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23/11/22

ERC Announced Starting Grant 2022 Principal Investigators

This week, the European Research Council announced the Principal Investigators for their ERC Starting Grants 2022. With a total of €636m in funding, the ERC aims to support emerging scientific talent across Europe.

How far have we come, and where are we headed? Reaching 8 billion humans on the planet | Webinar

18/11/22

'How far have we come, and where are we headed? Reaching 8 billion humans on the planet' Recording Now on YouTube

Hear their answers to what major demographic changes have occurred in the last decades and what can we predict for the near future in the recording on our YouTube channel.

07/11/22

BIOSFER-Team led by MPIDR Director Mikko Myrskylä Receives ERC Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) rewarded a 14 Million Euro Synergy Grant for a period of six years to BIOSFER.

19/10/22

Netspar grant for NIDI research on migrants and their pension

The knowledge network Netspar – Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement – has awarded the project proposal of NIDI researchers Frank van Tubergen en Jelle Lössbroek for their research project “Migrants’ retirement preparation: risk factors, causes, solutions” with a grant of € 250,000.

18/10/22

Annette Baudisch is new CPop Director

As of October 1st, Annette Baudisch became the new Director of CPop. Annette is a mathematician and demographer by training with insights into biology, economics, and computer science.

17/10/22

José Manuel Aburto awarded Silver Medal of The Royal Danish Academy

José Manuel Aburto has been awarded with a Silver Medal of The Royal Danish Academy for his cutting-edge research into global health and inequality

21/09/22

LIVES launches an interactive glossary to promote interdisciplinary research on vulnerability and the life-course

The LIVES Centre developed an interactive glossary containing more than 30 theoretical concepts that can be visualized in a semantic network. It shares a common language with the whole scientific community for the study of vulnerability in a life-course perspective.

02/09/22

Ridhi Kashyap appointed Full Professor

Congratulations to Professor Ridhi Kashyap, who has been promoted to full Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science.

22/08/22

MPIDR launches COVerAGE-Database Website

The website for the COVerAGE-Database, a global demographic database on COVID-19, was published recently by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. More than 70 researchers from around the world collaborated to collect COVID-19 data from 120 countries, standardising it and making it available online.

17/08/22

MEA scientist Dr. Stefan Gruber join 'Ach, Mensch' Podcast to discuss intro-European migration

How does migration affect their well-being and economic situation? And how can these factors be measured? To answer these questions, Dr. Gruber uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).