Description du projet
De nouveaux outils afin de mieux comprendre les avantages d’une vie plus longue
La population européenne vieillit. Les conséquences de ce processus, qui se poursuivra au cours des décennies à venir, se font d’ores et déjà ressentir sur l’économie, la productivité, les budgets publics, la santé, la sécurité sociale et bien d’autres domaines qui exigent des politiques axées sur des données scientifiques pour assurer la prospérité durable de la société. Le projet SUSTAINWELL, financé par l’UE, mènera des recherches globales innovantes sur les résultats sociaux et économiques à long terme ainsi que les perspectives liées au vieillissement de la population. Plus particulièrement, il se concentrera sur le rôle de la conception des emplois à l’heure de faciliter les complémentarités d’intégration. Qui plus est, le projet s’intéressera au rôle de la famille, du marché et des politiques nationales en tant que garant du bien-être et de l’égalité à toutes les étapes de la vie.
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SUSTAINWELL addresses the long-term socio-economic impact of population ageing on European society. SUSTAINWELL aims will be to identify: (i) opportunities arising from longer and healthy life expectancy and in general from the silver economy; (ii) resilient responses from individuals and households (in market and non-market outcomes) and from other actors in society facing the challenges posed by ageing; (iii) the impact of ageing on inequality (both within and between generations), knowing that social cohesion is crucial to face the ageing challenge; (iv) gender and lifecycle balanced policies helping the sandwich-generation to sustain baby-boomers entering retirement, without decreasing fertility nor investment in education. Particular attention will be devoted to the role of job design to foster intergenerational complementarities in the labour market. To better understand the benefits of living longer, SUSTAINWELL will take a holistic perspective by: a) investigating the behavioural reactions in key lifetime decisions along the lifecycle (education, skills, fertility, work effort, home production, savings and retirement) and the decision process itself leading to prosocial behaviour; and b) accounting for the three ways to provide welbeing along the lifecycle (market, family and welfare state). Both dimensions will be analyzed by extending the National Transfer Accounts method (using comparable EU datasets) to be incorporated as inputs in a dynamic microsimulation comparative model quantifying the future of ageing societies. SUSTAINWELL will take a new multidisciplinary approach in different basic (Neuroscience) and social sciences (Economics, Demographics, Sociology and Political Science). SUSTAINWELL’s results will be pursued in permanent contact with stakeholders, to deliver knowledge and evidence-based policy measures by applying a participatory design and co-creation activities.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
08007 Barcelona
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