About the Lecture:

The European Skills Agenda and similar initiatives highlight the urgency of addressing labour market challenges in the context of an ageing population. This lecture critically examines two key approaches to skill shortages:

1. Migration, ensuring a sustainable influx of essential skills.
2. Technological Advancements, such as automation and AI.

Our speakers will also explore innovative and alternative solutions to enhance the resilience of European labour markets, drawing upon insights from the Horizon Europe project FutuRes

Featured Speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Jakub Bijak
  Dr. Emily Barker, University of Southampton

Discussants:

• Prof. Aleksandra Przegalinska (Kozminski University)
• Dr. Michaela Potancokova (IIASA 
• Jakub BIJAK works as a Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton,

  UK. He has background in economics and over 20 years’ work experience in academia and

  international civil service. His research focuses on demographic uncertainty, population and

  migration models and forecasts, and the demography of armed conflict. He has been awarded

  the Allianz European Demographer Award (2015) and the Jerzy Z Holzer Medal (2007) for work

  on migration modelling. Recently, he led a European Research Council project “Bayesian

  agent-based population studies” (www.baps-project.eu), and a Horizon 2020 project

  “QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy” (www.quantmig.eu).