News from the Network

Frans Willekens of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has received the 2020 Mindel C. Sheps Award from the Population Association of America (PAA).

Helga de Valk has been appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences as director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) with effect from 1 November 2020. De Valk takes over from Leo van Wissen.

Two researchers within our network, Melinda Mills of the University of Oxford and Sergei Scherbov of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), have received European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grants for their new projects.

Because the European Population Conference 2020 had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline for all European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) Awards has been extended to 1 July 2020.

Population Europe welcomes the AAL Programme as its newest collaboration partner! They are a funding programme that aims to create better quality of life for older people and to strengthen industrial opportunities in the field of healthy ageing technology and innovation.

Since the pandemic began, many countries have provided daily counts of COVID-19-related deaths. To go further, in accordance with its missions to disseminate demographic knowledge, INED’s scientific community is working to provide free access to data organized by sex, age group, and place of COVID-19-related deaths. For now, these data concern Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, but other countries should be analysed in the coming weeks.

How unequal are we in our length of life? How will this inequality change in the future? What are the limits to human longevity? And what does all that mean for our pension systems? James Vaupel (University of Southern Denmark, SDU) will tackle these issues and more in a new project ‘Inequalities in Lifespans before and after Retirement: Trailblazing Demographic Theory and Analysis’.

Between mid-March to mid-June 2020, we collected the articles below in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This is a comprehensive list of what our partner institutes and experts wrote on the topic during this time. We thank the Population Europe community for their contributions to this valuable collection of early research on demography and the COVID-19 crisis.

The Council of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), in collaboration with Springer Nature, is inviting applications for an Editor-in-Chief for its flagship European Journal of Population (EJP).