Projects Archive
Age-Specific Wellbeing- and Transfer Accounts: Evaluating Intergenerational Support
Project Leader: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
The AWA project focuses on the measurement and analysis of wellbeing from a life course perspective. The aim of the project is to identify the specific needs and wants at each life stage to gain a better understanding of the way societal institutions can adapt to be sustainable under demographic change and at the same time serve the people in the best possible way.
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Acronym: AgeWellAccounts Funding Body: Funded in the Framework of the 2nd Call of the Joint Programming Initiative "More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change"; Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy Project Number: BMWFW3060151017
Time Frame: 01.03.2017-31.12.2020
Ageing Europe: An Application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for Explaining and Projecting Trends in Public Finances
Project Leader: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
The AGENTA project aims at explaining the past and forecasting the future of taxes and public transfers and services in the light of demographic change in the European Union.
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Acronym: AGENTA Funding Body: EU (FP7) Project Number: SSH.2013.1.3-1-613247
Time Frame: 01.01.2014-31.12.2017
Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies
Project Leader: Sergei Scherbov
This project aims to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories and their determinants, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions. More
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Acronym: ATHLOS Funding Body: EU (Horizon 2020) Project Number: 635316
Time Frame: 01.05.2015-30.04.2020
APCC Special Report: Health, Demography and Climate Change
Project Leader: Raya Muttarak
This truly interdisciplinary project aims to provide a comprehensive review, summary and assessment of the state-of-the-art research on the complex relationships between health, population dynamics and climate change.
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Acronym: SR Health Funding Body: Austrian Climate and Energy Fund Project Number: KR16AC0K13161
Time Frame: 01.01.2017-12.12.2018
Bayesian Reconstruction of Populations and Vital Rates by Educational Attainment
Project Leader: Dilek Yildiz
The aim of the project is to combine available demographic data to provide true estimates of population sizes, and vital rates by educational attainment with uncertainty around them. For this purpose, we will enhance Bayesian population reconstruction method for multistate population, and combine it with measurement error model
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Acronym: BayesEdu Funding Body: Innovation Fund Research, Science and Society Project Number: IF_2019_29
Time Frame: 01.05.2020-31.12.2021
BIRTHLIFE - Births and other life goals: complementarity or competition?
Project Leader: Isabella Buber-Ennser
The project aims to disentangle the correlation structure across individuals’ simultaneous life goals (or intentions) and individuals’ subsequent behaviours (or outcomes).
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Acronym: BIRTHLIFE Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: P 31357-G29
Time Frame: 01.03.2019-31.08.2023
Changing Families and Sustainable Societies: Policy Contexts and Diversity over the Life Course and Across Generations
Project Leader: Dimiter Philipov
The main objectives of this project are to investigate the diversity of family forms, relationships and life courses in Europe, to assess the compatibility of existing policies with these changes and to contribute to evidence-based policy-making.
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Acronym: FamiliesAndSocieties Funding Body: EU (FP7) Project Number: FP7 SSH 2012-1- 320116
Time Frame: 1.2.2013 - 31.1.2017
Climate, Health and Population - Climate Change and Differential Vulnerabilities in the Metropolitan Area of Vienna
Project Leader: Erich Striessnig
This project studies the impact of changing environmental conditions on population health in the metropolitan area of Vienna. A particular focus will be placed on the effects of thermal hazards, which are predicted to become more severe, especially in fast-growing cities like Vienna.
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Acronym: CHAP Funding Body: Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien für die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Project Number: JF_2019-19 CHAP
Time Frame: 01.01.2020-31.12.2021
Cohort fertility in former Yugoslavia
Project Leader: Krystof Zeman
This project studies cohort fertility level and structure in former Yugoslavia using data from recent and past population censuses.
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Funding Body: Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy Project Number: HR 25/2018
Time Frame: January 2018 - December 2019
Combining Traditional and Emerging Big Data Sources to Model Population Movement Patters
Project Leader: Guy Abel
The overall aim of this project is to provide both insights into the diferences between traditional data and big data on movement patterns and confine avaialable data to provide synthetic estimates of the time flows with uncertainty.
