Program
8th of June
| Time | Meeting point | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Jobst of Luxembourg (Horse), Moravske Namesti 6, 602 00 Brno | Brno City tour |
| 18:00+ | New Town Hall Brno, Dominikánské náměstí, 602 00 Brno | Brno Townhall reception |


9th of June
| Time | Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:30 | In front of Aula (A) | Registration |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Aula (A) | Welcome speech by Martina Rašticová and Petia Genkova |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Aula (A) | Later Life Workplace Index – Managing an age-inclusive workforce; Jürgen Deller |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | In front of Aula (A) | Coffee |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Aula (A) | Aging under Pressure: Technostress, Surveillance, and Inequality in Later Life; Galit Nimrod |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Aula (A) | Ageing, Healthcare Inequalities, and the Future Sustainability of Health Systems; Jakub Hlávka |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Aula (A) | Group photo |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Cafeteria (X) | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 15:15 | Q | Parallel sessions 1* |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Buffet (Q) | Coffee |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Q | Parallel sessions 2* |
| 17:00 – 21:30 | Cafeteria (X) | Dinner and music |
10th of June
| Time | Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Q | Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Q02 | Opening speech |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Q02 | Panel 1: Click, Adapt, Repeat: The Role of the older Talent in resiliant Labor Market; Moderator: Mária Jakabová; Panellists: Šárka Homfray; Lucie Vidovićová; Jim Ogg |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Buffet (Q) | Coffee |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Q02 | Panel 2: Future Horizons of Labour Markets and Older Workers in Relation to AI and Digitalisation; Moderator: Mária Jakabová; Panellists: David Lain; Jeroen Spijker; Daniela Soitu; Áine Ní Léime |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Cafeteria (X) | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Q | Working Group meetings; WG1: Q02 WG2: Q21 WG3: Q23 WG4: Q25 WG5: Q28 OWRG: Q31 YRIF: Q38 |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Buffet (Q) | Coffee |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Q02 | Management Committee |
| 16:30 – late | Terrace (D) | DIGI-net party |
Parallel sessions program
Parallel session 1: 9th June, 13:45-15:15
| Digital and Green Transitions in Turkey’s Textile Industry: Implications for Older Workers | Asena Erdoğan |
| Older Employees in the Digital Transformation Process: A Qualitative Study on Digital Skills and Experiences of Discrimination in Working Life | Ayşıl Kabakçı; Yusuf Erdem Tunç |
| Generational differences in adapting to digitalization in Higher Education workplace | Blerina Hamzallari; Sonila Papathimiu; Dhurata Premti |
| Digitalization as new social risk for old and young workers: a comparative analysis for Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Turkey | Daniel Perez del Prado; Muradiye Ates, Esra Kabaklarli, Anabela Mesquita, Gabriela Neagu |
| Technostress in the Ivory Tower among Older Academics: The State of the Art Based on a Scoping Review | Jolanta Pivoriene; Cristina Maria Tofan; Sylwia Przytuła; Silvana Crivoi; Funda Ergulec; Umar Bin Qushem |
| Digital Tools for Work–Life Balance Among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults: A Review of Reviews | Sirrý Sif Sigurlaugardóttir; Daniela Tatiana Soitu; Jolanta Pivorienė; Nilufer Korkmaz-Yaylagul; Mustafa Berk Armagan; Christina Maria Tofan |
| Digitalization, Best Practices, and Their Impact on Social Inequalities and Health Among Older Workers in Poland | Edyta Stępczak; Sylwia Przytuła; Joanna Ejdys; Łukasz Sułkowski |
