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IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz has received a new grant from the European Research Council.

The project will explore human wellbeing as criterion for sustainable development

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News: IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz has received a new grant from the European Research Council.
Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) / Elia Zilberberg 

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Wolfgang Lutz a 2017 Advanced Grant. The project aims to develop new indicators for long-term human wellbeing that include feedbacks from environmental and other changes.

Lutz is scientific director of the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), and professor of applied statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). These three institutions together are part of the Wittgenstein Center, of which Lutz is the founding director.

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