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Population Europe Inter-Faces are a series of video interviews with leading demographic experts on Population Europe’s YouTube channel and other video material of general interest produced by the partner institutes. Users can gain first-hand insights about demographic developments, which may affect individual life courses and future policies.

"Who wants to have 40 years of forced leisure?" - an interview with James W. Vaupel (MPIDR). Questions: 1. Will we all reach one hundred years of age or are there different expectations across European countries? 2. Does the likelihood of disease and disabilities increase with higher life expectancy? 3. Is working as long as you can healthy? 4. Should we say goodbye to the idea of a general retirement age? 5. Is this kind of flexible working time economically realistic? 6. Do we have to expect a clash of generations? [...]
"Deal with decline, don't fight it!" - an interview with Leo van Wissen. Questions: 1. You are an expert in spatial demography, could you explain what that means? 2. Population decline is a phenomenon in various European regions. What are the reasons? 3. Could population decline be stopped and how? 4. Do you mean policy makers in regions with declining population simply have to accept this process? 5. What does "dealing with decline" mean? 6. Which infrastructure is crucial to prevent the "death" of a region, is it a health system? [...]
"Having children is always going to be a risky initiative" - an interview with Anna Cabré Questions: 1. What do you consider the biggest myth in demography? 2. How big a problem do you consider fertility decline to be? 3. How could the gap between the number of children people wish to have and actual birth rates be bridged? 4. From an historical perspective: how have families changed? 5. What circumstances do people need for having children? [...]