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Conference on "Demographic Challenges
– Family needs Partnership" – co-financed by
the European Commission
Vienna, 2 – 4 February 2006
Europe
today is experiencing demographic changes to an extent and
with consequences which are without comparison. In 2003, the
natural growth in population in Europe was only 0.04% per
annum. The fertility index lies below the threshold necessary
for the renewal of a generation (2.1 children per woman),
and in many Member States it has even fallen below 1.5 children
per woman.
With
the help of the Green Paper, "Confronting Demographic
Change: a new Solidarity between the Generations" and
the high-ranking Conference on demographic change on 11 and
12 July 2005, the European Commission has initiated an EU-wide
discussion in order to counter the consequences of demographic
change as well as to initiate the necessary measures for reform.
Family policy as well as the measures for better compatibility
of family and professional duties hold a key function in this
respect.
Under
the Austrian Presidency, the discussion continues with a high-ranking
Conference on demography and family policy, and with the support
of the European Commission.
The
Conference is supposed to shed some light on the relationships
between family and professional environments as well as on the
inner family partnership. The aspect of mobility and its consequences
on family life are to be considered more closely. The Conference
is supposed to bring together major players in this area as
well as to promote the transfer of expertise between the Member
States.
The “Demographic Challenges – Family needs Partnership”
conference took place at the Hofburg Conference Center, in Vienna.
Hofburg Conference Center
Heldenplatz (entrance: Josefsplatz)
1014 Vienna, Austria
On February
2, 2006 there was a Galadinner in the Orangery Schönbrunn.
In 1754 Franz I Stephan instigated the building of the Orangery.
One hundred and eighty-nine metres long and ten metres wide,
the Orangery Schoenbrunn is one of the two largest Baroque
orangeries in the world, the other being the orangery at Versailles.
Joseph II was especially fond of holding celebrations in the
Orangery with festively-decorated banqueting tables, ranks
of flowering plants and illuminations mounted in the tops
of the citrus trees. During a winter festivity in 1786 Mozart
conducted his Singspiel "The Impresario" here.
On February
3, 2006 a dinner reception was held at the Vienna Natural
History Museum. The Vienna Natural History Museum is based
in a handsome neo-Renaissance building near the Museum of
Fine Arts. This museum has important collections of early
Stone Age exhibits. The most famous display at the museum
is a Stone-Age body called "Venus of Willendorf,"
whose unearthing in 1906 confirms Vienna’s ancient origins.
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