| Digital Grey Zones: Ageing and Undeclared Work in the Digital Age across Europe and Turkey | Esra Kabaklarlı |
| Digitalization of Workplace and Inequality among Older Workers: Qualitative Evidence from Türkiye | Hande Barlin; Mehmet Serhan Eker |
| Organizational Age Culture and Digital Transformation: Inclusive Competency Development and the Role of Self-Regulation among Older Workers | Özgün Aykut |
| Digitization, Platformization, and Age Inequalities in Later-Life Work | Sejdi Sejdiu; Matthew Flynn; Maeve O’Sullivan; Anabela Mesquita; Maria Varlamova; Nora Pireci Sejdiu; Ebru Kasnak |
| Digitalization and Ageism: Barriers Faced by Older Employees in Technology-Oriented Organizational Cultures | Selma Doğanalp Çoban; Ayşe İspirli Turan |
| Digitalisation, Life Trajectories and Ageing in Informal Work: Women Artisans’ Experiences in Bolivia | Anabela Mesquita; Isabel Vieira; Maria João Castro; Sandrina Teixeira |
| Digitalisation, Technostress, and Systems Thinking in Late-Career Work: Organisational Implications for Ageing Employees | Yi Wang; Kesheng Wang |
| Findings of the Best Workplace for Women Survey and Award Established by the Association for Women’s Career Development in Hungary (AWCDH), Highlighting Results Related to Women Aged 50+ | Andrea Ferenczi; Ildikó Modláné Görgényi, Katalin Hajós |
| Digital competence and the experience of older workers | Anne Inga Hilsen; Dorothy Sutherland Olsen |
| A snapshot of research on older workers and digitalisation (OWRG) | Dorothy Sutherland Olsen; Anne Inga Hilsen |
| Still Working Beyond Retirement Eligibility: Characteristics of Economically Active Older Adults | Anna Ševčíková |
| “In the Shadow of the Screen”: A Metaphorical Examination of Older Workers’ Mental Health in a Digital Workplace | Ercan Asi; Aysegul Ilgaz |
| Digitalisation and Healthy Ageing at Work: A Biopsychosocial Framework, and a Digital Micro-Intervention for Older Workers | Cristina Maria Tofan |
| Hybrid working, digitalisation and job satisfaction: What’s age (and gender) got to do with it? | David Lain; Julie Rochut, Jeroen Spijker, Yang Gu, Diana Grad and Lavinia Tanculescu |
| Active Ageing in the Digital Age: A Global Analysis of the Relationship between Technology Attitudes, Digital Information Sources and Life Satisfaction | Emel Mirza |
| When Speed Becomes Inequality: Digitalisation, Older Workers and Policy in Crisis Contexts | Olena Mykhailovska |
| The “Double Barrier”: Quantifying the Intersectional Crisis of Gender and Age in ICT Leadership across Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) | Rezarta Perri; Merita Xhumari, Juna Dafa |
| Digitalisation, Ageing Workforces, and Policy Coherence: A European Governance Perspective | Theo Zacharis |
| Applying Systems Thinking to Digitalization, Older Workers, and Social Inequalities in Agriculture | Yi Wang; Kesheng Wang |
| Digitalization and the Future of Work: Rethinking Labour Market Policies in Serbia | Aleksandar Kovačević |
| Ageing Academic Workforces and Digitalization in OECD Countries: A Comparative Document-Based Review of Policy Discourses | Bahar Yüce; Servet Atik |
| Digitalisation, Cybersecurity Literacy, and the Future of Work for Older Adults: A Comparative Study of Albania and Italy | Dolantina Hyka; Sediola Ruko, Festim Kodra, Nora Pireci Sejdiu, Unim Brigid |
| Older workers, digitalisation, and skill mismatch: new evidence from Europe | Erica Poma; Barbara Pistoresi |
| Digitalization, Access to Public Services, and Later-Life Inequalities | Evrim Erol |
| Framing Digital Inclusion or Reinforcing Ageism? A Discourse Analysis of Media Narratives on Older Workers and Digitalization | Arzu Kursun |
| Digitalisation, Media, and Work Inequalities in Later Life: Insights from the United Kingdom | Eleni Meletiadou |
| Older Workers’ Visibility and Invisibility in Romanian Media Discussions on Digitalisation | Gabriela Poleac; Alexandra Niculina Gherguț-Babii |
