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Jockey Club Age-friendly City International Conference cum City Partnership Scheme Award Presentation Ceremony
Scholars across the globe discuss COVID-19 impact on society
The 17th East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP) Annual Conference was held with the 27th Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) at Lingnan University in July 2021.
The three-day conference was held in person and online with the theme “Mitigating the economic and social impact of COVID-19 - Social security and Social Welfare Responses in East and West”. 135 delegates from 19 countries and territories addressed key social issues highlighted by the pandemic.
Prof Joshua Ka Ho MOK, LU’s Vice-President, and Prof Peter SAUNDERS, President of FISS among other important guests opened the conference. The first plenary was a panel discussion on Hong Kong Social Policy at a Crossroads, moderated by Prof Bea CANTILLON from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
As well as plenary sessions, the conference held about 30 parallel panel and stream sessions on social policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis, poverty measurement in East Asia, education and youth transitions, health and human well-being, gender inequality, work-family reconciliation, and housing and urbanisation.
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CONFERENCES & WEBINARS
In June 2021, Lingnan University took part in the Jockey Club Age-friendly City International Conference cum City Partnership Scheme Award Presentation Ceremony. The conference brought together the government, the business and non-profit sectors, academia, and social enterprises from Hong Kong and overseas for knowledge exchange, and to share best practices relating to building an age-friendly city.
At the thematic session, Prof Joshua Ka Ho MOK, Vice-President, delivered a talk on “Productive engagement and ageing in productivist welfare regimes: Questing for an age-friendly city in Hong Kong”. Prof Mok discussed the importance and impact of productive ageing and welfare on society from an international perspective, and shared the findings of the research team.