Program

Tuesday 16 September 2014
18:30
Dinner Invitation of the
Ministry for Labour,
Social Affairs and
Consumer Protection
Welcoming Address by
Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer
Dinner Lecture by
Dennis J. Snower,
President of the Kiel Institute for the
World Economy, established in 1914
“Welfare in an Age of Austerity”
Background Music:
Wladigeroff & Todorovski Trio
(trumpet, accordion, piano)
Please note:
Online registration for the Symposium
“The Future of Welfare in a Global Europe”
will be handled on a first-come, first-served base.
http://www.euro.centre.org/gam2014/
Social Events and Meeting Places
Sunday 14 September, 16:00-19:20:
Boat Trip on the “MS Blue Danube”,
Dinner Invitation
Schwedenplatz, Schiffstation Wien/City,
Franz Josef Kai 2, 1010 Vienna
Access by public transport
Underground U1 & U4, stop: Schwedenplatz
Tramway 1, stop: Schwedenplatz
Monday 15 September:
Symposium
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2,
1010 Vienna
Access by public transport
Underground U1, stop: Stephansplatz
Underground U3, stop:
Stubentor or Stephansplatz
Underground U4, stop: Schwedenplatz
Monday 15 September, 19:30:
Reception by the Mayor of Vienna
Wiener Rathauskeller, Rathausplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Symposium
Jubilee Event at the Occasion of the
40th Anniversary of the European Centre
for Social Welfare Policy and Research
Agenda
Monday 15 September 2014
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Access by public transport
Underground U2, stop: Rathaus
Tramway D, stop: Rathausplatz/Burgtheater
Tuesday 16 September, 18:30:
Dinner Invitation of the Ministry for Labour,
Social Affairs and Consumer Protection
“Marmorsaal”, access through main entrance,
Stubenring 1, 1010 Vienna
The Future of Welfare
in a Global Europe
Access by public transport
Underground U3, stop: Stubentor
Tramway 1, stop: Julius-Raab-Platz
Supported by
The Hannes Androsch Foundation
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday 15 September 2014
Austrian Academy of Sciences
CLASS, GENERATION, GENDER, AND
AGE CLEAVAGES IN AGEING SOCIETIES
NO EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL IN EUROPE –
OR TOWARDS A SOCIAL UNION ?
08:00-09:00Registration
11:45-12:15 Class, Generation, or Age ?
Cleavages and Conflicts
in Ageing Societies
Martin Kohli (Florence)
15:45-16:15 How Sustainable is the
Nordic Model ?
Joakim Palme (Uppsala – Stockholm)
09:00-09:15 Welcome Addresses
Anton Zeilinger (President of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Hannes Androsch (former Austrian
Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance,
The Hannes Androsch Foundation
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Bernd Marin (Executive Director of the
European Centre Vienna)
TOWARDS A HUMAN INVESTMENT
SOCIETY
09:15-09:45 Welfare Reform as Social
Investment. The Role of
Financial Education in Restoring
Gender and Generation Balance
Elsa Fornero (Torino)
09:45-10:15 Demographic Metabolism:
Enabling Future Generations
Wolfgang Lutz (Vienna)
10:15-10:45 European Education Systems
and the Future of Welfare
Marius Busemeyer (Konstanz)
10:45-11:15 Skills, Stakes, and Clout:
Early Human Capital Foundations
for European Welfare Futures
Pieter Vanhuysse (Vienna)
11:15-11:45
Coffee Break
12:15-12:45 Women’s Work and Pensions.
Drawing Reform Lessons
from Poland and Central
Eastern Europe
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak (Warsaw)
12:45-13:15 Reallocation of Resources Across
Age in a Comparative European
Setting. National Transfer
Accounts and the AGENTA Project
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (Vienna)
13:15-14:00 Lunch Buffet for all
Symposium Participants
TOO SICK TO WORK – AND TOO ILL TO LIVE
INDEPENDENTLY ? DISABILITY, FRAILTY –
AND HAPPINESS – IN STRESSFUL AND
LONG-LIFE SOCIETIES
14:00-14:30 Too Sick to Work ? Myths and
Realities about Mental Health
and Mass Inactivity
Christopher Prinz (Paris)
14:30-15:00 Long-term Care:
A Tool for Active Ageing
Ricardo Rodrigues (Vienna)
15:00-15:30 Happily Ever After. Well-being
Indicators and Welfare Policies
Orsolya Lelkes (Vienna)
15:30-15:45
Coffee Break
16:15-16:45 A European Social Union:
10 Tough Nuts to Crack
Frank Vandenbroucke (Leuven – Antwerpen
– Amsterdam – Toledo)
16:45-17:15 No European Social Model in
Europe ? Welfare in Idle Societies
Bernd Marin (Vienna)
Keeping Germany Working:
The Agenda 2020
(document circulated)
Bert Rürup (Düsseldorf)
Warfare and the Welfare State:
Causal Mechanisms and Effects
(document circulated)
Herbert Obinger (Bremen – Odense)
17:15-17:30 Roundup Debate
17:30-18:30 MINISTERIAL ROUNDTABLE –
EUROPE IN THE WORLD,
AUSTRIA IN EUROPE
Hannes Androsch (Austria)
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak (Poland)
Elsa Fornero (Italy)
Rudolf Hundstorfer (Austria)
Igor V. Khalevinski (Russian Federation)
Vappu Taipale (Finland)
Frank Vandenbroucke (Belgium)
19:30
Reception by the Mayor of the
Federal Capital City Vienna
Wiener Rathauskeller
Background Music:
Wladigeroff Brothers
(trumpet, piano)