W E L C O M EActive Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity:

What differential experiences across EU countries?Discussion forum with Asghar Zaidi

Bratislava, June 18th, 2012 at 10:00 Hotel ABBA, Štefánikova 4, Bratislava

Mission

Organisers 1

www.ivpr.gov.sk

• State research institution• Subordinated to MOLSAF• Research in all aspects of labour and social policy • Member of ANED, ECSWPR, Childwatch International, Eurocarers, EIGE

Organisers 2

www.euro.centre.org

• UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research

• „Ageing“ as a horizontal priority • Slovakia as a member • Since 2006 - the EC network in Slovakia

Organisers 3

Centre for education and research of seniors

www.ff.unipo.sk/ksp/

• Established by Faculty of Arts of the Presov University in Presov in 2011• Inspiration from the INTERLINKS project• Exchange knowledge on ageing agenda• Covering gaps in ageing research in Slovakia and Central Europe

Outline

To warm-up (1)

What does an „active ageing“ mean?

From research...(Source: IVO, 2011)

• Active ageing means:- I don´t know (47/41%)- To stay in work (16/21%)- To be active, away from „slippers culture“ (11/15%)- To be in action, sport (11/13%)- „To live“ (9/10%)

Two approaches to AA

• Process based (WHO, 2002) – AA as a process of optimising conditions/opportunities...

• Outcome based (Zaidi, 2011; Andor, 2012) – AA as a function of public interventions...

To warm-up (2)

What does a „solidarity between generations“ mean?

From theory – dimensions of IGS (Source: V. L. Bengtson, 2001; Gaalen et al., 2010)

AMBIVALENCE

To go on..

What makes diference?

Principle of continuity

„EYAASBG (2012) should build on the legacy of the ERCPSE (2010) and the EYVAPAC (2011) and, therefore, the synergies between those European

Years...“

(Art. 10 of the EP and the EC Decision no. 940/2011/EU on EYAASBG)

Volunteering- an example of the continuity

Volunteering as a way to social inclusion, active ageing, integenerational solidarity a European citizenship

From research...• According 58% of Europeans (54% of Slovakians) people 55+

can contribute to society as volunteers (Special Eurobarometer „Active Ageing“, 2012; QB8)

• 75% of Slovakians expect seniors should by active as volunteers by solving municipal problems (IVO, 2011)

• LTC volunteering is a special domain of people 55+ (Tang, 2006)

• Volunteering in old age as one of priorities on ageing reserach in Europe (FUTURAGE, 2011)

Moreover...

• To continue the International volunteering day in Bratislava