Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience: Sixth Academic Workshop

On September 19, 2019, the Institute for Social Policy at HSE Universityheld its sixth academic workshop devoted to to the French pension system, its current state, reforming and living standard of pensioners (Le système de retraite français : état actuel, projet de réforme et niveau de vie des retraités). This workshop being part of the series of events on Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience was organized in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Russia. It was inaugurated by Lilia Ovcharova, Vice Rector of HSE, and Daniel Mathieu, Counsellor for Social Affairs, Embassy of France in Russia.

The workshop focused on the pension system in France and the experience of its reformation. During the discussion was tackled the issues of the system’s tools of automatic adaptation to the changing demographic conditions, social solidarity support mechanisms, and measures aimed at establishing equal terms for the pension provision of various professional groups and the reduction of pensions’ gender gap. The Russian audience found particularly interesting the French experience in organizing a dialog and a cooperation between the government (administrative and political branches) carrying out the reforms, and its social partners and academic community within the framework of planning and implementing pension reform.
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