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Acronym: BIGMIG Funding Body: Jubiläumsfonds der ÖAW Time Frame: 01.01.2015-31.12.2017
Couples and Childbearing: New Approaches to the Study of Fertility Outcomes and Family Formation Across Europe
In order to understand childbearing behaviour, it seems intuitively important to include partnership formation and the characteristics, behavior and interactions of both partners into the scholarly analyses of fertility.
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Acronym: COUPFER Funding Body: EU (Marie Curie Action) Project Number: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF-627543
Time Frame: 18.08.2014-17.08.2016
Fair Pensions and Population Ageing
Project Leader: Sergei Scherbov
The PenAging project is based on the previous ERC Advanced Grant “Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective” (Re-Aging, www.reaging.org). It will explore the application of an intergenerationally equitable pension age to Austrian and Russian pension systems, and provide easy and up-to-date access to our new measures of population ageing. (Photo: ©Vladimirs Prusakovs | Dreamstime.com)
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Acronym: PenAging Funding Body: ERC (PoC) Project Number: 957509
Time Frame: 01.01.2021-30.06.2022
Future Migration Scenarios for Europe
Project Leader: Dilek Yildiz
The project will focus on understanding the patterns, motivations and modalities of migration at multiple geographical scales, from international through regional to the local, and on imagining possible futures.
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Acronym: FUME Funding Body: EU (Horizon 2020) Project Number: 870649
Time Frame: 01.12.2019-30.11.2022
Fertility, Reproduction and Population Change in 21st Century Europe
Project Leader: Tomas Sobotka
Combining detailed databases, especially the expanding Human Fertility Database, with surveys and theoretical perspectives, this project studiesa key issues related to fertility and reproduction in 21st century Europe and their implications.
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Acronym: EURREP Funding Body: ERC Project Number: ERC-2011-StG-284238
Time Frame: 01.02.2012-31.01.2017
Heart attacks and socio-economic environment in the City of Vienna
Project Leader: Michael Kuhn
How do residential districts affect risk factors and survival after a heart attack? To answer this question, this project analyses spatial and socio-economic inequalities in medical outcomes based on an exclusive dataset from the Vienna General Hospital.
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Acronym: HEART ATTACKS Funding Body: City of Vienna, MA 7 – Kultur, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung Project Number: OLWI000340
Time Frame: 01.01.2020-31.07.2020
Early Fertility Preferences: The Hidden Drivers of Union Formation and Its Timing
This project advances our knowledge on individuals’ family formation processes by uncovering how preferences early in life may drive these later life outcomes. We examine whether the desire for children may act as a hidden driving force behind whether and when men and women commit to co-residential unions and marriage. We further investigate how union formation timing may in turn affect childbearing trajectories. Moreover, we address all questions for men and women separately, thereby contributing to our still spotty knowledge on men’s life courses and how drivers of family formation may affect men and women differently.
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Acronym: FERTUFORM Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: M 2188-G16
Time Frame: 01.04.2017-30.06.2019
Forward Looking Analysis of Grand Societal Challenges and Innovative Policies
Project Leader: Dimiter Philipov
The FLAGSHIP project thus aims at driving change, supporting the policy shift from adapting to changes through short-term policy responses, towards anticipating, welcoming and managing changes properly.
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Acronym: FLAGSHIP Funding Body: EU (FP7) Project Number: FP7-SSH-2012-8-320330
Time Frame: 1.1.2013-31.12.2015
IIASA-JRC Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration
Project Leader: Wolfgang Lutz
The Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration is a new research partnership between IIASA's World Population Program and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre that provides science-based knowledge on migration and demography to support EU policy.
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Acronym: CEPAM Funding Body: IIASA, JRC (European Commission) Time Frame: 20.06.2016-31.12.2020
Impact of Climate Change on the Transformative Results Estimates
Project Leader: Erich Striessnig
Estimating the impact of climate change on transformative results, using global shared economic framework: Climate impact on maternal health, unmet need for family planning and harmful practices.
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Acronym: CLIMATE CHANGE Funding Body: UNFPA Time Frame: 01.06.2021-31.12.2021
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility plans in Vienna
Project Leader: Isabella Buber-Ennser
The COVKIWU project aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility plans in Vienna compared to Austria as a whole. Particular attention is paid to the quantum and timing of changes in fertility plans.
