Six multinational projects awarded funding for research in Active and Healthy Ageing The European Research Area on Ageing is pleased to announce that six multinational multi-disciplinary research projects have been funded by Europe's first joint research programme in the ageing field. The successful proposals, comprising researchers from Europe and North America, responded to a pioneering call for multidisciplinary research applications on "Active and Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course", coordinated by the European Research Area on Ageing (ERA-AGE). After a rigorous two-stage peer-review process, nine funders in seven countries have committed over €4 million to 20 different partners. The six projects reflect a diverse range of issues including continence, hearing, work and retirement, ambient assisted living technologies and environments of ageing. All proposals were aimed at supporting healthy ageing, in particular to align themselves with the goal established by the European Innovation Partnership in Active and Healthy Ageing of a 2 year increase in healthy life expectancy in the European Union by 2020. All proposals investigate specific research questions related to these three objectives: • Generate new knowledge on the biological, clinical, behavioural, social and environmental factors that enable individuals to live actively and healthily into later life. • Explore comparatively different models, methods, approaches and good practices in societal responses to increased longevity which emphasise both social inclusion and sustainability. • Engage in effective knowledge exchange activities that will assist European and other countries to achieve the goal of increasing healthy life expectancy by 2 years by 2020. Funding has generously been provided by: • Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS), Canada • Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland • The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), Sweden • Chief Scientist Office, Ministry of Health (CSO-MOH), Israel • Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Partners from France, Norway and Denmark are also participating in funded projects. The full list of projects, funders and research partners is shown below. CONTINENCE ACROSS CONTINENTS TO UPEND STIGMA AND DEPENDENCY (CACTUS-D) FRQS, Canada - Cara Tannenbaum, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal ESRC, UK - Eleanor van den Heuvel, Brunel University CIHR, Canada - Adrian Wagg, University of Alberta Partners with non-JCRA funding: France - Xavier Fritel, CHU de Poitiers (funding from INPES and Agence Regional de Sante Poitou-Charentes) AMBIENT ASSISTIVE LIVING TECHNOLOGIES FOR WELLNESS, ENGAGEMENT, AND LONG LIFE (AAL-WELL) CIHR, Canada - Alex Mihailidis, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute CIHR, Canada - Andrew Sixsmith, Simon Fraser University ESRC, UK - Arlene Astell, University of St. Andrews FAS, Sweden - Louise Nygard, Karolinska Institutet UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF CONTRASTING URBAN CONTEXTS IN HEALTHY AGING: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF DAILY MOBILITY AND ACTIVE LIVING USING WEARABLE SENSOR DEVICES ACROSS COHORTS (CURHA) CIHR/FRQS, Canada - Yan Kestens, Université de Montréal FNR, Luxembourg - Philippe Gerber, CEPS/INSTEAD Independently funded partners: France - Basile Chaix, INSERM (funding from Ministry of Transportation, the Syndicat des Transport de I'lle de France (STIF), RATP, SNCF and conseil Regional de I'lle de France) HEALTHY AGEING IN RESIDENTIAL PLACES (HARP) CIHR, Canada - Dr. Pat Armstrong, York University FAS, Sweden- Dr. Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University ESRC, UK - Dr. Liz Lloyd, University of Bristol Independently funded partners: Norway - Dr. Mia Vabø, NOVA – Norwegian Social Research DETERMINANTS OF HEALTHY AGEING IN WORK AND RETIREMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY BASED ON THE INTEGRATED DATASETS ACROSS EUROPE FOR AGEING RESEARCH (IDEAR) NETWORK FAS, Sweden - Hugo Westerlund, Stockholm University AKA, Sweden - Jussi Vahtera, University of Turku ESRC, UK - Jenny Head, UCL Independently funded partners: Denmark - Naja Hulvej Rod, University of Copenhagen France - Marcel Goldberg, INSERM HEARING, REMEMBERING, AND LIVING WELL: PAYING ATTENTION TO CHALLENGES OF OLDER ADULTS IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS (HEARATTN) CSO-MOH, Israel - Daniel A. Levy, The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya AKA, Finland- Anne Viljanen, University of Jyväskylä BBSRC, UK - Antje Heinrich, MRC Institute of Hearing Research CIHR, Canada - Bruce Schneider, University of Toronto FRQS, Canada - Jean-Pierre Gagné, Université de Montréal For further information on ERA-AGE and the call please visit http://www.era-age.group.shef.ac.uk/ Countries Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom
