VIU Summer Institute on Ageing | 10th Edition: New Format

June 5, 2023 - June 9, 2023

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing provides students and early-career researchers with a multidisciplinary and rigorous understanding of the ageing process, ranging from some basic notions of the medical and epidemiological literature, to key concepts in the economics and sociology of ageing.
A special focus is the use of large micro-data sets from the international family of health and retirement studies (SHARE, HRS, ELSA, CHARLS, MHAS, etc.).

This edition of the Summer Institute, the 10th, will have a focus on The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in old age and will have a new format, which includes two types of activities:

– three full days of lectures, testimonials and hands-on sessions;
– two days workshop where scientific papers will be presented and discussed.

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing will:

  • provide students and trainees with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, offering notions of the medical and epidemiological recent literature to the socio-economic advances in this research area;
  • enhance the multidisciplinary approach for researchers who work on ageing;
  • provide “hands on” experience on the micro data-sets;
  • increase the mobility and the interconnectivity of PhD students, researchers, teaching staff and policy makers, hence favouring the creation of research networks.

  • participants will gain special insight into the recent advances of the ageing process from a theoretical and practical point of view and will be able to perform impact evaluation (e.g. health care costs);
  • participants will learn how to use the data in this area of research;
  • participants will be offered the opportunity to share their ideas in a poster-sessions and during social events;
  • participants will develop transversal competences based on a multidisciplinary approach. Specific training sessions, such as “mentoring sessions”, will take place;
  • policy makers and people involved in public policy and public services will be able to learn how to connect issues between the health dimension of ageing and the socio-economic dimension of ageing.

The Summer Institute is addressed mainly to:

  • Graduates, PhD students, and post-doc scholars in social sciences (statistics, economics, sociology, demography, political science);
  • MDs, particularly geriatrics, students in epidemiology and public health;
  • professionals active in the field of ageing.

Policy makers and high-level officials in public and private institutions will be admitted if their background is adequate.

The Program will admit from a minimum of 12 to a maximum of 30 participants.

The Summer Institute will consist of three blocks of activities:

  • Lectures from leading researchers addressing the most recent advances in the area. Presentations in the fields of biomedicine, geriatrics, genetics, epidemiology, patient care, psychiatry, as well as economics of ageing, pension economics and finance, health economics, public health, demography and sociology.
  • Hands-on sessions. Provide students a thorough presentation of the survey data on ageing available to the scientific community.
  • Poster sessions and mentoring sessions.

Students will have the opportunity to discuss their own research with the senior scholars.

Jennifer Ailshire, University of Southern California, USA
Marco Angrisani, University of Southern California, USA
Mauricio Avendano, Unisanté, CH
Marco Bertoni, University of Padua, IT
Eric Bonsang, Université Paris-Dauphine, FR
Agar Brugiavini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Venice International University, IT
Ludovico Carrino, University of Trieste & King’s College London, IT
Maria Casanova, California State University, Fullerton, USA
Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Aging, USA
David Knapp, University of Southern California, USA
Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan, USA
Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California, USA
Maarten Lindeboom, Vrij Universitet Amsterdam, NL
Ana Llena-Nozal, OECD, FR
Stefania Maggi, Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council of Italy, IT
Jürgen Maurer, University of Lausanne, CH
Lauren Nicholas, University of Colorado Denver, USA
Emma Nichols, University of Southern California, USA
Giacomo Pasini, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IT
Guglielmo Weber, University of Padua, IT

Applications via VIU website: open with rolling admissions until May 15, 2023.

Applicants must submit: the application form, a brief research statement including candidate’s interests, and a curriculum vitae with photo.

Admitted candidates will be notified weekly.
Payment of the tuition fee within one week from the admission notification.

Applicants from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Southern California: no tuition fees (up to 8 places available)
Other applicants: 75 € (VAT included)

The fee will cover tuition, teaching materials, lunches in the VIU cafeteria and social events.
Student participants will be responsible for covering their own travel expenses to and from Venice, local transportation, and evening meals.

Venice International University offers its support to book accommodation on San Servolo Campus, in multiple rooms with other participants for the duration of the Summer School: further information about the costs are available in the Brochure.

This event is supported by Ca’ Foscari University through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the project “Integrating Information about Ageing Surveys: Novel Integration of Contextual Data to Study Late-Life Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and Dementia Care”; PTE Federal Award No: 2R01AG030153-17; Subward No: SCON-00003464 PI: Jinkook Lee – University of Southern California.

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