News Archive 2025
The Wittgenstein Centre at the PAA Annual Meeting 2025
18 MAR 2025
Researchers from the WIC will present and discuss new research in presentations and poster sessions at PAA 2025.
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Call for Submissions: Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025
28 FEB 2025
Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century. Deadline for submission: 31st May 2025
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WIC Hybrid Colloquium - Wednesday, 2 April 2025 16:00 – 17:00 (CEST)
27 FEB 2025
Reinhard Neck (University of Klagenfurt) will give a talk on "Democracy between anarchy and dictatorship: A fragile balance"
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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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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.