I. The challenges to social security systems with particular emphasis on pension schemes:
- The impact of demographic transformations on long-term financial sustainability of pension schemes and the health care system in Poland and other countries.
- Providing long-term care for the elderly as one of the objectives of social policy.
- Efficiency, adequacy and redistribution of income in pension schemes. wywalic
- Economic, social and legal-organizational aspects of social security
- International experience in setting the statutory retirement age
- Retirement awareness and decisions taken by the participants of the pension scheme.
- The role of education and counseling in pension systems.
- Institutional, demographic and socio-cultural aspects of pension reforms.
- Politics and the effectiveness of investment of pension funds and other institutions of the pension sector.
- Social responsibility of pension sector institutions.
- 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.
- Alternative solutions proposed to stimulate the development of supplementary pension schemes and other forms of long-term savings.
- The use of behavioral economics in reforming pension systems
- Migration processes and the pension system.
- Cultural aspects for the functioning and reform of social security systems.
- Other related issues.
II. The challenges to the labor market
- The human capital of the elderly.
- The comparison of the situation of young and older people in the labor market.
- Intergenerational differences in the labor market (the differences of needs, attitudes and motivation of different generations in the labor market).
- Human Resources Management against the problems of demographic aging.
- Discrimination in the labor market due to age and the ways to overcome it
- Entrepreneurship of the elderly
- Mobility of the elderly (from the point of view of transport and logistics)
- The development of silver economy in Poland and around the world.
- Mental and economic security of the elderly.
- Age management in theory and in practice
- Corporate social responsibility in relation to the elderly (employees, customers).
- Social perception of old age.
- Trust in the relationships between the elderly and society.
- Other related issues.
III. Technological challenges
- Mobility of the elderly. Various transport and logistics solutions for aging societies.
- How to prevent social exclusion? Organizational and technological solutions.
- Evaluation of social security systems using the methods of multi-criteria analysis.
- Computer decision support systems (including mobile ones) supporting aging societies / elderly people.
- Other related issues.