Key activities
MOPACT’s core theme was focused on realising active and healthy ageing as an asset.
This was supported by eight scientific themes:
Economic consequences of ageing: understanding and alleviating the economic effects of population ageing.
Extending working lives: raising the employment of older workers, aided by lifelong learning.
Pension systems, savings and financial education: ensuring pension adequacy and pension system sustainability.
Health and well-being: driving healthy life expectancy and the social engagement of older people. The project structure is shown below.
Biogerontology: delaying the onset of frailty, dependence and age related diseases.
Built and technological environment: shaping housing, mobility, transport and ICT provision to support an ageing population.
Social support and long-term care: matching sustainable supply and demand for long-term care and ageing-related social support.
Enhancing active citizenship: enhancing the political participation of senior citizens and improving the capacity for adapting to societal change.
Reflecting the diverse nature of our scientific team, the specific project activities covered a wide range. The final project output was a major report synthesising knowledge on active ageing in Europe.
Key activities included:
A web based platform displaying exemplars of social innovation in ageing.
A scenarios of active ageing document providing policy and practice guidelines on how to make longevity an asset for social and economic development.
Concise descriptions of the ongoing demographic transition and its economic impact and research on innovative policies that aim to offset negative effects.
Analysing international best practice to develop innovative scenarios to integrate measures for extending working lives that enhance quality of work and well-being of workers involved.
Creating the knowledge base to ensure pension adequacy and pension system sustainability in the era of increasing longevity, demand for life-cycle financial planning and fiscal austerity.
Providing projections and insights of healthy life expectancy and proposing innovations, in factors driving both healthy life expectancy and social engagement of older people.
Developing future scenarios on the potential of biogerontological breakthroughs to support active ageing and the economic potential of procedures and intervention designed to offset the ageing process.
Creation of trend reports and policy and business recommendations for knowledge transfer and innovation in support housing, mobility and transport and ICT.
Building future scenarios of how integrated, age-friendly approaches can be realistically implemented to ensure active ageing in the context of social support and long-term care.
Creating the knowledge base for enhancing the political participation of senior citizens, and improving the capacity of adapting to change.
Three meetings of the MOPACT Stakeholder Forum in an iterative process to review progress and findings during the life of the project.
All project deliverables are accessible via the ‘Findings’ pages in each of the research fields and via direct download from the Publications section.