News from the Network

13/03/23

FutuRes project launched: eight institutions from science and civil society join hands for a resilient Europe

The project “FutuRes: Towards a Resilient Future of Europe” had its kick-off meeting on the 6th and 7th March.

27/02/23

Zsuzsanna Makay is the new director of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

As of February 1st, Zsuzsanna Makay became the new Director of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute (HDRI).

24/02/23

Call for survey questions - Generations & Gender Programme

With the baseline survey (wave 1) well underway, the GGP is now getting ready for the follow-up survey (wave 2). The follow-up questionnaire has been recently revised and shortened, allowing space for new innovative survey questions to be introduced into the GGS.

10/02/23

Sequence Analysis Association 2023 Spring Program

The Sequence Analysis Association (SAA) is an international scholarly society and was founded in October 2018, with the aim to promote research, teaching, and diffusion of sequence analysis in the social sciences.

27/01/23

Launch of the Horizon Europe project MapIneq - Mapping Inequalities through the life course

On January 2023, the MapIneq consortium held its first meeting to kick off the ‘Mapping inequalities through the life course’ Horizon Europe project. Population Europe is one of the partners and leads the Work Package Dissemination and Stakeholder Dialogue.

10/01/23

Launch of the VULNER Project Podcast: Speaking Refugee

A six parts podcast series that explores how refugees experience their „vulnerabilities“ when seeking asylum.

03/01/23

King’s Honour for Professor Jane Falkingham

Jane Falkingham, Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), Principal Investigator of ESRC Connecting Generations and Professor of Demography and International Social Policy at the University of Southampton has been awarded a prestigious "Commanders of the Order of the British Empire" (CBE) in the King’s New Year Honours.

19/12/22

Obituary - Patrick Festy

We are sad to announce that Patrick Festy passed away on 8 December 2022.

Patrick Festy was the director of INED from 1995 to 1998. Under his leadership as editor-in-chief of the journal Population (1989–1995), Population embarked on its transformation into an international journal in terms of its authors and readership.

News: Population Europe researcher elected to US National Academy of Sciences

28/11/22

Wolfgang Lutz receives prestigious honorary doctorate

On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Interim IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, Wolfgang Lutz, received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in Demography from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of demography.

28/11/22

GGP kicks off GGP-5D project

The Generations and Gender Programme entered a new era of its existence with the kick-off of the GGP-5D project. This new project will lead the GGP onto an institutionalised pathway of European Research Infrastructure Consortia.