Today, the European Union is facing an unprecedented demographic ageing phenomenon which leads to the decline of its active population. The baby-boom generation is retiring and the following ones, who are not as plentiful, sadden to replace them. Those structural changes hang over the E.U. Member States and over their population, notably because of the decrease in the tax receipts that is generated.

As a direct fallout, the very existence of their national health and pension organisations is threatened. Beyond this risk, the phenomenon of the ageing of the active population asserts an other stake, less covered up by the media, and nevertheless of major importance, which is the durability of enterprises in a background of increasing labour shortage.

How to avoid losing knowledge and competencies which are critical for the competitiveness of the enterprise at a time of massive retirement dynamic? How to replace competencies that are becoming scarce on the labour market? Etc. This combination of elements threatens the competitiveness of companies and consequently the European economic base as a whole.

To cope with these several stakes led by the ageing of the active population, CEFORALP and its European partners are currently working on the design of a toolbox which aims to ease the age management. It will provide enterprises with a new, simple, and practical methodology which will identify and check the risks linked to the ageing of their manpower. The objective is to turn this situation into an asset for the competitiveness of the enterprises.  

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