Johan SURKYN
2008-2011
Description:
DC NOISE (www.dcnoise.eu) is an Interreg IVB North Sea Region project. 9 regions from 5 countries in Europe work together to deal with the consequences of demographic change. The project runs from June 2008 until June 2011.
The central aim of the project is to make the North Sea Region ready to cope with its demographic future. That means both dealing with the negative effects of demographic change and at the same time taking advantage of the economic and social opportunities offered by this process.
Together with the Provinces of West and East-Flanders (both partners of the DC-NOISE project), VUB – Interface Demography participates in 3 pilots:
- Transnational project on monitoring : The NSR Demographic Change study considers it useful to improve data monitoring and analysis in collaboration with other European countries and regions to support long term planning. An integrated monitoring system on demographic change regarding issues like vacant housing, health care or the labour market is necessary to formulate consistent policies and strategies to cope with the problems in these fields.The transnational pilot ‘monitoring’ will provide the partners with information how to develop their monitoring systems to their specific needs, e.g. integration, scaling. The experiences from and the exchange with all partners in the DC NOISE will be the input for the VUB in the development of this system.
- DC-test: The final result of the project is a test that will be applied to both current policies and to plans regarding the development of new policies. It will be an instrument to verify whether a policy truly takes demographic changes into account. By means of a query the policy maker must either reflect upon the impact a current policy has on new demographic developments, or consider changes in demography before implementing a new policy.
- Translating prognoses into concrete consequences: A guide that enables the local governing boards to translate the data into concrete policy actions (actions directly based on data). Three local/regional authorities will integrate the concrete consequences in their policy plan. These authorities will serve as ‘ambassadors’ regarding the instrument
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