Objectives

MOPACT brought together 29 partners from 13 countries across Europe in a unique collaboration to study the interfaces between the demographic developments and the five main dimensions of their economic and social impact:

1. Economic and financial consequences of ageing.

2. Societal structures, civil society and cohesion.

3. Social support, long-term care and quality of life in an ageing society.

4. The built and technological environment.

5. Health and well-being, biological ageing (biogerontology), and the boundaries of frailty.

The consortium included a high quality, multi-disciplinary group of leading researchers to address the grand challenge of ageing.

The specific objectives of the project were:

• To conduct the most comprehensive review to date of the social and economic challenges of ageing.

• To collect and analyse social innovations and policy initiatives.

• To map the steps required to realise active ageing in Europe and to propose innovative ways of doing so.

• To involve key end users and stakeholders, such as policy makers, practitioners, product producers, designers and older people in all project activities.

• To undertake the wide and effective knowledge transfer and dissemination of the work of MOPACT.