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SUSTAINWELL at the ACE Symposium 25
In December 2025, Matic Verbič from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) attended the 2nd International PhD Research Symposium organised by the ACE Association (Alliance of Chinese and European Business Schools Network) in Xiamen (China) to present his work on Statistical Matching of Income and Consumption data for Gendered Analysis in Ageing European Societies. The research covers 23…

How Ageing and Migration Affect European Economies: An Analysis Using European National Transfer Accounts
On 19-21 November 2025, Bernhard Binder-Hammer from the Vienna Institute of Demography (OEAW) team presented this poster at the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century

Lifecycle Notional Accounts: Policy workshop for an integrated view of welfare policies along the lifecycle
On 13 November, the SUSTAINWELL Horizon Europe funded project, led by Prof. Ció Patxot from the Barcelona Economics Analysis Team (BEAT), organised an on-line policy panel discussion on the design of a new perspective of the welfare policies throughout the lifecycle. The session was chaired by Dr Nicole Mum Sim Lai, Economist at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The panel consisted of Ms Anna…

Policy Roundtable on Mongolia’s Generational and Gendered Economy
Our coordinator, Ció Patxot, participated this week in the “Advancing Equity and Inclusion: A High-Level Policy Roundtable on Mongolia’s Generational and Gendered Economy” event hosted by UNFPA Mongolia. The meeting focused on demographic shifts and the use of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) data for policy-making, with presentations from experts discussing the economic contributions of different…

Microdata in Macromodels
Martin Spielauer and Philipp Warum from WIFO participated in the MacroABM 2nd Workshop last 29-30 April celebrated at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). The workshop brought together researchers from diverse modelling perspectives, including ABM, HANK, and microsimulations, to encourage collaboration across currently disconnected fields and explore challenges and innovative solutions in using microdata…

International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business
University of Ljubljana researchers participated in the 16th International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business celebrated in Dubrovnik (Coatia) from 7th to 10th May 2025, organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Zagreb, Croatia). The Conference gathers together researchers and practitioners to discuss about the latest challenges in the field of business…

NTA help to foster a better balance between family, market and government in approaching welfare
SUSTAINWELL coordinator, Prof. Cio Patxot and researchers, Gemma Abio (UB), Guadalupe Souto (UAB), Robert Gal (HDRI) and Bernhard Binder-Hammer (OEAW) attended last week the 15th Global NTA Meeting on Population and the Generational Economy. SUSTAINWELL researchers participated and presented their research in: The project coordinator was also invited to partake in the Bridging NTA to National Inclusion Accounts…

Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity
Ció Patxot, the project coordinator, participated in a Round table on ‘Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity’ during the first day of the XIX Congress of Basque Studies which was focused on the “New socio-economic model and welfare society”. The Congress was held on October 2, 3 and 4, 2024 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). The discussion sparked with…

We celebrate our 2nd General Meeting
From the 9th to 11th of October, we held our second General Meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Three intense days strengthening our collaboration and sharing our latest advances on all WPs, as well as aligning the project’s objectives, priorities and next steps to further contribute to a resilient Europe and sustainable welfare systems in the 21st century reality. During the…

International Multiconference Information Society 2024
SUSTAINWELL researcher Jože Sambt presented “When tempo component in the total fertility rate fades away” at the Demographic and Family Analyses Conference on 7 October 2024 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) Access the publication here

Health Economics Association Conference
SUSTAINWELL researchers Alexandrina Stoyanova, Raquel Andrés and Gemma Abio (UB) held presentations on the XLII edition of the Health Economics Association (AES) Conference on 5 -7 July at the University of Girona (Spain) .

SUSTAINWELL at the European Population Conference 2024
SUSTAINWELL researchers Bernhard Binder-Hammer and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (OEAW) held a presentation on “Age-Specific Income Trends in Europe and the Role of Government Redistribution” at the 2024 European Population Conference that took place in Edinburgh on 12-15 June. Access the presentation here