President’s Preface
As I write this, the leadership of various European countries came up – after a hectic weekend – with a plan to save the euro and consequently the financial position of much of Europe. It was finally accepted that only combined action and a joint decision could lead to success. After long debates, common sense prevailed!
The message to take from this is that the huge problems in Europe can only be solved using a combined approach; an approach in which all the countries of Europe are engaged in saving the common currency. It is no longer possible for European countries, certainly not the smaller ones, to “play the ball on their own”! This experience is applicable in many areas of our European society.
It is on that basis that the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies / FEES has organized its first Conference as a Conference on European scale about a tremendously important topic: the elderly worker! All of us in Europe have to cope with this issue. We all must find answers to the many challenges this issue poses.
Only through combined approaches on a true European scale will we succeed!
The conference organizers have developed a program with a real European flavour. The invited speakers (from all over Europe) will highlight the related topics from various standpoints: political, managerial, scientific and application oriented. They are all experts in their fields.
By attending the Conference as a conference delegate or as an exhibitor in the associated exhibition, it will be possible to make real steps forward in order to react fully and appropriately to the challenge of how to involve the ageing population at work in an ergonomic way – that is for jobs to be
- productive,
- healthy,
- rewarding and fulfilling (economically and socially),
- culturally acceptable.
Pieter Rookmaaker Eur.Erg., President of FEES and ECE
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