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Increasing the value of age: guidance in employers’ age management strategies

Acknowledgements

This report reflects Cedefop efforts to raise awareness of the role that guidance
plays in age management strategies in enterprises. It is the result of team work:
particular mention should be made of Cedefop expert Pedro Moreno da Fonseca
who supervised the study and of Bert-Jan Buiskool, Paul Vronhoof and Michel
Winnubst of Panteia who undertook the research and drafted the report (*).
Thanks go to former Cedefop experts Mika Launikari, who initiated the
project, and Angela Musca for the initial work done on the study. Jasper Van-Loo,
Eleonore Schmid and Antje Barabasch contributed to the finalisation of the
report.
Cedefop would like to thank Raimo Vuorinen, coordinator of the European
Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) and all participating national
representatives for providing information, working on case studies and
participating in the interviews.
Thanks are extended to many contributors who supported and informed this
study, through interviews and documentation: Nanna Steenbjerg Kolze, Imbi
Ernits- Kaljuste, Pille Liimal, Maiken Sõrg, Harri Taliga, Lana Randaru, Ave
Szymanel, Piret Puss, Nina Ahlroos, Jan Lindblom, Bernhard Jenschke,
Christiane Voß-Gundlach, Peter van Deursen, Zjev van Dun, Marjolein Hins,
Stephen McNair, Carolynne Arfield, Richard Veleta, Irena Mazek, Marzena
Ciecierska, Magda Zupančič, Anne Eydoux, Marcella Corsi, Mar Calleja Villa.
Thanks also go to the participants of Cedefop’s workshop on guidance in
employers’ age management strategies held in December 2012.

(*) Work was carried out under Cedefop service contract
2012-004/AO/ECVL/MILA/Guidance-in-age-management-strategies/019/11.

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