News from the Network

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 EAPS Awards from our network: Elizabeth Thomson (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Daniele Vignoli (University of Florence), Martin Kolk (Stockholm University Demography Unit), Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo) and Liili Abuladze (Tallinn University).

Congratulations to Zsolt Spéder, Director of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (HDRI), for receiving the title of Doctor of Hungarian Academy of Sciences!

Congratulations to Dr José Manuel Aburto (University of Southern Denmark) and Dr Carlo Giovanni Camarda (Institut National d'Études Démographiques) on being awarded the 2021 European Demographer Awards, a prize donated by the Förderfonds Wissenschaft in Berlin.

Guest edited by Phil Rees (School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK) and Nikola Sander (German Federal Institute for Population Research), Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is now publishing a special issue on the role of internal migration as a driver of regional population change in Europe.

Congratulations to Diederik Boertien (Centre for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mathias Lerch (MPIDR) and Ben Wilson (Stockholm University Demography Unit, SUDA) for receiving a prestigious ERC Starting Grant!

Starting in August 2020, Pavel Grigoriev, a research group leader at the German Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), is steering a new five-year European Research Council (ERC) project entitled "Regional Disparities in Cause-Specific Mortality in Europe: The role of local context and national health policies" (REDIM).

Kostas Rontos of the University of the Aegean is leading a new project entitled, “The perspective of a permanent refugees’ and immigrants’ settlement in Greece: Revealing the demographic and sociο-economic consequences and their importance for the Greek society’s acceptance”. 

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched a new Demographic Resilience Programme to strengthen demographic resilience in Europe and Central Asia.

A newly announced three-year European Union Twinning initiative will support the development of research methods expertise at the University of Tallinn, Estonia. The aim is to strengthen research on youth transitions from a life course perspective.

Professor James Vaupel, Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics at the University of Southern Denmark, has received a research grant to study consequences of COVID-19 related mortality. The project will investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on survival and mortality across different population groups and countries.