The conference will be held from the 27th to the 28th of March 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. Undergraduate students discounted registration fee is 8 EUR. Please see the invitation below for more information about the discount. The working language of the conference is English.
The international conference is organized in the frame of the long-term (eng)aging! project, which aims to foster society-wide debate about the accelerating demographic change and population aging. The project aims to stimulate a constructive discussion about these trends and to look for ways to make use of them for the benefit of the society. More information available here.
Source: Keynote.cz
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