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Acronym: COVKIWU Funding Body: City of Vienna, MA 7 – Kultur, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung Time Frame: October 2021 - December 2022
Green Family – Generationenfairness im Klimawandel
Project Leader: Erich Striessnig
The project "Green Family - Generational Fairness in Climate Change" aims to present the current state of research on the question of intergenerational distributive justice in relation to the adaptation efforts required to cope with climate change.
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Acronym: GREEN FAMILY Funding Body: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. Time Frame: 15.09.2021-15.02.2022
Later fertility in Europe: How far can childbearing be postponed without being forgone?
Project Leader: Eva Beaujouan
The team of LATEFERT works on the spread of late fertility in the low fertility countries and explores advantages and limits of childbearing postponement.
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Acronym: LATEFERT Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: P31171-G29
Time Frame: 01.01.2019-31.12.2022
Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy: Understanding its Measurement and Estimation Sensitivity
Project Leader: Marc Luy
Public health policies are assessed on the basis of a structural indicator for “Health Expectancy” (HE). However, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to certain methodological issues. The central aim of LETHE is a systematic exploration of the HE indicator’s sensitivity.
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Acronym: LETHE Funding Body: ERC (Horizon 2020) Project Number: 725187 — LETHE — ERC-2016-COG
Time Frame: 01.09.2017-31.08.2023
Life-cycle Behaviour in the Face of Large Shocks to Health
Project Leader: Stefan Wrzaczek
In this project, we study the implications of large health shocks for the individual and its life-course. We compare different types of anticipation (full anticipation, myopic), and consider the effects of health and disability insurance, as well as longevity insurance through the annuity market.
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Acronym: LIFE SHOCKS Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: P 30665 –G27
Time Frame: 01.01.2018-30.06.2020
Lower female employment in Vienna: what role do motherhood and migration background play?
Project Leader: Bernhard Riederer
For decades, Vienna has been characterised by lower fertility rates and higher female employment rates than the rest of Austria. Since the millennium, however, the situation has changed. While fertility approximated the Austrian average level, the Viennese female employment rate fell below the Austrian one. Against this background, the project “WieFErT” analyses regional differences in female employment in Austria. Using register data, our research focuses on the role of motherhood and migration background for low female employment in Vienna.
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Acronym: WieFErT Funding Body: City of Vienna, MA 7 – Kultur, Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung Time Frame: 01.03.2019-31.12.2019
Measuring labour mobility and migration using big data
Project Leader: Guy Abel
The "Measuring labour mobility and migration using big data" project aims at developing methodologies to provide recent estimates of (labour) mobility stocks and flows in the EU using data from different sources, including from social media. VID is responsible for developing a methodology to estimate mobility stocks within the EU. It is a project for the European Commission led by Rand Europe and we are collaborating with experts from the University of Manchester, Washington University, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Qatar Computing Research Institute.
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Funding Body: EC-DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Project Number: VC/2017/0716
Time Frame: 02.02.2018-28.02.2019
Medical Progress, Health Expenditure and Population Ageing
Project Leader: Michael Kuhn
This project develops, solves and numerically implements an intertemporal general equilibrium model with overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality, the latter depending on individual health care and medical technology.
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Acronym: MEDPRO Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: P 26184-G11
Time Frame: 01.03.2014-31.12.2017
Ora-et-Labora: A Health-Sociological Study on the Effects of Order Members’ Extended Working Life Time on their Health and Life Quality
Project Leader: Marc Luy
The absolute and relative increase of retired people entails increasing pressure on the social security systems. Policymakers intend to reduce this burden by increasing the statutory pension age. This study investigates the effects of a longer working life time on health and life quality of order members to better assess the consequence of such a political measure.
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Acronym: AGAS Funding Body: City of Vienna Project Number: LWI0283
Time Frame: 2016-2017
Past, Present and Future Religious Prospects in Vienna, 1950-2050
Project Leader: Anne Goujon
WIREL is a research project that studied different demographic and religious forces that have shaped Vienna’s population composition throughout the past as well as the implications that such forces hold for the present and the future.
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Acronym: WIREL Funding Body: WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund Time Frame: 2012-214
Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Project Leader: Guillaume Marois
The overarching aim of this project is to produce comprehensive, multi-perspective and robust quantitative migration scenarios to support various areas of European migration policy, based on the cutting-edge developments in conceptualising, explaining, estimating and forecasting migration.
