Prosjekttittel:	The Policy Ideas and Practice of Active Ageing: Political, Economical and Cultural Challenges in Europe
Prosjektleder:	Rune Ervik
Institusjon:	Unifob AS Universitetsforskning Bergen
Prosjektperiode:	2008 - 2012

Prosjektets mål:
The main goal of this project is to increase understanding of the ideas and practice of ageing policy in Norway and European comparative perspective. Our inquiry will contain the following sub-goals: Firstly, we will clarify the normative content of various ageing policy ideas in order to enhance knowledge on how ageing policies are justified. Secondly, the project will unlock the politics of ageing to better understand the political struggles and basis for consensus within this area. Thirdly, the project will scrutinize the role of welfare commissions in ageing politics and the making of ageing policy in different countries.

Prosjektsammendrag:
This project will explore and analyse the tension between the conceptualisations and policy ideas of active ageing and the practice of policies implemented at different organisational levels and in European comparative perspective. Thus, we will follow the concepts on ageing and active ageing from the ideational level to the practice of ageing policies, and from the international and macro level, to the national- and the institutional meso-level of ageing policies. The project analyses actors and their ideas, the politics of ageing and national policy formation. The project will apply various research methods, including qualitative analysis of policy documents, interviews with policy makers and other key stakeholders. A comparative method is applied at diverse levels in contrasting policy ideas, and European states and their policies.

Publiseringsdata fra prosjektet:

9.9.2008, Ervik, Rune “The Policy Ideas and Practice of Active Ageing: Political, Economical and Cultural Challenges in Europe”. Prosjektpresentasjon for Stortingets Utredningsseksjon;, Rokkansenteret , Bergen.

26.11.2008, Ervik, Rune, ”Frykter at eldre blir presset ut av arbeidsmarkedet”, Intervju, NRK Hordaland, [Radio].

26.11.2008, Ervik, Rune ”De eldre skvises ut”. NRK 1, Intervju, Vestlandsrevyen [TV]

26.11.2008, Ervik, Rune, ”Frykter at eldre blir presset ut av arbeidsmarkedet”, http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/hordaland/1.6325214  [Internett]

26.11.2008, Ervik, Rune ”Rammes av finanskrisen”. NRK, Intervju, Dagsrevyen 21 [TV]

26.2.2009, Lindén, Tord Skogedal, "The politics of ageing: Welfare Commissions in Denmark, Norway, Germany and the UK". Presentasjon av post doc prosjekt for prosjektgruppen, Rokkansenteret.

18.3.2009, Ervik, Rune, ”Aldringspolitikk i Storbritannia”, presentasjon, seminar om UK politikk, Forskningsgruppen Demokrati, Forvaltning Velferd, Rokkansenteret, Bergen.

26-27.3.2009, Ervik, Rune., Kildal, Nanna, Nilssen, Even (2009) "Sosialpolitiske idéer i Norge og EU: Samsvar og påvirkning?", paper, Seminar Forskningsgruppen Demokrati, Forvaltning og Velferd; London.

28.5.2009, Ervik, Rune; Lindén, Tord Skogedal; Kuhnle, Stein. ”Finanskrise og økende ulikhet”, Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, s. 27-27 UiB, http://www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/article855549.ece

20-22.08.2009, Ervik, Rune “A Missing Leg of Ageing Policy Ideas: Dependency Ratios, Technology and International Organizations”, paper, Plenary Session I, International Sociological Association, Research Group 19, Conference on: “Social policies: Local Experiments, Travelling Ideas”, Montreal, Canada,.

17-19.09 2009, Kildal, Nanna “Comparing the Ideas of Activation in Current Ageing policies: The EU, the ILO, the OECD and the WB”, paper, 7 annual ESPAnet Conference 2009 on “The future of the welfare state. Paths of Social Policy Innovation Between Constraints and Opportunities.”, Urbino, Italy.

17-19.09 2009, Ervik, Rune, “A Missing Leg of Ageing Policy Ideas: Dependency Ratios, Technology and International Organizations”, paper, 7 annual ESPAnet Conference 2009 on “The future of the welfare state. Paths of Social Policy Innovation Between Constraints and Opportunities.”, Urbino, Italy.