After the project kick-off meeting, which was held at Airbus in Hamburg on 09.02.2016, the trade union partners working on the CHANGE project will meet for the first European Working Conference in Potsdam on 10.03.2016.

It will be attended by 26 company and trade union representatives from the aerospace sector in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Poland and Romania.

Key themes for the conference:

• Sharing information on the national sector structure and current situation in the aerospace sector
• European action programmes and flagship initiatives aimed at promoting employment, employment growth, age diversity and age fairness
• Trade union initiatives in response to demographic and employment changes: strategies and practical approaches, with examples from Germany and Italy

This working conference will open with a description of our position and the tasks facing us by Jürgen Kerner, chief treasurer and executive board member of IG Metall, entitled: “The challenges of demographic changes, HR management and skilled labour shortage – trade union strategies for the European aerospace sector”