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WIC Hybrid Colloquium - Wednesday, 26 February 2025 16:00 – 17:00 (CET)

4 FEB 2025

Marc Luy will give a presentation on "Health expectancy: increasingly used but poorly understood".
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3 FEB 2025

The Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is offering a postdoc position!
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Children in 2050: A contribution to the UNICEF's State of the World’s Children Report

31 JAN 2025

IIASA has collaborated with UNICEF to provide advanced data analysis and projections on demographic trends for the 2024 State of the World's Children Report.
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Do lower educated people die earlier?

23 JAN 2025

A recent study by ÖAW researchers investigates the extent to which education drives mortality by studying male Catholic order members living in religious communities.
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What's the secret to a long life?

10 JAN 2025

Many centenarians live in the ‘blue zones’, but the data also shows uncertainties. In this interview, Marc Luy explains how the studies should be categorised and how people can live as long and healthy a life as possible.
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Yidan Prize Foundation spotlights Wolfgang Lutz’s vision on education in new documentary

12 DEC 2024

The Yidan Prize Foundation’s documentary on WIC Founding Director Wolfgang Lutz focuses on his research on education as a driver of human potential, illustrating its impact on shaping a better future.
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Declining Birth Rates: From Pandemic to Inflation

24 OCT 2024

In a recent study, VID researchers analysed the fluctuations in birth rates across 26 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and identified key factors that influenced these trends. Unlike previous historical events, where there was no recovery in birth rates at the end of the pandemic, and a pronounced decline was observed in many countries.
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Climate change impacts internal migration worldwide

15 OCT 2024

A new IIASA-led study has provided the first comprehensive analysis of how climate factors – specifically drought and aridity – affect internal migration.
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New tool provides knowledge on heat stress vulnerability in cities for more targeted adaptation

10 OCT 2024

A new IIASA study proposes a novel way of quantifying and projecting future vulnerability to heat stress in different areas of a city...
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Science Meets Demography: Reproductive Medicine in the Field of Conflict between Ethics and Innovation

8 OCT 2024

Eva Beaujouan participates in a panel discussion on reproductive medicine organised by IMBA and Merck Österreich.
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The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.