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Project

SHARE-PREP

Title Upgrading the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – preparatory phase
Grant Agreement Number 211909
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2009
Project URL http://www.share-project.org
Scientific Domain Social Sciences and Humanities
Action Line Preparatory phase
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA
Abstract The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) has been selected by the ESFRI roadmap process as one of the 35 crucial pillars of the European Research Area. This project will prepare a major upgrade of SHARE for all 27 EU members plus associated Switzerland and Israel during the decade 2010-2020. SHARE builds an infrastructure of micro data necessary to understand individual and societal ageing as a process in time that is strongly influenced by pension, health care and labour market regimes and their reforms. It is designed by researchers for researchers and integrates economics, medicine, and social sciences. Research based on this infrastructure will also serve as a feedback mechanism to support fact-based EU policies, such as the open method of coordination and the Lisbon agenda, to help meeting the challenges of population ageing in all countries of the EU. The major upgrade of SHARE will have two dimensions. First, it will prolong SHARE over time and generate a genuine panel that follows individuals as they age and react to the changes in the social and economic environment. From a research viewpoint, the time dimension is crucial since ageing is a process that can only be understood if we observe the same individual at different points in time. Second, SHARE will expand to all EU member states. Ageing in the accession states is a particular challenge as these countries are ageing before their social and health institutions are brought to the same level of maturity as in the EU15 countries. Aim of the preparatory phase is to bring the SHARE prototype to the level of financial, legal, governance and technical maturity required to fill important knowledge gaps in individual and population ageing. It involves all stakeholders necessary for the major upgrade, among them research institutes and universities; national science ministries and foundations; two Directorates General of the European Commission; and the U.S. National Institute on Aging.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country)
UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM, Germany
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland
UNIVERSITAET LINZ, Austria
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM., Israel
INSTITUT ZA EKONOMSKA RAZISKOVANJA, Slovenia
STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG, Netherlands
UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA, Italy
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA, Italy
PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES-, Greece
SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET, Denmark
UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE, Switzerland
FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS MONETARIOS Y FINANCIEROS, Spain
INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET DOCUMENTATION EN ECONOMIE DE LA SANTE, France
NARODOHOSPODARSKY USTAV AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE, Czech Republic
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN, Belgium
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, Ireland