For the first time since the launch of Population Europe's Policy Lab, its Advisory Board members met together in Berlin. On November 25, 2024, the advisors were welcomed by Population Europe at the office of the Max Planck Society. They began by discussing the political challenges of a Europe in demographic transition, including: social cohesion, quality information, and resilience.
The Board will advise Population Europe's science-for-policy outreach. The outreach activities are designed for policymakers, business leaders, civil society stakeholders and media representatives. They are planned and executed by the Population Europe project coordinators in cooperation with research institutions from the network. See the "FutuRes" Policy Lab for an example of our work.
The Board members were welcomed at the Berlin office of the Max Planck Society. Images by: Population Europe
The “Population Europe Policy Lab”, launched this year will streamline the activities of Population Europe, combining practitioners' experience with the latest scientific evidence. As a network of leading demographic research institutes, we ensure that policymakers have access to the most up-to-date and non-partisan evidence as well as latest projections on future population trends. The goal of the Policy Lab is to identify innovative solutions and best practices to meet the challenges ahead.
Read more about the Policy Lab here.
The advisory members are experts in transdisciplinary outreach in the social sciences and come from institutions in 7 European countries:
Arnstein Aassve, Professor in Demography, PI of the Horizon Europe project “Towards a resilient future of Europe” (FutuRes), Bocconi University, Milan (Chair);
Matthias Bergmann, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research in Frankfurt a.M. and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Berlin
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Director of the Institute of Statistics and Demography and Vice Rector for Research at SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Helga A.G. de Valk, Director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague
Naika Foroutan, Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
Christian Kobsda, Head of the Berlin Office of the Max Planck Society
Michaela Kreyenfeld, Director of the Einstein Center Population Diversity and Professor of Sociology at Hertie School, Berlin
Wolfgang Lutz, Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna
Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford
Claudia Neu, Professor of Sociology of Rural Areas University of Gottingen / Kassel, PI of the Horizon Europe Project „Identities – Migration – Democracy (We-ID)“
Jürgen Renn, Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena
C. Katharina Spieß, Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden
Pieter Vanhuysse, MAE, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of Southern Denmark, and Chair at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study