CAWA - Creative Approaches to Workforce Agening
Demographic trends show that across the European Union there is an ageing workforce and a long-term decline of the working age population. These trends will constitute a significant challenge for member statesas they try to maintain economic growth and sustain social support systems in the medium to long term.
The CAWA project aims to promote creative approaches to workforce ageing among older workers by getting the social partners to assess and develop benchmarks for innovative policies and practices and then by widely disseminating them.
In Austria, Spain, Sweden and UK it will organise forums focusing on case studies from two industrial sectors in two regions with older than average workforces. With additional input from Bulgaria, international meetings will then develop these national benchmarks into a European code of innovative practice. This will then be disseminated widely within the target sectors and regions, ensuring workforce ageing receives a higher priority.