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Acronym: QuantMig Funding Body: EU (Horizon 2020) Project Number: 870299
Time Frame: 01.02.2020-31.01.2023
Realisierung von Kinderwünschen in Wien
Project Leader: Isabella Buber-Ennser
Using longitudinal data of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) the project addresses differences between Vienna and other parts of Austria in childbearing intentions and their realization. In addition, realization in Vienna is compared to realization in other European capitals like Prague or Budapest.
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Funding Body: Stadt Wien Project Number: Institutsprojekte - Projekt 2
Time Frame: 01.11.2015-31.03.2016
Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective
Project Leader: Sergei Scherbov
The Reassessing Aging from a Population Perspective (Re-Aging) project will develop new approaches to the study of age and aging that are appropriate for 21st century conditions. (Photo: ©Vladimirs Prusakovs | Dreamstime.com)
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Acronym: Re-Aging Funding Body: ERC (AdG) Project Number: 323947
Time Frame: 01.04.2013-31.03.2018
Reconstructing Educational Attainment of Populations in the 20th Century
Project Leader: Anne Goujon
The EDU20C project will create a consistent and harmonized database on educational attainment covering the 20th for 30 countries, using the methodology of back-projections.
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Acronym: EDU20C Funding Body: Jubiläumsfonds der ÖAW Time Frame: 01.10.2015-30.09.2016
Reproductive Decision-making and Human Capital
Project Leader: Moradhvaj Dhakat
This project aims at investigating the dynamic between reproductive decisionmaking and human capital.
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Acronym: RECAP Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: V318-Elise Richter Grant
Time Frame: 01.01.2014-30.06.2016
Running Against the Clock? Realising Family Plans Over the Life-course
Project Leader: Isabella Buber-Ennser
Countries in Europe and around the world have witnessed a major family transformation in the past decades. The main research aim of the project is to investigate the influence of life course circumstances on the realisation of individuals' fertility plans.
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Acronym: RAC Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: FWF P28071-G22
Time Frame: 01.01.2016-31.12.2017
Spatial Projections of Age-Structured Populations
Project Leader: Erich Striessnig
This latest collaborative research project (WIC together with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado) can be expected to greatly enhance our capability to identify future vulnerability to extreme weather phenomena.
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Funding Body: Fulbright Botstiber Time Frame: 2017
Summer School "The Demography of Health and Education"
Project Leader: Wolfgang Lutz
The purpose of the summer school is to acquaint 20 international students at the pre-doc level with the newest research on health and disability in the context of population ageing and familiarize them with the multi-dimensional methods for modelling population and human capital dynamics in a global perspective.
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Funding Body: City of Vienna, WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund Project Number: SSH16-12
Time Frame: 01.03.2016-31.10.2016
Sustainable European Welfare Societies: Assessing Linkages Between Social and Environmental Policy
Project Leader: Raya Muttarak
The project’s primary objective is to generate new knowledge about how researchers and policymakers may tackle issues of social welfare and environmental sustainability in coordinated and mutually supportive ways across policy fields.
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Funding Body: Research Council of Norway Project Number: 236930/H20
Time Frame: 01.10.2014-30.09.2017
The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing
Project Leader: Wolfgang Lutz
This project aims to develop new indicators for long-term human wellbeing that include feedbacks from environmental and other changes.
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Acronym: EmpoweredLifeYears Funding Body: ERC (AdG) Project Number: 741105
Time Frame: 01.11.2017-31.10.2022
The Male-Female Health-Mortality Paradox
Project Leader: Marc Luy
The purpose of this project is to decisively advance the understanding of the paradox by demonstrating that the reverse relationship between sex on the one side and health and mortality on the other is not as paradoxical as it seems.
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Acronym: HEMOX Funding Body: ERC Project Number: ERC-2010-StG-262663
Time Frame: 01.04.2011-31.03.2016
Wittgenstein Preis
Project Leader: Wolfgang Lutz
The Wittgenstein Prize was used to found the "Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital". This Centre is at the interface between demography and economics.
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Funding Body: FWF Austrian Science Fund Project Number: Z171-G11
Time Frame: 01.01.2011-31.12.2017
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.