Institute for population and human studies

Projects

• FUTURAGE (‘A Roadmap for Ageing Research’)

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  The project ‘FUTURAGE: A Roadmap for Ageing Research’ is realized from consortia of 23 organizations from 17 countries. Coordinator is the University of Sheffield – United Kingdom, Director of the project – Prof. Alan Walker. The financing is from Seventh Framework Programme of European commission. The Bulgarian part of the project is realized from the team of 3 experts from the Institute for population and human research to the Bulgarian academy of Sciences. The term of the project is 2 years – September 2009 - September 2012 (extended to December 2011).

  FUTURAGE aims to produce a definitive road map that will guide European research on ageing for the next 10-15 years.

  The Internet site of the project is: www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk

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• ERA AGE-2 (‘European research area on ageing 2’)

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  The project ‘European research area on ageing 2’ is realized from consortia of 13 organizations from 12 countries. Ccoordinator is the University of Sheffield – United Kingdom, Director of the project – Prof. Alan Walker. The financing is from Seventh Framework Programme of European commission. The Bulgarian part of the project is realized from the team f of 8 experts from the Institute for population and human research to the Bulgarian academy of Sciences. The term of the project is 3 years – April 2009 - April 2012.

  The goal is to ensure that the key stakeholders regionally, nationally and European are engaged in the activities of ERA-AGE and thereby contributing to the research response to the ageing challenge.

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