| Too Old, Too Rigid, Too Military?: An Experimental Study on Employer Preferences in Central and Eastern Europe | Martina Rašticová; Ondřej Klíma |
Parallel session 2: 9th June, 15:30-17:00
| Bibliometric Scoping Review on Digitalization of Education and Its Impact on Older Teachers | Eda Orhun |
| Is the algorithm neutral? | Lidia de la Iglesia Aza |
| Algorithm under supervision: building age‑fair recruitment systems | Lidia de la Iglesia Aza |
| Digitalisation and human capital inequalities in later life: evidence from the visegrad countries | Maciej Jagódka |
| Bourdieu’s Forms of Capital: Which Resources Enable Longer Working Lives? | Martin Lakomý; Filip Majetić; Muradiye Ates |
| Working Conditions and Meaningfulness of Work among Mature Taxi Drivers on Digital Platforms: Comparative Analysis Between Three European Countries | Silvana Crivoi; Lavinia Tanculescu-Popa; Aleksandar Kovacevic; Jitka Matějková; Echo Feng |
| Too Old for Digital Work? The costs in terms of wages, age discrimination and work-related stress in European Countries | Tindara Addabbo; Elena Sarti |
| Understanding Older Workers’ Interaction with Technology and Training Needs | Zeynep Yurtseven-Avcı |
| Age Inequalities in the Age of Digitalization: Openness to Artificial Intelligence Among Academics, Innovative Organizational Culture and the Effect of Academic Stressors | Ebru Kasnak; Maeve O’Sullivan |
| Work Ability as a Self-Referential System in Ageing Workers: A Fuzzy Logic Model of Self-Organising Meaning Configurations through the Mechanism of Self-Efficacy | Eva Šerá, Martina Rašticová; David Schüller; Karel Doubravský; Aneta Krejčová |
| Bridging the Digital Divide: Factors Influencing AI Adoption Among Mature-Aged Teachers in the Era of Digitalization | Eyal Rabin; Evelyn Levy; Dorit Olenik-Shemesh |
| From Stereotypes to Strategy: A New Institutional Theory Perspective Digital Ageism in a Multigenerational Workforce in the Western Balkans Countries | Oliana Sula |
| Prioritizing Age-Friendly Digitalization in Healthcare Organizations: A Best–Worst Method Study | Ferit Sevim |
| Digital inclusion and health among older workers in Norway | Gunilla Kulla |
| Digitalisation, Health Governance, and Inequality in Later Working Life: Evidence from a European Delphi on Prescription Digital Therapeutics | João Rocha-Gomes |
| Working Longer in a Digital Age? Health, Financial Strain and the Primacy of Working Conditions in Late-Career Retirement Intentions | Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa; Anna Ševčíková; David Lain; Silvana Crivoi; Maria Piedade Brandão; Cristina Maria Tofan; Nilufer Korkmaz Yaylagul |
| When Efficiency Becomes Burden: Uneven Professional Impacts of Digital Transformation in Healthcare | Lior Naamati-Schneider |
| Digitalisation and Older Workers in Olive Farming: Economic and Policy Implications for Rural Sustainability | Festim Kodra; Sejdi Sejdiu |
| The undervalued role of community anchor institutions in addressing the rural digital divide | Ingmar Pastak |
| Age discrimination against older workers in the EU labour markets: A particular focus on their access to professional education | Lavinia Andreea Bejan; Ondřej Pavelek; Martin Lakomý |
| United Nations’ SDGs and Older Workers in the Context of Digitalisation: Digital Skills, Employment, Equality | Lavinia Andreea Bejan; Aysegul Ilgaz; Umar Bin Qushem |
| Digital Transformation of the Labour Market in Albania: Addressing the Digital Divide and Older Workers Post-COVID-19 | Merita Xhumari; Lisian Roseni |
| The effect of the post-pandemic on social rights: A comparative analysis in two candidate countries, Türkiye and Albania | Mirela Tase |
| Ageing WhatsAppers: rescuing pluriversal participation in Brazil | Sérgio Barbosa |
| Work Inequalities in Later Life under Digitalization: Media Representations of Older Workers in Albania | Teuta Hazizi; Ortenca Kotherja; Mirësi Çela |
| Digital Literacy and its Impact on the Working Lives of Older Employees in Turkey: An Empirical Analysis | Tuğba Elmacı |

