Invitation

Competence 50+ 2007 - a conference with many faces

Our ambition is for people from different backgrounds to meet in order to work together on a common theme – the conditions for older people on the labour market. We hope that practitioners, researchers and decisionmakers will learn from one another and together lay the foundation for working together in the future.

This is being done throughout Europe

Competence 50+ 2007 is a conference for anyone who wants to gain a broad picture of European developments within Age Management. At the same time, there will be opportunities to participate in seminars and workshops dealing with specific subject areas or highlighting individual development and research projects.

We will be focusing on reporting results and practical experiences in the hope that these will inspire other people to promote development work in Europe.

A springboard for the future

Competence 50+ 2007 is a conference at which you will be given the opportunity to learn about the conditions that apply for future European investments to combat discrimination against older people on the labour market. The next programme period runs up to 2013 - the work can start in Göteborg.

Unexpected meetings - New ideas

Competence 50+ 2007 is the arena to give you the chance to meet new people. An important part of the conference programme is the contact seminar at which we hope you will meet many interesting people. We hope these meetings will be the start of new projects during the coming programme period.

Something new

Lots of work is currently taking place in Europe to improve the conditions for older people on the labour market, but there is no collective picture of everything that is being done. In parallel with the preparatory work for Competence 50+ 2007, soundings are being taken concerning the possibility of creating a European network within the field of Age Management. Who knows, we may have made enough progress in our work so that a joint collaborative organisation of some type might be born at Competence 50+ 2007.

We hope that you will learn a lot at Competence 50+ 2007, meet lots of interesting people and have a few pleasant days in Göteborg.

Wishing you a very warm welcome,

Anders Österbo, Project Manager, Competence 50+ 2007

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