Presentation of the First Results Book SHARE wave 6 and 7 "Health and socio-economic status over the life course", June 25, 2019, The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, Brussels. The program of the presentation is available at the following link.

The ceremonial introduction of the eighth wave of the SHARE Project - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe was held on November 4, 2019 in the Croatian State Archives. The gathering was attended by numerous dignitaries from political and social spectre and the academic community. The presentation was opened by the Minister of Labor and Pension System Josip Aladrović. The program of the ceremonial presentation was led by Mrs Almira Osmanović, who also became the ambassador of the SHARE project. Associate Professor Šime Smolić and Associate Professor Ivan Čipin presented the SHARE project and described what has been done so far. As part of their presentations, they introduced selected results from the sixth and seventh waves and plans for the future. Ms Katarina Ivanković-Knežević, Director for Social Affairs at the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Involvement of the European Commission, also addressed the audience via a video link. State Secretary Ms Majda Burić gave a presentation on the importance of Croatian membership in the organization SHARE-ERIC and highlighted the benefits that Croatia receives from this membership. The video that will be used in the media promotion of SHARE Croatia was premiered at the gathering.

The First Results Book based on data from SHARE waves 6 and 7 was presented. The Book covers various topics from the socio-economic status and health of individuals during the life cycle. SHARE places special emphasis on the interrelationship between health, social well-being and the socio-economic status of older people. A person's health, economic status and social networks are not predetermined. On the contrary, they are shaped by the interaction of biology, the conditions of growing up in a parental/family environment, and the education of a person throughout the life cycle. This monograph, therefore, provides an overview of the first results of the sixth and seventh waves of the study and serves as a kind of inspiration for insight into what types of research SHARE data allow. Finally, SHARE has a unique interdisciplinary, lifelong and internationally comparative approach. For this reason, the European Commission and the Member States use data from the SHARE study to assess, inter alia, health and long-term care costs, healthy life expectancy and the adequacy of pensions through which the European Commission regularly assesses Member States' national pension systems.