pensioners, to keep and to improve quality of lives and to be active in the development of the whole society.
Human Rights Ombudsman
The institution deals (among others) with complaints in respect to equal opportunities, equal rights (employment) and national and ethnic minorities, as well as with age related complaints, fall within the area of discrimination.
Switzerland
Pro Senectute Suisse
The major private organisation, providing support to older people.
Schweizerischer Arbeitgeber - Union Patronal Suisse
The Swiss employers' Union is an association assembling nearly 80 employers organisations and has devoted a large space on its website to employability related to age.
AVENIR SUISSE
As an independent think tank, Avenir Suisse was founded by 14 internationally operating Swiss companies and s involved in promoting the social and economic development of Switzerland. Demography is one the researche areas and is examining the consequences of ageing population in Switzerland.
LABORATOIRE DE DEMOGRAPHIE & D'ETUDES FAMILIALES
The mission of the laboratory of demography is to examine the current demographics trends as well as the significance of changes in behaviour. The ageing of the population is one of its main research lines.
50 PLUS Sante
The intercantonal programme 50 ans plus santé aims to safeguard and to improve seniors' health. Through this 3 year project, different actions are undertaken within the field of working conditions, unemployment and retirement which are crucial health specificities after the age of 50.
L'OBSERVATOIRE ROMAND ET TESSINOISE DE L'EMPLOI
The purpose of the Observatory of employment within the French and Italian speaking part of Switzerland is to realise and to coordinate studies within the field of employment market trends.
Atlas de la vie après 50 ans
Economic and Financial Data for Switzerland; this link provide some helpful demographic informations in Switzerland.
Institut Universitaire Ages et Generations
Within the context of major sociological and political changes, the institute aims to understand and improve the relationships between generations, as well as to promote and initiate analysis and synthesis related to age and the relationship between the generations.
PROMOVE TM
Promove TM is a private company which accompanies seniors on the search for a new professional challenge by providing them with new career perspectives, enabling them to increase their employability.
Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktkompetenz
The "Swiss company for employment market competencies" is promoting empowerment and employment market abilities to companies, public institutions as well as to individuals.
Secretariat d'Etat a l'Economie SECO
The State secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO is the Swiss Confederation's competence centre for all core issues relating to economic policy.
The Netherlands
Leeftijd op het werk
Website about age at work. The website gives information and practical solutions about age in relation to availability, health and productivity. The organisation behind this website is TNO and financed by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. TNO applies scientific knowledge with the aim of strengthening the innovative power of industry and government. The organisation can help give tangible shape to an effective personnel policy that takes account of employee age.
65plus
Employment agency for people aged over 65
Seniorstaff
The intermediary in work for 45-plus.
Expertise Centre Age and Life Course
The Expertise Centre Age and Life Course is a consultancy organisation and assists companies, organisations and governments in adopting sustainable age and life course policies based on the most recent knowledge.
TASKFORCE OUDEREN EN ARBEID
Government-funded Taskforce on Older People and Employment is working towards encouraging major changes in the employment of older workers. The Taskforce researches, implements and disseminates, aiming to influence enterprises, organisations, public governance, decision makers and public opinion.
CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
CPB provides independent forecasts and analyses that are scientifically sound and up-to-date and that are relevant for the policy decisions of government, parliament, and other societal organisations such as political parties, trade unions, and employers' association. It has published several reports on ageing including the report Ageing in the Netherlands.
Kenniscentrum GOC
GOC offers courses, consultancy and training in the field of graphic media a.o. with respect to age conscious recruitment policy.
The Netherlands Platform Older People and Europe (NPOE)
NPOE provides information, consultancy and trainings on recent developments concerning social policy and health care in Europe from the angle of demographic changes.
LBL - Expertise Centre Age and Society
LBL was established by the Dutch government in 1994, because of serious concerns about ageism and age discrimination. The work of LBL is aimed at raising awareness, fostering opinions and influencing decision-making. The bureau contributes to changing the way in which society thinks about age and the course of life. Also, the bureau acts against unjustified distinctions on the basis of age.
The Netherlands Seniority Foundation
The Netherlands Seniority Foundation supports people of 45 years and older who want to take part or are taking part in the labour market. The Foundation tries to reach its goal by tailor-made job programmes for organisations and individuals.
NIDI - The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
NIDI's principal task is to conduct research into population issues. The Institute studies past, present and future population trends as well as the backgrounds to these trends and their social consequences.
