Learn from the past, prepare for the future

Learn from the past, prepare for the future

5 APR 2017

Blog entry by Centre scientist Roman Hoffmann on "Impacts of education and experience on disaster preparedness in the Philippines and Thailand".
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Modelling and projecting sub-national population trends

Modelling and projecting sub-national population trends

3 APR 2017

From 7-11 April 2017 the Wittgenstein Center and the Asian Demographic Research Institute are organizing a workshops on modelling and projections.
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Who wants to live forever? The Secrets of Longevity

Who wants to live forever? The Secrets of Longevity

27 MAR 2017

How can science help to live better? The ERC = ScienceSquared campaign on the topic of 'longevity' is out now with a report about the HEMOX project.
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Health, demography and climate change

Health, demography and climate change

24 MAR 2017

This press talk on 31 March 2017 will present a new report about the research on the interconnection of health, demography and climate change in Austria, Europe and the global level relevant for Austria, that was coauthored by Raya Muttarak.
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Demography today: Are the 40s really the new 30s?

Demography today: Are the 40s really the new 30s?

15 MAR 2017

Sergei Scherbov will give a lecture about new methods of measuring population aging on 21 March 2017 at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid.
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Corresponding Research Areas: Forecasting and Ageing

Women get sicker but men die quicker disproved (HEMOX project - funded by ERC-FP7-262663)

Women get sicker but men die quicker disproved (HEMOX project - funded by ERC-FP7-262663)

6 MAR 2017

Centre researcher Marc Luy and his team have deconstructed the long accepted idea that women live longer than men in spite of experiencing worse health.
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Call for papers

Call for papers

6 MAR 2017

The Asian Population Association Scientific Group on the One-Belt-One-Road (OBOR) strategy will hold the first workshop “OBOR strategy and Its Implications for International Migration and Socio-ecological Changes” on Oct. 10-11, 2017 in Shanghai, China.
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Climate research needs greater focus on human populations

Climate research needs greater focus on human populations

1 MAR 2017

In the new article published in Nature Climate Change, Wolfgang Lutz and Raya Muttarak discuss a conceptual model that can account for the changing characteristics of populations through the replacement of generations, called “demographic metabolism.”
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Daniela Weber awarded with Allianz Nachwuchs Preis für Demografie

Daniela Weber awarded with Allianz Nachwuchs Preis für Demografie

20 FEB 2017

Daniela Weber was awarded at the 6th Berlin Demography Forum for her dissertation "An International Perspective on Aging and Cognitive Decline".
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Tomas Sobotka receives the Allianz European Demographer Award 2017

Tomas Sobotka receives the Allianz European Demographer Award 2017

20 FEB 2017

T. Sobotka was awarded at the 6th Berlin Demography Forum for his research on fertility, childlessness, assisted reproduction and European population trends.
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