nEWS AND activities

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Miscellanea

• The SIPET Masterclass on Ageing and Work, part of the 27th Nordic Congress of Gerontology (nkg2024.se) in Stockholm, June 11-14, 2024, is opening for the call for participants.
• Big Congratulations to one of our EIWO Swedish members Dr. Gülin Öylü on successfully defending her thesis on December 13, 2023, at Linköping Unvierstiy!
• Applause for Gülin Öylü for nailing her insightful thesis "Inequalities and Age-Related Disadvantages in Late Working Life and Labour Market Exit in Sweden" on November 23.
• From November 8 to November 12, 2023, Prof. Amanda Grenier and EIWO team leaders, Prof. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Rachel Crossdale, Jolanta Perek-Białas, Nehle Penning attended the GSA 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting with the research "Participation in and Exclusion from Extended Late Working Life During the Demographic, Digital, and Green Transition" in Tampa, Florida, USA.
• On October 13, our 1.5-day SIPET International Training School on “The Green and Digital Transition and Late Work in the Ageing Society” on Campus Norrköping has concluded! A big THANK YOU to all participants for their deep discussions and insightful presentations.
• On October 11, the SIPET program had a fantastic Workshop! Deep dive into "The Green & Digital Transition and Late Work in the Ageing Society." Great thanks to all participants for the stimulating presentations & discussions!
• From June 25 to July 1, 2023, the EIWO team members participated in the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne and had a great symposium on “Participation, Inequality and Risks of Exclusion in Prolonged Working Lives”.
• From September 22 to 23, 2022, EIWO team members participated in “*Aging & Social Change: Twelfth Interdisciplinary Conference”* with a special focus on “Considering Aging Policies: Between the Local and the Global” in Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
• On July 27, 2022, we're very happy to announce that the EIWO programme received additional funding from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) to continue investigating how participation in late working life can be more inclusive and equal.

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Turnover

• Frerich Frerichs left due to health reasons since 2023.
• Laura Naegele has been recruited as a junior research group leader at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training System (BIBB) since 2023.
• Alan Walker and Jolanta Perek-Białas are co-leaders in Project VI, and Gerd Naegele and Perek-Białas are co-leaders in Project VII in March 2023.
• Annika Heuer became a doctoral student at EIWO in January 2023.
• Landry Botokou joined EIWO as a doctoral student and Lijun Peng as a research assistant in February 2023.

Publications

• Excited to share our new policy brief: "Gender still determines how, and how long, we work". The full paper is part of EIWO work package (?) and has won the Best Paper Award 2023 for Early Career Researcher. “Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE”
• A new policy brief "Unequal Extended Working Lives: the UK’s Failing Policy Agenda" by EIWO team members Rachel Crossdale, Liam Foster and Alan Walker has been published on LiU Press. This research uses a national policy case study of the UK to explore the influence of macro social and political-economic change on late working life employment exclusion and inequalities, identifying how policy developments have informed the existing Extending Working Lives (EWLs) agenda in the UK. More information is available in the EIWO Working Paper 3: Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life: National Country Context: UK (Alden, Foster, and Walker, 2021) available from: http://www.eiwoproject.org/
• Great news! A new article “The Value of Pension Reforms for Late Working Life: Evidence from Sweden” by Chiara Natalie Focacci, Gülin Öylü, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and Susanne Kelfve from the EIWO programme, published on April 2023.
• Aug 8, 2022. Check out our new article "Older Workers in Digitalizing Workplaces: A Systematic Literature Review" by Arianna Poli, Annika Heuer and Andreas Motel-Klingebiel from Linköping University, Tale Hellevik and Katharina Herlofson from Oslo Metropolitan University, and Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen from Helsinki University.

EIWO Advisory Committee meeting

• On December 15, 2023, EIWO Swedish, the UK, Polish and German team members meet EIWO Policy Advisory Committee members in Stockholm, exchanging valuable insights on the EIWO research directions and strategies.
• On September 29, 2023, IWO team members had an online meeting with EIWO Policy Advisory Committee members, a deep discussion on EIWO Work Package VII-Good Practices and Effects for Inclusion and Equality in Late Working Life.
• On April 26, 2023, EIWO team members had an online meeting with EIWO Policy Advisory Committee members. The meeting focused on the summary of EIWO programme phase II and the research planning of EIWO Work Package VI.

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EIWO policy webinar

• On October 4, 2023, the EIWO Policy Webinar VII on “Lifelong Learning and Skills” was held via Zoom. Thanks for everyone’s participation. The recording for this webinar is now available on our YouTube channel: EIWO Programme.
• On May 25, 2023, the EIWO Policy Webinar VI on "What's after the Swedish EU presidency? Challenges for late work policies in the digital, demographic, and green transition" was held via Zoom. The recording for this webinar is now available on our YouTube channel: EIWO Programme.
• On March 9, 2023, the EIWO Policy Webinar V on “Towards gender equality in late working life courses” was held via Zoom. The recording for this webinar is now available on our YouTube channel: EIWO Programme.
• On May 5, 2022, the EIWO Policy Webinar IV on “Late working life – still an issue within the agenda for the Swedish EU presidency 2023?” was held via Zoom.