Framework of the conference

I. The challenges to social security systems with particular emphasis on pension schemes:

  1. The impact of demographic transformations on long-term financial sustainability of pension schemes and the health care system in Poland and other countries.
  2. Providing long-term care for the elderly as one of the objectives of social policy.
  3. Efficiency, adequacy and redistribution of income in pension schemes. wywalic
  4. Economic, social and legal-organizational aspects of social security
  5. International experience in setting the statutory retirement age
  6. Retirement awareness and decisions taken by the participants of the pension scheme.
  7. The role of education and counseling in pension systems.
  8. Institutional, demographic and socio-cultural aspects of pension reforms.
  9. Politics and the effectiveness of investment of pension funds and other institutions of the pension sector.
  10. Social responsibility of pension sector institutions.
  11. Individual retirement accounts, individual pension security accounts and employee pension schemes as instruments of accumulating long-term additional retirement savings for the old age - efficiency, costs, taxation issues.
  12. Alternative solutions proposed to stimulate the development of supplementary pension schemes and other forms of long-term savings.
  13. The use of behavioral economics in reforming pension systems
  14. Migration processes and the pension system.
  15. Cultural aspects for the functioning and reform of social security systems.
  16. Other related issues.

II. The challenges to the labor market

  1. The human capital of the elderly.
  2. The comparison of the situation of young and older people in the labor market.
  3. Intergenerational differences in the labor market (the differences of needs, attitudes and motivation of different generations in the labor market).
  4. Human Resources Management against the problems of demographic aging.
  5. Discrimination in the labor market due to age and the ways to overcome it
  6. Entrepreneurship of the elderly
  7. Mobility of the elderly (from the point of view of transport and logistics)
  8. The development of silver economy in Poland and around the world.
  9. Mental and economic security of the elderly.
  10. Age management in theory and in practice
  11. Corporate social responsibility in relation to the elderly (employees, customers).
  12. Social perception of old age.
  13. Trust in the relationships between the elderly and society.
  14. Other related issues.

III. Technological challenges

  1. Mobility of the elderly. Various transport and logistics solutions for aging societies.
  2. How to prevent social exclusion? Organizational and technological solutions.
  3. Evaluation of social security systems using the methods of multi-criteria analysis.
  4. Computer decision support systems (including mobile ones) supporting aging societies / elderly people.
  5. Other related issues.