About the Conference

DG SANTE is organising the conference 'Innovative Financing Opportunities for Active & Healthy Ageing' on the 3rd June 2015. The conference will look at the issue of how to practically leverage public and private financial instruments and maximise synergies in the area of active & healthy ageing. In particular, the conference will focus on the EU financial instruments, the Investment plan for Europe, joint-procurement of innovative solutions, new ways of public-private co-investments in health, European Structural and Investment Funds, social innovation and more recent innovative alternative financing tools.

In relation to the session “Ready to invest in large scale Active & Healthy Ageing deployments? - Feedback from Investors”, to take place as a parallel session during the Conference, a Call for Expressions of Interest in Pitching Large Project Ideas is currently open.

Expressions can be submitted online using the form below, by individual entities or a coalition of entities that would come together to implement a large deployment project in active and healthy ageing. Please find the link to the information on the Call(293 KB) and the form.  

Objectives

Some of the key questions the conference will seek to address are:

• What can policy makers and governments at regional, national and EU level do more to help?
• How to best mobilise investments, also from the private sector?
• Is it possible to adapt financial instruments used in other sectors to suit the specific needs of the health and care sector?

Participants

This event is addressed in particular to the financial services sector, private investors,  venture capitalists, philanthropy, healthcare providers, public health professionals; policy makers, national & regional authorities, non-governmental sector, and the third sector.

Building on the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, the conference will bring together the private sector and public sector working on solutions for financing of active & healthy ageing projects. 

Programme

The conference programme is organised around two morning plenary sessions and three afternoon parallel sessions.

The opening plenary session will be introduced by Martin Seychell, Deputy Director General for Health of DG SANTE, followed by two keynotes on the Investment Plan for Europe and on regions engaging with innovative financing and with the Investment Plan. A second plenary session will follow on public private partnerships, innovative procurement and lessons from other sectors. 

In the afternoon, three sessions will run in parallel on the topics of "Synergies in Structural Funds - Mobilising Opportunities for Active & Healthy Ageing", "What's the alternative? – Complementarities in access to finance", and "Ready to invest in large scale Active & Healthy Ageing deployments? - Feedback from Investors".

For more information and details on the conference programme, please click here(2 MB). 

The conference will be broadcast live the day of the conference. A link will be available from this page.

Registration

The deadline for registering expired on 21 May 2015.

Contact / questions

• When: 3rd June 2015, 09h30-18h30
• Registration: The deadline for registering expired on 21 May 2015.
• Contact: ConferenceFinanceAgeing@propager.eu
• Web streaming: The entire conference will be web streamed. More information will be available on this page the day of the conference.
• Venue: Residence Palace, Brussels
• Comments: Please join the discussion on #FinanceAgeing – the conference hashtag
• Travel and Accommodations: Please note that travel and accommodation expenses will be at participants' expense. No costs will be covered by the EC. A list of selected hotels can be found here: https://secure.hotel.visitbrussels.be/extendedSearch?package=575&lang=en