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YOU AND THE FUTURE
- A working Retirement: Fulfilling quality lives for an aging Population

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Detailed description of the Workshop

  
 The proposed workshop will take place during a full day and a half in Sweden, Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, 2007.

Participants

The success and prestige of the event is guarantee by well-known and relevant speakers making the Welcome and the Conclusions, as well as leading the different working groups.

This will be the first workshop in the area dealing with the opportunities offered us by the prospects of a long and relatively healthy period of retirement. Marketing is done to engineers on/or near retirement, but we will also invite as participants interested representatives of the government and industry, including health care with medical electronics.

Participators in the following workshops will also be invited:
FISTERA Workshops in Seville, June 2005; Manchester, May 2004; and a Conference in Seville, June 2004.  The FISTERA events were organized as Foresight on Information Technologies in the European Research Area.

Program

Friday April 20
Plenary – Welcome
Parallel sessions, selected for AM or PM.
Challenges with aging and its Forecasts/Foresight
User friendly interfaces
Solutions based on retired seniors
Economic problems associated with the aging phenomena
Working groups (6 or 7) on issues such as
Knowledge transfer
Experience available
Consulting services
Franchising

Saturday April 21
Presentations of the reporters of the groups
Wrap-up session including conclusions on how to go ahead.