United Kingdom
The Oxford Institute of Ageing - Ageing Horizons
Ageing Horizons is a review of current analysis and research on policy futures in an ageing society. It also serves as a thematic resource for abstracts, news, commentary, and debate on the policy issues that are likely to arise in the medium term as a result of population ageing.
In My Prime An organisation for mature people rethinking their lives.
TAEN - Experts in Age and Employment
The network's role is to interpret demographic change and help people and organisations build advantage from it.
Age Positive
This campaign promotes the benefits of employing a mixed-age workforce. The website of the campain provides information about case studies, good practices, legislation etc.
Age Concern
The charity provides information about age and learning on its website.
The Employers Forum on Age (EFA)
This independent network of leading employers aims to promote good practice among employers and, in addition, influences Government, business and trade unions, and campaigns for real, practical change in issues such as retirement and the implementation of age discrimination legislation.
Acas
Acas is the employment relations service for England, Scotland and Wales offering practical, independent and impartial advice to employers, employees and their representatives. Acas encourages people to work together effectively, and aims to promote good practice in the workplace as well as helping to resolve disputes.
Age 2006
Age2006 is an online service set up by Kineo (www.kineo.co.uk) dedicated to helping organisations meet the challenges of the Age Regulations. It offers information on the Regulations, training and e-learning programmes and toolkits, guidance for those implementing the legislation (including tips and a checklist), statistics, and surveys on age issues.
British Chambers of Commerce
The British Chambers of Commerce is a non-political, non-profit making organisation, working with Government to shape policy affecting UK businesses. Their HR service helps businesses understand and comply with new age discrimination legislation. The HR service offers guidance on the transitional retirement arrangements, and information, advice and further resources are available to members.
Business Link
Business Link provides practical advice for businesses, directing them to other organisations offering relevant services. Their website offers advice on removing age discrimination in employment and provides links to information and documents on the Age Regulations.
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
ELSA is an interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age.
CIPD - The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
The CIPD is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people. It offers a factsheet on the age legislation, including advised action for employers. The CIPD is part of the Age and Advice Network.
CAADE - The Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment
CAADE was founded to fight for legislation to ban age discrimination. CAADE offers an ‘Age Audit’ service to help employers get in line with the new Age Regulations.
NHS Employers
NHS Employers is the employersÂ’ organisation for the NHS in England. The Employer Excellence (Equality and Diversity) section of their website offers extensive information, useful to any employer, on the Age Regulations and provides detailed guidance (and a checklist) on steps for employers dealing with age legislation in the workplace. It also provides updates on evidence-based good practice, and age-profiling 'e-tools'.
Department of Trade and Industry
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is the government department responsible for employment policy and legislation. The DTI has provided general notes on the Age Regulations and information for employers on how the Regulations apply to retirement procedures and pension schemes.
European Forum on Population Ageing Research
Some of the main objectives of the project were to develop synergies between the key action on the ageing population and the national and international research programmes in the field, to promote broader European cooperation and networking in the field of ageing research and to promote better public awareness of the importance of scientific research on ageing.
Alec.co.uk
Alec's FREE advice on CV writing, resume writing, interview questions & job search.
The Really Useful Page - 50 plus Page
A useful page for who are part of one of the most powerful groups in the country.
EU Projects
awise – ageing workforce in small enterprises
50+ Europe - Leonardo da Vinci Project
European Forum on Population Ageing Research - 5th FP
European Reasearch Area in Ageing Research - 6th FP
PROAGE: Facing the challenge of demographic change
Smart Region - Age management in innovative regions
AMANDA: Advanced Multidisciplinary Analysis of New Data on Ageing
SHARE Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
eInclusion@europe: The contribution of ICT to active ageing in work and employment - 6th FP
Alternde Belegschaften in kleinen Unternehmen - ESF, Artikel 6
ESA Research Network on Ageing in Europe
International Project
Workforce Ageing In The New Economy (WANE)
WANE is an international comparative study of information technology employment. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and global partners, the project involves a consortium of academic researchers and industry partners in Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States.
European Institutions
For Diversity. Against Discrimination.
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
European Federation of Older Persons
AGE - The European Older People's Platform
Eulisses - guide to pensions
and its policy areas:
International Institutions
WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health
International Federation on Ageing
UN Second World Assembly on Ageing
UN Expert Group Meeting on Social and Economic Implications of Changing Population AGe Structures