In 2020, the University of Piraeus undertook and designed the project: "Elaboration of a Strategy for the Aging Population, at National, Regional and Local Level". The said project was approved by the General Secretariat of Research and Innovation, 35 professors and researchers participated and was finally completed in 2022, under the scientific supervision of Professor Miltiadis Nektarios, of the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the University of Piraeus.
The initial addresses were by the General Secretary for Research and Innovation, Professor Athanasios Kyriazis, the Rector of the University of Piraeus, Professor Michael Sfakianakis and the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Ms. Sophia Zaharakis.
In his address, Athanasios Kyriazis, among other things, mentioned that the phenomenon of population aging is incidental to the developed world and emphasized the criticality of the problem for Greece, as the native population in 2000 was 10 million, while in 2050 it will be only 7.5 million. He added that these developments will play a decisive role in the country's economic and social development in the coming decades and will define the country's long-term survival conditions. He pointed out that innovation is the main tool of modern governments to face the great challenges of the time, among which is aging, and mentioned that the General Secretary for Research and Innovation places special emphasis on this direction by investing, in recent years, even more in social and cultural subjects. The professor also stated that this research is an attempt to diagnose, map, document and thoroughly identify a social problem with harmful economic consequences, both at the individual and national level, and that the conclusions are scientific proposals for the dealing with the issue.
The rector of the University of Piraeus stated that the ever-increasing life expectancy, which is a major achievement for modern advanced societies, combined with other dominant influences on the structure of Western societies, is now evolving into a challenge for modern health and social welfare systems and plays a decisive role of important influence on the formation of policies in society and the economy.
The University of Piraeus, with a dynamic team, led by Professor Miltiadis Nektarios, former Governor of the Social Insurance Institute, worked with dedication, consistency and a high sense of responsibility to document sustainable solutions, proposals, actions and practices that will contribute decisively to the effective treatment of phenomenon.

The Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Sofia Zaharakis emphasized that the conclusions of the research will be a signpost in the overall work of the ministry to manage the demographic problem. So one of the main aspects of the study will be delivered to the prime minister to be included in the national action plan for the demographic and it also includes long-term care, thus she congratulated the university and the General Secretariat for this initiative.

The President of PASOK - KINAL Party, Nikos Androulakis, emphasized that demographics should be a national priority, which will inevitably serve many successive governments with a specific strategy because it is a bomb in the foundations of the nation. Citing data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority, he pointed out that as the population ages the human resources that will be able to support its development will decrease, with all that this implies for the resilience of the economy and society. In this context, he proposed a cluster of measures such as the protection of motherhood, the systematic strengthening of families with children and the creation of a strong social state.

Manolis Syntyhakis, Member of the Parliament for the Greek Communist Party, observed that the factors that make up the demographic problem are primarily economic, social, political, cultural. From this point of view, the demographic developments are directly intertwined with the reproduction conditions of the labor force, with the overall living conditions of the popular family, of young couples.
The question of family is deeply social. Young men and women in order to decide to start a family should feel the security of a stable job, a stable income to meet the needs of food, clothing, entertainment, sports, cheap modern housing. As he said, "it requires the state to ensure everything that is needed: free health services, with an emphasis on prevention, prenatal control, medically assisted reproduction, monitoring of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as free services of preschool education, early diagnosis and intervention, education, elderly care.

The Conference had 4 main sections, where demographic developments in the European Union and Greece, active aging and immigration in Greece, Economic Policy priorities, healthy aging and long-term care and finally aging and Greece 2050 were analyzed in order.

To turn the challenge of Aging into an opportunity requires a total change in the way of thinking and acting in modern societies, a drastic upgrade of the intellectual capital of citizens in general, and of the workforce in particular, reconstruction and redesign of the perceptions of society and social policies, re-establishment of the Public Administration, full digitization of the structure, and the operation of Ministries and Public Organizations, state-of-the-art technologies of the 4th B. E. with inclusion in global value production chains (GVC - Global Value Chains) and development of specific Sectors of the Economy as well as the Sector of Advanced Technologies, "Re-establishment" and Revitalization of Greece, design and implementation of a coordinated program of interdependent actions over the course of a decade, with reinforcement and maintenance of stable and sustainable development for the National Defense Technological and Industrial development of an effective immigration policy and finally implementation of plans for long-term care of the elderly with a 10-fold increase in existing infrastructure.
From the 38 Work Packages that resulted from the project "Elaboration of a Strategy for the Aging Population at National, Regional and Local Level", the book "Strategy for the Aging Population - Greece 2050" by Professor Miltiadis Nektarios emerged, which evaluated and classified the material in 20 chapters and formulates seven Great Political Priorities for the country, with a deadline at the end of the current decade that will lead to a "re-establishment" and a New Renaissance for the country.

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